The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-21

leaving to the South the right to determine when
the negro should come to suffrage. / think that
the providence OF God, through the stiff-necked
and rebellious conduct of the Southern men
who would not accept reconstruction on those
conditions. were brought to O better judgment,
and that partly through their obstinate and I'M
reasonable spirit, and through the inspiration of
Gods Justice, by which the Republican party
were influenced, we were driven to enfranchise
the colored man and do Justice to him. [Cheers.
But l want clearly to keep your minds or the
fact that we did not force negro suffrage on the
South until they themselves had made it the in
dispensable measure of reconstruction. We
lave lived to see negro suffrage in the South ao-
solutely destroyed. Where he is In a majority
oil i've to one, the negro cannot elect a repre-
sentative. The South takes the thirty-hve
TO thlrty-eight Representatives in Congress
and the same number of presidential electors
OF the United States-takes them by force, oy
fraud, by violence, and counts them In the
Democratic column. That is what they do ex-
Rctly. It reminds me of a story very pertinent
TO the case. | heard it not long since In New
York. A Southerner said to a Northern man,
tLet us play a game Of billiards for the next
presidential election two years hence-401
points Just the number of electors, that is.
So they went down to the Fifth-avenue Hotel to
settle the election two years in advance. The
Southerner took up a cue-I go on the presump-
ton that you all know the game-and said,
well, 1 will count off 1873 points in this game;
they are mine without playing for them
tGrsat merrinent He added, You will see,
then, that | have to get only forty eight, while
you have to get DOL (Renewed laughter and
applause / confess, gentlemen, that l am ut
terly at a loss to denounce the fraud and the
wrong which Is so we'll illustrated by that
story. The Southern elections are worse,
In point of political morals, than is the
gambler who invites a youth into his der, and
plays against him with loaded dice. [Cheers.
81 is not Republicanism. it is not Democracy, it
70 not heavens justice, it is not mans fair play.
What we emand In this country is that we shall
Lot play a stake for the presidency against men
You are right, You say we cannot do any
thing. We ought to be able to do something.
We ought to be able to make as solid a North as
they have made a solid South, Immense en-
thusiasml, and in order to make that solid
North. let old Pennsylvania do her duty. 1t is
not sufficient that You send back the twenty
Representatives out of twenty-eight you now
have. Increase your number. Nor is it sufi'
cient that you merely elect them. It is not
enough that you place the distinguished gentle
man near me in your gubernatorial chair.
Place him there with such a mighty vote AS
will give emphasis and point to the expression
OF Pennsylvanias wish; give him such a vote
that we shall not have TO wait until the second
day for the election returns TO find how the
State has gone. Put him there by such a vote
that we shall know by a fash of the wire before
y o'clock on the evening OF the election that
James A. Beaver is Governor of Pennsylvania. "
Tremendous cheering.
At the conclusion of his address, Mr.. Blaine
was driven to the Monongahela House, where he
was joined By his son, James q. Blaine, ir., and
wife. The evening was devoted to an informal
reception. Tomorrow Mr.. Blaine leaves for a
trip up the Monongahela river to his old home,
at Brownsville. He expects to 60 to West vir-
ginia on business, and will return here on Fri
day, passing through the city on his way North.