Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-10-27
blkINE'S WELCOME.
Enthusiastic. Reception u the
Maine Statesman III the
Quaker City.
The Academy Of Music Thronged
Eloquent and Inspiring
Remarks.
A Complete Exposition Of the
Great National Questions
81 the Day.
hiladelphia telegram,l

Philadelphia telegram
james g. Blaine came here 10 speak for the
Republican state ticket to night. and through
the Stats during the week He eaiiie at the d.,
sire of the fcufs kebublicsti Club which NUM-
bers among its members Nj: Blaine hiinself:
President Stewart presided at the meeting, or
father the principal ono Of two meetings to-
'Aiene ~ b1aeew Was oef xsss xtaye ce the Acad.
smy Of Music, an overflow .nsettne g5iag I'm Al
the salne time III Horticuitufai Hall. next 1901:
The. Academy, Horticultural Hail. and all of
Broad street we're simply jemmed Mr..
Blaine himself said thai ts did not
want any fuss made but then, t,ioue-
sand and thousands OF his admirers the
men who had helped to give him majority Ct
os,OOo IN this State two years a o-had made up
thor minds to the contrary, and there was no
stopping them. The city turned out its thou
sands, and the interior towns, all the way to
Pittsburgh, sent their contingents, the Peansyl.
yania Road running special excursion trains.
begged for tickets all day
Secretary Lockhart would ofteli exslaihl This
beats everything. never saw the like 5f it.
Ten Academies would rot accommodates all the
people who want - he Blaine.g
1t is said that 2o,U0J tickets were given
out and as many more could ceftaittly hsys bs N
disposed Of, while the Academy seats less than
within the limit when he spoke,
/ After good rest and light supper Ny
Blaine, his son. and few se"tlsmen represent
ing the local Committee Of Arrangements drove
70 the Academy in carriages. The stage was
already packed 20 greatly and with such lack Of
skill r the management that the members of
the press we've greatly imreded in their effort :
70 give to the public what NJ Blaine nj hit
think ft to say respecting the political cohditiou
VI the nation. Mr. Blaine had been preceded
in his address by speeches made by Charles
ks.,t4 - IEA,
Mf Blaine touched only upon the subjects
that he has heretofore discussed this fall-the
tariff, negro suffrage in the South and the uues.
tion OF prohibition and that 81 col6rel laAo, ip
the South i'll competition with white labor. HS
treated them all in the spirit that he ana the
have usually shown respecting them.
Mr.. Chairman, said he, mo party can live
upon its record any more than a nan can live
BY claiming an honorable ancestry. The party
ehould claim popular approval for what it shall
do rather than what it has done" He then
spoke OF the working peoples millions n the
saving funds as evidence OF tho benefits OF
protective tariff =.
The six leading manufacturing States heve 4
thousand millions to the credit of the wage.
workers in such banks, against only four hun
dred millions for all the wage. workers in Great
britain and Ireland From the time of the
Declaration OF Independence to the inaugura-
ton Of Lincoln all the foreign shipments from
this country amounted to about s7co1,oD,eoo,
while in the twenty years under the protective
tariff the exports reached Sl2 600. 000,0V1
Could there bs a stronger iIlustratioa than
That while ne are enabled 10 control the policy
of foreign nat ons we should; Of Necessity, have
a controlling policy Of our own2 free-trads
writer in this country, who would be man N
very greet fame II others thought Of him as he
thinks Ct himself, suggests the discovery that
really we have a great deal of free trade ut
home. From the time we had the fiji st national
contest Of the Republican party we have spread
our country over AN area as large as the c n
tina af Enr xSith mill ysta
cressin with continental area Of over thirty
eight States and nine Territories. We exchange
without let or hindrance or tax custom, Oh any
obstruction whatever. Where is there a pnr-
allel in the world? What nation in the
world can show you any parallel, when
Philadelphia mnnufacturer can send his
product through thirty eight States and nine
Territories, over 1890 900 square miles of area
without sinele penny Of tax2 England hns no
such free trade They levy duties on her IN
Canada one of her provinces They ioVy du-
trade even in Australia or Ireland If there
be virtue in protection We have it, and til re
never was a nation in the world that wa SO
fitted for protective policy as the United
States
am not going to argue over the whole field
tonight. will not argue whether a country
like Canada, for instance, producing practi-
cally but one or two things out of tie soil, !
fitted for protection; but here we stand with
all the cereals, with cotton, sugar, and
all products-a great worlds exchange within
ourselves-I say whatever can be as well
made here as in other countries should be made
here.
Now a great heresy is sought to be introduced
into Pennsylvania, and IL successful it would
prove a great disaster to the doctrine Of prosec-
tion. If any calamity should happen to the ro-
sition Of Pennsylvania, that has bo ne this fight
on her own broad shoulders. in season and out
OF season in encouragement and in triumph,
has led in this great fight and hns borne upon
her broad shoulders this great saving doctrine,
even as Eneas. our great ancestor, from the
flames Of Troy old Anchses bore-it anything
should happen to destroy the position in this
great Union Of Pennsylvania on this great
borders capable of estimating the damage TO
the United States Of America. Those who
are propagating this great heresy are the
intempcrate men who are attempting NO 70
had that issue IN Ma ne, and I beg to take
the position OF a narrator for q moment. For
nearly thirty years Maine has maintained a
prohibtory law. That has been the delibeiat,
Judgment of her people by decisive maiorities.
The ave.agc citizens of Maine thought with
thirty years experience, alter q great deal OF
discouragemeut at times aud lreat deal OF
encouraging triumph ut other times, that they
knew something about that question as per,
tanning to themselves. But suddenly great
light flashed upon them and the third party was
organized to instruct the people OF Maine that
thc way to promote tenn ierance wGs to divide
it's friends into factions an1 commit that great
virtue and grace to the tender mercies and the
friendly embrace of temper nnce party. Now,
your situation in Pennsylvania is not unlike
the same, and am not here to argn,
what it should be am d Q ,ussing the stua
tion lust as it was presented. As understand
it the Republican party OF Pennsylvania has
said through its organized convention that tht
people of the State shall decide that matter
That is what the people Of Maine seid thirt,
years ago. 1t is the very essence and strength
Of republican institutions that the majority
shall govern. That won't SUIT the temperance
men who are running the third party at all.
believe that, while there are many honest ant
upright men in ennsylyanis, as in Maine nn(
other States, and some who may be mfsled ant
exercise misjudgment-I believe, from my OK
perience in Maine and my knowledge of wha
hos transpred in that state-I believe It is tn
deliberate intent and obvious purpose Of the
third party movement to secure by a mora
treason the triumph of the Democratic party.
| I believe the people of Pennsylvania, wht
| to the people OF the country the immeasurabl,
blessings of doctrine OF protection will not b'
| diverted by movement of this kind, and sa!
in my own State that il they should succeed ii
breaking down the protective tariff OF this coun
| try and introducing free trade, they would giv'
| q moro deadly blow to the cause OF temperance
| than any other fact that could happen to tbt
| country.
Why ia far less liquor consumed anon.
| the laboring mon OF the United states than o
| Great Britain? Why, II you grind a man down
| with low wag, until he sees no hope, the hrs
| suggestion to a large number OF minds is
| We'll might Just MS we'll get drunk" and i
D man sees no nope DeyoHu, ne cah eur
| enough to put q good roof above his family
! When the tide OF fate has turned agains
! him that te secs no way out and has no hop'
he is fitted for any desperate deed, and it ma.
| be lucky for society that he does no create
| crime than simply get drunk. SO that any maj
| in Pennsylvania to day who risks free-tratl'
| crisis in vague clutch for the third party II
| most nnwise, Il he doesn't deserve a mort
| significant epithet
| One OF the honorable speakers who preeedes
| me referred TO the question which in many o
| our preceding years has been debated ~ tn,
| Southern question, and which, grieve to say
| from the discussion of which the Republican
| party has been somewhat shanIed by unworthy
innuences. beg to present one or two ideai
/, upon that question. do it the more readily
/ because am here "a the guest OF the Youn.
| Republicans, and want to speak Of some fact
that antedate their experit nee. One Of the mos
| common accusations 10 that tho Republican
| party got no more than it deserved for forcin,
| negro suffrage on the South. Now stand herr
/ TO deny that .nd call all men beyond Sd year
| Of ace to attest what ! say. And specially cal
| upon my sriend with whom served years il
| Congress- Judge Kelley, to attest the accurac.
| OF INV narrative. When the Republican part,
| approached the question Of reconstruction Their
MAS not one man in 10 600 that then thought Q
f,rcing suffrage upon the colorcd men Of tn