, 1886-10-28
The Plnmed KNIGHT Wh,nes

WmLIAMsPoRT, Pa Oct 27.-Blaine
was received here by h large crowd. Ia
which he made an address on the tariff
question. The same programme was
carried out at Lewisburg. with some
remarks ON prohibition, as follows.
The political contest in PENNSYLVANIA
this year bears a very striking analogy to
that which we closed in Maine in Sep.
TENDER. We had a Republican party in
the field, we had a Democratic party in
the field, and VT had a third party in the
field, protesting special devotion to the
doctrine OF prohibition, Maine has been
II prohibition state Tor thirty year,, and
the third party of prohibitionists in this
country seemed to think they had a par
icultr patent right upon all temperance
topics. and they come to Maine to per-
suade us-a prohibitory state-that the
Republican party had better be dispos-
sessed of power, and the cause eff tenn
perlnce handed over tc the tender mercles
and kind care of the Democratic party.
| mud the same condition of things in
this state. with the exception that Penn
sylyania has never pronounced in favor OF
prohibition, but we find a third party
organized for this purpose and with this
DECLARED Intention of defYNing the Re
publican party and of bringing the
Democratic party in power. Now. what
ever you may think, whatever may
think. or whatever anyone else may think
as to the eyrediency or inexpediency of
prohibition. we will all agree that the one
party in the United States which has
never done anything for the cause of
temperance is the Democratic party.
And here in Pennsylvania as be-
fore in Maine, the third party
Is organized especially to promote
Temperance, works obviously to the end of
throwing it all over in the control of its
natural inherited and pcrpetualncss of
Temperance The laboring men of this
state and of the Northern states are about
entering on another question. They are
about entering ON the question of great
and imperious magnitude 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 progress OF
millions of colured voters in the South.
They give them no vote. they give them no
voice, they give them no influence. They
keep them living in huts on starvation
wages and they are hurrying them by m /
lions into competition with Northern
men. Now, if the Democratic party holds
the government of this country. and
keeps that labor s@ervile a. ii was when
the chains Of slavery We're fastened upon
it, the competition with white labor OF
this country will grow more and more
fierce, and more and more will they have
tn confront this direct and important
ruth that either hat great mass of lbor-
ers in the South must be raised in the
scale of Intelligence and compensation, or
they will pull down Northern men to
their !, vel on wages Gentlemen, this is
no catchword of a campaign; it is no mean
resource of il political necessity; it is not
the cry Of the party defeated or OF the
party that expects to be victorious. 1t is
a solemn, uudeniable, industrial fact.
Pray reflect upon it.
At Shamokin i larger crowd than at
most of the former stopping places wei
coined Mr. Blaine. He spoke from the
balcony Of hotel to over 5000 people.