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PRESS COMMENTS ON BLAINE,S
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The Press on Blaine's Speech.

DOMESTIC NEWS.
The Press Blaine's Speech.
New York, November pth.-The Times
declares Blaine's address the most bitter,
m1schievous, sectional speech that has been
heard in the North for many q cay. The
| anguish of defeat seems to have eXtin-
guished all the generous sentiment which
he professed to have when he penned his
letter of acceptance, or rather shows that
the sentiment was paraded in the hope of
winning Southern votes, and having failed
in that he shows his real temper.
The World thinks it was written before
| the idea occurred to him that he might, as
q candidate for President, obtain a few
votes in the Southern States. He said
| nothing that Republican stumperS and
demagogues of the bloody shirt school have
not been saying for years. He may dis
turb and disquiet the poor negroes of the
South, but the country will see in it only
! the cowardly rancor of defeated candi-
| date. 1t will devolve upon the Democratic
administration of Cleveland to give the lie
to Blaine and all his fellow-slanderers.
The TriJuneS Augusta special says the
speech was received with great enthusiasm.
| Many said it sharply and ably outlined the
future policy of the party, and that Blaine
had struck the keynote under which the
party will march to victory four years
| hence The TribuneS leader is in line with
| Blaine's address, without referring to it,
advising the next Senate that 4" the recent
so-called elections in Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, Louisiana and North Carolina
| have resulted in choosing Legislatures by
which six Democratic Senators will be
elected. The people have the right to know
| whether these men have clear titles to make
| laws for us all, as have six Democrats from
the Northern States. 1t is the duty of the
Senate to know, before it admits these men
to seats, whether they represent freely the
! expressed will of the people, or, as many
| honestly and firmly believe, only an organ
| lied conspiracy to defy the United States
laws and to defeat self-government.
The Philadelphia Press comments as fol-
| lows: Blaine's trenchant inciSive speech is
not the utterance of a man bowed down
and broken with disaster, but the robust
deliverance of Il gallant chief who rises
| from defeat with that elasticity and power
which has marked his whole extraordinary
| career. No other man has begun to put the
case so plainly or so strongly. His portrait
ure of the triumph of the South and Of the
monstrous injustice which underlies it is
startling in its vividness and truth.
This evenings Commercial greatly regrets
the spirit and statement of Blaine's speech
yesterday I'VE do not intend at this time
to discuss the details or the figures pre-
sented, our purpose being to point out with
emphasis and regret that Blaine's spirit is
not the spirit OF Grant at Appomatox. Pat
riotic Southern Democrats have assured us
with the utmost solemnity that, however
| hard it might be to cope with some of the
existing evils in the South under previous
circumstances, that they would and should
melt like mist before the rising sun after 4
Democratic success i'll Presidential cleo
! ton"
The Post, after its usual invectives against
Blaine, says His remarks are worthy of
notice, mainly because they appeal to what
IS, perhaps, most ormidable-prejudice
among Republicans, with which the friends
Of good government have of late years had
to contend, and that by which Republican
corruptionistS have most prohted. Two
years hence, even as bra2en and unscrupu-
| lous demagogue as Blaine will not venture
! to repeat the speech made at Augusta yes
terday. ii will by that time be seen that
the system of slavc-labor, which was the
only thing that separated Southern and
Northern society, having long disappeared,
the interests and aims of the two sections
are rapidly to become identical. The only
thing which now really difIerentiates them
is the lower condition, in point of intelH
| genee, of the bulk Of the Southern laboring
population.
| Dorsey the Election.
New YORK, November 19th.-The suns
/ St. Louis special gives an interview with
Dorsey on the election as follows: The
ablest man alive is the man whose tongue
has been cut out. The chances are more
than even that when the candidate for a
great Office attempts TO advocate his own
claims he will make great mistakes. The
| moment Blaine opened his mouth he made
! ,,1iStol-a # a iafpr1sp w hon II 10
the letter about his family, he made the
mistake of accusation He made every
woman in the country feel that there was a
basis for the false charges. What he ought
| to have done was to have pointed to his
children, his grandchildren and his familys
life for forty years. His action cost him
million votes. | don't knoy Burchard, but
| | will make venture that he wears a sixteen
| boot and u four hat 4 Protestant clergy
man with no more sense than to talk about
| Romanism in an improper way hasn't the
decency to bury his mother. ! have a
large sympathy for such men on the
ground solely of their bitterness and mar
rowness. In New York City, where | had
Office for fifteen years, think it is safe to
/ say that every great enterprise, every public
endowment, all progress, came from the
/ Catholics and Jews
do you think it time that Blaine
should retire from politics." was asked.
He has been retired by ElkinS.
| Dorseys remarks were very bitter.
Republican National Committee Heavily
III Debt.
/ NEW York, November 19th.-The Sun
says: There were rumors Yesterday that the
| Republican National Committee was heavi-
| ly in debt, and has not penny i'll the
treasury to meet its obligations. 1t is said
| this money is due to many persons, and in
cludes arrearages for rent, printing, music,
uniforms, torches, banners and other para
phernalia of the campaign, and also in
| cludeS money advanced by individuals for
missionary work in the interior of this
State 1t is even said that the dinner at
Delmonico's, like the famous Dorsey dinner
| in 1886, remains unpaid for.
Dwight Lawrence said: There is no
doubt that the National Committee is
| swamped in debt but | have no means of
| knowing that the sunni as large as $3.50, 600,
| as reported. We have been beaten by two
things-the Delmonico dinner and Bur-
chard's foolish Rum, Romanism and Re
! bellion.'
Ex-Collector Thomas Murphy looked
| glum when the reporter met him. =" We
| have said he, been beaten out of our
boots, and old Burchard did it. Blaine
| told me that when Burchard made use of
his expression there was q buzz of conversa-
ton in his ear, and he understood Burchard
to refer to Rum, Mormonism and Re-
| bellion' He said that if he had heard the
parson Alright he would at once have dis
claimed any reflection on a religious body,
so we can see by what trities even the Presi-
dency can be lost"
| No Indebtedness.
PITrsBURG, November 19th.-Chairman
| Jones, of the National Republican Com
mittee, arrived here tonight, and in an in
terview emphatically denied the reports of
the committees Indebtedness. He says
that before leaving New York last night he
drew check for every dollar owed by the
committee Delmonico's dinner was paid
for by private individuals.
Betters Blaming the National Committee.
New YORK, November 19th.-"The Re-
publican National Committee have said a
| Republican in the Gilsey House last night,
"by their assinity pretty nearly ruined all
of us financially. They lost us the State
and the election by blundering, and by
their ridiculous claim since the election
that it would be shown that Blaine had a
plurality in the State they caused us to take
odds in betting offered by exultant Demo-
Gratis, SO that we practically put up and lost
our last dollar"
Settlement of Bets.
NEW YORK, November 19th.-A special