Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-20
Mr.. BLAINE's SPEECH.
AS Reported In tho Intenigencer of This
Morning.

Morning.
z. Ae Editor Of EAs Register.
On yesterday at his home in Augusta,
Maine, Mr.. Blaine made q speech to his
neighbOrs which, for want Of candor, truth
and justice, ifpossible excels his speech at
Cleveland, Ohio, in 1880.
His speech yesterday breathes the same
feeling and is inspired by the same feeling
OF revenge, yindictiyeness and hostility to
the Southern people that inspired his signi6-
cant dispatch to Chairman Jones pending
the count in New York.
Mr.. Blaine is the most unserupulous and
dangerous man in this nation to-day, and
bis speech yesterday was intended as a fire.
brand in American politics to cripple and
cucumber Mr.. Cleyeland's administration as
tar as possible. 1t is evident that if all the
people who voted for Mr.. Blaine took their
defeat to heart like he does, and think as he
expresses himself, war for the possession
of the Presidency would be devastating this
country to-day.
But Mr.. Blaine was not the choice Of the
better element of the Republican party, but
only of that segment, that cares, but little
for good and honest government, and the
Spoils only regardless as to how acquired.
Mr.. Blaine may be said in great degree,
TO be the Aaron Burr of his day in Ameri-
can politics. Burr was an ambitious man;
Burr was an unscrupulous man in politics;
Burr would have involved his country in
war, if he could have accomplished his am
bilious and unscrupulous ends by it. Blaine
is like him in all these shades of character,
as politician.
MIR. Blaine Falsifes History.
Mr.. Blaine purposely passes BY and falsi-
fes the history of his country, when he COM
pares the Southern States with the North
ern.
He forgets very important period in South
ern history,-its day of carpet-bag rule, rob-
berry and ruin, when the negroes for many
years only, voted and controlled the South.
ern Ststes and when no Southern men, al
though taxed both by the State and Federal
government were entirely disfranchised by
Republican legislation. When such men as
Moses, Governor of South Carolina, (now in
the penitentiary,) Scott, Of Ohio, another
South Carolina governor, and Bullock OF
Georgia, two thieves, with Kellogg, of
Louisiana, and such men in every Southern
State, robbing and running the people of
those States in every possible way, with ne
gro mobs and negro legislatures at their
back, sustaining them in their deeds of out
rage and wrong. hr. Blaine purposely
passes by this dreadful aud disgraceful era
in Southern history, and now, because the
white and colored voters of those States did
not vote for him, he denounces them, and
warns the nation, (the Republican psrty)
as to what they may look for under Mr..
Cleyelands administration.
Mr.. Blaine and his prophecies will both
fail, as he has already, and the nation will
survive him and them, long after him and
they are buried in the grave of oblivion.
The Years of Carpet Bag Rule in the South.
Mr.. Blaine, as | have remarked, design
edly passes BY those gloomy days in South
ern history, known as the Carpet Bag reign
or dynasty. The negro was then supreme
in politics, morals and finances. The whites
were an unknown and unrecognized ele-
ment in Southern society.
For many long and wearisome years were
the white people of the Southern states un-
der the gall and bondage Of q form OF
slavery, without psrellel in the history of
the world. In vain, did the whites labor
to better their condition; negro supremacy
had pinioned them down to want and pow
erty, and the most unnatural degradation.
This was the true and actual condition OF
the Southern people under the Repub-
Ecan carpet bag regime. By and by, the
Souths pitiable condition appealed to the
latter class OF Republicans at the North,
and BY the combined help of these Republi-
cans and the Democrats, the South was po-
hticslly revolutionized. and from that time
up to the present she has prospered and be-
come great and independent people. Let
Mr.. Blaine contrast her condition now with
what it was under Republican carpet-bsg
rule wears ago and tell the truth, and the
people of the South viii, with the people Of
the North, be satisfied that the people of
the South should be ruled and managed by
the people who now govern it, and not BY
the negro population.
A Piece of Party History.
Mr.. Blaine killed in the house of. his
friends.-NIr. Blaine was eight years manip-
ulating for the presidency. In 1880 he was
a prominent candidate before the Chicago
convention. Roscoe Conkling was there,
and Blaine was defeated. In 1884 Roscoe
ConkIing was not in the Chicago conven-
yention; it was too tame an affair for
him, and Blaine was nominated.
In November, 1884, Roscoe Conklins
was in Oneida county, his home, a county
that gave Garfield over 1900 majority in
1850, but in 1884, it gave Cleveland 80 plu-
rafty over Blaine, Mr.. COnklng was there.
At every point Blaine has been defeated by
Conkling and now he is mad over it and
curses the people of the South because they
would not vote for him. Ifnorthern Repub-
hcans wouldn't vote for Blaine he should
not say such untrue and unkind things
about people, who in every way, are his
betters. The Plumed night is doomed
man, and his twenty years in public life
will soon be ike him, although in the form
Of book, be forgotten BY the American
people. The Black Eagle, too, is another
doomed Republican. A Democrat will
take his place in the Senate on the 4th OF
next March, and then the whole nation will