Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-08-13
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Blaine Royal Welcome
AFTER FOURTEEN MONTHS, JOUR
NEYINa IN FOREIGN LANDS
RECEIVED BY C%0UNTRYMEN

RECEIVED BY C0UNTRYMEN
His Reply to the Reception Committee
the Keynote to the Coming Cam
paign Work-A Monster Labor
Demonstration.
New YORK, Aug. 1.-THE steamer
Starin, which was substituted for the
Sam Sloan, took the Blaine reception
party from Pier 1S at 7;GS, and reached
the quarantine at TAO. The steamer
City of New York was boarded five miles
off Sandy Hook while ct anchor, waiting
for high tide TO cross the bar, by repre-
sentative of the press, who learned that
the voyage was q pleasant, uneyentful
enc, and that Blaihe was well, and had
not suffered from seasickness. Blaine
said he was in excellent health and that
his trip had renewed his youth.
About 8 O'Clock the Starin metthe City
OF New York outside the narrows. The
Starin turned around and both vessels
steamed up the bay. AS both vessels
neared each other, Blaine's form was
made out, and as cheer after cheer arose
he bowed repeatedly. He was nattily
dressed in a dark cutaway coat, light
trousers and brown derby hat. The Chi
cage Blaine clubs little tug had been
first to greet the steamer as it came up
the bay. Cappa's pand, on board the
Starin, played "Home Again, y stHome,
Sweet Home" and Star Spangled Ban
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Then both vessels came to anchor. At
last, at 9:15, Blaine got on board the
Starin, escorted by Whitelaw Reid and
Mr.. Pool.
Mr.. Bartlett delivered the speech of
welcome. Mr.. Blaine said in reply:
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen Of the
Republican Club of New York: To err
able you to appreciate this welcome, each
and every one of you should be absent
from home and country for the long
period of fourteen months. / am sure
you can have little conception of the
great qualification Iexperience that at the
instant see the shores of our great re-
public should be greeted by you and
these gentlemen. IL Is Swallowed only
by regret that q great. sorrow has fallen
npon the nation, which greets us rs
the first piece of American news.
Gen. Sheridan was above party, AMI
for the union of the states. With
the exception of that untoward incl
dent, my reception upon a4y native
shores would be unattended with any
thing but what was Joyous. and happy.
TIT campaign upon which we are about to
enter, is n that | wish could be pre-
faced by every American voter seeing
what ! have seen and hearing what /
nave heard in the past year. Its progress
isSlTatched with an interest as profound
in England as In the United States, 1t
Ia the opportunity of England by which
the pauper labor and the pauper fabric
OF the old world hope to invade the new
world II dlower American labor to the
leyelof the European. 1t is not a contest Of
capital against capital. 1t is a contest
as to whether the great mass of Amer
lean citizens who earn their bread In the
sweat of their faces, shall be seriously
reduced iii their maintenance from day
to-day. That is the whole pith of the
question. Anything which diverts tho
attention OF the people fropa it Is weak
ening the situation, and this is what /
hope TO say hereafter with more elabora-
tion. The wnges of taa American la
borer cannot be reduced except by the
vote of the American laborer himself
and his nssoeiates, and those who are to
come after him to take that fatal step,
The policy is shaped by men who lately
sought the country's destruction. But.
gentlemen, this is not the time for polis
ical speeches.
l can only add my fervent thanks to
each and every member of the club, ard
to all my friends, for the generous and
joyous welcome they have extended to
me in the harbor of New York
Dnring his speech he was INTERRUPTED
repeatedly by cheers, and at the conclu.
sion he was heartily cheered. He held d
reception in the ladies' salon, and sl.ooS
hands with a number of his friends.
Blaine was asked by a reporter us to
what part he would take in the cam
paign. He replied he could say nothing
at present. He did not think he would
60 outside the state until after the state
election there in September next. When
asked about his health, he said he
was perfectly we'll. The Starin, mean
while, was steaming up the North river,
escorted by the police boat Patrol, the
Chicago Blaine clubs tug and other
vessels, while q constant series of shrill
whistles from steamboats, it passed
marked Its progress TO the pier at Twen-
t~y-second street and North river, where
Blaine and party disembarked. The cor
rtdors of the Fifth avenue hotel were
crowded by prominent Republicans WAC
had gathered to greet Blaine on his ar-
rival there. Among those most prom
inent were Levi p, Morton, WhiteIaw
Reid. William Walter Phelps, Murat
Halstead, Chairman Quay, of the nation
al committee, and Francis G. Platt.
Blaine arrived shortly after II O'Clock,
and was greeted with cheers. He went
Immediately to his room.
AT Madison Square.
Madison Square was ablaze again last
night. The occasion was the serenade
and address of the workingmen to James
q. Blaine, Before sunset the people
cnnrmancad tn nathor a |. 4h