Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-08-26
Mr.. Bla,ne's Speech.

The New York Tribune lauds the
speech, but handles gingerly the prohi-
bition feature OF it. 1t devotes most
of its article to the fisheries.
The Baltimore Sun says:
"0n the whole, this effort Of Mr..
Blaine, considering the amount Of am
munitiOn be is reported to have been
laying in, does not do justice to his
reputation as q political debater, but
would rather seem to indicate a decided
break in the distinguished gentleman's
intellectual vigor."
That agrees with our remark in yes
terday's issue that the speech would it,
juIc the Republicans more than the
Democrats.
The New York World says:
1.-THE most important feature Of the
speech is the effort to stay the progress
Of the Prohibition party in his State.
1t is plain that Mr. Blaine is apprehsn
siye about a third party. and he labors
with all the argument and logic az his
command to prove that the Republican
party Of Maine is to-day and has al
WAYS been consistent friend of prohi-
bition. His fight in Maine is 20 bold
the Prohibition voters in the Repub-
licsn ranks this year, for the Neal Dow
detection promises to reduce the Re-
publican majority next month, and this
to Mr.. Blaine means great deal just
now"
The New York Times says:
cit is such a speech as we do not re-
member Mr.. Blaine ever to have made
before, and such as any one Of five
hundred or a thousand orators in the
Republican party could have made with
equal ease.
On the labor question Dir. Blaine
speaks, on the whole, with candOr and
good sense. The spirit Of what he says
is fairly represented by his exhOrtatiOn
to every citizen to keep before his eyes
snd in bis thoughts the honored maxim
that " the liberty Of one man must at
WAYS end where the rights of other men
begin" ,"
The New York Herald says:
&" lie attacked the Democratic as the
party Of free trade, maintained that the
uancea for the labor difficulties is pro-
lection, criticised Secretary Bsyard's
patient endurance Of Canadian outrage
toward American fishermen on the one
hand. and his unnecessary and undig-
nlftd display Of insolence and bravado
toward Mexico on the other, and
finally, coming to the main issue in the
State canvass. assured the Prohibition
ISIS that the true party of prohibition is
the Republican"
The Philadelphia Press says;
awe commend to the consideration
Of the reasonable members Of that party
who cherish in sincerity the protested
objects of the Prohibition organization
the remarks Of Mr.. Blaine on this Sub
iect before they cast their votes TO aid
party which has opposed prohibition
whenever and wherever it has been d.
,ectly or indirectly in issue by every
means and device at its command"
The Philadelphia Times says:
"Those who anticipated an oratori-
cal display of the fireworks order from
MIR. Blaine will be disappointed. His
speech opening the Republican cam
paicn in Maine and incidentally his
oen for the presidential nomination IN
1855 is not of extraordinary brillancy.
lt is. evident that in his opinion the
tariff will'be ihe main issue two years
from now, and he haStens TO renew his
devotion 10 protection. lie sympathizes
with the laboring men in their efforts
/ to keep in the swim, but he has nothing
rev to offer and finds panscea for all
their troubles in protective tariff
/ "But the one thing that is troubling
Mr.. Blaine more than any other is the
attitude of the third party. Neal Dow
ard bis prohibitionists have threatened
TO drive the Republican party out.
They have begun work right In Maine,
AID are threatening Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, and other States. Mr.. Blaine
scents the danger in the air, not only to
his State party, but to his national
party as we'll. The third party must
be stamped out before it grows in
strength and power, and it is to this
work that he addresses himself"