Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-09-30

work out great results and you would not
think me trenching on partisan ground if
should remark that by far :he largest part of
the progress made in these intervening &c
years have been made since the government
of the United States came under control of
the republican party and the country have
been blessed with protection to American
contrast of the scene of these hours with what
recall of the past is a lesson which am
sure you have learned"
Mr.. King then introduced ex-President
Hayes, who made brief speech on the tariff
issue.
TOLEDO, Sept. 90.
At Clyde a short stop was made TO allow
Blaine TO be presented to large crowd
which had assembled there.
At Fremont ex President Hayes escorted
Blaine TO the platform and introduced him,
asking for him a cordial reception as an old
friend and as the standard bearer of the re-
publican party whose success he believed was
essential TO the prosperity of the country.
Blaine was received with great applause and
spoke as follows:
at gives me great pleasure to be thus
welcomed to Fremont and to be introduced
by ex-President Hayes to his neighbors and
friends. | am glad to have the opportunity
w soy hCiC tuot IL Nos tHC
of your distinguished fellow citizen as Presi-
dent of fhe United States to leave the people
in far more prosperous condition than that
in which he found them on the day of his
inauguration and he steadily gained in public
confidence throughout his whole term of
office. thank him and you for the personal
compliment and for public significance and
ask of your considerate judgment, which l
know you will give, to the weight and mean
ing of Ohio's voice in October" Enthu-
siastic cheers
Immediately on arriving at Toledo Blaine
was escorted by the local committee to
League Park. on the outskirts of the city,
where a meeting was in progress As soon
as it was known that Blaine had come the
the people crowded into the park so rapidly
that in a short time there were probably
l0,0 900 in and around the inclosure. Baine's
appearance on the stand was the signal for
the most enthuastic cheering and upon being
presented to the audience he said
Mr.. Chairman and gentlemen-I should al
any time deem it Improbable to speak dis
respectfully of political opponents. l should
in my present position deem it improper.
should rather be the victim of slander than
the author of it; but there is some things
do not deem it unbecoming in me, holding
the position do, to call attention to. The
republican party has governed the country
"a years in spirit and according to the meas
ure of the broad nationality. The progress
under our government in that spirit has far
| transcribed all progress made in all previous
years of the nations history. To remand
our government now to the control of our
opponents whe do not believe in the consttu-
tionality of the measures which has given this
progress, would be a step backward IN the
do hnn tbo pf
tective tariff we are not to regard it merely
as one to be settled on basis OF expediency,
because large majority of our opponents
hold protective tariff to be constitutional
There is not one great measure that the
republican party has adopted, nor one gaeat
step taken since the Inauguration of Abraham
Lincoln in 1861 that the democratic party has
not opposed and considered unconstitutional.
So to remand the government of the United
States to the control of the democrats is not
merely an ordinary change of parties.
1t is the total reverse of the policy that dis
tinguished the government of the United
States since 1861. 1t is given TO the narrow
ing dogma of state rights precedence in that
grand march which has been made and which
could only be made under the banner of broad
nationality. 1t is on that great plan that the
republican party has done me the honor to
present me as the candidate before you. 1t
is on that plane with all it implies that | am
before you and before all the people of the
United States today. Cheers
Afterwards he was driven to the grand
stand from which he reviewed a great torch
light procession.
A republican demonstration was to have
taken place Saturday and its postponement
till Monday brought it on the same evening
with the pre-arranged democratic parade,
which was also very large.
The rival professions between them seemed
to have taken possession of the entire city,
but everything passed off quiet. Mr. Blaine
will leave here at 9 o'clock in the morning.