Connecticut western news., 1892-10-20
BLAINE SPEAKS OUT.
HE PLEADS FOR THE ELECTION OF HARRISON AND REID.

ophir Farm and Makes g Special Ap-
 peal for the Irish Vote on the Question
 of the Tariff.
 WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, Oct. 15.-James
 G. Blaine has spoken. The magnetic man
 Of Maine has thrown the weight of his ut-
 terances into the campaign. He has si-
 fenced the Democratic claim that he was
 disgruntled by earnestly and with much of
 bis old time vigor proclaiming the Repub-
 lican cause and advocating the election of
 the Harrison and Reid ticket
 Mir. Reid invited a formidable gathering
 to dine with MT. Blaine. There were pres
 ent Chauncey NJ. Depew, Charles w. Hack
 ets, chairman of the Republican state ex-
 ecutive committee; William Brookfield.
 chairman of the New York county com
 mittee; National Committeeman Garrett
 A. Hobart of New Jersey, B. O. Kerens of
 Missouri, w. A. Hahn of Ohio; w. H.
 Robertson, ex-collector of the port of New
 York; Solomon Hirsch, ex-minister to Fur
 key, and Patrick Egan, minister to Chilli.
 While at dinner 8 large crowd surround
 cd the house from the surrounding towns,
 and MT. Blaine said be would speak to the
 people and said that Depew should speak
 also. MT. Blaine was very loudly cheered
 when he was introduced by MT. Reid The
 ex-secretary said:
 MT. Blaine's Speech.
 FELLOW CITIZENS or NEW YoRK-I should
 be churlish indeed if did not make response
 to your call after you have come several miles
 to this beautiful home of Mir. Reid on pleas
 ant October evening At the same time I
 not making speeches in the canvass for reasons
 which are well known to my friends and which
 have no connection whatever with politics.
 Generally administrations in a presidential
 election challenged on account of the con- dition of the business of the country, and sub init that the Republican administration of President Harrison triumphantly endure
 such a test doubt if since the government of the United States was instituted anybody at any time has seen what we call good times" general, taking in so many interests and spread ing prosperity throughout the whole domain of trade. I might appeal te New York if the city has ever passed through a season more satisfac- tory in financial results than for the past two years, in which the general effect capital and labor has been more prosperous.
 The opponents of the Republican party al- ways represent New York a commercial city and not manufacturing one and yet the prod uct of the manufacturers of this city alone is $IOO, ,0OO, 900. Any thing that would cripple that great interest would cripple the metropolis seriously and to . very hurtful extent. More men in New York get their living from pursuits protected by the tariff than from any other source. know New York is the center of our commerce-the great entrepot of our trade but all the men engaged in commercial affairs in and about New York are smaller in numbers than the men engaged in manufactures The Democrats in the West. Nor if you go west, where the Democrats this year are making considerable effort and doing
 . vast amount of boasting will you find it diff ferent Take Ohio, take Michigan, take Indi-
 ana, take Illinois, and the products of manufac- tories are greater in pecunisry amount than the
 products of agriculture in these four great agri- | cultural states so that think when it happens | to Democratic orators who the wing | trying to arouse the hostility of these states against the protective tariff they will encounter | g sentiment of which they have not dreamed. We learn from the Democratic party that these western states are in desperate condi- | tion. The amount of their farm mortgages roll | up into the millions. You would suppose it | fabulous that the amount of money they em- brace could ever have been invested. This is not so among the farmers in New York. 1t is not so among the farmers in New Jersey. It is l not so among the farmers of Connecticut. It | is not so among the farmers of Pennsylvania. It is not so among the farmers of any state near | by whose condition can be easily learned, but | by singular fatality it is the western states | that have got all these farm mortgages burden | ing them and taking the life out of the people. | do not like to state that these gentlemen have l voluntarily misrepresented the facts, but be- | fore accepting them such you will do well | and wisely to demand the proof.
 The tariff, so Democratic papers say, is the | origin of plutocratic government when | wealth shall rule and poor men shall not get their rights. shall venture to challenge all | stAtements of that kind, and I shall make the Democratic accusers the judges in the case. A | careful examination of the list of wealthy men 1 in the country has been published and has
 demonstrated the fact to be quite the reverse | to such an extent indeed that in the city of | New York, taking the first l5O great fortunes, | not three, not two, not more than one, would | be considered derived from manufacturing ! investments.
 About the Irish Vote.
 have 8 word to say about the Irish votes. | see it stated that the Democrats boast of hay | ing the mass of them in their ranks. This year
 it is of the mysteries of politics that ques- \ tion which interests England supremely, | which is canvassed almost as much in London as it is in New York, should have the Irish vote | on the side of Great Britain. If the Irish vote | Here solidly for protection they could defy all | the maehinations of the Democratic party for | free trade and throw their influence on the | side of the home market of America against | the side of the foreign market of England. l | know this appeal has been frequently made to | the Irish voters, but make it with emphasis | now for I am unwilling to believe that with light and knowledge before them they will de
 liberately be on the side of their former op- | pressors.
 | think shall rely my good friend Egan, | the brilliant and successful minister to Chili, | whom I feel especially glad to meet at Mir, | Reid's table this evening" think must rely | bn him to intercede with his countrymen-his | country men in two senses-not to aid the Dem | ocratic party in lowering the standard of the | wages of American labor by their potential votes