, 1888-06-21

on special car, were drawn up in line al
the depot where a brief stop was made
The Chicago cornet band struckup
my COUNTRY IT'S OF THEE"
rs sthe train came to halt and the club
gave three cheers for Blaine. The coasters
quickly jumped off the cars and cheered
for the liish Club and Blame and ioined
the members Of the famous San Francisco
Dirugo club in its Dirugo "yell" which
rang out clear and sharp, and right hearth
ly the Irish club again cheered for Blaine.
! The band struck up "Dixie" and amid an.
other volley of cheers for Blaine, the train
| drew out OF the station and flew on the
home stretch for Chicago at the rate of
sixty miles an hour
A moments stop was made at small
station to allow General Diamond, chair
man of the California state central com.
mittee, who has been in Chicago several
| days, to get on. There were also with
General Diamond, Colonel Brogul of Indi.
ana, and General j. L. Carey of California.
A splendid uniformed brass band and a
committee with blue silk banner bearing
the device,
"BLAINE AND PRoTECTIoN'
was awaiting the arrival of the delega-
tion at the Union depot. This silk banner
had been telegraphed for by the California
delegation, and in the procession to the
Leland hotel, the California headquarters,
1t was in the van of the procession. The
Chicago young mems Blaine club and the
American club formed the escort Of the
Pacific coast delegation. The coasters
formed under the command OF Colonel
Creed Hayman, and the escort was mar
shalled by II. A. Beard. Every man from
the Pacific coast in the procession wore
AHIoH WHITE HAT
and carried a cane, from the tip of which
futtered the little Am eiican flag which had
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ner,' To the inspiring strains of "Rally
round the Jag the parade started on its
march. TIE splendid white banner of the
California delegation, which was the most
conspicuous feature Of the parade, was fol-
lowed by an immense portrait of Blaine.
From the depot until its arrival at the
Leland, the procession was cheered to the
echo.
A party OF Gresham missionaries with
Gresham badges. met the coasters at the
depot and formed a part of the march to
headquarters. The crowd on the streets
enroute cheered the parade as it passed
bravely on, and the Blaine boom took a
fresh start. Whenever Blaine banner or
a picture was seen, the procession halted to
cheer. Arriving at the Leland, President
Beard, of the Young Mems Blaine club,
got upon a chair and made u ringing
speech ,eulogizing Blaine and giving the
Pachc coast the hearty right hand Of fellow
ship An address was made by Nj. p.
Beady, of the Irish American club, and
Creed Raymond made reply in which he
declared that the Pacific coast was solid
for Blaine, and that the delegates would
stand by him and that any delegate upon
the Pacific coast who was hostile in this
fight
WAS TRAITOR TO
the people who sent him to the convention.
He declared that Blaine should be nomin-
ated before any platform is made, as he
could be the candidate, the platform and
all. That he was the embodyment of the
republicans, and especially OF the republi-
canism OF the Pacific coast.
Raymond said: II did not know there
was any one running but Blaine until we
got near Chicago. No one else will be run
ming next Tuesday morning, when Blaine
Will be nominated, probably by, acclama-
ton. Why, as Grant stood to this nation
in war, so stands Blaine to the nation in
times of peace. This is time of peril to
the union. South of the Potomac they are
no better friends to us than if jeff Davis
had still led them, The rebels have again
captured Tennessee, Kentucky and Mis-
souri, and the northern democracy
HAVE BECOME DouGuFAoEs
and it is fitting flag which they have
adopted-the red hag-which no vrtuous
woman ever loved, nor brave man ever
fought under"
The speaker remembered the bandana,
which, before the war as he travelled
through the cotton fields of the south, he
saw upon the heads of those who Were
oilng in the sun. These people couldn't
call their children their own, nor claim
cents worth OF property. The bandana was
a proper badge of servitude, in which
northern doughfaces delighted to live.
When Mr.. Raymond referred to the ban
dana as the red flag of anarchy, and pro-
ceeded to speak OF the Haymarket, there
pNnraSSinnS liSannrnyal
heard in the crowd,a and one man remarked,
Thurman has always been law and
order man."
The speaker again referred to the rebel
flag ana its former defeat, and made an elo-
quent reference to the capability Of Blaine
as a leader. He continued, I'VE were toll
that we would have to come here
AND BALLOT sIx OR SEVEN TIMES,
and then when it was evident that there
could not be any choice, Blaine could be
sprung. But that is not the way 1t is going
to be done. We are the state on the roll,
and the first republican state, and when
California is called, l will nominate Blaine
IL no one else does and want to see what
republican will dare to vote against him.
They say Blaine, of Maine, has written
some letters, but Jim Blaine, OF California
will accept. If Blaine was in his grave the
God who presided over this country in its
days of peril from armed rebellion, would
send him back to save his country
After Mr.. Haymond's speech, there was
O great Blaine demonstration in the Leland
corridors, after which the delegates disper-
| sed to their rooms.
One OF the developments of this evening
is the open acknowledgment that the
| fight to seats in the convention for the ad
ditional sixteen Malone delegates from
Virginia, is in the interest of Senator Sher-
man. The fight is yet undecided and prom
ises, unless checked, to become battle
into which adherents Of all presidential
candidates may be drawn. Followers Of
Blaine have 50 far prevented the full con.
summation of this Sherman Malone plan
OF campaign. II is probable that the entire