Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1888-08-27
BLA1NE,s GREAT SPEECH.
He 0verhauls the Cleveland Adnainis-
tration-Its BIunders and PartIxaR-
ship ON the Fishery Question.

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He 0verhauls the Cleveland AdnInis
| tration-Its BIunders and PartIxan
ship ON the Fishery Question.
| LEWISTON, Me-, Aug. 25.-The second
public address of Mr.. Blaine on the politica
issue of the campaign was delivered in City
hall at Lewiston tonight before the largest
audience ever assembled in that building,
and one of the most enthusiastic gatherings
ever known in THAT section of Maine. Hon.
John A. Kasson, of Iowa, and Hon. Nelson
Dingley, jr., of Maine, addressed the assem-
blage. Mr.. Blaine and party arrived at
O'Clock and received grand ovation, unpre-
cedented in the history of the town for it's
| imposing character. Mr.. Blaine spoke with
| vigor and precision. After Introductory re-
marks he discussed the fishery question, char
acterizing President Cleveland's message on
the question as the most extraordinary docu-
i ment ever sent from the White House to the
Capitol. President Cleveland had declined
| to enforce the "tit for tat policy" or retalia-
/ ton policy authorized by Congress in the
spring of 1887, and allowed outrage after
outrage upon our fishing vessels to go unre-
| dressed. Finally in defiance of the United
| States Senate's wishes and its con-
| stitutional large share in the treaty
4 IL d
| commission to frame treaty in the case. He
| then gained what he aimed at. He turned
| the question at stake into partisan issue.
Never was it designed by the founders Of our
government that intercourse with foreign ma
| tions should be conducted by Republicans or
| by Democrats, or by Wings or by Federalists.
1t should only be by the nation as whole.
We can have our partisan differences at
home and settle them on our own soil in our
own way, but towards all foreign powers on
| the globe We should present one united, in
Invisible American republic. But this was
not done. The treaty was launched as Dem-
ocratic partisan measure rather than a pa
triotic measure.
1 What. then, at the first rebound the Presi-
dent has leaped so far over to the other side
that he asks authority to cripple our CONNER
cial relations with Canada from Passama-
uuoddy bay to landowners Island. Having
| for three years offered to Maine the rights of
/ the fisherman and the national dignity at the
same time the President now desires to cross
over to the other side of the question and
out-Herod Herod in his demands for redress.
He seems eager to-day to discharge whole
battery of Krupp guns on the question, when
last year blank cartridge from pocket pis-
toll would have settled the whole affair. After
subiecting the country month after month
to the humiliation of an unprecedented sur
render, the Presidents supporters with the
zeal of new converts rather, with the extrav-
manifesting such renewed and deep and
keen sense of the wrongs we have experienced
from Great Britain and Canada in the matt
ter of the fisheries that they second the
Presidents extraordinary somersault and in
the slang OF the Democratic heelers they are
thirsting for Canadian gore. The Demo-
cratic papers were but short time ago tell
ing Massachusetts and Maine that their con-
temptible little question over a few Goldfish
on the banks of Newfoundland was not worth
consideration in the national Congress, and
that if they kept annoying the country about
it they would in the end drive Congress into
giving the free markrts of the United States
to ali the fishermen of the Dominion, and
applauded the Presidents new move. Per-
haps the national administration of the Dem
ocratic party and its newspaper organs think
this dodge will put them in heroic attitude,
but to the average mind of the American cit
izen it merely places them all in supreme
~ ridiculous position.
What possible sense is there, gentlemen, in
disturbing the commercial relations between
our country and the Dominion at remote
western points because there is dispnte be-
tween Halifax and Gloucester that can easily
be settled on the ground? Why should the
railways of the United States that annually
transport fifty millions of Canadian goods in
transit be derived of their business and en-
dure large loss on account of sudden
within of the Presidents Why should the
transit from Detroit to Buffalo and New York
over both American and Canadian lines Of
rail be suspended when it has no relation
whatever to the fishery question? Why
should the large traffic between Quebec and
Montreal on the one hand and Portland
on the other he summarily stopped at
the caprice of the President, or chagrin
over the course of an indepedent
but, as he considers, refractory Senate. 1t is
the design of the President to make the FISH
cry question odious by embarrassing CONNER
cial relations and commercial exchange along
5000 miles of frontier and inhict upon
American communities needless, vexa-
| tious, a perilous confusion of trade. Does he
| not practically say to his supporters that if
| the Republicans will not. you have in sur
| rendering our fishery rights to England, he
will give them some medicine on the other
side, and IL they will give him the enact
ments which he asks. that he will give them
retaliations until they cry hold, enoughi and
will allow him to settle the fishery question
in the precise manner which their Senate
now CONTEMPORARY rejectt or after all fellow
citizens is not the Presinents position mere
political device to divert the attention of the
American people from his free trade message
and from the Mills tariff billl Is not bluster
on the fisheries to be the plan of campaign for
the Democratic party. Are not permits for
bravado to be issued by the political agents
of the administration marked on the back
GOOD until after the first Tuesday of Mo-
member"
Mr. Blaine then instanced q parallel case
between Clsveland's action, and that the
course of President johnson in the Alabama
claims matter in what became SO widely
known as the Johnson Clarendon treaty.
Proceeding he said:
The truth is my friends, the Democratic
party has never been fortunate in con-
Quoting diplomatic negotiations with Great
Britain. The English pa1siality for
the Democratic party is not difficult
to explain. It il not solely because
the Democracy are free trade party and are
the benefit of British manufacturers at the
expense of American workingmen, but it is
that in every negotiation with Democratic
administrations England has succeeded in
attaining the precise result which she des1r-
ed. Mr.. Blaine then reviewed the Democrat
ic blunder under Polk, by which was surren-
dered to Great Britain what Is now British
Columbia. Had the question been allowed
to remain open, British Columbia, after the
California gold fever, would have been set
| tied by Americans and the finest settlement
| would, doubtless, have been in favor of those
who were in actual possession, and but for
| the laundering diplomacy of the Democratic
| party, which prematurely and without any
reason forced the issue, we should to day see
our flag floating over the Pacific front, from
the Gulf of California to Behring Straits.
President Cleveland is exactly following the
Presidents OF MS party III his neSottatlonn
with Great Britain.
Mr.. Blaine in conclusion said the Ameri-
| can people were weary of such diplomacy as
could wheel about in three days and radically
/ change the position of the administration.
| They will rather commit the government to
the great party, which from the day of Lin
coins administration to the last hours of
President Arthur's has maintained the force
and prestige and right of the Union against
rebellion at home and against intrusion and
/ aggression from abroad and done it without
bravado or bluster on the one hand and with
out humiliating surrender on the other.
| The Canadian Swimmer Won.
| New YORK, August 26.-Captain Patton,
| the champion swimmer of Canada, and Prof.
Donaldson, the long distance swimmer, swan
8 1-2 miles yesterday for purse of 5000.
The course was from Norton's Point, Coney
Island, to Nappier's Hotel, Fort Hamilton,
and Captain Patton won, covering the dis