Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-09-08
THE MAINE CIRCUS.

In a recent speech in Maine, Mr..
Blaine expressed himself as feeling sad,
because he could not find we'll defined
issue with the Democrats, and like Ma
homet and the mountain-the mountain
would not come to Mahomet, so he went
to the mountain-Mr. Blaine straightway
creates little issue with the Democrats
for the occasion, in his speech on Monday
at Epta Grove, near Bangor, which was
specially wired to the Tribune. In this
speech, Mr.. Blaine said:
"I know it is regarded by many as useless
| If not unwise, to continue the discussion of
the Southern vote, but no feature connected
with that vote can in the end be 30 deplora-
BILE and destructive as that the whole Ma
tion could quietly aoquiesce in the outrage.
l have only the voice and influence of pri-
vate citizen, bnt so long as have that,
will protest against a wrong which not
merely blots out the rights of the colored
| men, but absolutely seiZes the vote to which
they are entitled, and with that wrongfully
acquired political strength controls the
legislative power of the United States. If
the matter involved only the exclusion of
/ bAO OOAOHCO UdlIOG, dIlQ JQuS
the highest right of citizenship, it would
surely be bad enough; but he is Knocked
with the possession of the ballot,
| and his electoral strength is turned TO the
support of the party whose success is his
lasting injury. The refusal to allow the
colored men to vote and the cool appropri-
alton of their electoral strength by the white
man, have become the common custom and
the common law of the South, and will re-
main so until some great moral shock shall
awake the people to the enormity of the
offense. 1t will read strangely in the future
history of the United States that a minority
of the white citizens could neutralize, and
destroy the franchise of 6,000,000 colored
people, seize their representative and
electoral strength and continue the admins
tration of the National Government against
the large majority of undoubted legal voters.
And yet that is what is going on in the
South, and what has been going on since
1877"
That this is an echo from the caverns
wherein are inurned the bones of the
bloody-shirt fiend, no man will deny, and
it is further positive proof that with all
his magnetism, keen insight into political
affairs, and mastery ability as speaker,
the oracle of Bar Harbor is forced to
resuscitate that tired garment-being un-
able to pick flaw in the methods of
Democracy that would hold water-and
haunt it in the ambient and pine-laden
breezes of Bangor, in order to have some
thing on which to base TRADE of abuse
of Democratic actions. How glibly the
master tongue glided over the original
chestnut-which nearly created mutiny
IN the ark by reason of its great ante
diluvian date: 81 know it is regarded as
useless, but then l will trot it out, useless
or not, and will make it do duty on general
principles ?" "Outrages in the South"
was his theme, and he went over the
chestnut with the stride of giant, but |
strange to relate, he only told tSjust as
his party speakers have told it for years,
without shadow of truth, only a vituper-
ative inuendo, making broad assertions,
and leaving his audience to swallow the
poison-or being sensible men-to look
up the record. If these outrages ex-
listed in the South in 1877 and ever since.
why did not he, while in the Senate,
cause them to cease? Why did not he
while his lingo performances as Secre-
tary of State electrified and magnetized
the earth and the air, and particularly the
'Judic" fishermen who now kick back
with interest-take steps to abate these
QIlpOnI nl1tronnc and ,,of
work harm to his ambitions now? Why
did not he; when -. Oh, Giblets - 1t is
the old story and like all things of
ancient date smells loudest when dis
,urbed. Neal Dow is on the ground and
st. John is 'thar or thar abouts," and all
'uch sophistry will be duly knocked
iown and dragged out, until the people
n Maine will be brought face to face
With the square question, "Will YOU vote
o continue in power, party that has
deceived you by promises and cheated
'ou OF your dearest wishes for thirty
ears, or will you support the party that
lever deceived its friends and which
enacts and enforces the laws
made by the people, regardless of who is
lurt?" Burchard damned Blaine in
SS4, and Frye has done the same thing
or him now, and what resulted in 1884
will also result now, and the intelligent
'eople of Maine and the country at large,
will say: ellis cause was surely a poor
me, when such men could mar it,
Blow up your gay bassoon and paralyxe
he trombone! Lead out the horses and
ct the circus go on 1t is a race of merit
nd worth against deceit and treachery.
nd good men everywhere know lust
where to place their bets. Go on with
he''moosic" and '1et JOY be unconfined. ,,
The OMAHA Herald, which has ably
ounded the slogan of honest Democracy.
TX times week for years, now an
lounces that it will hereafter get in its
austic pen-work on the seventh day
lso, 1. e.; it will publish paper on
Ionday mornings. There is music in this
announcement, but it is like unto the an
ry cyclone to rascals generally, and de-