Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-10-18
WILD OVER Mr.. BLAINE,
Thousands in PhiladeIphia Turn Out to
Greet Him-Three Speeches Delivered
by the Maine Statesman-Protecti
Temperance and Free Ballot Dis.
cussed.
PHILADELPHIA. Pa Oct Ia


IN these masses, il will be observed. by the
way. are scores of the degenerate sons of the
prime Old broadbrims who have passed awav
lo be sure there Is still a certain conserya-
tive spirit about Philadelphia and an atma,-
phere that represses immature enthusiasm.
But Philadelphia, when il makes up its mind
can do pretty nearly ANYTHING. 1t can even
yelI, paint Is own green shutters red and GO
out of its very level head with delight II i
doing all he,e things tonight; doing them
out of honor TO Hon. James G. Blaine Ii
made up its mind that Mr.. Blaine should have
reception here that he should never forget.
IL is doing its best to carry its wishes out
Mr.. Blaine came on to speak for the r-pub
llcan State ticket here tonight. and thruugh
the Stale during the week. President Stuart
had things in charge and presided at the
meeting. or rather the principal one of the
two meetings, tonight. His piece was on
stage of the Academy of Music. An over
flowing meeting was going on at the same
time IN Horticultural Hall, next door. Both
places were jammed. The city turned cut
IT'S thousands, and the interior towns all the
"av from Pittsburg, sent their contigent the
Pennsylvania railroad running special excur-
slons. Mr.. Blaine came sere accompanied
by his son Walker, Col Parsons and one or
two other gentlemen. The trip was altogether
uneventtul.
The party reached the hotel at o'clock i
the afternoon. lie did not register Ga
reaching his room he stated that he wished no
callers, AMI gave instructions to the waiter
not to show anyone to his apartment, as he
desired to remain undisturbed throughout the
afternoon. Chairman Cooper was the only
one admitted, and he remained but a short
time After that nobody was shown to his
room.
At the Academy of Music Mr.. Blaine was
preceded In his address by speeches made BY
Charles Emory Smith and John Stewart As
the applause following the last words of Mr.
Smith had died away, Mr.. Blaine came in
view of the multitude. The effect cleo
trio. Ii is simply impossible TO describe it
A great big band thumped and blew at him.
and 1000 men rose and yelled till they gave
way from sheer exhaustion. When at last
the throng had had enough of it and allowed
Mt Blaine to have a say, he went on with a
speech which every moment or two reused
his hearers into new demonstrations of ap-
plause. Mr.. Blaine touched only upon the
subjects that he has heretofore discussed this
fall The tariff, negro suffrage in the South.
and the question of prohibition, and that OF
the colored labor in the South in competition
with white labor mo party" Mr.. Blaine
began, "can put on a Re cord say more than
an honest man can live on the mere fact of
an honest ancestry. The republican party
shall continue to be popular not only for
what it has doue, but also for what it proposes
to do" The speaker turned from this tenor
for moment to allude, in complimentary
way, to Congressmen Willism d. Kelley,
who had just come in, and OBJ
served that political economy was still an ex-
perimental science aud was admitted to be
such by everybody except the voters of free
trade books.
Turning then to the question of tariff he
said that 1t WAS infinitely superior in its ben
eficial results to a system of free trade, and
on that point he gave statistics to show how
much larger the deposits in the savings banks
were in the protective states of the North
than in the free trade southern States. More
over, he said, in this country the people have
the benefit of protection and free trade at
once, for manufacturers and merchants He
could send goods into every State and Terri
tory of this broad country without payment
of penny of duty. There was no parallel
for breadth of territory he said, in the world
All these things. he went on, the republican
party had brought about land vet," he con
tiaued, ''intemperate men working in the
name of temperance" we're trying to ruin
the republican party and permit the triumph
of the democracy.
He cited the prohibition law in his own
State, and the submission plank to the Penn
sylvania republican platform to show that
the republican party had done and was doing
much for temperance From his experience
in his own State, he went on, he was con
vinced that the third party was ''by moral
treason" trying to secure the triumph of the
democratic party. The prohibition party, he
continued, was by undermining the tariff,
thus making workingmen less prosperous,
tending to increase drunkenness, for, he ad-
ded, 30 where you will you can see no more
drunkenness anywhere than In free trade
England. The reason for that, he said, was
because 80 many of the English workingmen
were made so poor by free trade that they
took to drink in sheer desperation. He then
referred to the South, conteuding that the
negroes there do not yet enjoy the right of
free suffrage, and holding that the undepaid
black laoorer of the South was a menace to
white labor everywhere. As he finished he
was again tumultouslv cheered. The address
did not last over 35 minutes.
Mr.. Blaine also spoke at the overflow
meeting in Horticultural Hall, again receiv-
ing an enthusiastic welcome. To crafty the
desires OF hundreds of people who were una
ole 10 OBTAIN admission at either place, Mr.
Blaine also addressed the crowds upon
Broad street from the balcony of the Union
League House. At the conclusions of the
meetings he was rendered reception by the
members of the league, and was serensded
by the Young Republican Club, which had
1900 members in line. At the conclusion of
the .erenade the club escorted Mr.. Blaine to
the Continental Hotel amid blaze of fire.
work. and wild cheers. There he said good
by to his personal friends as he got within
doors, bowed his thanks to the thousands
outside anj hustled of to bed. Tomorrow
Mr. Blaine and his son and President Stuart
will attend services at the Rev. DR.. Harper s
Presbyterian Church up town. On Monday,
Mr.. Blaine, with an escort OF gentlemen,
starts on his stumpting tour through the
State. The demonstration is regarded as the
big card of the campaign. According to the
reports of the leading politicians throughout
the State, especially through the section to
be visited by the Maine statesman and those
accompanying him on Monday and Tuesday
next, there has been great enthusiasm
aroused. Almost every county chairman has
put in an appeal to have Mr.. Blaine visit his
particular locality, but the programme has
been fully arranged, and th Re will be no de-
parture from it.