The Brookhaven leader., 1888-08-16


served order, while others already sta
toned at the entrance to it prevented the
large crowd waiting in the street from surg
ing in. Mr.. Blaine was escorted 20 an open
carriage by Messrs. Pool and Bartlett, OF
the Republican Club, and was ht once
driven to the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Whers
rooms had been engaged for him.
At Madison square.
NEW YoRK, Aug. 1L-Hon. James @.
Blaine attended the demonstration in his
honor at Madison Square Garden last even
ing. Mr.. Blaine's appearance caused the
| immense audience to break into an uproar-
ious scene Of enthusiasm. Replying 70 the
address Of Mr.. David Healy on Sehaf OF
New York working men, Mr.. Blaine sald:
| 1t would be considerable egotsm on my pSr'
10 take this magnificent demonstration as
| personal, altogether to myself 1t rather sig
| nfes the great popular interest In the ques
| tion upon which am supposed TO have con-
sistent record and an earnest zeal lApplause.I
| And you have before you a contest IN which
| that great issue is to be settled by the Amer
! ican people for perhaps an indefinite period
the one way or the other. The year lss7 was
prosperous and the President at its close pro
posed radical change IN the industrial system
which has produced that great prosperity ana
since that day there has been con
fusion IN the commerce ana manu-
features Of the United States.I Ap
plausel The question before the Amer
lean people is whether he and his Sdmihl'tra'
tion shall be sustained in that movement.
Against him the Republicans, having the oes'
cause, have nominated the best man. lI.p
plausel They have given TO you for president
a man OF sound experience, a man OF heron
record in the war, man OF great purity OF
! character, man Of great hrmness and worthy
/ Of the best days OF the administration in THIS
| country. And you have associated with him
| a man whom to New Workers / need not
| further describe than TO say that his name IS
/ Levi p. Morton app ausel man OF Ihe most
| generous character, OF intelligent cohpre'
| hension OF affairs, OF the widest and most
/ statesmaulike views on all the public ques-
/ tions pending before the American people.
| Against this you have two gentlemen OF
| whom l would not speak in terms other thah
those OF personal respect. OF their Nlce-Pres
| idential candidate l nave been afriend OF many
| years standing and am personal admirer oil
Judge Thurman. But beg yo1 TO observe tha'
at critical period in this counsgy the wee
President, george NJ. Dallas, in a casting vote IN
| a tied Senate destroyed the protective lsrlH oI
1912. II you do not prevent them Mr.. Thurman
| will be in a politlon TO re-enact the vote o'
| George NJ. Dallas in 1872. Therefore the more
| amiable and the more able man may be, the
| worse will be his influence before the American
people. Applause
Now gentlemen, l know that in discussing
| the question OF a protective tarin we are al
ways pointing out what England Is doing. l
have lately been in England for some months
and found in English public opinion very
great difference of opinion upon almost all
questions They are about evenly divided upon
what you call the Irish question; they are
about divided upon the forcible policy OF Glao
stone and Salisbury; they are divided even
upon the continuance OF the House OF Lords
and they are not absolutely unanimous IN sup
port OF the Monarchy Laughter and ap'
plause1 But there is one op MON they are
united on and that is that Hon Grover Clevc'
land President of the United States, en-
bodies in his person the regular form Of
revenue and free trade for the United States
which they like. [Applause.l Now, have no
objection TO their right Of opinion, and II had
il would amount to nothing; nor do intend 70
speak disrespectfully OF the English, for have
received at their hands very graceful and very
cordial hospitality, which would be a churI
not to acknowledge b. fore an American audi
ence; but that does not affect the pending con
dtions that the Amencan people lind their IN
terests IN one policy and that the English want
10 change that policy so as better TO CONFORM IC
their interests. And that, gentlemen, is the
prime question before you in the next Novem'
ber election.
am glad that this meeting is called in the
name OF the laboring people because this ques-
tion is from first to last, from skin to core, and
back TO skin again, a question OF labor. Loud
| applause.l II you will agree 10 live in as poor
| a house and eat as poor food and receive as low
| wages as the people in England receive, we can
produce as cheap goods as Democratic admin
| istration wants to see laughter and appiauseJ,
| but il will be otherwise II you wish to better
| YOUR condition and II you want the industrial
| system of protected interests that prevail IN
| this country now to be maintained. The savings
| of the wage workers of England, Scotland and
| Ireland as I said to-day TO Massachusetts
| gentleman are not near as great as lie TO night
| in the savings bank of Massachusetts to the
| credit Of the wage workers OF that small State,
| and if you turn the administration OF this Re
| public to-day into free trade channels, you may
| not expect those great savings for you will put
| our laboring men throughout the country into
| competition with the laboring men OF
| Great Britain, and in the course OF
| five or ten years you will make them
| as poor upon this side Of the water
| as they are upon the other. will not, IN this
! campaign, stop 10 argue the question upon any
| other basis. 1 have no personalities to indulge
| in. have no sores to heal. Loud cheers.
would rather have your cordial and heartfelt
| and sympathetic welcome than any ONCE you
| care to bestew upon me. tApplause.l But in
| this canvass. in which shall take greater or
less part shall hold this question from the be-
ginning to the end as a question that interests
| every man, woman and child in this country
| that depends upon daily labor for daily bread.
| [Applausel There is no need to make
| any laws to protect capital-eapital al
ways takes care of itself and gets
| full share-but there are laws that can elevate
| the condition Of the laboring man, and there
| are laws that can degrade him, and the Repub-
lican party has stood for twenty-five years and
| It will stand, believe, with the blessing OF God
and the will of the American people, twenty
five years more, upholding and maintaining the
| laboring man, for the Government which takes
| care of the bone and slnew and working muscle
OF the land is taking care Of the men who ere
ated the wealth OF the country and who are
| therefore entitled TO the patronage and protec-
tion OF the Government tApplause.l
Now, gentlemen, you represent critical
| State, you represent the State Of New York;
| your votes are TO tell in that issue. Do not be
| diverted from that one question by side issues.
| Do not be msled by petty squabbles upon this
| or that small issue or upon personal questions
| OF abuse on the one hand or. the other, but give
| your votes as independent laboring men and
give them for the interests OF your own homes,
| of your own fresides and thereby for the great
interests of the great Republic. Immense
cheering1 l never, Mr.. Chairman thought OF
| that Republic as do tonight. lCheers.l
have seen the other side: l have devoted
| many OF the last fourteen months TO seeing
the condition Of labor and laboring men In the
other hemisphere, and / say without fear Of
contradiction that in no country OF Europe, In
no part of Europe or a part of any country, Is
the condition Of labor comparable TO that which
it holds in the United States. IApplause.l Are
you willing to give up that position or are you
willing 10 maintain itf [Cries Of ''Yes."l You
a. et,o and I0HO nul