Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-10-18
ALEXANDRIA Va, SATURDAY EVENING OCTOBER 49, 1884

ence as public officer in government for
purposes Of private life On that subject
am without a single doubt or scruple, ana
yet am charitable man.
II am not, however, here to prove that
matter. It is as the representative of ten
dencies that I am opposed to Mr.. Blaine.
He NAV be pure and innocent in all these
respects, but he has character quite aside
from these facts and charges. His genious
for politics. his idea of management in poll
tics. the whole notion which he entertalns of
what government ought to do and may do,
his use Of funds, his patronage of jobbers,
regardless of the public welfare-it is the
whole style of the statesman that | am op-
posed to- And at this time, with more than
hundred millions surplus on hand, with
large aud active body of manufacturing men
that want to keep that hundred million on
hand and find ways to use it without dis
turbing monopolists-with this vast treasury
that would make an honest man almost
tremble for his integrity | do not wish to
see man as President whose opinions Of
the power of money are in the slightest de-
gree doubtful.
'"There never was such q money produc-
ing country as this, and it was not all made
in tho custom house The sun and the soil
and the enterprise of intelligent industry
has something 10 do with it. We are some
times told that is is all the immortal and
blessed tariff that does it. There is, how,
ever, some human instrumentality in it.
This country turns out more capital than
any other country on the face OF the earth.
II will bear taxation with less grumblng
than auy other land. Aud, therefore, there
is a strong tendency TO accumulate In the
hauGs Oftle government at Washington q
fund that constitutes piutocracy, and that
gives 10 our magistrates there power over
the whole land that is dangerous in the
hands of the most honest men, and is not
safe IL the hands Of Mr.. Blaine.
i. "Gentlemen, have said, and | repeat il,
that the independant republicans are men
that stand just where those men stood tnat
formed the republican party. ! aver that |
am more republican, than the old republicans.
Iaver that those who stand in sympathy with
me ale seeking 10 purge the party OF the
accumulated mischiefs that have betided it
and to fit it for the functions for which it was
originally created They ask me how lean
leave ray party? I have not left it, But
take notice. gentlemen, that when the coun-
try was in danger OF dsunion and the re-
publican party undertook to defend it, they
were perfectly willing that the democrats
should come into the republican party for
the defense of the country. And now, when
they find that the republican party, in many
Of lis departments, has been corrupted by
prosperity, power and money, we ask
Standing apart as representing the moral
element cf that country-we ask the demo-
Gratis to come to our help. They, showing
more consideration, have said that they
will come. Not only that, but they have
said 'We will give you the man you want,
too accept the contribution. Men say,
He is man without eXperience'-the best
thing about him when I see what expert
ence has done.
''Oh, gentlemen, we don't want any more
experience Good enough for Governor,
bu; notbi enough to fill the presidential
chair?' But try him and see, and if he
doesn't fit we will make the chair larger.
But do not like this compliment for the
State of New York. 1 say that this city, if
you measure the agriculture, the manufac-
lures if you consider the educational, the
professional standing, the vast commerce
which it controls, and if then you cast your
eye upon its politics and those who manage
them, you will agree with noe when l say
that the man who can manage the politics
of the State of New York IS fit to manage
uity States OF New 7 ork.
"And for myself, l so firmly believe that
these qualities which this Unexpectedly
this time-requircS exist il: orr candidate.
strong, good sense, unimpeachah!e integrity
IL kind listener 10 suggestions, but firm
corriar-out OF lis own purposes; a man that
though a9nering TO one party as the best IN
strument of serving the country, yet means
10 serve the country and NOT the party.
When such man is presented for the suf.
tragcs Of this great people, | cannot but feel
that they are struck with blindness if they
do not thank God and put him into the
presidential chair.
II, therefore, there be any here present to.
night that are disposed to vote for Mr.. Blaine
with groans aud sighs, any of such hundreds as |
hav" heard saying 1t is not our choce-wc
don't like him, but we cannot go the democratic
ticEct-1 say TO them, my friends, MIR. Blaine
vas the choice of the worst part of the republican
partc in Chicago. Mr. Cleveland was the choice of
the hest part of the democratic party.
And yet who are the men that they arc going to
vote for IN tcad of Mr.. Cleveland, these men that
.roan and sigh? That honored statesman whose
laws tho winters of experience havo made white
Benjamin +. Butler? Gentlemen, you cannot be-
gin to do it. When Moses was oil the mountain
top they thought no had gono up and they de-
mandcd of Aaron that he should make them
god TO go before them. And they were young
people, ana naU LOV ulucn lIOHcI anu bhcN SouAu
only make golden calf Now, Benjamin Butler
is a roaring bull of Bashan.
~ promised not to make many remarks this
evening. In this time of public fcrmcnt 1t is ne
ceSsary that good men should sec eye TO eye and
put shoulder to shoulder and move all for the
rescue and the publication of our government
from those swarms of blood-suckers that have for
years had their probosces in the blood OF the
treasury. it is time that there should be new
line of administration, and if you will only main
tain the enthusiasm of such meeting as this,
and If every man of you will take off mis- coat and
90 in for the war
At this point Gov Cleveland made his appear.
auce and made the address published in the GA
zETTE of Thursday. After the applause attend
ant Gov Cleveand's remarks had died away the
Rev Henry Ward Beecher again came to tho
front and the audience, apparently imagining
that they were going to hear the remainder OF an
address, settled down peacefully.
''Gentlemen," said the reverend gentleman,
"the real regulation orator always makes it a
point to wind up with splendid climax. You
have had the climax, and l retire."