The Northern Pacific farmer., 1884-09-25
Senator Hoar on Blaine,

Hon. George T. Hoar, the distinguished
United States Senator of Massachusetts, in
speech at Salem, in that state, last Wednesday
evening, thus spoke of James G. Blaine:
Yoz know something Of the principles, the
policy, tho purposes of tho republican party.
They are written in letters of light ON your
country's history, as they arc the platform
adopted at Chicago, and james G. Blaine has
been selected to carry out the principles and
The policy and the purposes of the republican
party. And he Is about to do it. Has there
ever been candidate since the republican party
was organized SO we'll commended to you as
Mr.. Blaine? Did you know as much about
Abraham Lincoln when you voted for him?
Did you know much about Grant, in civil
life, mean, when you first voted for him? Did
you know as much about Hayes when you voted
( pr him? Did you know any more about
&karfield when you voted for him? I think the
choice of tho great Republican party of this
country ought to count for something They
have not made mistake even whom they took
On obscure man. comparatively, for their can
didate. They knew what they were about
And they have not made mistake when they
have taken the one most conspicuous person III
civil life in America.
Why, there's talk about these charges! I
suppose YOU have heard country lawyers ar
2le a case when they hadn't got much evidence
on their side-and don't understand mo as
speaking comtcmptuonsly of country lawyers,
because am one Of that kind myself [Laught-
er.] But with almost any complicated state of
facts and figures and COZ correspondence, 1.
by shaking his head, and sneering,
and insinuating, and declaring that the
thing you thought was innocent was
done for guilty purpose, and with guilty
rStive, can make out an apparently plausible
thing about the case. And that is the attempt
jim these charges against Mr.. Blaine. There
are four of these letters-all that Mr. Schurz
quoted in his speech and in his letter-and
the hands of every Republican voter in Massa-
chuetts All there is of them is the charge that
when Mr.. Blaine reminded his correspondent Of
perfectly honest and righteous ruling, he did it
not innocently: and honestly, but for q corrupt
purpose, and to imply that if he could mako
trade with tho man he would do him such ia
vor again. Now, think Mr.. Blaine is entitled
to the charity with which you would judge the
humblest and the most obscure man in your
own neighborhood. Suppose these letters had
liceman in Haverhill, and not by candidate
for the great Office of president, and all his
neighbors camo forward and said to You,
''This man we have known from his youth up
through and through; he is perfectly honest
man." suppose the men who had quarreled
with him and fought so far as in thom lay the
high honor which can only be given infull by
the whole people of the United States. What
they think OF him you can judge by the tre-
mendous majority in that state What tho
people of the United States think of him a
similar result in November is sure to show
[The applause which greeted this prediction
was suddenly hushed by a binding flash of
lightning, followed instantly by tremendous
roar of thunder .
The people of the State of Maine have Just
spoken That is the one community on this
earth which would not tolerate q knave if they
knew it, and from whose intelligence q knave
could not hide himself if he tried. It stands,
believe, at the head of all the communities on
the face OF the globe in the capacity to read
and write in the education Of its people. It is
ansunnixed English blood, and speak of that
only5to show that they have been used to SELF
government and to choose their rulers for two
centuries. Over and over again, Democrats
leaving their party to do it, the people
of Maine have declared their love Tor
and their confidence in this man. The
United States Senate was Just half
Democrat when NJ. Blaine WAS pro-,