Show THE MAINE CIRCUS In a recent speech in Maine Mr Blaine expressed himself as feeling sad because he could not find a well defined issue with the Democrats and like Mahomet Ma-homet and the mountainthe mountain would not come to Mahomet so he went to the mountain Mr Blaine straightway creates a little issue with the Democrats for the occasion in his speech on Monday at Epta Grove near Bangor which was specially wired to the Tribune In this speech Mr Blaine said I I know it is regarded by many as useless if not unwise to continue the discussion of the Southern vote but no feature connected with that vote can in the endbe so deplorable deplora-ble and destructive as that the whole Nation Na-tion could quietly acquiesce in the outrage I have only the voice and influence of a private pri-vate citizen bnt so long as I have that I will protest against a wrong which not merely blots out the rights of the colored men but absolutely seizes the vote to which they are entitled and with that wrongfully acquired political strength controls the legislative power of the United States If the matter involved only the exclusion of the colored man from the ballot and thus the highest right of citizenship it would surely be bad enough but he is mocked I with the possession of the ballot and his electoral strencth is turned to the support of the party whose success is his lasting injury The refusal to allow the colored men to vote and the cool appropriation appropri-ation of their electoral strength by the white man have become the common custom and I the common law of the South and will remain re-main so until some great moral shook shall awake the people to the enormity of the offense It will read strangely in the future history of the United States that a minority of the white citizens could neutralize and destroy the franchise of 6000000 colored people seize their representative and electoral strength and continue the administration adminis-tration of the National Government against the large majority of undoubted legal voters And yet that is what is going on in the South and what has been going on since 1877 I 1877That this is an echo from the caverns wherein are inurned the bones of the bloodyshirt fiend no man will deny and it is further a positive proof that with all his magnetism keen insight intopolitical affairs and masterly ability as a speaker the oracle of Bar Harbor is forced to resuscitate that tired garmentbeing unable un-able to pick a flaw in the methods of Democracy that would hold wateran d flaunt it in the ambient and pineladen breezes of Bangor in order to have something some-thing on which to base a tirade of abuse of Democratic actions How glibly the master tongue glided over the original I chestnut which nearly created mutiny in the ark by reason of its great antediluvian ante-diluvian date I know it is regarded as useless but then I will trot it out useless or not and will make it do duty ongeneral principles 1 Outrages in the South was his theme and he went over the chestnut with the stride of a giant but strange to relate he only told iUjust as his party speakers have told it for years without a shadow of truth only a vituperative vituper-ative inuendo making broad assertions and leaving his audience to swallow the poisonor being sensible mento lookup look-up the record If these outrages existed ex-isted in the South in 1877 and ever since why did not he while in the Senate cause them to cease Why did not he while his jingo performances as Secretary Secre-tary of State electrified and magnetized the earth and the air and particularly the Judic fishermen who now kick back with interesttake steps to abate these alleged outrages and not leave them to I work harm to his ambitions now 1 Why i did not he when Oh Giblets It is I the old story and like all things of ancient date smells loudest when disturbed I dis-turbed Neal Dow is on the ground and St John is thar or thar abouts and all I such sophistry will be duly knocked I down anddragged out until the people of Maine will be brought face to face j with the square question Will you vote I to continue in power a party that has deceived you by promises and heated I you of your dearest wishes for thirty years or will you support the party that j never deceived its friends and which religiously enacts and enforces the laws made by the people regardless of who is i hurt Burchard damned Blaine in 18S4 and Frye has done the same thing j for him now and what resulted in 1884 will also result now and the intelligent 1 people of Maine and the country at largo I will say His cause was surely a poor i I I one when such men could mar it Blow up your gay bassoon and paralyze the trombone Lead out the horses and let the circus go on It is a race of merit and worth against deceit and treachery and good men everywhere know just where to place their bets Go on with themoosic and let joy be unconfined |