Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1888-11-02
BLAINE TALKS TWICE.
The Maine Statesman Makes
Two Speeches TO First Voters
at Newark, N. j.
Postmaster General Dickinson Replies
to Blaine's Speech at
Grand Rapids.
A Wet Day for the Cleveland Demonstra.
ton In New Y0rk-Politlcal
Matters.

NEWARK, N. j., Oct. 29.-The first
presidential voter association of this city
secured the Hon. James q. Blaine to
speak at two places here Saturday. night
Sanger Hall and the Belleville Avenue
rink. The drizzling rain which had been
holding forth all dry did not dampen the
enthusiasm of local Republicans for both
halls were filled to overflowing. Mr..
Blaine made but short speech at San
ger hall on account of heavy cold.
Mr.. Blaine next spoke to the Republi.
can first presidential voters club, num-
herring fully 900 members, at the Belle
vile Avenue rink, which was crowded.
He said:
The hope of the Republican party is in
the young men. The Young men who
are in business, who know the actual
workings--the young men who are in
the factories and foundries and the ma
chine shops, the great body of intelligent
mechanics of the country-these men are
the men who support the policy of pro-
lection to American industry. Now this
discussion of the tariff has been inter
rupted by a question that is very serious
on one side and little humorous on the
other. and that is the recent letter of the
British minister. From the beginning
of the campaign ii has been obvious that
England was taking an extraordinary in
terest in the election Of Mr.. Cleveland.
The London papers at first spoke out
with extraordinary frankness. After
ward, finding that it was embarrassing
their free trade friends on this side of the
ocean. they subdued their tone, and the
Democratic papers had begun to assert
that the British aristocracy were, in fact,
backing the Republican party, when, at
this stage of the game, out comes the
etter of the British minister advising a
riend in California-who writes to him
to vote for Mr.. Cleveland; that Eng
land would find Cleveland and the Demo
cratic party were-in plain language
don't quote him literally--the best friends
England ever had, What do the Demo-
Gratis do? At first they wanted to deny
the letter, but Mr.. West is frank and
honorable man, and came out and said
he had really written the letter. And
now they turn all kinds of imprecations,
and, / maysss"v. curses upon the man in
California WIG evoked the letter. They
say he is fraud. a villain and a forger,
and Republican in disguise, and in fact
there never was any such man. But in
the name of common sense what has
that man to do with the British minis
ter's letter. The whole point is that il
called forth Mr.. Vests true views and
his real sentiments.
Referring to Gen. Harrison, and the
charge that he was running as the grand
son of his grandfather, Mr.. Blaine said:
A man, after all, has to be Judged by
hot h, ta,h h,y,saIf ua,
went into the practice of the law q poor
man-literally a poor man-and he
fought his way up against obstacles with
as much perseverance and industry as
the poorest member of the Indiana bar,
of which he now stands at the head
He acquitted himself with gallantry on
the field of battle, winning the applause
of the great soldier whose praise was his
self-made title to greatness, Ulysses S.
Grant. Now. these people who sneer
about great family name, many Of
them would turn a double somersault
backward if they could stand before the
American people, and have it said of
them, as of this young mans efforts.
who has risen on his own merits. Yet
he had father, distinguished repre-
sentative in congress, and he had a
grandfather, a delegate in congress from
the great Northwestern territory, after
ward governor, and later the hero of
three great battles in the defense of his
country, and afterward the president of
the United Statess, and beyond that he
had great great grandfather, who was
governor of Virginia in revolutionary
times, who was one of the signers of the
Declaration of Independence. and who
would have been president of that body,
and his signature in the place where John
Hancock's stands if he had not periodi-
cally declined the offer that the Massa-
Chusetts member be elected. If there be
any man who would not like that ances-
try, he is dead to the best impulses oi
human nature. / honor Benjamin Har-
rison for himself.
At the close of the meeting Mr.. Blaine
returned to New York.