Los Angeles herald., 1890-11-02
NO BALM IN GILEAD
For the Tottering Republi-
can Party
If the Democrats Carry the
Keystone State.
Blaine Sounds the TOcsin in PrOtec-
tiOn's Stronghold.
The Astute Statesman Sees Certain Ruin
Staring the g. o. P. in
the Face.
Associated Press Dispatches.

PHILADELPHIA, NOV. L. = secretary
Blaine arrived from Washin gton this
afternoon. He received great ovation
later in the afternoon, as he appeared
on the stage of the Academy of Music to
address a Republican mass meeting.
The spacious building was crowded to
the doors. Hundreds were unable to
gain admission.
Mr.. Blaine, in his speech, referring to
the campaign i'll Pennsylvania, said :
"Do you suppose the great free trade
papers in New York and elsewhere
throughout the union would care to fol-
low up Mr.. Delameter on personal
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 greater sense is the
keystone OF the cause of protection. If
she falls back now, when the tariff is on
its severest trial, the free traders
think they see an easy road
to the presidency in 1892. I
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 Virginia are at present in Demo-
cratic hands. The decisive point of the
struggle of 1892, may lie in Pennsylva-
MIA and those states, and how any true
friend of the Republican party, how any
honest believer in the doctrines of pro-
lection can put to hazard the strong
position of Pennsylvania at this critical
time, fail to discover. If Pennsylvania,
under a pretext, can at this time be
drifted from her lifelong allegiance to
the doctrines Of protection, and shall
elect gentleman of whom 1 know
nothing politically except that he is
ranked with the free traders, there may
be no balm in Gilead that can heal that
wound. l speak strongly on this oues-
ton because / do not want to see
this state misled by the free traders
of New York city. The issue itself is
concealed under this mountain of abuse
of the Republican candidate for gov
ernor. There is undoubtedly in the
Republican ranks some difference as to
the character of the new tariff bill.
The duty of making it was remitted by
the people to congress. The bill which
passed was the result OF compromise,
and come with confidence to plead be-
fore the people of Pennsylvania not to
differ on details"
Mr.. Blaine spoke on the reciprocity
amendment, and said, while the Demo-
Gratis thought he was trying to divide
the Republican party on the doctrine of
protection, he was patted on the back
and encouraged by them, but when the
Republicans as one man incorporated
reciprocity in the tariff bill, they did
not want it at ali, and declared it was
unconstitutional. "If we had been
baked by the cry of unconstitutionality
every time it was made by the Demo
Gratis, we should not have been able to
defend the union when it was assaulted,
issue greenbacks for its support, organ
ize national banks, improve river that
did not have salt water in it, improve
harbor in an interior state, give free
dom to slave, and as the next point,
should not have been able to secure
reciprocity in our international 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 l
have come to raise my voice in Pennsyl-
vania to ask the mother of protection to
see that her offspring shall not be
strangled. Ii my voice can have any in
fluence with single man among those
who are dissenting from the regular or
ganization, appeal to him not to think
it will be all we'll next year, if the party
is defeated this year.
"My friends, faction leads o defeat
and defeat leads to mutual hostility and
disorganization. If this fight is cOntin-
ued with disastrous end, it will be
long time, 1 fear, before you will see the
Republican party of Pennsylvania come
forth in its original strength and it's in
vincible 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 will
not lose it, but from the time of John
Quincy Adams to Abraham Lincoln,
with one exception, every administra-
tion lost its second congress. 1t is one
of the natural reactions that comes be-
tween two presidential elections four
years apart, and has been so frequent
that it creates no disturbance on one
side and no elation on the other. "What
uCPioiO, ouiu hCt 10 t pOPutdI tOLc
in Pennsylvania that shall encourage
New Jersey in her Democracy, lead the
dissenting branches OF that party in
New York to close up and make their
strength felt; that shall cripple Ohio in
her effort to throw off Democratic
power in the executive and ger
rymandering in districts; throw back
Delaware in her Republican progress
make Maryland hopeless instead of a
hopeful state, and that shall take from
US the power to establish the Republican
standard in West Virginia. Every one
Of those considerations confront you
in the vote that q Republican casts in
Pennsylvania on Tuesday next. The
administration OF President Harrison, SC
far as that one man controls it, has
been modest, conscientious, efficient
administration. The country has been
peaceful, Industrious prosperous, and
gone forward in quiet career, such as
a Republican government should
always exhibit. l ask you, il
casting your ballot, to remember
you can sustain the administration O