Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-23
BLAINE RECEIVES CALLS.

Ninety Methodist Ministers and the
Union League Club Visit the Knight
NEW YORK, Sept. 22.-To-day a delega-
tion Of Methodist clergymen, numbering
about 80, paid their respects to Mr.. Blaine.
They represented churches in this city,
Brooklyn, Jersey City, Newark and Con-
necticut. The reverend gentlemen were
introduced by DR.. James M. King, of the
Eighteenth Street Methodist Episcopal
Church.
A delegation from the Union League
Club, of Philadelphia, also made their
visit without any particular formality at
4 O'Clock. A committee of 80 of the Union
League Club Of New York, which was au-
pointed by the club to cooperate with the
Republican National Committee, together
with about 150 other members of the club,
assembled in the main parlor of the hotel
On behalf of the committee Charles S.
Smith said:
Mr.. Blaine. in the absence of our President,
Mr.. Evarts, il has become my pleasant duty
to present to you delegation from the
Union League Club, and in their name to
welcome you to New York. But, sir, the
members of this club need no introduction to
you. Your name, for more than 20 years has
been with us a household word, and your fame
is dearer than ever because of the vile
slanders that have attacked it. The ISLANDERS
VIII soon be forgotten in our triumph of No.
vember, which will give echo to the recent
Maine election and we hope, SIR, that YOU
may be able then not only to forgive but to
forget your slanderers. Sir, the Union
League Club claims to have done something
for the Republican party and something for
the country. We claim the right, by our
past record, to speak with authority for our
party.
AN UNSELFISH LOT.
We claim to be body of men who ask
md OnIxr ooI
government and wise policy. / am desired by
my friends, who surround me, to say that it is
their most emphatic conviction that the ques-
tiOn of questions to be decided in the coming
Presidential election which dominates ali
others Is this: Shall the American idea of
tariff for the protection of United States
labor and industries be maintained as the set
tied policy of the United States? We, sir,
utterly repudiate the un- American and Dem
Ocratic doctrine of tariff for revenue only
We claim that this is the only question now
worthy of discussion. We pledge to you, sir,
the hearty support of an overwhelming ma
jority of this club. If there should be a small
remnant of a minority of our members who
may desert their party on election day. 1t will
be only because they love free trade.
BLAINE's REPLY.
Mr.. Blaine responded as follows:
GENTLEMEN OF THE UNION LEAGUE CLUB
/ desire in response to your cordial welcome
to express the deep obligation l feel for the
courtesy you have shown me by this call
Inc history OF the Union League Club OF New
York is inseparably identified with the most
critical period in the history of this nation
No one who has followed our national pro-
gress for a quarter of century can
be insensible of the great aid
which your organization rendered in all the
crises of the civil war. Since the return Of
peace, you have been distinguished by your
adherence to sound political principles, and
by the weight of your influence have done
much to promote wise legislation and to lead
public opinion in channels of safety. / wish
again to return my thanks for your kindness
and to express my profound appreciation of
the kindly assurances you give OF your sym
pathy and support.
Mr.. Blaine left for Philadelphia at 6;15
O'Clock this evening. He made briet
stop at Newark, where he was given
reception, and arrived at Philadelphia at
midnipbt