Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-11-03
NAUGATUCK VALLEY
Turns Out in Body to Listen to Mr.
Blaine.
ANsoSIA ct. Nov. 3.

ANsoNIA, CT, Nov. 2.
| Nearly the whole of Nsugatuck Vale
assembled in this town to listen 10 speeehe
/ by Hon. James G. Blaine, Gen. Adam Kin,
and candidates Bulkeley, Merwin, Lines an,
Graham. The meeting was held in tn
Driving Park, where % 900 people gathered
Excursion trains were run on both railroads
and the factories and mills of Derby, Sey
mour, Beacon Falls, Naugatuck Waterbury
Thomaston. Torrington, and towns as fa
north as Ninsted, were closed. Blaine anC
party was driven to the residence of Hon
Thomas Wallace to lunch Immediately OF
the arrival of the train from New Haven.
The large assemblage gave Blaine mos
enthusiastic reception. Blaine was intro
duced. He said:
Fellow citizens If you allow the pro
tective law TO be broken down and DESTROYED
when do you think it will be put back again
Do y1u think you can vote for the free trade
party for fun and have some one else main
tain the protective principle for you? Ii
you will put Harrison in the Presidential
chair | will guarantee that the protective
tariff will not be disturbed. They are op-
posing US in every way and manner, fair and
unfair. Blaine then referred to the inter
view with Postmaster General Dickinson in
which he described New England as selfshly
hanging on TO the body polite absorbing its
wealth and giving back nothing. He pro-
nounced Dickinsons statements
As Stuff.
such stuff as tariff arguments are made of
through the south and southwest. They rep
resent New England as having two classes,
one class rolling in wealth, and around them
class bordering on starvation. This mode
of speaking of the results of protection and
describing New England, is a lioel ON the
most industrious and one of the most deserv-
ing sections of the union. The question
pressed upon you today is, are you willing to
trust President of the United States who
sent free trade message.to Congress? Are
you willing to trust him with the tariff? The
whole question, my friends, is a question of
wages, and being question of wages, the
votes of the men who earn wages can decide
this election. The western democrats say
that New England has palaces ON every hill
top. | have lived in New England many
years aud saw but few of them. A vast
number of the people are comfortably well
off and it is in their hands and always has
been in their hands to make and unmake the
laws of the country. All the millionii aires
from the Atlantic to the Pacific cannot offset
the votes of the workingmen of this valley.
[ Applause. You can outvote them all as
often as you like. You have it
in your power to make public
opinion stronger than they can. You can
argue the matter for yourselves and if the
republican party shall lose the support of
men who are comfortably well off or the
f,,r l. Al.
party ceases to exist 1t was
made of such men. Cleveland did not have
the Senate in his hand and has not been able
to stir one hair of the protective tariff. We
are having good times because the democrats
have been guarded ty republican Senate
Cheers The President and members of
the House from the South stood up for free
trade and the struggle is now whether to re-
lnforce the Senate with re-
publican President or give way and let
the democrats have full swing. Will you
reinforce the. Senate for protection or the
House for free trade? If Connecticut gives
an electoral vote to Harrison and Morton
you may rest assured that the country will
go as it has for quarter of century in
peace and prosperity, but if Connecticut
should allow her vote to favor free trade
then you will have abundant leisure in your
with the.ill paid labor of Europe
to calculate just how much you have made
out of it. The time for argument is here
If | can reach one man by my voice and
make him feel that he has power to
protect his own interest, then | shall feel
have not have workel in vain. Tremen-
dous applause.
Blaine was escorted to the depot and the
special train hurried TO New Haven where
ne at once took the train for New York.
Mr.. Blaine, Mrs. Blaine and Mr.. Walker
Blaine will leave New York Monday night
arriving at Augusta on the Tuesday after
noon train. MIR. Blaine left Augusta on his
tour Thursday, Sept 27, speaking
first IN New York Sept. 20, and being on the
stump continuously since.