Morning journal and courier., 1884-10-07
Thn TWO NRSueSh

Judge E. k. Hears speech at SaleIl
 If you look at the present issue from the
 Republican point of view in this campaign
 I think there are two questions of the ut
 most importance, efecting the public wei
 fare deeply The first of them connects it.
 self with the existence of the Republican
 party and it's. original objects. We are told
 that we are confronted with solid South.
 But what wish every Republican voter and
 every man to remember in this campaign is
 this, that the South is not solid. If you can
 have, as every man knows, free vote in the
 States of Louisiana, Mississippi and South
 Carolina, and count the ballots that are
 thrown honestly and return them fairly,
 those three States will vote for James G.
 Blaine (App1ause.) Does the country un-
 derstand that if the Democratic party comes
 into power by means of those corrupt and
 dishonest practices they. will disavow them,
 they will repress them, they will do anything
 but encourage them so long as they are prof.
 table? Until that ceases to be the state of
 things in this ''solid South" as they call it,
 the original work of the Republican party is
 not completed. The other question is the tariff the protection of American labor. All the people of the country agree, not only in profession, but, I believe, in honest belief,
 that there is no constitutional authority to
 levy taxes in the form of duties, or ill any other form beyond what is required for the
 payment of the public debt and the econom- ical administration of the government. But when you collect necessary revenue for ~public purposes, it becomes most vital question whether you will so arrange and distribute the duties which you lay that it shall have tendency to foster and promote American industry and American welfare. And it is when you come to that that the
 Republican party avoWs it's distinct purpose
 so to manage the revenues of the country In regard to the candidates there is a cer-
 tain portion of the Democratic party. and H. " hitherto been reckoned as Republicans, who state that the only issue in this campaign is the personal character of the candidates. l don't propose, fellow citizens, to discuss that question: and I can't recommend anybody else to: but I should like to say to some of my young friends, and to some of my older ones, that it is not the time when the ques- tion of committing the government of this country to one or the other of it's great po- itical divisions is stake to be hunting around to see if you cannot find somewhere that the candidate had been expressing some wrong purposes which he never executed. And I would say to them further that one of ! the lessons of my life, now somewhat ad- vanced has been the lesson of modesty, to | feel that the collective judgment of great ! masses of men is entitled to more respect, where they have every source of information, | than the conclusions of any small number of | cautious critics I don't doubt the honesty of our independent friends, but theirs is the old case of & man who came to the judge and | informed him that there were eleven of the most obstinate fellows on that jury that he I ever heard of in his life; they would not agree to what was perfectly plain and eyl- I dent and reasonable Our friends should consider that they nay be mistaken in their l iudgment I don't propose to say one word about the candidate of the Democratic party, except can't forbear to quote what read ] this afternoon in a morning paper in a letter | ant (fOInnp1 Charles h Goldman a single sentence in which he said i that. after making inquiries into Governor Cleveland's character, he should not be able to vote for him with that entire satisfaction l that he had expected. Applause and laugh ter.0 Mr. Blaine has had criticism, and the Republican party has had it before now. ! They say there are some dishonest men con- nected with it, and that MT. Blaine is an at traction to men of easy and loose political ideas It is one of the penalties of great ness to be thus embarrassed. l have no doubt that there are those shrewd enough who want to make something from the sue l cess of a party, who attach themselves to the Republican party because they are very sure that it is the party that is going to win; to belong to the other would be of no use. I
 suppose Mir. Blaine, with his popular quail ties. with his brilliant qualities, finds him self exposed to all sorts of Inducements and influences and friendly greetings and recog- I nitions from all sorts of people all over this country. Be it understood that MT. Blaine ! has shown, when he was Speaker, that he will show himself when he is President | (applause) that he proposes public trusts | shall only be given to honest and able public servants. No ship yet was ever
 nayigated by it's branches (Applause.)
 Any man that professes friendship for MT. Blaine and treats him fairly, have no doubt he will be treated fairly, but l think l you will find that in the days of hls pup | iic service. in his administration of public
 affairs, he will have the same wisdom and 1 the same success which, from Lincoln through Grant and Hayes and Garfield, have made the list of Republican Presi- 1 dents worthy of the confidence of the | American people .(Applause)