Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-10-24
Mr.. Blaine Greeted with Great Enthusiasm
in Indiana Towns His Trip IA Contin-
ucd Ovation Gen Butler Tells
What he would do if Elected.

in Indiana Towns His Trip IA Contin-
ucd Ovation Gen Butler Tells
What he would do if Elected.
F FoRr WAYNE. Ind, oct. %. - Mr.
Blainc's train arrived at Fort Wayne
about !:3O this afternoon. There was Il
large crowd at the depot and all along the
route to the Avelyn House, to which Mr.
Blaine was driven. The streets in front
of the hotel and Court House square oppo-
site, and all the adjacent streets were fill
ed with people. When Mr.. Blaine appear
ed ON the balcony he was loudly cheered
From one portion of the crowd, including
IL number of men wearing tall white hats,
there came cheers for Cleveland and when
Mr.. Blaine attempted to speak he was in
tcrruptcd by shouts and cheers for CleVc-
land, coming from the same quarter He
therefore declined to speak from the bal
cuny and re-cntering the hotel he left it
again by side door and in company with
Chairman New and Hon. VIM. Mckinley
of Ohio was driven up Calhoun street to IL
point opposite Library hall. The great
body of the crowd followed him and here
standing upon Il drivers seat he made his
speech rs follows
Citizens of Indiana The October cleo
tiOns in Ohio and West Virginia have put
Il new phase ON the National contest or
rather they have produced an old phase
The Democratic party, consider now that
they have II solid South" again. They
believe they will surrey get 1913 electoral
votes from sixteen Southern States and
then they expect or they hope or they
dream that they may secure New York
and Indiana, and that with New York
anc Indiana added to the solid South
that they will seize the government
of the Nation. They can't do it. | do not
believe that the farmers business men,
manufacturers, merchants, mechanics
and last of all and most of all, don't be
lieve that the soldiers of Indiana can he
put to that use. do not believe that the
men who added lustre and renown to the
name of your State through four years of
bloody war can be used to call into the
administration of the government the men
who organized the great Rebellion, III
the Senate of the United States the Demo-
cratic party have thirty-seven members of
which number thirty-two come from the
South. OF their strength in the
House of Representatives a major
ity come from the South, and now
the intention is with an absolutely solid
flied electoral vote from the South, added
to the votes of the two States have nam
ed, to seize the government of the Union
That means Il great deal !: it means that AS
the South furnishes three-fourths of the
Democratic strength it will be given the
event of Democratic triumph. 1t
means that the great financial and indus
trial systems of the country shall be placed
under the direction of the South that our
currency, our banks our tariffs. our inter
nal revenue lawS-in short that our whole
system upon which the business of our
country depends shall be placed under the
control of that section. 1t means that the
constitutional amendments To which they
are SO bitterly opposed shall be en-
forced only so far as they may
believe in them: that our National
credit as guaranteed in the Fourteenth
amendment that the payment of pensions
to the soldiers of the Union rs guaranteed
in the same amendment, shall be under
their control and what that control might
mean can be measured by the bitterness
with which these amendments were resist
ed by the Democrats of the South. There
is not one measure of banking, of tariff
of finance, of public credit, Of pen
sions; not one line of administration
upon which the government is con
Quoted to-day to which the Democrats
of the South are not recorded as hostile ::
and to give them the control would also
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 invited to administer the gov
eminent of the French republic; as though
the Florentine dukes should he called
back and empowered to govern the
great kingdom of Italy. Such tri-
, umph would be fearful misfor-
tune to the South itself That sec
ton under Il wise administration
. of the government by the Republican
party has been speedily and rapidly gain
ing for the last ten years, in all the ele-
ments of material prosperity, 1t has added
enormously to its wealth since the close of
. the war, and has shared fully in the gen
eral advance of the country. local that
section to the rulership of the
Nation would disturb its own local
{ and political economy and rekindle
f smouldering passions, and under the pc
culiar leadership to which il would be sub
jected it would organize an administra
, ton of resentment, of reprisal of revenge
No greater misfortune than that could
| come to the Nation or to the South. II
would come as Il reaction against the pro
/ gress of liberal principles in that section
Il progress so rapid that the Republicans
are waging an earnest contest in thest
, States, whose interests are most demon
strably identified with the policy of pro
lection.
Gen. Logan in Iowa.
DUBUKE, Iowa, Oct. 20.-Gen. Logan ar
rived here shortly after noon to-day. The
| reception committee met him at Galenf
and escorted him to this city. His arrival
: was greeted with the roar of cannon
J bands of music, marching political clubs
2 and large concOurse of people. Gen
7 Logan was escorted to the Larmier house
where he was followed by large Grove
to whom he bowed his acknowledgment
. 4 L. ..,ts. n .N.I.. Il. L..