The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-11-20
BRASS and BuNCUMBE.
The "Magnetic Man" Of Maine Exhib.
Its II Enormously.
A REGULAR FIRE-EATiNc SPEECH.
He Assaults New York, brooklyn and
the Solid South
WITH A veNoMous TONGUE.
The Bioody shirt waved In Frenzy to tn-
nams the sections With Dead Past
Hnmities-Ths Ritter Cupof
Defeated Ambition
WITH A veNoMous ToNaU
SEEMS TO RUN HIM ALMOST MAD,

Dtr nI tNt utNol'u ptTSoHhi uhu H'liliVai
friends of Mr.. Blaine seronaded him this
evening, as an expression Of personal
good will and admiration for his con-
duct during tho late national campaign.
They marched through the streets un-
der the marshalship of Col. Frank Nyc.
when they reached Hluino's house
their compliments am friendly regards
were expressed In a speech by Her crt
NJ. Heath, of tho kenebec bar. Mr..
Blaine responded "a follows, his speech
being continually interrupted by APP
plause:
MIR. WLAINE's SPEECH.
"FriendS and neighbprs: The national
contest Is over ana by the uarrownst of
margins We have lost. thank you for
your call, which. ii not oPo OF Joyous
is one, ! ain sure, Of
confidence and of snnguiGc hope Tor
the future. | thank you for the
public opportunity you give mo to OK
press my sense of Obligation not only to
You but TO all tho Republicans of Maine.
They responded O. my nomination with
a genuine enthusiasm aud ratified II by
a superb vote. | count IL AZ one of tho
honors and qualifications of my public
career that the party in Maine, after
struggling hard for the ast six years,
and twice within that period losing tho
STATE, has come back In this
campaign to its old fashioned
10000 plurality. No other expression
of popular confidence and esteem
could equal that of tho people among
whom | have lived for thirty years and
to whom / am attached by all the ties
that ennoble human nature and give
joy and dignity TO life.
PLEASED WITH PENNSYLVANIA.
After Maine Qndeed, along with
Maine), my first thought Is always Of
How can I fittingly ex.
press my thanks for that unparalleled
majority of more than $1,000 votes! A
popular endorsement which has, If pos
sible, increased my affection for
an affection which I inherited from my
ancestry and which shall transmit to
my children. BuG do not limit my
thanks to the state OF my residence and
the state of my birth. ] owe much to
the true and jealous friends in New
England who worked 30 nobly for the
party and its candidates,
and to the eminent scholars and divines
who, stepping aside from their
ordinary avocations, made my ais., cause
to principle added the special compli-
ment of standing as my personal repre-
sentatives in the national struggle. But
the achievements for the Republican
cause in the esst are even surpassed by
the splendid
VICTORIES IN THE WHIST,
in that magnificent rdon OF states
that stretches from the foot OF the hills
to the Golden Cato OF
The Pacific, beginning with Ohio
and ending with California, the
banner was borne so
Ioftily that but single state failed to
Join in with the acclaim of triumph. Nor
should do Justice TO my own feelings If
| failed to thank tie Republicans of
THE EMPIRE STATE.
who encountered so many discourage
ments and obstacles, who fought foes
from within and foes from without, and
who waged so strong u battle that the
change of one vote in over $500 would
have given us the victory in the nation.
WHAT NIGH HAVE BEEN.
Indeed the change of little more than
1000 votes would have transferred New
York, Indiana. New Jersey and Con-
necticut to the republican standard and
would have made the MOI tn AS solid as
,he south. My thanks would still be
Incomplete if should fail to recognize
with special gratitude the great ody of
wORKINGMEN,
me- tn ir earne ut support, breaking IRON
I'D personal and party ties, and finding
n the principles which represented in
he canvass, the Safeguard and protect
on of their own tiresides and interests.
THE RESULT OF THE ELECTION,
nv friends, will be regarded in the fu-
,ure l think, a. extraordinary. Ihe
lorthern states, leaving out the cities OF
Sew York and Brooklyn from the count,
,,,,t,;,aI tho uhIiCan CQn2a nv a
majority of more than 400.OU-almost
lalf million indeed of the popular vote.
Tbe cities of New York and Brooklyn
,hrew their great strength and influence
With tho solid south and were
he decisive element which gave to that
section the control Of the ma
,ionsl government. Speaking now
10t at all as defeated can
iidate,. but simply as loyal and de,
he political power of the government
O the south is
GREAT NATIONAL MISFORTUNE.
1t is misfortune bcause it introduces
II element which can not insure har-
nony and prosperity to the people; be-
,ause it introduces into the republic the
.ule of minority. The first instinct of
IN American is equality: Equality OF
right, equality of privilege, equality. 1f
says to every citizen, "Y0ur vote IL just
II good, just as potential as the vote OF
INV other citizen" That can not BIZ said
o-day in the United States. The course
If affairs in the south has crushed out
he political power OF more than 5000 OO0
merican citizens, and has transferred
t by violence to others. Forty-two pres
Dental electors are assigned to the
,outh on account OF
THE CuLoRED POPULATIONS,
md vet tho cnlored population, with
more than 100000 legal votes, have
,cen unable to chose u single elector,
wen in those states where they have a
majority of more than 100000 they were
deprived of free suffrage and their rights
" citizens are scornfully trodden un-
Ter foot. The eleven states that COM
,rised
THE REBEL CoNFEDERACY
lad by the census of 1880 7,5OO,000 OF a |
White population and 100000 of col |
red population. The colored popula-
ion, almost to man, desire to support !
he Republic n party, but by a system
T cruel intimidation and by violence
nd murder. whenever violence and
murder are thought necessary, they are !
bsolutely deprived of all political
over. If the Outrages were stopped
here it would be bad enough; but IL
nes not stop there, Tor not
My is the negro population
but II" powor nhI u
ighttuily and const,tu 'ona!lv elpnp. |
, them j. transferred tUt q white popu- !
liiop, enabling the white population OF