Morning journal and courier., 1888-08-14
RnArNE IN CONNECTICUT.

I'm stamford, NorValk, Bridgeport, New Haven, Ierlden and Hartford-
 Blafne's Speeches at the Different
 Places-Immense Enthusiasm Every
 where-The Greeting in NevV Haven
 Shall Connecticut Sacrifice Its N Odel
 Position &nd:Eareat Prosperity For
 Free Trade Experiments
 Long before the time when the train bear
 ing James G. Blaine was due in this city 6
 large crowd stood waiting before the depot. Although the hour was most untimely for
 those who have an especial fondness for the
 midday meal and for those whose work calls at one o'clock, people nevertheless continued to swell the crowd and the streets leading to the depot were filled with carriages and nasty pedestrians. A small platform had been erected before one of the entrances and about this was continual jam and press of citizens eager to be as near as possible to the Plumed Knight and great Republican statesman when
 he should arrive. The windows, doors and
 rear platform of the station were also filled with people. It was 8 stirring scene and there WAS 8 sea of faces estimated at fully two thousand.
 The train bearing the ttgreatest private cit izen of American and suite was some ten | minutes late in leaving Bridgeport, but the iron wheels flew over the road under the pro- polling power of one of the big nogul engines | with such speed that scarcely any delay was caused. As the express drew into the depot | everyone made a rush to get sight of the ! honored statesman. As he appeared he was | greeted with cheers from thousands of \ throats.
 ! In the private car of Mr. Blaine were Joe Manley of Maine, Sam Fessenden of Stan- ford, Adjusant General Camp of the c. N. G., Governor LounsbuTy's executive secre- tary, Senator Walsh of Greenwich, members | of the delegation from Boston, where Blaine
 had big reception last night, Editor Gra- ham of the Meriden delegation, and our local I escort committee, City Attorney Daley, Hon. I N. D. Sperry, Lynde Harrison and City | Court Clerk James Bishop of the State cen | tral committee. The New Haven delegation I started from this city at 10:40 a. rn and went as far as Bridgeport to meet the distins ! guished traveller.
 ! A body of pofce in charge of Capt. Hyde escorted the party through the crowd to the platforms before the depot. When the ap- planse had ceased Chairman Daley here in tFodzeed the Plumed Knight to his many ad- mirers in the following brief speech: "Fel- low citizens, have the honor to introduce to you the greatest private citizen of Ameri- | ca, the Hon. James G. Blaine" Mir. Blaine | then stepped forward and said:
 \ "Since I last had the pleasure of passing
 through your beautiful city have seen much
 of countries beyond the sea, but am sure
 have nowhere seen any people associated in | any form of government constituting so truly
 8 model commonwealth as the State of Con-
 necticut. Loud appIause.) In the aims ! which her people have cherished, in the ends ! which they have accomplished, in the great ! motives which have inspired them, I think,
 and repeat it, that you may stand as a ! model government among men. Added to
 that, gentlemen, you have enjoyed for the 4 last quarter of a century great and unex- ceptional prosperity and you have accumu-
 lated in an extraordinary degree all the means
 which contribute to human welfare, to hu-
 man comfort and human progress.
 The industrial system under which
 all this has been accomplished and so grandly accomplished is now threatened and
 the people of Connecticut will be asked in | the pending election whether they desire this \ commonwealth in this nation to be launched
 on new experiments of free traders (cries of no) or whether they desire to adhere to the
 old ways, to the many landmarks which
 have proved'so safe. That will be submitted \ to the people of Connecticut. On their re- sponse will probably be determined the fate | of the whole question. I do not doubt, cannot doubt the verdict that will be given
 at the hands of your people. It only re- mains for me to return to you my sincere
 thanks for whatever of personal compliment \ you pay me by this large assemblage, but | all personal compliment which might take
 to myself is subordinated in every respect to
 the great end of rallying the people of Con~ necticut to the support of Harrison and Nor
 ton (prolonged cheering6 who represent, in
 their political record and in their personal 4 history: all the great issues of the national
 campaign. Loud applause.)
 At this city the following delegation from Meriden boarded the train: w. F. Graham, editor of the Meriden Republican, ex Senator Lines, Judge Levi E. Coe, E. B. Everett, Charles H. Stockner, John Nagle, Charles A. Sawyer, Henry Dreyhurst and l.. H. Hinman. Editor Graham, for the delegation, welcomed Y MT. Blaine, expressing the pleasure the peo- ' pie of Meriden had in greeting one who was ' such staunch friend to the protection of American industries, and declaring his cons | viction that the workingmen of Connecticut would give their votes in favor of the Repub- lican party in the coming presidential cleo | ton.
 The great applause which greeted the | words of the honored visitor in this city was deafening, and MT. Blaine, followed by his \ suite and escorted by MT. Daley, stepped | backward through the depot towards the \ train. Hundreds blocked his way in their ! easerness to get look or shake the hand of | the great man. In a few minutes more the party had boarded the train and were flying \ over the rails towards Hartford. New Haven | was the only place along the route where Mir. Blaine left the train to speak.
 On their return to the car (President Clark's private carl Mir. Blaine received a splendid
 basket of choice fruit, and Mrs. Blaine 8 lovely basket of flowers. They were the gifts of the Republican League and presented through MT. A. H. Kellam, secretary. As \ the train left, MT. Blaine kept constantly lowing his acknowledgements in answer to the shouts from the people until the car was | ont of sight. MT. Blaine looked in much \ finer health than when he addressed & big New Haven audience from a platform on the green in front of the T. R. Trowbridge mansion in the '64 campaign. He was looking somewhat fatigued yesterday, as was natural after the ovations \ he had been subjected to ever since the ar- \ rival of the City of New York. Chairman Hugh Daley had a really ornate and capital ! ktwo-and-a-half-minute speech prepared for \ his introduction of Blaine. He prepared it \ the evening before in the seclusion of his \ private office, but when he saw that Blaine had only four and a half minutes to stay in II New Haven, he substituted his speech of | twenty-one words, short, crisp and unim- provable.
 A Grand ovation All Along she Route The Reception at Stamford. The Blaine train arrived ct Stamford at 11;57. Fully 2,O0O people greeted him with, \ tremendous applause. Cheef followed cheer,
 the band played ''Hail to the Chief" and Hon. Sam Fessenden in few words intro duced MI. Blaine, the genial ex secretary of the National Republican committee speaking as follows:
 It affords ne great pleasure to join with you in welcoming home the illusIrious citizen in whose honor you are here assembled. ICheers1 He is a familiar figure. His name and his fame are known and honored to the remotest boundaries of the public lCheers.1 We honor him because he is one of our greatest and most beloved statesmen,
 and we proudly join with his great host of friends
 in this tribute of love, admiration and respect. [Cheersl We welcome him home to the land he loves we'll, ICleerS.l And we greet him the
 leader of that grand army which proposes to carry the banner of Harrison and Morton [more cheer ingl forward in triumph to glorious victory. Loud cheerfngl
 MT. Blaine, when the applause subsided, said:
 thank this large assemblage quite beyond the power of my expression for the compliment they pay me as journey homeward. In the brief mo
 ment of the train stopping have only time to add to my thanks an admonition and @ request That
 admonltion is that if Connecticut shall maintain her
 great prosperity, is she shall maintain her forward position among the industrial and prosper
 communities of the United States (cheers), she
 must be up and doing. She must see to it that harm shall come to the republic or to her by inaction neglect of her Repuhli- can citizens It is not improbable in the DO