St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-19
A FUNERAL GRAFTON.
The Defeated Shakes the
Dust of the Grave From
His Raiment,
Gives the South a Piece of His
Mind for Electing An
other Man,
And Says the African Population in
the Territory Lately in Rebel
Lion is All Republican,
Whereupon the Democratic Colored Club Of
Richmond, in Last Nights Rat
ifcation, Hurls the Lie
in His Teeth.
Logan's Son Forced to Resign for Taking
Liquor to West Point-Sawing
Cord of Wood to
Pay Bet.
Senator McIherson's Srrrfces TO the Demo
cratic PdrtD-HfIdrfOIs Demo-
crGtS Continue to Burn
POiOder.
And Says the African Population in
the Territory Lately in Rebel
Lion is ALI Republican,
Blaine Preaching His Own Funeral.

Blaine Preaching His Own Funeral
AUGUSTA, Me-, Nov, 1s.-A large number
of devoted personal and political friends of
Mr.. Blaine serenaded him this evening as
an expression Of personal good will and ad-
miration Of his conduct of the national cam
paign. They marched through the streets
under the marshalship of Col. Frank Nye.
When they reached Blaines house their
compliments and friendly regards were ex-
pressed in speech by Herbert NJ. Heath, of
the Kennebec bar. Mr.. Blaine responded as
follows, his speech boing continually inter
rupted by applause:
Friends and neigbbors: The national
contest is over, and by the narrowest of
margins we havs lost / thank you
for your call, which. if not one of
joyous congratulations is one / am sure of
confidence and of sanguine hope 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 re-
sponded to my nomination with genuine en-
thusiasm, and ratified it by supurb vote.
count it as one of the honors aud gratifcs-
tions 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 the
old fashioned 10000 plurality. No other ex-
preston of popular confidence and
esteem could equal that of the people among
whom huye lived for thirty years.
and to whom am attached by all the ties
that ennoble 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 ittingly express
my thanks for that unparalled majority of
more than $4,000 votess A popular endorse
ment which has deeply touched my heart,
and which has, if possible, increased my af-
fection for the grand old common wealth.
An affection which inherited from nv an
cestors and which l shall transmit to my
children. But do not limit nv
thanks to the state OF my
residence and the state OF
my birth. lowe much to the true and zeal
Gus friends in New England. who worked so
nobly Tor the Republican party and its can
didates, and to the eminent scholars and
divines VINO, striding aside from their regu-
lar avocatons made my cause their cause
and to loyalty, 10 principle added the special
compliment OF standing as my personal rep
resentatives in the national struggle. But
the achievements for the Republican cause
in the east are even surpassed by the splen
aid victories in the west. In that magnifi-
cent Gordon of states that stretches from the
foothills of the Allegbenes TO the golden gate
of the Pacific, beginning with OHIO
and ending with California, the Republican
banner was borne so loftily that but single
state failed to join in the wide acclaim o.
triumph. Nor should do justice to my own
feelings if | failed to thank the Republicans
of the Empire state who encountered so
many discouragements and obstacles, who
fought foes from within and foes from with
out, and VINO waged so strong battle that
a change of one vote in every two thousand
would have given us the victory in the ma
ton. Indeed, change Of little more than
5000 votes would have transferred New York
aud Indiana, New Jersey and Connecticut
to the Republican standard and would have
made the north as solid as the SOUTH Nv
thanks would still be incomplete if i should
fail to recognize with special gratitude that
great body Of worSingmen, both native and
foreign born, who gave me their earnest sup
port, breaking from old personal and party
ties and finding in the principles which
represented in the canvass the safeguard and
protection of their own fireside interests.
The result of the election, my friends, will
be regarded in the future, l
think, as extraordinary. The
northern states, leaving out the
cities of New York and Brooklyn, from the
count sustained the Republican cause by
majority of more than 400, 900, almost half a
million, indeed, of the popular vote The
cities OF New York and Brooklyn threw their
great strength and influence with the solid
south, and were the decisive element which
gave TO that section the control of the ma
tional government. Speaking now not al
ali as defeated candidate, but simply as
loyal aud devoted American, i think the
transfer of the political power of the govern
ment to the south is a great national
misfortune. 1t is misfortune
because it introduces an element which can
not insure harmony and prosperity to the
people, because il introduces into the repub-
lie the rule of a minority. The first instinct
of an American is equality. equality of right,
1, equality Of privilege, equality of political
power, that equality which saws to every citi-
zen, ''your vote is just as good, just as po-
tential as the vote of any other citizen"
That cannot be said to-day in the United
States. The course OF affairs in the south
has crushed out the political power of more
Saan 100000 of American citizens.
and has transferred it by violence
to others. Forty-two presidential electors
are assigned to the south on account of the
colored population, and yet the colored pop
ulation, with more than l, 100 600 legal votes
have been unable to choose a single elector.
Even in those states where they have ma
iority of more than a hundred thousand they
are deprived of free suffrage, and their rights
as citizens are scornfuly trodien under
foot. The eleven states that comprized the
rebellion federacy had in the census of 1880
seven and half millions CT white popula-
tiou, and 100000 colored population.
The coIored population almost to man
desire 10 support the Republican party, but
by a system of cruel intimidation, and by
violence and murder, whenever violence
and murder are thought necessary they are
absolutely deprived of all political power. If
the outrage stopped there it would be bad
enough. but it dose not stop there, for not
only is the negro population disfranchised
but the power which rightfully and constitu-
tionally belongs to them is transferred to the
white population of the south to exert an
electoral influence far beyond that
exerted by the same number of white
people in the south To illustrate just how
1t works to the destruction of all fair cleo
tions, let me present 70 you five states in the
late confederacy and five loyal states of the