Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-11-03

1 for unhoanded cheering The nations Al salute
was fired. Mr.. Blsine and Gen. Hawley we're
placed in a four he-se coupe and hurriedly
driven through two continuous lines of uni
formed campaign clubs TO platform in front
of City Hall.
City Hall was densely crowded and as
Blaine stepped on the platform the throng
broke forth in cheers and plaudits. On the
platform with Mr.. Blaine were Senator Hsw-
ley. Gen. Fremont Chauncey NJ. Depew,
Mayor Morgan G. Bulkeley, Il. B Harrison,
republican candidate for Governor, and Lynde
Harrison, chairman of the State republican
committee.
| Mayor Bulkeley, at the close of Blaine
speech, introduced Gen. Fremont and Mr..
Depew, and both made brief remarks. Blaine
and his party were then driven hack to the
depot. where the special train started with
them for New Haven, at ~ ;45. During the
! three quarters of an hour that Blaine was
here. there was q general cessation of busi-
ness, and nearly every body turned out to assist
in the welcome. The sky had been obscured
for three days, and considerable rain had
fallen in that time, making the marching very
bad. During Blaine's address the sun broke
through the clouds and shone brightly. This
afternoon there is State parade here of
republican campaign clubs.
As the train moved of, the clubs and people
on the streets cheered heartily, the most con-
spicuous body being company of Wide
Awakes of 1860.
At Meriden there was big crowd out, and
greeted the distinguished visitor with loud
acclamations. He spoke briefly on the pro-
tective tariff, under which in 20 years Connec-
ticut had SO largely increased her wealth. He
said Every man who really desires the
maintainance of the protective tariff, whatever
his party is, ought to stand by the republican
party while, on the other hand every man who
wished for free trade should vote with the
democrats"
The points made in favor of maintaining
the tariff were warmly applauded.
Again at Wallingford he spoke few words
in the same vein. The train arrived at New
Haven at half past o'clock.
STANFORD. Conn. Nov. /.
Blaine and party arrived here about p.
NJ. and was driven TO Central Park. where he
made short speech, followed by Cbauncey
NJ. Depew of New York. The demonstration
was the most enthusiastic ever seen in this
vicinity 1900 people being gathered round
the stand. Ex-Gov. Minor, on behalf of the
reception committee. made an appropriate
address, to which Blaine responded % the
platform were Lynde Harrison, Henry B.
Samuel Fessenden, and other distinguished
citizens. At 8. As the party continued on its
journey to New York.
AT New Haven, Blaine made the following
address:
"There has been placed in my hands since
my arrival in New Haven, an address from
the clsrgymen of this city, expressing their
respect and confidence, and through the per-
son who delivered it, the assurance is given
that in matters of public right and in matters
of public participation under the laws and
constitution of the United States, they know
no sect, they know no Protestant, no Catho
lie, no Hebrew, but the equality of all
TCheers. In the city of Hartford had
letter put into my hands asking why had
charged the democratic party with being
inspired by rum, Romanism and rebellion.
A voice "You never said that. My
answer in the first place is that they put in
my mouth the unfortunate EXPIRE ssion of
another man, and in the next place ii rave an
opportunity to say at the close of the cam
paign that in the public speeches which have
made. | have refrained carefully and in
stinctlvely from making any dsrespectful
allusiop to the democratic party differ
from that party profoundly on matters of
principal, and | have too much respect for
the millions of my cOuntrymen whom it en-
braces to assail it with epIthets of abuse
Cheers. In the next place am sure | am
the last man in the United States who would
make a disrespectful allusion to another
mans religion. The United States guaran.
tees freedom of religious opinion, and before
the law and under the constitution the Prot
estant, the Catholic and the Hebrew stands
entitled to absolutely the same recognition
and the same protection, and il disrespectful
allusiOn is here to be made toward religion,
as said, | am the last man to make it for
though a Protestant by conviction and con-
nected with the Protestant church, should
esteem myself Of all men the most degraded
if, under any pressure or any temptation
could in any presence make disrespectful
allusion to that ancient faith in which my
reverend mother lived and died. Enthus-
iastic and long cheering. The question now
before the people of the United States is not
q religious one. The question to be settled
in the election is one that comes home to the
doorsill and freside of every American citi-
zen. We have enjoyed in the country for the
past 90 years the advantage of . protective
tariff. There 10 not q man within sound of
my voice, there is not man in New England,
there is not a man in the United States who
is not directly or indirectly interested in the
protective tariff. rCheers. l see before
me large assemblsge, including doubtless
many who earn their bread in the sweat of
their faces, and to whom the daily wages of
labor 10 a matter of great consequence.
beg to remind them that the only agency
which secures them higher wages for labor
than man in The British Isles receives for
the same labor. is the protective tariff.
LCheers. When look abroad in this State,
and when examine your statistics. / find
that Connecticut has doubled its wealth in
the last 20 years. submit that this rapid
ratio OF increase in thrift and independent
progress is direct result of the protective
tariff. Loud cheers. Ii is q cardinal doc
trine in the creed of the republican party that
the protective tariff shall be maintained, and
it has been the invariable practice of the
democratic party 10 Congress for more than
so years past to oppose the policy of protec-
ton. Times have been dull for some months
past. Whyf Clearly because of the uncer.
tainty created in the business world by the
agitations in Congress last winter over the
tariff question, and the fact that the demo-
cratic party came within two votes of destroy
ing the protective tariff. Is there q man who
doubts that with the free trade theories of
the democrats that il they were elevated 70
power the protective tariff would be de-
stroyed? The omens in the present contest
are TO be spoken Of by you, not by me, and
there are one or two things connected with il
which desire 10 refer to. beg especially
to refer to the fact that in a larger de,.ree