The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-11-19
NIGHT DISPATCHES.
Blaine's FriendssAcc 9 HIN
a serepade
Which Affords Him a Chance
to Talk Back.
\
As. Usual he Waves the
Bloody Shirt
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And Declares, the Chasm NOT OF
Bridged. @55s
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And Does Up the stalwarti
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Both Men Arrested But AT
forward Released. ,>.-sh
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Both Men Arrested But Al
forward Released. -a<
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n 1gJ Blaine serenaded. .
AUGUSTA. Me-, Nov. ia large,
number Of devoted personal aed po-
liticsl friends of James It. Blame
serenaded him this evening as IN
expression of their personal good Will
and admiration Of his conduct In The
national campaign. They marched
through the Streets under. the maxi,
shslship of Colonel Frank Nye.
When they reached Rlaine's house
their compliments and friendly re-
CARDS were expressed in q speech by
Herbert NJ. Heath Esq, Of the Ken
nebec bar. Blaine responded as fol-
lows, his speech being continually
interrupted by applase:
FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORs: The
national contest is over, and by the
narrowest of margins we have lost.
I thank you for your call. which If
not one of joyous congratulations, Is
one I am sure, of confidence and OF
sangulne hope for the future. /
thank you for the public opportunity
you give me to express my sense of
obligation, not only to you,
but to all Republicans of Maine.
They responded to my nomination
with general enthusiasm and ratified
it by a superb vote. I count it rs
one of the honors and qualifications
of my pubic career. That party in
Maine after struggling hard for the
last six years, ana twice within that
period losing the >tate, has come.
back in this campaign to its old.
fashioned 10000 plurality Noicther
expression of popular confidence and
esteem could equal inst OF the peoIle'
among whom 1 have lived for thirty
years and to whom / am attached by
all the ties that ennOble human Ia
ture and give joy and dignity to life.
After Maine, along with Maine, my
first thought is always of Pennsyl
wanna. How Can 1 fttipg]y express
my thanks for that unparalleled ma
jority OF more than eighty Thousand
majority votes a popular endorse
ment which has deeply touched my
heart and which las, if possible, in
creased my affection for the grand old
common ealth-an af, ction which
I Inherited from my ancestry and
which l will transmit to my chill
dren. But I do not limit my thanks
to the State of my residence and the
State Of my birth. I owe much to
true and Jealous friends in New
England who worked so n0bly for
the Republican party and Its can
didates and to the eminent scholars
and business men who stepping aside
from the ordinary avocations made
nay cause their cause;but the achieve.
mems for the Republican cause in
the East r eve surpassed by the
splendid victories in the West,
on that magnificent Gordon
of States that stretches from
the foot hills of the Alleghenys to
the Golden Gate of the Pacific, be-
ginning with Ohio and ending with
California, the Republican banner
was borne so loftlly that but q single
State failed to join in the wide declar-
alton of triumph. Nor should I do
justice to my own feelings if I failed
to thank the Republicans of the EN-
plre State who encountered so many
discouraged ents and obstacles, who
fought foes from within and foes
from without, and who waged so
strong q battle that q change of one
vote in every two thousand would
have given us victory in the nation.
Indeed, a change of q little more
than five thousand votes would have
transferred New York, Indiana,
New Jersey and Connecticut to the
Republican standard and would have
made the North as solidas the South. /
thanks would still be incomplete /
If I should fail to recognize with !
gratitude that great body of !!
worklngmen, both native and for
elgn born, who gave me their earnest
support, breaking from old personal
and party ties and finding in the
which I represented in
the canvass the safeguard and
protection to their own fireside in
terests. The results of the election.
my friends, will be regarded in the
I think, as extraordinary.
The Northern States, leaving out the
cities OF New York and BROOKLYN.
from the count, sustained the Repub-
lican cause by q majority of more
than four hundred thousand, almost
half a million, indeed, of the popular
vote. The cities of New York and
Brooklyn threw their great strength
and influence with the Solid South
and were the decisive element which
gave to that section the control OF
National government. Speaking
now, not at all as y defeated candi-
date, but simply AZ a loyal and de-
voted American, I think the transfer
the political power of the Govern
to the South is a great national
misfortune. 1t is q misfortune be-
cause it introduces an element which
insure harmony and prosper
lty to the people, because it intro
into the republic the
of the minority. The first
instinct of an American ia
equality-equality Of right, equal
|ty OF privilege, equality of DO
.itlcal pOWer-that power which saws
your Votes just as good, just az poten-
tial as the vote of any other citizen to-
lay in the Uniled States. The course
affairs in the south has crushed
out the political power of more than
Tx million American citizens and
has transferred it by violence to 9th
ers. Forty-two presidential elac.
'ors are assigned t. the South IN
recount OF the colored people. and
yet the colored population with m"ra
10000 legal voters have bean
to choose a single elector
In those States where thav
nave q majority of more than a hnc
1red thousand they are deprived IT ];
rec suffrage andtheir right. ~ c,t;. .
lens are scornfully troddep md, .
DOT. Eleven States that comnr,sed F.
he rebel confederaey had nv ~ -.
census of 1880 seven and q half MI ,,
lons of white people and 5.soo mo I
'olored population. The colored 800
llation almost to q man desire tn p"p !
,ort the Republican party. hit up- I
he system of cruel intImida,;on oy q
y violence and murder-wharennua .
'iolenoe and murder are fhonuhtt !