The Morning herald., 1878-10-29
CAMPAIGN ISSUES.


thou h the lower part of the building
was well filed with 8 goodly sprinklin 2
around tho sdges--it was evidently com.
posed Of thinking men who listened stten-
lively, seemed to appreciate the efforts of
tho speakers and usisstically applaudsd
whenever either of them made good
point.
The speeches were worthy of the audi
snce, the occasion and the speakers and
were of that nature that we cannot fail to
derive benefit by thinking upon. Mr.. Hall
did not 10 into party issues at all and
made an address that was brief and pleas
ing, he did not make any pretentions to q
speech, but simply acknowledged the honor
Of Introduction, nothing more.
Mr.. salisbury went into the abuses the
Republican party has been guilty Of dur
ing ito long period of power, and among
other things he advocated doing away with
Of national banks, and the issuing OF United
States notes that should be legal tenders
and thus stop the payment of large sums
Of money to those banks.
Col. Martin told how hs would vote in
Congress were he to be elected, and fully
endorsed the platform Of the State Demo-
cratic Convention.
The Jefferson Club was represented by q
large delegation, which made creditable
parade, and the United Cornet Band fur.
nished excellent music.
The meeting was called to order by Mr..
Thomas M. Ogle. On his motion Mayor
k1lunapd Uoo do hoir al oQ
were named:
B. Huested, W. Il. Quinn, Col. B. R.
Heiser James Clark, amuel N. Cooling,
John Aiken, Bernard Bonner, James Car
michael, Alvin Allen, DR.. Kirchner, R. R.
Robinson, M. B, Ocheltres, James Ponder,
Bennett Hazelett. Wm. McMennamiu, Ed.
ward johnson, Richard Rowe, W. =.
Byron, John Guthrie, I. Z. Pyle, Joseph
l.. Carpenter, A. Thatcher, D. J. Gsllagh' r,
John Wslraven, Geo. Robinson and VIM.
Bright.
' Sscrt taries-Calsb P. johnson, Robert
A. O'Byrne, James " Carlisle, Fsrd.
Fullmsr. Walter Cumm,ns, P. j. Ford,
Henry Pepper, Robert Fl. Taylor, Harry
Whiteley, John G. Farra, Joseph Fullmer,
Fred. J. Heiss, D. Taylor Bradford and
James Me0ary.
Mayor Almond at once assumed the
duties Of chairman, sad introduced
JOHN ". nALL
the candidate for Governor who Was re-
csived with considerable applause, I am
pleased, said Mr.. Hall, to meet an many
of the citizens of Wilmington on this occS-
sion and am pleased to b with you. do
not know you Is we'll perhaps a. any Of
those who are on the stsge with me, bat I
would be pleased to know you all as well as
j do the people Of my own county. will
not address you further as did not come
here to speak. Col. Martin who 10 associated
He does the speaking and I do the working.
HON. ELI SALISBURY.
was next introduced. The Senator COM
menced by saying in all Goysrnmsnts
similar to that oftbis country it was ne
ce.sary and natural that it be divided into
parties. He alluded to the reign Of the
Democratic lparty in, Delaware, which both
ju]iciallyand e1ecutively had been without
blemish no matter how close you search.
The same rule upon application to the, Re~
publican party reveals different state Of
affairs. in which mismanagsment is plain |
ly visible and this mismanagement has
caused much of the present depression all
over our land. The speaker, afer dwell
ing upon this at some length proceeded to
speak on the financial affairs and alluded \
to the errors and dishonesties ofa system
which he said vasa chief cause of the pre-
sent hard times. The public debt, caused |
BY tho war would not have been near 20
large, had wise and honest men been in |
Congress. After slluding to issue of bonds
by the Government and the act passed in
1869 by which Congress adopted Resoln-
tion, to nay off those bonds both in prlnci :
pie and jt.rest, thereby ra sing them 25per
cent. above their real value, the Senator
went on to rpeak of the public debt again,
which he said should be lowered by every
legitimate n,eans. He then directed his at |
tentio" to the tariff system wcich he de.
nounced. 1t was the worst of bad policies,
he said for government to impose such q
heavy tariff duty on all goods coming to
this country As to prevent foreign manu-
fscturers from coming here with their
goods and thus. enabsling home monopolies
70 charge exorbitant prices wit hout being |
contended with BY out side makers.
Among the many other abuses by the |
Republican party is that of reckless
waste and unbrid expenditures. Al idea of |
his can bs sssn. by tho statement that in |
Buchanan's administration The expenses Of |
running the government, amounted to $50, |
100000, while for last year they were $l4l, |
600, 900. Numerous instances were cited to
show the useless waste.
During the war the State banks prevsa-
ted but this system, imperfect though 1t
may have been In some particulars passed
away with the issue Treasury demand notss
or Rreenbacks. These were made legal ten-
ders for all dsbts, public or private except
for duties in imports and interest on the
public debt. While all citizens were COM
pelled to receive them, NO matter how much
they deprecated. I will say whether the
State bAnkirg system was good or not but