Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1884 — THE NEXT PRESIDENT. [ARTICLE]

THE NEXT PRESIDENT.

The Great Republican Leader’s Tour Through the State of MichiganMr Blaine Rides Twelve Honrs and Makes Twenty-seven Speeches. j- —. [Detroit special to Chicago Tribune.! Mr. Blaine started on his tour upon the Detroit. Lansing and Northern Railroad at 9:30 this morning. Crowds were at the depot to see him, but he quietly entered the car without maxing a speech. He expressed himself as greatly pleased so far with his reception in Michigan. In the party were Gen. Fremont, the two Michigan Senators, Palmer and Conger, Senator Hale, Mr. J. H. Manley, of Augusta, Me.; the Hon. R. G. Hott, Judge Isaac Marston. Chairman Vanzile. of the Republican State Committee, Collector J. H. Stone, Charles’ T. Gorham, ex-Asststant Secretary of the Interior, and several other prominent citizens of the State. A TIRESOME JOURNEY. [Grand Rapids special. J Any transports Mr. Blaine might have felt on the result of the Ohio election were probably moderated by his experience to-day. He was on the road to-day from 9 o’clock a. m. until «. o’clock this evening, riding 247 miles, and making twenty-seven speeches or into!mal talks. Mr. Blaine was up to such a late hour last night that he had a very poor night's rest; this was another reason for making the tong day arduous. He traveled to-day over the Detroit, Lansing, and Northern Road to Grand Rapids. He was accompanied by» very large delegation of Michigan's leading end most influential citizens. His special tra/tling companion was Gen. John C. Fremont. ENTHUSIASTIC CROWDS. To-day inside of Mr. Blaine's car and at all the stations there was a steady stream of congratulations over the result in Ohio. The Michigan managers who were with Mr. Blaine assured him that now Ohio had declared herself Michigan would be good for even,a greater majority, and that they were now certain of electing a solid Republican delegation to Congress. The crowds along the line of the road showed such numbers and enthusiasm as to startle the Michigan managers. At Lansing there was a gathering of s.ocn peo- : pie at the station, Beyond Lansing the roe/1 runs through a very sparsely settled country, over great blue barrens, over which the forest fires have painted great black and desolate 'patches, but it was in these thinly settled sections of a once most active lumber region that the enthusiasm was the wildest. .There people had ridden in from thirty to forty miles for the mere pleasure of seeing Mr. Blaine. The latter part of the journey was after dark: every station reached after it was night was lighted by great burning bonfires. Mr. Blaine to-day made no set speech. He merely called the attention of his auditors to the fact that Ohio had pronounced upon the question of a protective tariff, and that it now was the turn of Michigan to speak in equally decided terms upon the subject. At Grand Rapids Mt, Blaine had a reception which was worthy of tfffs ambitions town. On the east side of the river Mr. Blaine left the train and. was escorted by the Republican clubs through the city to the Morton House, where he is to pass the night. Several thousand people were in the streets in the neighborhood of the hotel awaiting his arrival, and there were the usual demonstrations as he entered the hotel. -a—