, 1888-11-02
BLAINE'S BAz0O.
The Maine Man Speaks at
Norwich, Conn
MurChison's Letter His Princi-
pie Subject,
With a General Abuse of the
Democratic Party.
Blaine at Norwich.

/ iNhi SOhus1 4NON. lsEu tl
thusiastic crowd of 25, 900 people gath
cred at Williamsport to-day to hear Jas.
u. Blaine speak upon the issues of the
campaign. The crowd had come from
all surrounding points and a large portion
of it from Rhode Island. When the
orator mounted the platform and present.
ed himself at the rail he was cheered by
the thousands who, when he began to
speak were too far away to hear him, but
who cheered vigorously when the others
cheered. Alter discussing the tariff ques-
ton Mr.. Blaine said:
| have heard a speech by Mr.. Bayard,
secretary of state. Mr.. Bayard is a pc
culiar gentleman. Laughter. He is a
gentleman of very high sentiments, in
fact, there is nobody who speaks the
English language so far as | know since
joseph Surface who has so fine senti-
ments as Mr.. Bayard. Laughter, Mr..
BaYard's speech is devoted to the wicked
conspiracy of the Republicans. They
have all taken that word. Mr.. Thurman
has taken that word, 1.-THE wicked con-
spiracy ofthe Republicans" that e%ntrapped
Lord Sackville into writing that letter.
Applause. And he calls down the wrath
of the country upon those most wicked
conspirators that got up the letter that
Lord Sackville answered.
Now, | must say, that Mr.. Bayard puts
himself in a very peculiar position, be-
cause If there were a wicked conspiracy
of leading Republicans to entrap Lord
Sackville into writing an i%mprudent letter
these conspirators ought to be punished.
R.1t instead pf thnf ha pppiChng nrl
Sackville. He says, here is a most I'M
principled, monstrous conspiracy against
this man, and in consequence of this con-
spiracy of which | cannot get the authors
| will send Lord Sackville back home and
make him bear the sins of these conspir-
ators." That is a very remarkable state
ment. They acknowledge that they were
not quick to do it, but after ten days, and
after they had received advices and tele-
grams from all paris of the country that
if they did not start Lord Sackville the
Irish vote would start Laughter Then
Lord Sackville had to 90.
1t will be al agreeable thing in Eng
land, to Lord Salisbury, prime minister,
to know that President Cleveland's ad-
ministration deliberately weighed Lord
Sackville against the Irish vote and
started him. Applause. | have an
other paper here speaking of the conspira-
cies and wicked things, the World,
which | believe is counted a good Demo-
cratic organ. 1t is opposing Abram
Hewitt, and this morning it ]reproduces
the Morey letter that was forged eight
years ago against the lamented President
Garfield when he was the Republican
candidate, and now this paper is belab-
oring MIR. Hewitt because he said it was
a true letter and aided in putting the
forgery into circulation. That is pretty
amusing. Laughter and applause. 1t
opposed Abram Hewitt for mayor of
New York because Mr.. Hewitt lent his
name as an endorser of a ~rascally scheme
of publishing a forged letter against a
Republican candidate.
Now, gentlemen, there is a good old
adage, which | do not wish to quote,
about somebody falling out and honest
men getting their dues rlaughter1, but |
did not expect to live to see the day when
one section of the Democratic party would
wait to swear off the responsibility of the
MoreY letter upon the other. There it
stands. The audacious forgery repro
duced, a forgery ali through, and one of
the Democrats who gave his high reputa-
ton and high character to put 1t into cir
c~ulation was Abram Hewitt and it rises
up against him now, not from Republi-
cans but from Democrats, and when the
Democrats all get to exposing each other
Applause that will be a terrible day. If
they do that the Republicans would not
need to have stump speeches or mass
meetings or flags or any other %parpherna-
liza to carry on an election. An election
would carry on itself.
Speaking of Mr.. Bayard's position in
regard to Lord Sackville Blaine said:
The party never has conducted TIE affairs
of the country with Great Britain with
dignity, or with advantage to this country.
And if you will contrast the adminIstra-
ton of Gen. Grant and Of Abraham Lin
coin in their conduct of affairs with Great
Britain with what has been done by the
Democrats, you would ask for no other
and to its bad diplomacy the loss Of Brit
ish Columbia, that vast province of the
Pacific coast, which would give us the en-
tire coast from the BehrinC straits
down to the gulf Of California. To the
bad diplomacy and surrender of the Dem
ocratlc party we owe the reciprocity treaty
of 1854 in which we got about one article
to forty as compared with the Canadian
reciprocity treaty, which was thirty nine
degrees on one side (which was our oppo
nents), and one degree on our side. We
owe that to them, in fact, it is not in the
power of the Democratic party to give a
single treaty or Diplomatic procedure they
have made with Great Britain which re-
bounds to the honor of this country.
Now, when Gen. Grant was our presi-
dent he had the most delicate question in
the world to settle with Or at Britain