Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-08-11
"DIRIGO!"
Right Royal Welcome to
James G. Blaine.
The PIumed Knight Sounds
The Campaign Nar-cry.
Protection for american Labor and
american Homes.
Grand Ovation by Irish-American
Workingmen.
Fifteen Thousand People Listen to
Blaine's Plea for American
Interests.
Grand Ovation by Irish-American
Workingmen.
SPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE EnooRD-UNos. ]

lHUcTeSISs
SPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REcoRD-UNIoE.l
NEW YoRK, August 10th.-Soon after
daybreak the steamer City of New York,
with the Blaine family aboard, arrived al
quarantine. The passage was made al
most without incident. The vessel an
chored outside the bar at sunrise, and was
soon surrounded by shrieking steam tugs
and other crafts. The noise aroused Blaine
and his well-known features were seen for
moment at the port-hole of his state
room. The pilot shouted out that he
would not start for quarantine until I
o'clock, and scores of sailors were busy
hoisting fine display flags from every spar
ON the steamship.
THE WELCOME.
Amid tremendous ovation Mr.. Blaine
and his family were transferred to the
steamboat Laura NJ Starin. There was an
awful crush in the cabin, where President
Bartlett of the New York Republican Club
delivered the welcoming speech.
BLAINE's RESPONSE.
In response, the Maine statesman said
To enable you to appreciate the pleasure
have received from your welcome to-day, il
would be necessary for each and every one oi
YOU to be absent from home and country fol
fourteen months, as have been, and returning
see once more the shores of this great republic
and receive such cordial welcome you have
given me to-day. II is an occasion l will not
forget as long as live l assure you l appre-
ciate il from the depths of my feelings. Had it
not been for one sad incident, that of my re-
eeiving the news of the death of Sheridan,
there would be nothing TO mar the JOY and
pleasure of this occasion. He was man who
stood for liberty and union all his life. The
campaign on which we are about to enter is
one which could wish 10 have been prefaced
(if such a thing were possible, as it only is in
imagination) by every voter in the United
States seeing whatI have seen, and hearing what
/ have heard in the past year The progress
of that campaign is viewed, from the European
standpoint with interest as profound as it is in
the United States 1t is the opportunity OF Eng
land. II is the wished-for and longed for occa-
sion upon which the cheaper labor of the Old
World expects TO invade the new and lower the
standard of the workingman's labor to the
lower level. Il is not contest of capital
against capital nor, in the ordinary sense, a
contest of partisan against partisan. 1t is a
contest much higher than the Government owes
TO the capitalist. II is a contest which entirely
t-anseends party motives. 1t is a contest as 10
whether the great mass of American citizens
who earn their bread in the sweat of their faces
day to day.
There IS the whole pith and moment of this
question, and anything that diverts the atten-
ton of the American people from that single
point is in my Judgment so much weakening
of the campaign. say here as hope to say
with much more elaboration and force here
after that the wages of the American laboreT
cannot be reduced except with the consent and
votes of the American laborer himself. The
appeal lies to him. II comes to his door and
asks him whether, with the great power of suf-
frorr in hands n
vast majority of the whole citizenship of the
United States, he is willing for himself and
him, his children and his children's children,
to take the fatal step at the bidding OF the
American Congress and an American President
whose policy is shaped aud covered by that
element in the nation which lately sought its
entire destruction.
ut. gentlemen, it is not the time for political
speeches. My heart would be too full for
heightened argument / must be allowed to
enjoy the moment of welcome and the joy OF
getting here among old friends and old scenes
and l only add my profound thanks for the
very powerful sno grateful manner in which
YOU extended the welcome of the clubs and my
thanks to each and every member of the clut
individually for the generous and joyous wei
come they extended TO me in the harbor o
New York.
There was great applause after the
speech, then hand shaking ensued for fully
an hour.
RINGING WELCOME.
At the close of Blaines remarks Edward
Fritz William, on behalf of the Working
mems League of Massachusetts,, read the
following welcome in verse:
Welcome home, James G. Blaine, from fal
foreign shore;
Strange gods are being worshiped-s,range
methods employed,
stroyed.
A plea that no patriot mind could invent.
welcome home welcome home TO thy own be
loved home
Our hearts, with our hands, go out warmly te
Though not the standard-bearer thy words will
Against those who our industries falsely assail
No longer shall wrong bear the semblance o
Nor sinister motives be hidden from sight.
Conspiring free-traders are trembling with feal
OF the words th4t thy people are longing to hear
Welcome home, home, James G. Blaine from
those bayonet-ruled lands,
Where men have to cringe when tyrant com
mands.
Oh. tells us your views of the sights you hav,
And the price people pay to be ruled by
Queen.
Do the signs of the times show twinkle o
That the people will some day with tyrann,
Shall American ideas prevail on the main,
or shall we surrender TO England again
To Prince never welcome so royal was given
Free, widespread, spontaneous, like the dew
drops from heaven
From millions of freemen is raised but on
voice
To welcome thee home, and bid thee rejoice
The fight for Protection, on land and on sea,
viii gain new life and new impulse from
From the PaciHc's shore to the confines o
Maine
Syells one wide welcome home to our owl
James G. Blaine.
cIScINNATI's WORDS OF WELCOME.
Murat Halstead. on behalf of the Youn:
Mems Blaine Club of Cincinnati, then pre-
sented an address of welcome expressive
of their pride in Blaine as an American
who had so worthily represented his coun
try among the lowly and the great of Eu
rope. One passage read
We love YOU SIR, for your briilisncy in lead
ership, and for your strong humanity. We con
gratulate you upon the grand demonstration o
Intelligent JOY that will certainly distinguish
shore Those demonstrations viii come upoI
you with sponlaneity and unanimity that VII
Convince you that these are no idle wofds-tna
will tell you Of the strong hold you have or
your party and the intelligence OF thi
creat people. And. sir, we congratulate yot
that you come back to the great Republican
rarfy of this country equipped 10 direct II
leaders to the path that shall lead them 10 vie
torx, 10 sound the keynote of campaign tha
shall end in the success of our distinguished
national candidates.
OFF FOR THE HOTEL.
Soon after 10 O'Clock the Starin reached
,be nier. where Blaine was hurried into al
omen barouche and driven TO the Fifth
Avenue Hotel. Other members of tbs
BIa;ne party followed in coaches: The
rvhite- hated Chicago Blaine Club formed
she rear guard. At the hotel, which was
resehed at 11:10 o'clock, all the streeti