Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-11-24
aILIoUs BLAINE.
....+sd Candidates venomous
...,nk on the South.

i rlutNtA 10 NfNaf
p. 80 ~ margins, we have lost. !
|n .s,r for your call, which, If not
yN .ns congratulations, IA QUE, l
y sonfidence aud Of sanguine
|ifi ~, ~ fnture. | thank you for
IN. opportunity you give me to
pun s.tse of obligation, not
81 o,,. but TO all the Republicans
~ Tpey responded to my
NY ,,on with genuine enthusiasm.
as,,ned IL by "a sup.rb vote.
i 7, w me of the h0nors Of and
..,ions OF my public career that
IN Maine, after struggling
N y, the last six years,
,wIcs within that period losing
~ has come back IN this cam
i ~ s,I clt.fashioned 20 600 plural
Nv a her expression OF popular
10 and esteem could equal
I'f,he people among whom | have
y thirty years and To whom l
,sehed hy all the ties that euno-
oman nature and give joy and
Maine, Indeed along with
nv first thought always is of
rivsnia. How can / fittingly
NV thanks for that unparal-
msiority OF more than $4,000
"a sopuiar Endorsement which
.sniy touched my heart and
IA n possible, increased my
'Ion ar tue grand old common
AN affection which 1 inherited
mg ancestry aud which | shall
I'M /, my children. But l do
a,tmy thanks TO the state of my
gpce and The state OF my birth.
~ much 10 the true aud Jealous
In New England who worked
M fnr the Republican party and
eeidates. and to the eminent
I'd and divines who, stepping
i,m their ordinary avocatious,
nv cause their cause, aud to 10y
"A principle added the special
lment Of standing as my per
ppresenIatives in the national
Inc achievements for the Re
m cause In the East are even
ed by the splendid victories in
Re.t la that magnificent cor
states that stretches from the
ina Of the Alleghenies to the
N Gale Of the Pacific, beginning
ONO and ending with California,
Republican banner was borne ~
N that but u single state failed tC
d the vide acclaim of triumph
hculd do Justice to my own
wif | failed TO thank the Repub.
OF the Empire state, who
lntered so many discouragementt
olslaeles; who fought Toes from
IN aud foes from without, anC
Eaged so strong a battle that .
spge Of one vote In every POO
3 have given us victory in Tia,
N. Indeed, a change of it'll
ibsu 5000 would have transferred
York, Indiana, New Jersey anC
ieclicut to the Republican stand
and would have made the Nnrll
did IA the South. My thank
dstill be incomplete If / should
oncOgnize with special gratitude
graf body of wOrkiugmen, botl
,eAnd foreign-born, who gave ma
faruest support, breaking IRON
shonsl and party ties, and find
ID the principles which repre-
d Ia the canvass the Safeguard
protection of their owl
De interest. The resul
election, my friends, will be- re
Ia In the future. | think, as *
aiualy. The Northern state
Hg cut the cities OF New Yor
BiOoklyn from the count, SUI
SAihe Republican cause by mt
i Of more than 400, 900 -almos
million, indeed the popula
The cities of New York al
Al,n throw their great repg
Ahutnce with the Solid South
sse the decisive element wnic
olhat section the control OF th
An government
slkiug now, not at all as u d,
aesdldate, but as loyal and d.
Audican, / think the transi'
ApNrnment To the South Is
llional misfor une. IL is
aHnne because 1t introduces an e
d which cannot insure harmon
pleperliy TO the people; becaul
ilhduces into a republic Il
damin~rity. The first instin,
American Is tquali y-equalit
eb equality OF privilege, equalii
llleAl power; that equality whiC
70 every citizen: Your vote
. good, Just as potential. as Il
o. any other citizen hat ca
said to-day in the United State
eolise of affairs in the South Ia
atd out the political power OF mo
gOOO,0O0 American citizens AL
1iahsieIred II by violence Ioothei
1.-Two presidential electors are d
"a TO the South on account Of d
"a population, and yet the llor'
llA'lon. with more than / 100 U
golts, has been unable TO choo
gle electOr.
en- In those states where tn
majority of more than 1000
A'e deprived OF free suffrage al
tights as citizeus are scoI
uodden under foot u
= states that comprised the rel
,1eracy had by the census OF Is
w white population and 8 30
eofed population. The color
l.llon, almost To a man, desire
gitthe Republican party, but
&tm of cruel intimidation n
we aud murder, whenever v
md murder are thought nee
slity are absolutely deprived
llIical power.
outrage stopped there 1t wot
enough; but 1t does not 81
En-. luf not Onlv Ia tha upQrO DnI