, 1888-09-30
Blaine IN New York.

New York, Sept. 29,-About one
hundred thousand people assembled at
the polo grounds tonight to hear speeches
by j. G. Blaine and other distinguished
speakers. The crowd from the very out.
set inaugurated a series of cheers that
outlasted the meeting itself. The decora-
tions of the grand stand aud other plat
forms we're on a scale of profusion.
Streamers were stretched across the roof
of the grand stand and escutcheons of the
various states were placed at intervening
points along the posts and in the midst of
these we're huge portraits IF Harrison and
Morton. The main platform from which
the speakers addressed the meeting faced
Grand street and about 100 feet distant
and on this sat the invited guests Of the
evening. Half a dozen bands played ma
tional airs during the evening.
StereOptlcal views were also exhibited
bearing on free trade and protection.
President Humphrey of the Harlem Re-
publican club welcomed the people from
the main stand, while others were per-
forming the same office and introducing
the speakers at other stands about the
grounds. He introduced Hon. j.. B.
Foraker of Ohio, who addressed the peo-
pie. Before he had finished there were
cries of Blaine; here comes Blaine, and
that gentleman appeared on the platform.
A scene of indescribable enthusiasm fol-
lowed. Cannons were fired, rockets burst
in the air, a band struck up Hail to the
Chief, " and deatening cheers rent the air.
The chairman then introduced Blaine.
who began his address by commencing
Gen. Harrison's remarkable ability in
~condensing the whole argument within
the dimensions of a proverb. The same
had been true Of Franklin and of Lincoln.
Gen. Harrison's reference to dogmatic
free traders as students of maxims and
not of markets had exposed in a single
sentence the fallacy Of their economic
creed. Blaine then went into history
and his speech dealt entirely
with the record of high tariff and low
tariff, and the relative effect of each upon
the country. The various tariff measures
from the first in 1889 down to the issues
of 1914 between Clay and Polk, after
which the free trader Robert j. Walker
of Mississippi became secretary OF the
treasury, and under whom the protective
tariff of 1912 was broken down and the
free trade tariff of 1916 placed on the
statute books.
Jefferson's messages to congress in
which he discussed the several methods Of
disposing of the surplus were cited in COM
parison with the utterances of Cleveland
on the same subject. and at each iuncture
Of national history where the tariff issues
were involved Blaine instituted compari
sons between the Democrats of Their and
those of now and held up the disastrous
results of 1887 as a warning that the tariff
should not then have been lowered as it
was, nor should it be now.
Blaine's address was designed to pre-
| sent an historical tariff situation analogous
to the present and in each case his deduc-
tons were strongly in favor of the cleo
ton of Harrison and the defeat of the
Democratic e%ndeavors.
Speeches were then made by John F.
Fenerty, Rev. w. r. Derrick (colored)
and others A parade and a torch light
procession of 5000 men was the feature
Of the demonstration. Blaine will start
West Monday night.