The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-31
Of the Republican party from


| 1861 TO 1885, the speaker resumed
"But now once more on foot with It's
sores in plaster, Il essays again the losing
| fight II is death struggle now, aud none
know II better than the leaders Of that
party, Conscious OF their desperate con-
| diton and prospects, they fight iorociously
as Satan on the battlemcnts OF heaven, for
they see behind them the bottomless depths
Of political perditlon. They have again
taken up the shrcwdcr arts of inherited
policy, though not without somo rcluc-
tanco. Long toying to test the temper of
the people, at last, another candidate being
! named, their real leader, not yielding his
| authority, returned from his perch
OF observation ON British castle
20 personally guide the canvass And
| when you come TO think how the right
decision of this contest should promote
| alike the welfare OF all the people OF tho
land; that nothing can SO much contribute
10 the good ends Of presidential election
as truthful statement aud fair argument
by which an honest judgment In the voter
| can he aided then what spectacle is Re.
| publcanism personiied in Blaine, their
! demogoguc and idol, az he posons the
public platforms Of this canvass. How did
he discharge the plain duty of q helpful
friend? lie has discharged II everywhere
| according TO the policy OF class rulc.-by
misrepresentation aud sophistry. The
burden OF his opening speech was
the reckless assertion that the
business interests OF tho country
were depressed and suffering because OF
President Clevclanls tariff message of
last December. lie was overwhelmed
from contradictions drawn from leading
Republican papers Of that worry week, for
whatever the heat OF political campaign
ing, there is one class Of editors who have
10 tell the truth M they find H. that is the
class OF editors who write the business
facts for tho business world in that little
read column by the common public, the
business column Of the newspapers. Moth
ing dauntcd, for this is an old experience
to- him, in two or three days more he
opened bundle Of alleged statistics upon
which no declared that the labor.
ers Of Massachusetts, saved more
than the laborors Of Great Britain.
Ho had hardly begun 10 speak be-
fore rcfutaton delugcd him nnd his
voice was utterly Nlenccd on the point by
the rising Hood OF Information. Now lac
bad gotten home 10 Maine and hc opened
there new vein. lie arraigncd the
President because he had attacked the
trusts which opprc~ the people Aud
Mr., Blaine served notice on the people
and the President that these trusts were
largely matters OF private concern with
which neither Mr.. Cleveland nor they had
anything 10 do. Do not think Mr.. Blaine
will bo NO big u fool in this ~ sometimes
hns been imputed 90 him. lie doubtless
acted upon cool calculation OF the whole
effect. IL was necessary to notify them
, Ion whose coilon the sncws OF war must
come, that their interests would be boldly
defended. With that rod ho smotc
Tho rock from which has flowed
tho golden slrpam oi life O.
they addressed ~ the electors of America
But not all Of his party managers had his
hnrhLuoi. ~ while they r.aprd its
fruits, thoy scut him west 10 practice mis-
| rcptcuo ntation upon nrNthor luc. = have
! no purpose Ia follow him THROUGH IL ~.
! am only uaug him g. illustrate this poll
10y Of oeniempl i0r tho lp1p.e misrprU-
ecntation and argument, which tho party
| possesses 10y inhofiinncc, and apparently
| pursucs from conviction. Yet ono
| instance more, tho arch hypoc-
ricy of which IN peculiarly On
tertaining. lie, James g.. Bliino-tho
victim Of independent reform from his
own party tho very hobsohlin Of civil
service rciormcfE he, the greatest living
plumcd knight undertook To armign Press
idrnt Cleveland for unlailhiul execution Of
the civil service law. can only usc the
por'sworis And thcdoyil quoted script
urt Ikea very armed clerk. They dropped
the British minister into pit that lew
bOySin our political world would have been
In tho Hlighicst danger ~. but
the trick, though Il IL painfully harm
iul 10 the British minister. fails them yet
unless lrahmen dup inio tho same pit
with the British minister And I have
trained ior thirty ycan In their political
economy: and N any fall In Il i different
soH from any have ever known. lie IL
little wise indeed who does not IN the
language Of the old almanac thinking of
this period In our quadncnnial, keep the
old maxim In View About this timo
look oi ipr iquallN.'
Tie spcakcf then passed on 10 the
question of public lands. the navy, tho
collection oi the revenues, and concluded
with an elaborate discussion OF tho rrla-
tive merits of the Mills bill and ihc Senate
IanI bill and thc iarin generally