St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-21
BLAINE'S BIG BLUFF.
The Plumed Knight Indicts
the Party That Laid Him
Out.
All the Evils OF the Country
He Charges to Democ-
Pacy.
Incidentally He Pleads for the
Return Of Republicans to
Power.
In, Closing He Says His Re-
marks Are Worse Than
Useless.
Special to the Globe.

CHICAGO. Oct. Colon. James G..
Blaine spoke this evening for thirty-five
minutes to an audience of 1000 people
in Battery d, armory on Michigan ave.
nue.. An equally large meeting was
held simultaneously in the adjoining
cavalry arm0ry where Mr.. Blaine
also made brief address,
Both buildings were densely thronged
and more persons were unable to gain
Abundance than those within the build.
ing A surging, struggling mass of hu.
mainly blockaded the entrance for sew.
er& hours before the time set for the
meeting, and when the doors were
opened every available foot of space
was quickly filled. The crowd did
not wait to ascend the stairs
leading to the galleries. but men and
boys clambored eagerly up the posts
and over the ratings above. The ar.
rival of Mr.. Blaine was the signal for an
outburst of applause, and upon his in
PRODUCTION by Gov. Oglesby, the cheer
ing continued for several minutes.
After the meeting Mr.. Blaine
REVIEWED A PARADE
u. dIIl-
paign clubs, from the balcony of the Lee
land hotel. When the cheering which
followed his Introduction had been sub
sided. Mr.. Blaine said:
"Mr. chairman, and fellow citizens of
Illinois: The twenty-four years of Re-
publican rule in the United States
form an epoch second only in import
ance to that eventful period between
the Declaration of Independence
and the organization of the ma
tlonal government. History recognizes
this fact in assigning to the
first president and chief actor in the
later period, a rank in craftsmanship
and heroiSm second only to Washing
ton. In those twenty-four years there
was developed in the United States an
advance in every field of industry.
There was development in every
bra lch of human progress and hui
man efforts such as had been no
were known in any other country or age
in period of the same length. At the
end OF that period. four years ago, the
executive control of the United States
was transferred to the Democratic
party, and the question now under dis
cusSiOn is, whether Democratic rule
shall continue or whether, upon its great
record in tWenty-fOur years, the RepuD-
llcan party shall be granted
NEW LEASE OF POWER
MIR. Blaine then proceeded to arraign
the administration for what he charged
was its deliberate violation of its prom
Use to reform the civil service. The
public service had been dishonOred as
never before by the appointment
of a class of men-SOme of whom
are pardOned criminals, some
of them never pardoned, some
of whom never ought to be pardoned.
Laughter and applause.l Referring to
the fishery question, Mr. Blaine said
that the present administration was the
only one that had ever surrendered the
honor or the dignity of the nation on
this question or shown its unwilling
ness to protect the rights of our
fishermen. In regard to the pension
vetOes of the president, Mr.. Blaine re-
iterated his statement, made at other
places, that Grover Cleveland had We
tOed more bills than all his predeces-
SOrs since the organization of the gov
erumeDt. His pension VetOeS will Oc-
cupy more space in the archives of the
government than did all the annual
messages of Washington. Adams
and Jefferson in the >-;t twenty wears
of the Federal government. The adj
miniStratlOn was next denounced for
what Mr.. Blaine characterized as the
Acknowledgement of the 700. 900 people
of Observation-Disclosures, because if
they were llOwed to vote for president
it would be impossible for the solid
South and New York and Indiana alone
to re-elect President Cleveland. MIR.
Blaine then took up the subject of
THE TREASURY SURPLUS.
nj sfr hn
with the absolute intention to have a
surplus. 1t was necessary for the adj
ministratiOn. in its free trade policy, to
have a surplus; and they broke the
habit-a uniform one since the close of
the war of applying every dol
lar of the surplus, since there
was a surplus, to the payment of
the public debt. The treasury DEPART
ment has allowed S50,000,000 of United
States bonds. payable at call. to remain
on interest for long period. or for a
period of months, while the building up
| of the surplus went on, and when
they had authority to apply tie
surplus to bonds, regardless of
their being at par. They then plead
that they had no authority and shouted,
What are you going to do with this
Sl29, 100000 or Sl3U,000,000 Of Surplus?'
600 of it, without interest. to the banks
of the cOuntry-nO, do not mean to the
banks of the country, because that would
imply impartiality-but they loaned it, to
quote language that was once well
known i'll congress, where they
thought it would do the most good. p"
[Laughter.l We object to the president
of the United States departing from
the custom, established in accordance
with law, of using the surplus
money for the payment of the public
debt. in order TO pile up that surplus
until it has created arrangement in the
financial circles of business, and then
charging that as a reason why the
tariffs should be
ROBBED AND STRIPPED
of its protective features. Do you not
see logical connection between the
two? His free trade message of last
December had the surplus for its corner
stone, and it arralgned the tariff as
inevitably producing surplus.
Why, in the preceding presidential
term, the one shared by Car
field and Arthur, there was three
times as large surplus as
the one MIR. Cleveland has had to deal
with, and every solitary dollar of it
debt. Cheers. MIR. Blaine concluded
as follows: If l could speak longer, l
could give more, but these are some of
the reasons upon which we in
dict the administration of Mr.. Cleve-
land before the people. Upon these
charges we ask verdict. He has ar
raigned the great protective system
with almost malignant hostility, and is
its direful enemy. Either MIR. Cleve-
land must be defeated or that system is
destroyed. Between his political life and
the industrial prosperity of 10000, 900
people, do not think the people viii
hesitate in their choice. L know that a
speech of this kind, or of any kind, to
the ReDuhlicanS of Illinois Is usalecc