Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-07
The Rennhlican Leaders.

llrSt stop was made at MOundSTllte. The
Chairman of the Republican State Commit
tee introduced Blaine, who was warmly re-
ceived. He said
l am glad to meet the citizens OF Marshall
county / am glad to be in West Virginia |
times that an earnest contest is going on in what
was once slave State, forthe ascen6ency of Re-
publican principles, and Republican principles
this year mean Il tariff for the protection of
American labor lChecrs.i IL West Virginia is
in favor of that She is Republican. II She is op-
posed TO it, she is not Republican.
AT Cameron, Littleton, Mannington and
Farming there were brief stops, and at each
point Blaine spoke briefly of tlie importance
to West Virginia of protective tariff. At
Fairmont there was large meeting and
Mr.. Blaine left the train and addressed the
people from the stand.
AT GRAFTON
PARKERsBURG, October 6ih.-At Grafton
there was very large and remarkably en-
thusiastic meeting. The little mountain
town was packed full of people from the
surrounding country. Blaine was escorted
to the stand, and when the demonstrations
with which he was received Subsided, he
said
Citizens Of IFoSt Virginia: As your distinguished
Chairman has intimated, am no stranger TO
than forty years, and have known this section
of it well. l was born on the bank of yonder
river, Il few miles below the point where it en-
tiers Pennsylvania, and you do not need To be
told by me that there was always unity of feel
ing among the inhabitants of Monongahela val
ley. [Cheers. But do not see before me the
West Virginia which / knew in my boyhood.
The West Virginia OF forty years ago was com
paratlyely wilderness. The West Virginia of
to-day is one of the most prosperous industrial
States in the United States. [Applause.l West
Virginia, as an independent commonwealth,
began her existence during the civil war aud
at that day the most liberal estimate OF her
total property, according to the enumeration
OF the United States census, did not exceed
$50 ,000 and in 1880 it showed that you pos
sessed capitalized wealth to the amount of
350,0O0,O0Q. From the close of the war 10 the
year 1850, West Virginia had therefore gained
in wealth the enormous sum of S250,OOO,O00.
You have tared pretty well, therefore, under a
Republican administration. Laughter and
cheers.] Probably some political opponent does
me the honor TO listen to me, and would ask
him, as candid man, what agency was il that
nerved the arm of industry TO smite the noun
tains and create this wealth in West Virginia
1t was the protective tarilf-lgreat cheer
ingl-and financial system that gave
you good money. Renewed cheering.l Be
fore the war yos never had circulating i'll
your midst bank bill that would pass current
500 miles from home. That's So" and cheers.
You do not to-day have single piece of paper
money circulating in West Virginia that is moi
good around the globe. [Great cheering Not
a bill that VIII not pass as certainly in the
money markets of Europe as i'll New York OF
Baltimore. SO that the man who works fol
days wages knows. when Saturday night comes
that he will be paid good money. lRenewed
cheers Under the protective tariff, your coal
industries, your iron industries and the wealth
of your forests have been brought out, and it is
for you voters of West Virginia to say whether
you want this to continue, or whether you want
to try free trade. ['' No, we don't"] make
bold to say, with all respect, that there is
not Democratic stateEman on the stump in
West Virginia, conspicuous enough TO be known
to the nation speak only OF those know, who
advocates protective tariff. Not one. [" No,
one, not one."l so further-I do not know
a Democratic statesman who will acknowledge
that tarif for protection is constitutional and
therefore, as honest men, they are bound to op
pose it. The Morrison tariff bill-t''We Won
have it 1.-THE Morrison tariff bill woulC
have struck at the interests of West Virginia il
many vital respects, aud il is an amazing
fact that representatives in Congress from WeS
Virginia voted for that bill. There is a good ole
adage, which beg TO recall TO your minds. tina
God helps those who help themselves, and i
! West Virginia is not willing to sustain pro
tective tariff by her vote and her influence she
must not expect it to be sustained for her by
others. If she wants the benefit of protective
tariff she must give TO the protective tariff the
benefit of her support. lCheers. | am glao
that am addressing Southern people, com
munity that were Shareholders, Il community
made up of those who were masters and those
WHO were slaves. nut ain uCCTtSSlIS i slave
State no longer Great cheering | am appeal
| ing to the new South. Renewed cheering.
l am appealing to West Virginia not To y0lt
upon tradition or prejudice not TO keep hei
eyes TO the rear, but TO look 10 the front and tC
the future-I''We'll do it, well do it, and wild
cheering If ! could be heard / would
make the same appeal to other Southern States
to old Virginia, TO North Carolina, TO Georgia tC
Alabama, to Tennessee and to Louisiana. They
are all interested in protective tariff, and the
question is, (which do they prefer-to crafty a
prejudice or to promote the general prosperity ~
West Virginia can lead the way. She can break
this seemingly impreguable barrier OF
the solid South. lCheers, and cries OF
| Wen do it, We i 90 it, Solid on what
Solid on a prejudice. solid on tradition
solid upon doctrines that separate the different
portions of the Union; whereas | invite you to
join ir union, not merely in form, but = union
in fact, and take your part III the solution of the
industrial and financial problems of the times
IGreat cheering If West Virginia takes that
to settle the controversies that now agitatc us
t. She will The repeal of the protective
tariff, according to the terms of the Morrison
bill, would cost West Virginia Il vast sum o
! money. Between 1870 and 1850 you gained in
this State Sl60,000000. Between 1850 and 1SG
you will gain much more. with tariff for pro
tection but ask any business man if he believes
you can do it with free trPde. " No, no, no.
Here close my words of counsel leaving the
action to you. ] leave you. not as q community
influenced by sectiolal feeling, but as a commu
nlty brOddiy national. L leave you as STATE
allied OH the one side to Pennsylvania and Oh
the other to Ohio [eheersl, as much as you are tC
Virginia and Kentucky. leave you as Il State
that stands in the van of the new South. in
viting the whole world South to join in the great
national movement which shall, in fact and
feeling as well rs in form, make US Il people
with one Union, one Constitution. one destiny
[Great and longcontinued cheering
After Blaine, Hon. A. W. Tenny, ol
Brooklyn made a speech.
From Grafton the special turned again
toward the Ohio river
At Clarksburg there was very enthusi-
astic gathering. Here, and at several other
points on the route to Parkersburg, Blaine
spoke briefly of protection to American in
duStries as the chief issue of the campaign
Bishop Walden, OF the NJ. f. Church
who lives in Cincinnati, and several min
listers of that Church who had been attend
/ ing Conference at Buchanan, got upon the
train at Clarksburg. They were presented
to Blaine, and conversed with him freely
on the way to Parkersburg.
LOGAN IN WEST VIRGINIA.
CHARLEsTowN CIV. Va, October 9Th
General John 4. Logan and suite arrived
here from Huntington, en- route through
the southern part of the State Large
crowds greeted the gentleman along the
route. General Logan stopped off here and
made speech to large audience. He LETT