The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1886-09-02


Virginia-6th. Samuel Griffin, Dem.
Wisconsin-Sth, William L. Price, Rep. (ren.) |
CAMPAIGN NOTES.
The most notable event in political circles |
last week was the appearance of Mr. Blaine in |
the Maine canvass. His first speech was at |
SebagO Lake. 1t had been eagerly anticipated !
by political friends aud foes. The recognized |
leader Of the Republican party, it was felt that |
his utterances would carry with them greater |
weight than those OF any other opponent of the |
Administration. A special dispatch says of Mir. |
Blaine's appearances: a rustic of applause in |
creaseS to a burst OF cheers as Dir. Blaine takes |
his place. The preliminaries and formalities
are brief President Warren wisely cuts short
his remarks and the first speaker is the man
whom everybody has come to hear and see. He
pulls off the big overcoat he has worn while
sitting OH the platform, takes out little Russia
leather case adjusts his Eyeglasses far down
from his eyes. walks clear out 10 the edge OF
the platform and makes his bow There are
1000 people within the sound OF his voice, and
he knows and everybody there knows that the
words he is going to utter will be eagerly read
by SO, 100000 people, and will strike the note of
the coming campaign. 1t is evident before Dir.
Blaine has spoken quarter of an hour that he
is going to be cautious. There are none of the
heavy hits for which he was famous score OF
years ago. His speech is marked by calm rea-
soning skillful marshaling of facts and firm
accept. Now and then he is interrupted by
applause, but most of the time nothing breaks
in TO stop the steady flow of speech As he
reads from the book in his hand, he holds the
book in his left hand all the time at first. His
right hand rests on his hip, with the knuckles
sliding up and down and playing tag with the
buttons on the rear of his coat. As he goes on
and plunges into the tariff and tells how the
workmen Of Europe are underpaid because Of
| free trade and urges upon tho Knights of Labor
| the necessity of voting with the party that adj
vocates protection, he begins to ge5ticulate and
| speak with yehemence and fire. For the first
| 10 minutes his voice is thick and husky, but
| this wears away and clear, musical tone sue
ceeds that lasts all through his speech. His
| reference TO his record in Congress brings
| hearty cheer. But the real excitement comes
| when in ringing sentences he criticises the Pro-
| hibitionists for their refusal to unite with the
Republicans. The people who were tired at
| the start and who yawned as he dwelt on the
| history of the tariff of 1918 wake up now and
| the old leaders vivid sentences are heard with
| enthusiasm. His censure of Secretary Bay
| ard is received with applause, aud he sits down
| after one hour and 80 minutes amid hearty
cheers"
At secret meeting of representatives Of
| labor organizations in Chicago, at which, it is
| claimed, 81 organizations of the knights of
| Labor and other unions were represented,
| an executive committee Of 81 WAS elected to
| call a convention for nominating full County
ticket including Members of Congress and the
| Legislature, Judges, etc. on the last Saturday
in September. There were 273 delegates in at
| tendance. Among the speakers was Mrs.
Black, wife Of the counsel of the Anarchists,
who said that the Anarchists trial should DO
| lesson TO them. 1t showed that they must
stick together If they wanted to accomplish
anything.
Senator Malone has written from Old Point
| Comfort to prominent gentleman in Peters
| burg Va, saying that any suggestion placing
| him in the light of a candidate for Congress
| from the Fourth Virginia District, or convey
| ing the idea that he would accept if nominated,
| is distasteful and against his expressed opinion,
and he has never thought the occasion would
arise that would make it necessary for him to
| be nominated.
Ex-Congressman Phil. Thompson. Secretary
| of the Democratic Congressional Committee,
said the other day: The Democratic party is
bound 10 nominate President Cleveland for
second term. 1t cannot DO avoided. 1t must
be done to vindicate the first Democratic Ad-
mnistration after an interval of aquarter of
century. If We did not the Republicans would
have grounds to attack Us, saying our first
President after the war was failure"
Ex-Goy. St. John, late Prohibition candidate
for President. addressed a large Prohibition
meeting at Monsey'sr ". Y, last week, in the
course Of which he answered the Sebago Lake
speech OF the Hon. James G. Blaine, so far as
it related to the Prohibitonists. He character
lied it as +" q few incomplete statements, void
Of argument or reason Concluding his
speech, Mr.. st. John said: Prohibition had
10000 votes in 1881; we will have 1000, 900 in
1885, and, with Gods help, We will put our
Lincoln in the White House in 1892"
A remarkable political gathering took place
in Reading, Pa, Saturday afternoon rs the re-
suit OF a serious split in the Democratic party
af 10 "a Damncratic m
There is serious opposition TO Representative
Ermentrout on account of his voting with Ran
dali on the Morrison tariff bill. Resolutions
were passed approving the Democratic national
platform Of 1884. declaring in favor of tariff
reform and anti-discrimination, indOrsing
President Cleveland and denouncing Ermen-
trout in most unmeasured terms As not being a
Democrat.
The Hons. Robert L. and A A. Taylor, broth
| ers are opposing candidates for Governor of
Tennessee. the former heading the Democratic
and the latter the Republican ticket. The
Democratic State committee has just accepted
a challenge from the Republican committee for
joint discussion between the brothers, and
appointed q committee to arrange for the de-
bate, in accordance with long-establshed party
usage.
There is great heat in the Congressional con-
test in the indianapolis District. A split in the
Democratic Convention, held sometime ago, re-
suited in two candidates-Bynum. present
Member, and Bailey-being placed in the field.
The fight became 80 warm that the Democratic
District Convention met declared neither of
them the authorized candidate, and called a
new convention. Then the friends of Bynum
held large meeting. denounced the action of
the committee as revolutionary and subversive
of justice and every principle and right OF
} Democratic government The meeting also de-
, manded that the State Committee reatfirm the
validity Of Bynum's nomination.
} a Columbia. Is. O. special says that South
, Carolina will return five Of her present Con-
gressmen and will send two new ones-Judge
, Cothran. Democrat. to succeed Representative
Aiken, out of the race on account of his health,
and Elliott Democrat, will probably supplsnt
Smalls from the "black " District, which will
give a gain of one Democrat to the State. Capt
{ Smalls has a clear Republican majority oil
10000 in his District, but this is only trihing
obstacle TO the enterprising Democrats Of thai
: State.
The Republican Convention Of the Second
: North Carolina Congressional District split into
: two wings one OF which nominated James +
: O'IIara (coloredl, present Congressman. Will,
I the other nominated j. NJ. Abbott, who is
white man. tp
S Knights of Labor in Brooklyn are not salts
: fed with the course of Congressman Felil
S Campbell, and should he be renominated, which
n seems probable, they will contest the Second
d New York District. John q. Caville. the Gen
q eral Auditor Of the Knights, is still determines
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