Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-10-29
CHESTNUT!

Mr.. Blaine, in his pious and perpatetic
wanderings in search of the home of his
boyhood's days, takes occasion to still
cast that anchor to windward in hopes of
its catching the bottom and holding his
political bark in position for the storm OF
'SS. All good men cannot but admire
his love OF the memories and associations
OF childhood, but they must stop in Won
der to consider how he can reconcile such
statements as the following with the
early prayer lisped at the maternal knee
and the early teachings of piety and truth.
Mr. Blaine is ostensibly on a pilgrimage
to the home of his youth, but in reality
he is on first-class red-hot political
mission, as the following proves. In his
address to the workingmen Of Williams
port on Wednesday last occurs these
statements:
The laboring men of this State and tba
Northern States are about enterino on an
| other question. They are to consider n
question of great and imperious magnitude,
and that is with the power of the National
government In the hands of the Democratic
party, there is no possible hope for the rise !
or or progress OF nearly two millions of colored !
laborers in the South. They give them no
vote. They allow them no voice. They give |
them no influence. They keep them living
IN huts on starvation wages and thew are
hurrylng them by the millions into competi-
0on with the Northern men. Now. if the
Democratlc party holds the Government of
TINS country, and keeps that labor seryile as
1t was when the chains of slavery were
Iasteneo upon 1T, its competition with the
Wnlte labor OF this country will grow mora
ana more fierce, and more and more will
they nave to confront this direct and i'm
portant truth that either the great mass of
laborers IN the South must be raised in the
scale of intelligence and compensation. or
ttney VIII pull the Northern men to their
leVel on wages. Gentlemen, this is no catch
work OF the campaign; it is not the mere
source OF political necessity; it is not the | (
CRY OF party defeated or party that ex-
poets to be victorious-it is a solemn ,
undenlable industrial fact. PRAY reflect | ;
upon it."
If we reflect on Mr.. Blaine's own
figures we shall see at once how dema- I
gogic learned man can become when :
blinded by prejudice, and all his feelings !
toward his political opponents are tinged /
with hatred and malice. He says the I
rise and progress of nearly tvo millions of
,olored men are hopeless. Further on
ne says that the Democrats OF the South
are forcing millions OF colored men
against the laborers OF the North n
uch were true as at first stated how
AN the latter be true? Mr. Blaine was
oollsh enough to give his first political
alsehood location and name, and the
'ress OF that location gave his falsehood a
cry black eye; in this case he makes the
harge general, so that he cannot be
cached from any one point more than
mother, and he knows that all the
papers OF the South combined do not pc.
eem his silly braggart pleas as
'orthy game for their powder, at
'ast not until he makes them
the authorized head of his partv ca
ence hls wonderful nerve in misrepre, "a.
enung what intelligent men all know 10 tai tai
the facts in the case. Why does not
Ir. Blaine instance a case where negro
DOR is held servile by Democrats? WHY
oes he not cite the complaints of these q
EN-? The colored men of the country u
ave several organs of power and ability
which they could set forth these 1sn rlse
rongs, ii they existed, but strange ing
ough they are all silent 1t is the old a
ID wormy chestnut in politics, used as
e bloody shirt has been used, until its -
petition has failed of any effect other
an that OF the boomerang, and, in due
ne' 1t will rebound upon its author ~
tn telling effect. The New York World Cu
es up the great magnetic man as fol.
VS.:
1nere has not been since the days of
solom more perfect specimen of the
nsgogue than Blaine, of Maine. SA
Ine spectacle of the perennial candidate
'eiing at the grave of Thad Stevens and