The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-10-16
MR.. BLAINE AT NEW ALBANY.
How the Surplus Bugbear Has Seen
Prepared.

| 'sS"~ it0 Ht6S oQE0O0f Hdo been
Prepared.
| NEW ALBANY, Ind, Oct abandonment
weather interfered somewhat with the Blaine
demonstration her today, but thousands of
visitors came into town. There was a re-
ception at the Windsor Hotel this morning.
MIR. Blaine was kept shaking hands for an
hour. This afternoon there was an impos-
ing parade which Mr.. Blaine, Gen. Hovey
and Corporal Tanner reviewed. At the mass
meeting at the intersection of 11th and Mar
ket streets, about 10. 900 people were present.
In the course of his speech Mr.. Blaine said
he did not know what Mr. Mills meant by
his denial respecting Mr.. Havemeyer, of the
sugar trust,unless that Havemeyer never ap-
peared before the full committee at a regular
| session. If he meant that Mr.. Havemeyer
did not appear beforesthe members ia the
committee room then he is contradicted by
the Congressional Record. On page 65O3 of
the Record for the current session, issued
July 10, debate is reported in which Mr.
breckenridge OF Arkansas, member of the
ways and means committee, admitted that
ne invited Mr.. Havemeyer and his attorney
10 the room OF the committee on ways and
means on the 18th day of April to talk over
the tariff, and Mr.. breckenridge Of Kentuc-
| n.y. ohOtuCl 4iCulU6I VI lH6 ways and means
committee, admitted having met Mr. Have
meyer and his attorney at another time.
Regarding Secretary Fairchild's answer to
his (Mr. Blaine's) denunciation of the policy
OF loanlng sixty million dollars public money
to certain pet banks. without interest Mr..
Blaine said: Secretary Fairchild did not
| frankly confront the issue. He does not
explain how the banks could afford to buy
| government bonds when the government
Itself could not afford to buy them. If it
ADVANTAGEOUS for 4hoc
banks to invest $60,000,000 in government
bonds why was it not still more advantageous
for the government to do it? If the banks
could make two to two and half per cent.
upon the purchase of United States fours,
the treasury could make as much and by do
ing what the banks do. the Secretary could
wipe out $60,OOO,000 of the public debt
when the surplus was in the treasury during
5ne admlnIstration Of President Pierce,
Secretary Guthrie applied it to the payment
OF the Mexican war debt, not yet due, and
this was repeated In the first six months of
President Buchanan's administration, by
Secretary Howell Cobb, when the premium
was as high as IA per cent for the bonds
they anticipated. Secretary Guthrie was
crltlclZed for paying a premium for these
bonds and he asked the very question now
PROFOUND to MIR: Fairchild, viz: Why those
goysrhmsnt g Yer i ponds were not worth as much
chaser in Wall street :. [Applause.l
Mr.. Blaine accused the administration of
nursing the surplus" and said: Between
March !, 1885, and June 80. 1886, a year and
iour months from President Cleveland's
Inauguration, the surplus in the treasury in
| creased $95, 600 and the public debt was
only reduced S50,000,000. OF this $50, ,OO0. 900.
S44'oVo,O0O was the compulsory purchase for
| the sinking fund. There was, at that very
date, S50,0O0,0O0 of per cent bonds that
could have been called at par and they were
| lett In the hands of private holders drawing
interest, in order that this bugbear of sur
plus might be piled up as an argument for
In the evening there was a torchlight pa
| rade. Gen. Hovey and Corporal Tanner adj
dressed large audience at Mascot Hall.
Mr.. Blaine and party leave for Lafayette at
oo'clock tomorrow. He speaks at the Tip
pecanoe battle-ground Wednesday after
noon.
Mr.. MilIs's Denial.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Oct. 15.-Hon. Roger
| q. Mills has written letter from New AL
bany, in this State, to Edwin Taylor, chair
man of the Democratic committee in this
county, in which he says:
| You called my attention today, as | was
leaving Evansville, to the statement of Mr.
Blaine In his speech at Goshen, Ind, in
which ne says "rhe president of the sugar
trust Mr.. Havemeyer,) well known and
active Democrat of New York, appeared be-
lore the ways and means committee, and ac-
| cording TO the statement made in open Sen
ate by Mr.. Allison, of Iowa, obtained such
arrangement Of duty as was equivalent to
So,0OO,ooo IN the pockets of the trust" The
| statement of Mr. Blaine is devoid of truth.
MT Havemeyer never appeared before the
| ways and means committee at all. He never
| outained any arrangement by which S6,000,-
700 was put into the pockets Of the sugar
| trust
Report From mr.. Thomas.
New YORK, Oct. 15.-Hon. W. W. Thom-
as, Jr, Of Portland, ex Minister to Sweden
and Norway, who returned to New York on
Saturday from six weeks visit to Minneso-
ia, Wisconsin and Illinois, is enthusiastic
over the prospect of a Republican victory
throughout the West. He said to Tribune
reporter that he had been surprised at the
awakening to the Importance of the question
OF protectlon which had taken place among
the people OF the Western States. 81 spent
lnree weeks ~ Minnesota" he said, speak
ing every night, and my work was chiefly
among the Swedes. When Congressman
knute Nelson voted for the Mills BILL it
looked as If Minnesota might be a doubtful
state But there has be an overwhelming
reyulsion OF feeling among the people as they
have become better informed on the tariff,
until now you can't find stronger protection
lists in the whole country.
The Republican majority on the State
ticket in Minnesota viii be fully $4,000, and
1
will be $4,000 or 10000. The outlook in Wis
consin is fully as encouraging. The Repub-
lican majority will be easily 10000. The Re-
pnblicans of illinois are heartily united and
enthusiasm fairly overfiows there. The
State, which has been soldly Republican
ever since the time of Abraham Lincoln. will
give majority in the tens of thousands for
| Harrison and Morton. The outlook ali
through the West could hardly be more en-
| couraging.
Judge Thurman In Indiana.
SHELBYvILLE. Ind, Oct. 17.-Ten cars.
with Col Brice's private car, carrying Judge
Thurman and party left Cincinnati at $50
this morning for the big Democratic barbe-
cue at Shelbyville. Judge Thurman was
enthusiastically received at every stopping
| place and in this town. Judge Thurman AZ.
rived at II o'clock and was driven to the
home of John Beggs, where he reviewed the
parade, which was over a mile long.
Judge Thurman was driven this afternoon
to the fair grounds where crowd of $500 to
1000 people awaited him. Senator VOORHEES,,
Gen. Black, Gov. Gray and others spoke
| The Old Roman spoke easily and clearly. He
praised Cleveland's administration in glow
ing terms and then spoke briefly on the tariff.
a Novel Election Bet.
AUGUSTA, Oct &c. K. Hamlin and
Martin l.. Scates, two well-to-do farmers.
living on the road leading to Palermo. have
made novel bet on the national election.
| They are near neighborS and firm friend 9
although their politics differ If Cleveland
is elected Hamln will but and haul from his
own wood lot 10 cords OF wood, the winter S
to be eight foot length and piled up If Har.
rison is elected Scstes will do the same for
Hamlin.