The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1884-11-27
BLAINE CRASHES HIS TEETH.
Al VERY VIOLENT sPREoH AGAINST
II THE SOLID SOUTH.

Fellow Republicans of how Near He was
to yictory---Ho Ignores the Millions of
Northern Democrats.
A large number of personal and po-
litical friends of Blaine scneradcd him
- at Augusta, Me-, on Tuesday evening
will and admiration Of his conduct of
tao national campaign. They marched
. through the streets under the marshall
/ ship of Col Frank Nyc. When they
reached Blainc's house their con.pIi-
mcnts and friendly regards were "
pressed in speech by Herbert M.
Heath, of the Kcnncbcc bar.
Blaine responded as follows, his
speech being continually interrupted
by applause.
Friends and ncighbors, the national
contest is over, and by the narrowcst
Of margins we have lost. thank you
for your call, which, if not one Of
JOYOUS congratulations, Is one | am
Sure Of confidence and of sanguinc
hope for the future. | thand YOU for
the public opportunity you give me to
express my sense Of obligation not
only to YOU but to all the Republicans
of Maine. They responded to my
nomination with genuine enthusiasm,
ratified it by o superb vote. count
it as one of the hon0rs and gratifica-
ttions 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 fashioned Il
10000 plurality. No other expression
of popular confidence and esteem
could equal that of the people among
whom have iued for thirty years and
to whom | am attached by all the ties
that cnnoblc human nature and give
JOY and dignity to life.
After Maine, indeed along with
Maine, my first thought is always Of
Pennsylvania. How can L fittingly
express my thanks for that unparallcl-
ed majority of more than $4,000 votes,
an endorsement which has deeply
touched my heart and whicn has, if
possible, increased my affection for
that grand old commonwealth, an af-
fection which inherited from my an
cestry and which l shall transmit to
my children.
But do not limit my thanks to the
my birth. owe much to the true and
Jealous friends in New Lngland who
worked so nobly for the Republican
party and its candidates and to the
eminent scholars and divincs who,
stepping aside from their ordinary
avocations, made my cause their cause
and to loyalty to principle added the
special compliment of standing as my
personal representatives in the national
struggle.
But the achievements for the Re-
publican cause in the East are even
surpassed by the splendid victories in
the West. In that magnificent Gordon
y OF States that stretches from the foot
hills of the Allcghcnics to the golden
gate of the Pacific, beginning with
Ohio and ending with California, the
Republican banner was horne SO lofty
that but a single State failed to oin in
the wide acclaim Of triumph.
Nor should do Justice to my own
feelings if failed to thank the Rcpub-
licans of the Empire State, who cn-
countcrcd so many discouragcmcnts
and obstacles, who fought foes from
within and foes from without, and
who wagcd so strong a battle that the
change of one vote in every 1000
would have given us victory in the
nation. Indeed Il change of q little
more than 5000 votes would have
. anstcrrcd New York, Indiana, New
Jersey anu Connecticut TO the Rcpub-
ncan standard and would have made
the North as solid as the South.
My thanks would still be incomplete
if | should fail to recognize with
special gratitude that great body of
born, who gave inc their earnest sun
port, breaking from old personal and
party ties and finding in the princinlcs
which | represented in the canvass,
the safeguard and protection of their
own tiresidc interests.
.. The result of tic election, nv friend
VIII be regarded i'll the 1uturc, / think,
as extraordinary. The Northern
Slalcs, leaving out the cities of New
York and Brooklyn from the count.
sustained the Republican cause by a
majority OF more than 400, 900. Almost
half million indeed of the popular
vote of the cities Of New York and
Brooklyn Threw their great strength
and influence with the Solid Sonth and
were the, decisive element which gave
to that section the control of the M
tional Government.
Speaking now, not at all as defeat
ed candidate, but as a loyal and dcvot-
ed American, / think the transfer of
the political power of the Government
to the South is a great national mis-
fortune. 1t is misfortune, because it
introduces an element which cannot
insure harmony and prosperity to the
people, because it Introduces into the
Repu6lic the rule of the minority.
o., The first instinct of an American is
~, cquaiity-cquality Of right, equality of
- privilege, equality Of political power,
that equality which sa Us to every cit.
zen: "Iour vote is just as good, lust
us potential as the vote of any other
81 ID r. = That cannot be said to-day in the
- - Gni'cu m ola,eS. The course of affairs
~ In the South has crushed ont thc noiiti-
cal power of more than a million
american citizens, and has transferred
IT by violence to others. Fortv-two