The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-10-23
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day was 10 drop one speaker at each
place where the train stopped, sofas to
have an orator address the crowd after
| Mr.. Blaine was gone. At Elkhart. the
| first stop, there was q crowd of 5000
people. Mr.. Blaine left the train and
assembled q stand. He addressed his re-
marks entirely to the tariff issue. He
| said there the Democratic party surren-
dered Its authority. Indiana was very
Important in the list of the states, but
| last year Its industrial products reached
the enormous sum,Of $4,000, 600. He
wanted to ask any fair or candid man be
&c Democrat or Republican whether
that great prosperity could have been
reached without q protective tariff. The
two parties were divided upon this issue.
"Be careful in your judgment as freemen
upon the 4th day of next November, /"
said Mr.. Blaine as he bid Elkhart good
bye.
SOUTH BEND, Ind, Oct. 1S-At lit
tie past 8 O'Clock the train arrived at
South Bend. The city was thuonged.
The workshops and many of the bust
ness houses were closed, and the day
was DEVOTED to politics. In the morn
Ing there had been a great trades pro-
cession. The afternoon was to be de-
voted To Blaine's reception. and
the evening TO tOrchlight pro-
through all the principal streets by a
large body OF plumed knights, and there
was a continuous line of decorated
houses along the whole route. 1t was
about 80 when the procession reached
the stand, erected near the court house.
The Two Michigan Senators, Conger and
Palmer, were first introduced. After
they had given some account OF the
tour through Michigan, Hon. Marvin
Campbell, the president of the day, in
troduce6 Mr.. Blaine, who was enthusl-
asticallY cheered.
When order was restored he spoke at
length on the tariff as the great issue in
the campaign, arguing that the main
tainance OF the prOt Give policy was of
tar greater importance to workinemen
than 10 any ether class In the cOmmu-
nifty. In the same connection he warned
wOrkingmen that their labJr unions
would be pnwerless To protect them
against the competition of the cheap la
Dor of the old world if the protective
tariff were abolished. Mr.. Blaine was
driven to the house of Mr. Glenn Stude-
baker, whose guest he will be until Mon.
day. Later in the evening he reviewed
a very large tOrchlight procession.
Fir. WAYNE, Ind, Oct. 20.-About
2:SO the train arrived at Fit. Wayne.
There was large crowd at the depot and
all along the route to the Air Line house,
to which Mr.. Blaine was driven. The
stree IS in front of the hotel and the court
house square opposite, and all the ada
cent streets, were filled with dense mass
of humanity. When Mr.. Blaine appear.
ed on the balcony be was loudly cheered,
hIaN rNF h. nd
including several men wearing tall
white hats, there came cheers for Cleve.
land, and when Mr.. Blaine attempted to
speak he was interrupted by shouts and
yells and cheers for Cleveland, coming
from the same quarter. He therefore
declined TO spe ak from the balcony, and
| re-entered the hotel. He left il again
by the door, and In company with Chair.
man New aid Hon. w. Mckinley, ol
Ohio, was driven up Calhoun street to q
point opposite the Library hall. lie
great body of the crowd followed him
and here st4bding upon the drivers sea-
he made his speech as follows
Citizens of IudIsna-The October
elections IN OHIO aud West Virgins
have put a new phase ON the natIona
contest, or rather they have reproduced
the old phase. [GOod, coed. The
| OOAOCISlS fdiIfy Do VI OIoS CouSIuel
now that They have the .0uIh solid sgain
They believe that they Will hutely ge
one hundr,d mi titty-three electoral
votes from the sixteen southern states
aad then they expect "r they hope, q
they dream that they may secure New
York and Indiana. Never, meyer. Il il
a dream]. And that with New YoIl
and 1nuiana added to the solid soutt
they will seize the government of tht
nation. They can't do it, never.l l d,
not believe that the farmers, the bust
ness men, the manufacturers, the mer-
chants, the mechanics, and last OF al
and most of all, l do not believe tina
the soldiers of Indiana can be put e
that. Great cheering and cries o
never, never l do not believe tina
the men who added lusIre ant
renOwn to the name of yOpr state through
four years Of bloody war eau be used 4
call to the administration of the govern
ment the man who organized the grea
rebellion. MOI NO never!l In the s,n
ate'Of the United States the DemocraLI
party have Thirty seven members, O
which number lhIrtY-lwO came from lii,
south. OF their strength lii the house o
representatives the majority comes iron
the south, aud now the InIentI, Is tina
an absolutely sUiId electoral vote lruu
the south, 'tdied To the votes of the TIVE
states have named, will seize the govern
ment of the Union. T"It can't be done
That SEIZURE Can never be made"i Tha
means a great deal. II means that as tn
south furnishes three fourths of tn
Democratic strength, it will be given tn
lead and control of the nation In tn
event of a Democratic triumph. /
means that the great financial and in
dustrial system of the country shall b.
pladed under the direction of the south
that our currency, our bands, our tariff
our internal revenue iawe, IN short, tina
our whole system upon which the bust
ness of the country depends, shall b
placed under the control of that section
1t means that the constitutional amend
ments, to which they are SO bilterl,
opposed shall he enforced onl,
SO far as they may be
J lieve in them that the national credit a
guaranteed in the fourteenth amendment
that the payment of the pensions to tn
soldiers of the Union, as guaranteed il
the same amendment, shall be unde
their control; and what that contro
might mean can be measured by tn
bitterness with which these amendment
were resisted by the Democrats of tn,
; south. This is not one measure of banl
; ing of tariff of finance, of public credit O
pensions, not one line of administrator
upon which the government is conduct
ed to-day, to which the Democrats o
the south are not recorded as hostile
and to give them control would mean
change the like of which has not beer
known in modern times. It would be a
If the dead Stuarts were recalle,
to the throne OF England. as if tn,
Bourbons should be invited TO admins
ter the government of the French repnt
lie, as though the FlOrentine duke
should be called back and empowered 3
govern the great kingdom of Italy
= Good and cheers Such q trump
would be fearful misfortune to tn
south itself. That section under III
wise administration Of the government
by the Republican party. has been stead
lily and rapidly gaining for the past te
| years in all the elements of materie
prosperity. It has added enormously I,
Its wealth since the close of the war, an
, has shared fully in the general advsnc
of the country. To call that secfio
disturb its own social and political ecor
. omY, would kindle Wondering passion
and under the peculiar leadership t
which IL would be subjected
would organize an administration of II
, sentiment, of repIIsal, of revenge N
q greater misfortune than that could com
!. | TO the natl IN or to the south. Ii woul
come as q reaction against the progres
Of liberal principles in that section,
progress 80 rapid that the Republican
: waging earnest contests Ia those state
] whose interests are most demonstratabl
a identified, identified with the policy {
protection against the baIeful spectacl
OF solid south. l am sure that ind
3 ana will protest, and ON the whole vii
3 conclude TO stand where she has stoo
y IN the past. believe that you wi
stand where you stood IN the war, thu
, you will stand for the principles an
policies which have made your stat
o bloom and blossom as the rose, an
which have made the American repubIi
in manufactures and IL agriculture th
leading nation of the world fore,
. cheers. The leading nation Of Il
= world not merely IN = material sens
y huf in a moral and NH 4aIhronia aanas,