Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-10-21
Mr.. BLAINE SPEAKS.
lie DISCUSSES THE ISSUES OF THE CAM
PAIGN AT OPHIR YARN.

he DISCUSSES TIE ISSUES OF THE CAM
PAIGN AT oPHIE YARN.
Ex-Secretary James G. Blaine sent a
shock Of electrical oratory from the porch
of Mr. Reds residence. Opbir Farm, Fri.
day night which will thrill the whole
country.
He addressed no great mass meeting in
crowded hall. His audience was an
impromptu gathering of citizens Of
Westchester county, who had been moved
by a common and Simultaneous impulse,
without concerted prearangement, TO
walk and drive miles across country to
do honor TO the distinguished guest Of
their neigbbor and fellow citizens,
Whltelaw Reid.
His auditorium was the grassy lawn,
rooted by the sky and lighted by the
stars of an Indian summer night. His
platform was the porch of the house.
But through the newspaper press, Mr.
Blaine's audience becomes the entire
nation, just as much as if he had addressed
the thousands of hearers who would
have crowded Madison Square Garden to
hear him.
1t was some time after dinner, hen Mr..
Blaine consented to yiel to the pleasant
cheering and the serenade which called for
his presence at the entrance to the house
The air was balmy and he ran no risk of
chill He was accompanied to the porch by
the gentlemen whom Mr.. Reid had invited
to meet HIM at dinner, and the ladies of
Mr.. Reid's household. The group made
pretty picture on the lighted porch, as
Mr. Reid in few well chosen words
introduced his guest. As soon as the
cheering subsidized Mr. Blaine said:
HARRIsON's Administrations. -
"FELLow CITIZENS OF New YORK It
should be churlsh. indeed, if ! did no
make response to your call after You have
come several miles to this beautiful home
of Mr. Reid's on pleasant October
evening. At the same time / am not
making speeches in the cOnvass, for
reasons which are well known to my
friends and which have no connection
Whatever with politics. Generally
administrations in Presidential elections
are challenged on account of the condition
of the business of the country, and !
submit that the Repnblican administra-
ton of President Harrison can triumph
antly endure such a test.
IL doubt if, since the government of the
United States was instituted, anybody at
any time has seen what we call good
times' so general, taking in so many
interests and spreading prosperity
throughout the whole domain of trade.
| might appeal to New York If the city
has ever passed a season more satisfactory
IN financial results than for the past two
years in which the general effect on cap,
ital and labor has been more prosperous.
NEW YORK A MANUFACTURING CITY.
"Tbe opponents of the Republican
party always represents New FORK as a
city, aud not a manufacturing
one. and yet the product OF the mannfact-
urers of this city alone Is S1.OOOtOO.
that wOuld cripple that great
interest would cripple the metropolis
seriously, and to a very burtfnl extent |
More men in New York get their living |
from pursuits protected by the tariff than
from any other scarce. know New
York is the center of orr commerce, the |
great entrepot of our trade but all the |
men engaged IN commercial affairs in and |
,bout New York are smaller in numbers |
han the men ENGAGED IN manufactures.
rNor. if YOU 20 West, where the Democrats |
his year are making considerable effort |
and doing a vast amount OF Boosting, will |
vou find it different, Take OHIO, take |
Mich igau, take Indiana, take Illinois, and |
The products Of manufactures are greater |
n pecnniary amount than the products
If agriculture IN these four great agri-
cultural States. SO that | think when |
{ happens to Democratic oralOrs who are
m the wing trying to arouse the hos
illty of those States against the protect
We tariff. they will encounter sentiment
# which they have not dreamed.
THE FARM MUST GO LIKE SCARE Ow.
1--WE learn from the Democratic party
hat these Western States are in des
,erate condition. The amount of their
arm mortgages roll mp into the millions.
You would suppose it fabulcus that the
mount of money they embrace could
yer have been so invested. This is not
O among the farmers IN New York. 1t
; not so among the farmers in New jersey
t is not so among the farmers of Con
ecticut. 1t is not so among the farmers
f Pennsylvania.
at is not 80 among the farmers of any
tate near by whose condition can be
asily learned, but by singular fatality it
the Western States that have got all
hese farm mortgages burdening them and
aking the life out Of the people. | do
ot like TO state that gentlemen have
misrepresented the facts, but
efore accepting them as such You Will
D well and wisely to demand the proof
HE TARIFF DOES NOT FOSTER PLUTOCRACY
"The tariff. so Democratic papers say, is
10 origin Of plutocratic government,
hen wealth shall rule and poor men
all not get their rights. | shall venture
challenge all statements of that kind,
id shall make the Democratic aeonsers
q iudges in the C Sc. a careful
animation of the list of wealthy men
the country has been published, and -
Is demonstrated the fact to be qnite the 4
verse, TO snch an extent, indeed, that '
the city of New York, taking the first
0 great TO times, not three, nottwo, not {
IRE than one wOnld he considered as
rived frcm manufacturing investments. &
THE IRISH VOTE.
II have a word to say about the Irish Y
te see it stated that the Democrats a
asst of having the mass of them IN Y
BIT ranks. This year 1t Is one of the =
'sferies of politics that a question e
itch interests England so supremely,
Iish is canvassed almost az much in q
ndon as it IS in New York, should
We the Irish vote on the side of Great q
tain.
'If the Irish vote were solldly for a
,teciion they could defy all the Y
chinatons of the Democratic party -
free trade great cheers land throw !
,ir influence on the side of the home v
rket OF America against the side of I'd
, foreipn market of ENGLAND. on