Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-02


secretary Blaine Urges Republicans in
pennsylvania to Stand by the Party.
PHILADELPHIA, November 1st.-Secre-
tary Blaine arrived from Washington this
afternoon. He received great ovation
later in the afternoon as he appeared on
the stage of the Academy of Music to ad-
dress a Republican mass meeting. The
spacious building was crowded. to the
doors. Hundreds were unehlle to gain ad.
mission.
Mr.. Blaine in HE speech at the Academy
of Music, referring TO the campaign in
Pennsylvania, said; do you suppose the
great free-trade papers in New York and
elsewhere throughout the Union would
care to follow up Mr.. Delameter on per
sonal charges, if they did not have some
great purpose beyond? If they can elect
Mr.. Pattison, it will be prodigious gain
to the cause of free trade and loss to the
cause of protection. Pennsylvania is not
only the Keystone State of the Union, but
even in a greater sense is the keystone of
the cause of protection. If she falls back
now. when tariff is on its severest trial,
the free-traders think they see an easy
road to the Presidency in 1892.
81 want to remind you, especially you
Republicans who differ from the great body
of your party, that Ohio, Indiana, New
Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and West Vir-
ginia are at present in Democratic hands.
The decisive point of the struggle of 1892
may be in Pennsylvania and these States,
and how any true friend of the Republican
party, how any honest believer in the doc
trine OF protection, can put to hazard the
strong position of Pennsylvania at this
time, fail to discover.
If Pennsylvania, under pretext, can at
this time be drifted from her lifelong al
legiance to the doctrine of protection, and
shall elect q gentleman of whom l know
nothing politically, except that ne is rank
ed with the free traders, there may be no
balm in Gilead that can heal that wound
l speak strongly on this question, because
/ do not want to see this State misled by
the free traders of New York City. The
issue itself is concealed under this noun
tain of abuse of the Republican candidate
for Governor.
There is undoubtedly in the Republican
ranks some difference as to the character
of the new tariff bill. The duty of making
it was RENTED to Congress. The bill which
passed was the result of a compromise, and
/ come with confidence to plead before the
people OF Pennsylvania not to differ on the
details"
Mr.. Blaine spoke of the reciprocity
amendment, and said: While the Demo-
Gratis thought l was trying to divide the
Republican party on the doctrine of pro-
tectier, was patted on the back and en-
courSged by them, but when the Repub-
licans, as one man, incorporated recipro-
city in the tariff bill, they didn't want it
at all and declared II unconstitutional.
''If we had been baked by the cry of I'M
constitutionality every time ii was made by
the Democrats, we should not have been
able to defend the Union when it was as
saulted, to issue greenbacks for its support,
organize national banks, improve river
that did not have salt water in it, improve
a harbor in the interior of a State, give
freedom to a slave, and, as the next point,
should not be able to secure reciprocity in
our national trade by every attempt in
every form in which political action can be
taken.
"The Democratic party expects to wound
and destroy the doctrine of protection, and
/ have come to raise my voice in Pennsyl-
vania, to ask the mother of protection to see
that her offspring shall not be strangled.
If my voice can have any influence with
single man among those who are dissent
ing from the regular organization, l appeal
to him not TO think ii will be all well next
year.
my friends, faction leads to defeat, and
defeat leads to mutual hostility and dis
Il
with disastrous end it will be long time,
/ fear, before you will see the Republican
party of Pennsylvania come forth in its
original strength and its invincible power"
Mr.. Blaine said he had not come to
sound any alarm upon the possibility of
the loss to the Republicans of the House of
Representatives. He hoped they would
not lose it, but from the time of John
Quincy Adams to Abraham Lincoln, with
one exception, every Administration lost
its second Congress. 1t is one of the natural
reactions that comes between two Presi-
dental elections. four years apart, and has
been so frequent that it creates no dis
turbance on one side and no citation on the
other.
"What I deplore," ssid he, ais popular
vote in Pennsylvania that shall encourage
New Jersey in her Democratic lead, the
dissenting branches Of the party in New
York to close up and make their strength
felt; that shall cripple Ohio in her effort
to throw of Democratic power in the ex-
ecutive and gerrymandering in the district;
throw back Delaware in her Republican
progress; make Maryland hopeless, instead
of hopeful State, and that shall take
from US the power to establish Republic
can standard in West Virginia. Every one
of those considerations confront you in the
vote that a Republican casts in Pennsyl-
vania on Tuesday next.
THE administration of President Harri-
son, so far as that one man controls it, has
been 9 modest, conscientious, efficient adj.
ministration. The country has been
peaceful, industrious and prosperous, and
hiss gone forward in a great career, such
as republican government should
always exhibit. l ask you, in casting
your ballot, to remember that you can sus-
tain the administration of an able, consci-
entious and independent President, or you
can set the seal of doubt upon it. You
can do much to perpetuate the Republican
administration, or you can do much to de-
stroy it.
Il have come here, not with the purpose
of eulogizing the administration, but to
bear my testimony and give you warning
that as Pennsylvania votes next Tuesday
the nation votes two years hence"
Postmaster General Wanamaker spoke
briefly, saying he felt assured of Repub-
lican victory next week
Mr.. Blaine then went to the Union
League Club, where he held reception.
THURSDAYS DISASTER.