Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-11-19
BLAINE'S MOUTH OPEN
ARD AIS root IN IT, As USUAL.
he shows shs Had Tssts at sersnsde tu
Augusta, NE, TO whine About Bis
Presidential Defeat.

ne shows IN. HAD rsss. as ssrensde In
Augusta. NE, TO whine About Bis
Presidential Defeat.
A large number of the devoted personal |
and political friends OF Mr.. Blaine sers |
nsded him In Augusta, Me-, Tu ,sday |
evening rs an expression OF personal good |
will and admiration Of his conduct of the |
| national campaign, They marched through |
the streets under the marshalship OF
Colonel Frank Nye. When they reached
Mr.. Blaine's house their compliments aod
friendly regards were expressed In spey oh
by Herbert M. Heath, esq, of the
Kennebec bar. Mr.. Blaine responded rs
follows, his speech being continually intOr.
rupted by applause
| Friends sad neighbors The nation Il
contest Is S<er, aud by the narrowest a
margins we have lost. thank you f..
your osll which, II not one of joyous con
gratulations is one, l am sure, of conf
dence and of ssnguins hope for the fu
ture. thank you for the public oppor
tunity you give me to express my sense o.
obligation, not only to you but to all the
| Republicans of Maine. They responded
to my nomination with genuine euthusi
asm, and ratified it by superb vote. |
count il as one Of the honors and gratif
cations of my public career that the party
in Maine, after struggling hard for the
last six years, and twice within that
period losing the state has come
back in this campaign to an old-fash.
ioned 30, 900 plurality No other expires
sion Of popular confidence aud esteem
could equal that of the people among
whom have lived for thirty years, and to
whom am attached by all the ties that
ennoble human nature aud give joy and
dig nifty to life.
After Maine, indeed, along with Maine,
my first thought always is Of Penusylva
MIA. How can attingly express my
thanks for that unparalleled majority OF
more than 50, 600 yotes-a popular in
dorsement which has deeply touched my
heart, and which has, IL possible, Increased
my affection for the grand old common.
wealth, az affection which inherited from
my ancestry, and which shall transmit to
my children9
But do not limit my thanks to the
, state of my residence and the state OF N ~
!, birth. | owe much to the true and zeal
GUS friends in New England who work ked
so nobly for the Republican party aud its
candidates, and to the eminent scholars
and divues who, stepping aside from
their ordinary avocations, made my caus
their cause, and 70 loyalty to principle sd
Ced ths special compliment of standing
as my personal representatives in the na-
tional struggle.
But the achievements for the Republican
cause in the East are even surpassed by the
splendid victories in tho West. In that
= magnificent Gordon of states that stretches
, from the foot hills of the Alleghenies to
the Golden Gate of the Pacific, beginning
:, with Ohio and ending with California, the
q Republican banner was borne so loftily
'. that but single state failed to join in the
o wide soc aim of triumph. Nor should dc
Il justice to my own feelings If l failed Il
thank the Republicans of the Empire
u state, who encountered 30 many disoour.
sgements and obstacles {; who fought foe,
from within and foes from without, ant
i who waged so strong battle that change
s of one vote in every ., 900 would have givel
=. US the victory in the nation.
i soxB BITTER SECTIONAL SENTIMENTS.
,. Speaking now, not at sll as defeste.
4 candidate, but as . loyal and devotet
American, think the transfer of Lh
political power OF the government to tn
South is great national misfortune. It 4
is a misfortune because 1t introduces an ele
3 nient which cannot insure harmony an
r prosperity to tho people, because |
Introduces into republic tho rule o
y minority. The first instinct of an Amer
9 can Is equality-cquality OF right, equslit
of privilege, equality Of political poweI
that equality which says to every Citizen
"Your vote is Just as good, just as potter
y tial, as the vote of any other Citizen" Tbs
cannot be said to-day In the United States
y The course of affairs In the South ha
II crushed out of the political power of NOR
"a than six million American citizens, AM
. : has transferred it by violence to others.
u Forty.two presidential electors are as
Is signed to the South and on account Of tn
aANn lot ANH WAE Nka nEAlN
I population, with more than |, 100, 900 lega
= votes, have been unable TO choose singl
eleotor. Even in those states where the
y have q majority of more than q hundred
o thousand they are deprived Of free suffrag
n and their rights as citizens are scornfull
a trodden under foot.
The eleven states that comprised tn,
o rebel Confederaoy had by the census o
t 1880 1900, 600 white population ant
5, 300 900 oolored population. The coloret
population almost to q man desire to sup
port the Republican party, but by system
of cruel intimidation and by violence ant
{ murder, whsanver violence and murder ar,
{ thought necessary, they are sbsolutel,
o deprived Of all political power. If tn,
, outrage stopped there 1t would be bac
=, enough but it 1t does not stop there, fo
not only is the negro population disfrap
) chised but the power which rightfully
, aud constitutionslly belongs to them il
4 transferred to the white population
: enabling the white population Of the
South to exert an electoral influence fal
Q beyond that exerted by the same number
( OF people in the North. To illustrate just
how it works to the destruction of all fail
=, elections let me present to you five states
in the late Coufederaoy and five loys
' states of the North, possessing in eact
section the same number of electora
= votes.
soMrABIsoN OF srATEs.
In the South the states of Louisiana
Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and 5outl
Carolina have in the aggregate forty. eigh
: electoral votes. They have . 800, 900 whit
people and over 5000, 900 coloreC
people. In the North the states of Wis
consiD, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas snC
California have likewise In the aggregate
forty eight electoral votes, and they hav
a white population Of 5000, 900, or jus
double the five Southern states which
, have named. These Northern states hsv
. practically no colored population. 1t is there
-, fore evident that the white men In thes
Southern states, by usurping and absorbing
the rights OF the ooiored men, are exertinl
] just double the political power Of tn
j white men In the Northern states. l submit
2 nv friends that Huoh a oOndittOn of Affair