Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-09-30
BLAINE's TRIUMPHAL TRIP.
The Crowd That Cheered Him at CIeve-
Iand-The Workmen Shout for
the Maine Man.

LLfRIA, w.. sept -.
Several hundred persons were at the Lake
Shore depot at Cleveland this morning TO see
Mr.. Blaine starr. When he arrived he was
heartily cheered and the people gathered
around the rear platform and clamored for
speeches. just before the train started Mr.
Blaine appeared on the platform and said:
81 have no speech to make, gentlemen,
except to express the great pleasure l have
enjoyed in my visit to this city. During the
past tw o days have renewed old associations
and made new ones, all of which have been
most agreeable to me. and l depart this
morning with sense of having enjoyed my
self as much as at any time in my life :"
Loud cheering
The start was made promptly at o'clock
The train and engine we're gaily decorated
with American flags and Blaine and Logan
banners. The party was the same that came
to Cleveland Friday mo rning, with the addi-
ton of ex Secretary Window and the local
reception committee from Norwalk. As the
train passed the freight depot of the Lake
Shore road the workmen ran out and cheered
and there was like scene at the works of the
Lake Erie Iron Company. Mr.. Blaine bowed
his acknowledgements.
The first stop was at Elyria, the place WIS.,
tied by Blaine on Saturday. There was a
:
Blaine" As the train moved off he stepped
out on the platform and the people gave him
three cheers. At this station delegation
from Ooerlin, headed bv Hon. Jas. Monroe,
ex-member of Congress, boarded the train.
little after one the train reached Oberlin
Arrangements at cberlin were better than at
any other place so far in Ohio. The crow d
was very large and enthusiastic. Hundreds
| OF people from the country sat in their wagons
and every tree within sight of the stand was
loaded Mr. Blaine, as soon as the applause
with which he was received had subsided.
said
Ladies and Gentlemen-I do not know
any more appropriate place for a candidate
who represents republican principles than to
pay visit to Oberlin, for if there be any one
! place in the United States above another
where republican principles were planted
originally and mstured and developed and
strengthened into full growth it is. Oberlin.
The establishment of the college 80 years ago
the radicalisEl, if you please, which is taught
from the start, the great battle it wages, the
the immense success it attained without dona-
ton from national or State government, but
merely from generous benevolence of men
who believes in the principles it represented.
1t was an event not merely in the educational
world but in the practical world as well, and
L am glad to stand here to pay my tribute to
the great institution and to acknowledge as
representative, as | am tor a time of republi-
can principles the debt which that party owes
to the great institution at Oberln. Great
cheering. | thank you for your kind well
come to this place. | thank you for the gen.
erous outpourlng of this great audience.
thank you because | know what | represent
and because | know that you know what
represent. Enthusiastic cheers. If anything
could add to my pleasure in it this visit would
be that have been presented to you by one
with whom | have had honor for many years
to associated in Congress, and whom came
to know and respect and to essteem for in all
my public services. met no more honorable.
no more pure, no more efficient member than
James Monroe of Oberin district Thanking
you, gentlemen and ladies', again for this
generous reception, l must bid you good
bye"
SANDUsKY, o., Sept 20.
At Norwalk, in Huron county, Mr.. Blaine
and party were met by large body of uni
formed clubs and escorted in procession
through the town to stand in front of the
Court house, around which were assembled
several thousand persons. Ex-Presdent
Hayes was on the stand and welcomed Mr.
Blaine. MIR. Gardner introduced the latter
amid great cheering. Mr.. Blaine said;
Ladies and Gentlemen-It was my pleas
ure years ago to visit your beautiful town
and address a large audience of republicans
of Huron county. | did it at that time in the
interest of that distinguished representative
and noble son of Ohio, whom am glad to
see on the platform today, ex-President
Hayes. applause | do not forget the
hospitable welcome then received and am
;n,prassad Of itS ropititinp fnHou I
then only as private citizen. come now
in a different capacity and feel sure that as
New England man on the western reserve
of Ohio, | am always at home. (great
cheers) for the western reserve of Ohio is
New Englsnd transferred to the shore of Lake
Erie. Equal to tine good old land to the east
along the rock bound coast of the Atlantic
and it is one of the chief honors of New Eng
land that its sons have borne essential feat
ures of its civilization to this broad expanse
of the West. | say therefore that when
come here | feel at home with you. / feel
that on public questions think as you think
and represent the issues which you hold dear.
(Cheers) Personally permit me to thank
you again for the cordiality with which you
greet me and to wish for you in future the
great prosperity you have enjoyed in the
past" prolonged cheering
dItPT speeCUts Uy tlOU W. lenHf duu tA-
Senator Window, Mr.. Blaine introduced ex-
President Hayes, who said:
II am very glad this vast multitude of citi-
zens of Huron county has come here to see
aud here and to give friendly greeting and an
old fashioned welcome to James G. Blaine. "
| Enthusiastic cheers
Four miles further on at Monroeville a
special car was switched on the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad for Sandusky. At the station
there was another large and enthusiastic
crowd who demanded speech. Mr.. Blaine
spoke few pleasant words of acknowledg-
ment and shook hands with some of the peo
pie. Sandusky was reached a little before l
o'clock and the party drove in carriages to
Court House square, where there was large
meeting. Ex-President Hayes was in the
carriage with Mr.. Blaine. Hon. Thomas B.
Reed of Maine was on the platform
FREMONT, O., Sept. %.
Mr.. Blaine arrived here at 3 o'clock this
afternoon and was received with cheers. He
made short address thanking the people for
the kinkly greeting
Mr.. f. B. King of Sandusky introduced
Mr.. Blame, who was received with great
cheering He said:
This is my third visit to the city of San
daskv and | cannot but recall my first. 1t
was in ls4s, Sc years ago. There was but
one railroad in Ohio, from here to Cincinnati.
with gap in the middle you had to travel
over BY stage and this end of 1t was termed
Old Mad River line. with strap rails, and