Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1884 — Blaine to Young Men. [ARTICLE]

Blaine to Young Men.

At the time Mr. Blaine was in Cincinnati he was serenaded by the Young Men’s Blaine Club at one o’clock in the morning. In response to their call, he appeared at the window of his room, and spoke as follows: Young men: The giants of mythology typified the strength of young men. In the enlightened era of the Christian dispensation, young men -were strong. To-day. the strength of the Republican patty is in the young men of the country, of whom it possesses a vast majority. The young men is always good for two votes, his own and the one he brings. No p arty in the history of this country’ has ever been beaten that had the sympathy and support of the young men of the of the county, and it has been the chief gratification of the tour I have made from the commercial metropolis to your beautiful city that every where 1 have found the young men on our side. You are in the morning of life. The day is before you, and you are ning of the republic —of its strenghth, its prestige, its glory, its destiny—long after the generation to pvliich I belong shall have passed away. See to it that it is kept in_your power and in your hands, and that your hands, clean, pure and strong, shall bear up the Ark of the Covenant. I bid you good morning. Let us turn together to the duties of a new day, with its responsibilities, and, I hope,with its reward.