Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-10-21
BLAINE IN INDIANA.
Large Crowds 20 Greet Him-Importance
OF the Tariff Issue.
ELkHARr. Ind-. ga ID.


this morning upon a special train in charge
Of Gen Williams of Lafayette. john C.
New and number of Indiana speakers were
on the train
The plan of today Was To have one speaker
at each place where the train stopped, so as
to have an orator to address the crowd after
Mr. Blaine had gone. At Elkhart. the first
stopping place, there was crowd of 5000
people. Mr.. Blaine left the train and ascend
ed a stone, where he addressed the crowd,
his remarks being entirely on the tariff issue.
He said Indiana was very unimportant in
the list of manufacturing States. but
last year its industrial products
reached the enormous sum of Sl5.0 600
He wanted to ask any fair or candid man. be
he democrat or republican, whether that
great prosperity could have been reached
without protective tariff. The two parties
were divided on this issue. BE careful in
your Judgment as free men, and report on
the fourth of next November" said Blaine
as he bid Elkhart goodbye.
FoRT WAYNE, Oct. 20.
At about 2.30 Blaine's train arrived at
Fort Wayne. There was a large crowd at
the depot and all along the route to the
Aveline House. to which Blaine was driven.
The streets in front of the hotel and Court
House square opposite, and all adjacent
streets were filled with people When
Blaine appeared on the balcony he was loudly
cheered From one portion of the crowd,
including number of men who wore tall
white hats, came cheers for Cleveland, and
when Blaine attempted to speak he was inter-
rupted by shouts and yels and cheers for
Cleveland coming from that quarter lie
therefore declined to speak from the balcony
and reenterlng the hotel Z left 1t again by
side door, and IN company with Chairman
New and Hon. VIM Mckinley of Ohio, was
driven up Calhoun street to point opposite
Library Hall \ great body of the crowd
followed him, and here, standing up on the
drivers seat he made his speech as follows
CluzenS of lndiana- he October elections
in Ono and West Virginia have pat new
phase on tn national contest, or rather they
have reproduced An old phase. Ihe demo
cratic party as OF old consider now that they
have the snlId South again. They believe
they will surely get l53 electoral votes from
the iG southern States. and then they expect
or hope, or they dream ih4t they may St cure
New York and Indiana. and that with New
York and Indiana added to the solid South
will Sirze the government of the nation
They can't do it. don't believe the farm
ers, business men. manufacturers, merchants
and last OF all and most or all don't be-
lieve the soldiers OF Indiana can be put to
that use | don't believe the men who added
lustre and renoun to the name Of your State
through four years of bloody war can be used
to call into their administration of the gov /
ernment the Hen who organized the great |
rebellion, In the Senate OF the United States /
the democratic party have ~ members, of
which number 32 came from the South. OF
their strength In the House OF Represe natives /
the majority came from the SOuth, and now /
the intention is that with an absolutely solid /
ifed vote from the South, added to the votes
Di the two states ! have named. to seIze the /
government OF the Union. lhat means a .
great deal 1t means that as the South furr- /
ishes three-tourths Jt the democratic strength (
it will be given the lead and control Of the /
nation in the event Of democratic triumph .
It means that the great financial and indus /
trial system otthe country will be placed
under the direction Of the South, that our
currency, our banks, our tariffs. our internal
revenue laws, in short our whole system on
which the business of tie country depends .
shalt toe placed under the control OF that
section. 1t means that the constitutional
amendments which they are sol
bitterly opposed to, shall be enforced
only SO tar as they may believe IN them; that
national credit as guaranteed IN the lfth
amendment, that payment OF pensions to the
soldiers of the Union, as guaranteed in the
same amendment, shall be under their con |
troll and what that control might mean can be
measured by the bitterness with which these
amendments were resisted by democrats OF
the south There is not one measure OF
banking, OF tariff, OF the finance OF pub
lie credit of pensions. not one line of admin |
istration on which the government is conduct
ed today, to which the democrats of the south
are not recorded as hostile, and
to give them cantrol would mean
change, the like of which has not been
known in modern times. 1t would be as if
the dead stuarts were recalled to the throne
of England, as if the bourbons should be in
vited to administed the government of the
French Republic; as II the Fiorentlne Dukes
should be called back and empowed to govern !
the great kingdom of Italy. Such triumph |
would be fearful misfortune to the South
itself, that section under wise administration
of government by the republican party, has
been steadily and rapidly gaining for the past
10 years In all the elements OF material pros
perlty. 1t has added enormously to Its wealth
since the close of the war and shared fully in
the general advance of the country. To call
that section to the rulership of the nation
would be to disturb our own social and polit-
ical economy, rekindle the snouldering
passions and under the peculiar leadership to
which it would be subjected it would organize