"The issue of protection to American labor." - Blaine. "Whenever Thurman and I have joined hands against Jay Gould and fellows of that sort in the Senate, James G. Blaine has invariably started up from behind Gould's breastworks, musket in hand." - Senator Edmunds : James Blaine steht mit einem Gewehr in der Hand auf einer Barrikade aus Geldsäcken / Th. Nast