Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-27
Mr.. BLAINE DEFENDED.
An Eloquent Speech by Soma
tor H0ar, Of Massa-
chusetts,

Delivered at the Great Repub-
lican Meeting at
Boston.
The first question. compared to which every
other is petty and trihing. is that Of the SUI
premacy Of the Constitution itself. know not
what others may think. but cannot stand in
Faneuil Hall in honor, when know that in
great States the right Of suffrage is practically
denied to my countrymen. do not think my
own right to vote for President is of much value,
such processes as prevail at the South. There
are three States mississippi, Louisiana, and
South Carolina-to say nothing Of others, in
recorded at the coming election will have no re-
lation whatever to the will of the people. These
three States cast twenty-six electoral votes |;
th hey fas t9sty Nw
thusiastic supporters can hope for, he will fall
far short of an election, unless the votes Of these
States. wrested from their Republican MAORI
ties by crime and fraud, are to be counted in his
favor. The young reformer who votes for
Gov Cleveland cannot help to elect him
ns only hsR to make Of p9Ss a o@ hs
by which minority shall usurp the
government Of the country; The process is
very simple ana fdm1llar. IL Ia known as tho
Mississippi plan. Violence and murder are
made use of until the minority get the election
offices in into their hands, and thenceforth the
ascendancy is maintained by the easier way OF
tissue ballots and fraudulent counting. These
things will scarcely be denied by 2 Southern
Democrat in private; The leading Democratic
have in substance admitted these facts, and all
but one have indicated them as necessity
You tell me Gov. Cleveland is not responsible
for these things. II he were to declare in a man
v1n~ thlf nH h0 in fvNot hn
would, it President, use the power vested in him
for their suppression, or if he should declare,
an Honest man should do. that he would not
take an office gained by such means. he could
noteat a Democratic vote south Of Mason and
Dixon 8 line.
Another question next in dignity, is that
not accept the teachings of that political
economy with its tidings Of despair.
whlen tells us. Us that it IS the lot o. 1 S9e
We believe this country is governed, is to be
governed, and ought 10 be governed, by the men
who work with their hands on farms and in
for their labor, which shall bring them leisure.
comfort, education for their children, they can
not preserve the qualities needed q, for citizen
q great and powerful nation en- this continent
on other terms, but there cannot be great re-
public. This end can only be secured by the
maintenance Of the American system. The
prices OF many other things, the rates of ex-
change, are, in the ARTIFICIAL arrangements OF
commerce, determined in Great B itain. We
do not propose to annex American labor to that
market We believe that by judiciOus system
Of protection. t. AIMED for that purpose. this re-
suit can be and is secured and that agriculture,
manufacture, and commerce will alike be bene-
flied. a few tleoretic economists, a few college
professors, and the great LUX or the Old Cwne 8
Of plantations and slave labor, differ with U.s.
We propose to debate that question with them,
and take The verdict Of the American people.
The Republican party has nominated its can
dates and framed it's platform. Your DELEGATES,
III ubenlenee TO What they believed to be tue
wish OF their constituents, voted for the Cistin-
Eiiisiied statesma from Vermont But we are
bound to say that there was never nomination
made under circumstances more ent.tic TO re-
sl,ect The unit rule, which formerly thiearenel
to tranlmel the free choice OF the people, was
over brown. The holders OF Office were in al
most solid column for another candidate. l do
no5 believe that until within few days Mr..
Daine ei0':tr sought or expected the result.
It was the irrepressible act Of the leople who
had eyes and chose MIN Look at
made this choice. They are the very flower
OF America. Fellow-citizens, his is
the nomination Of what is best in
our Am rican life. 1t is the nomination OF what
1t is the nomination OF the srcat free States. 1t
is the nomination OF the church and OF the
school-house. 1t is the nomination OF the men
who own and till their own farms. 1t is the
nomnation of the men who perform skilled la
Dor III our shops. 1t is the nomination OF the
soior' OF the ie men who went to the war and
the men who paid the debt and kept tn.
cul reicy sound. and saved the nations honor.
country in war, and who have made it worth
living in in peace. This, fellow citizens, is the
rilrslf Of the Republican party that surrounds
The people knew well what they were doing
Mr. Blaine. il we except our great soldiers, has
becn for nearly twenty years the most conspic-
nous personal prescno &c in the country. He has
dwelt in his simple American home in Augusta
and Washington with wife and children. into
the inmost REC sses OF his life q blazing light has
been constantly poured He is the choice OF
gresslve in opinion throughout the whole cOun-
try. Gentlemen tell us that he has done moth
ing of IN morable public service. I had thought
otherwise. had thought him one OF the very
greatest OF the great leaders who have conducted
the American people along the difficult pathway
OF danger and of glory which they have travelled
hand was found in the framing Of the four
teenth and fifteenth amendments. I had
thought-indeed, had known-that he was in
the very inlnost councils when the resumption
act was framed, and that his influence carried it
through the House over which he presided. 1
had thought that he had been Speaker of the
and eventful years. 1 had thought that among
the great orators OF the country he had been OF
the very greatest and most persuasive in the de-
bate which satisfied the American people to take
up the heavy burden OF the debt, to keep its cur
rency depressed and its credit safe. J. had
thought that when in Maine the ambitious lar
fer whole State Government at once, it was
his leadership that by peaceful and lawful meth
dds had1ed the conspiracy and saved the State.
I remember too the next year. when the Repub.
and exclude Gov. Plaisted by technical objec-
lions. it was Mr.. Blaine who said One major
it 5!a,; Tor Mr. Plaisted shall be as good as
They say Mr.. Blaine is a "Jingo." He is just
such lingo" as was John Quincy Adams. The
malice of his detractors brings against his per-
int fv 2 Sin oh ia
ed by no proof and refuted by every witness who
knows the facts, and single phrase in a letter
which is fully susceptible OF an honest construc-
ton. It is said that the President OF the United
States ought to be like Caesars wife, above sus-
Ticion. I have one thing to say about Caesar.
Cesar did many base things; among them was
the destruction Of the liberties of his country;
but he never did baser thing than when he
abandoned his wife because somebody slandered
her.
wish to say word concerning Mr.. B]aine's
associate on the ticket, whom for fifteen years ]
have had abundant opportunity of knowing.
Gen. Logans opinions and character have
time he entered public life as a
Democratic Representative from Egypt thirty
years ago. have not explored, but have NO
doubt it you were to look back among forgotten
records, you would find many opinions that be
expressed and many votes that he gave with
which you and should have little sympathy
day of the great regeneration He went through
| the baptism Of ire and blood and ever since
has been true as steel on every question Of
patriotism and freedom. He is the type and
representative Of the American .voluntee,
| soldier. He entered the war private. He
came out the highest in rank and the most
| famous of all the men who enlisted from civil
| life. Ever since the people OF his great State
| have kept him in public service in House anG
Senate, until the other day she presented him a,
Chicago as her candidate for the highest Office
If ANYBODY questions Gen. Logan's civil
capacity, should like to have him try his han6
| at encountering him in debate
see the President of Harvard tells his neigh
| bors that the platform is immoral and demagog.
| ical Well, I differ with the worthy President
| The Republican platform states squarely and
! Clearly what a majority of Republicans think
| The civil-service plank was drawn by Geo q
| William Curtis, ant. that about the surplus b,
| Cabot Lodge. President Eliot thinks the civil
| service resolution is not honest. Well, woulc
| rather stand for civil-service reform with thu
! men who passed the law Of last year, with Ed
| munds and Hawley and John Sherman anC
| Dorman B. Eaton, than with the men who re
| tired Pendleton to private life. President Elio
| does not like the Chinese resolution. IQuit,
agree with him. 1 like the Declaration OF In
| dependence better. But I am sorry to say thai
the policy of Chinese exclusion is in accord
ance with the opinion of a large ma
| jority of the American people Of both parties
We must submit to it till we can convert them