Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-07-08
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there should be body OF electors appointed
they further provided that no man who holds
an office or station of profit under the United
States should be an elector. Why was this
1t was because they did not mean that official
power should be made stepping stone to a
continuation of power beyond the prescribed
term.
We have in this country drilled
army of oificeholders of hundred
thousand and odd men. They are
all salaried paid by the people for doing
public duties. What, as the rule, is the first
scribe money to sustain their party. There
is not Federal officeholder in this city who
Inns not in his pocket circular calling upon
him to make subscription which he feels
that he can support the candidate of his party
conscientiously or not. Gentlemen, all this is
wrong; do not care whether it be Republic
can or whetherit be Democrat. The offices of
this country are made for the benefit of the
people of this country and those who hold the
offices have no right to use the power,
entrusted to them for the benefit of the
people, to raise themselves over the people.
There is no doubt of that.
Mr.. Hayes, Of whom. being President
of the United States, | do not desire
to speak of otherwise than with respect,
made feeble pretence OF protest
against this abuse of power. He declared
tilHI llt NOlllu w
consider his first duty to be the support OF his
party and did issue circular in which he
assured them that they would not be punished
if they attended to their duties and refused
subscriptions. But it has all melted away, and
there has been no government i'll which more
shamelessly the officers of the country have
been given as u reward sometimes for the most
outrageous partisan services, as in Louisiana,
than there has been under this pretended
reform administration.
Now my friends, bid you goodnight" "
/ have tried to meet this question fairly, 80
when Republicans ask you, "fIow can it be
that you, who have always talked against
military candidates, have yet taken man who
il nothing but military MANI" you may
answer that i've do not take him because he
il military man, we admire his courage,
honor him for his gallantry, love him for his
patriotism and admire his honesty, but he il
something more than that he is not only a
soldier but he is man of the highest
personal character and intelligence
he il citizen imbued with
the knowledge of what citizenship
means, he is a citizen under government OF
laws and he il Il believer in the profound
maxim-that the civil should always be
superior to the military power-that il the
reason why we have chosen him and chosen
him Mt this time
And one reason other let me state to you.
There has been made great outcry and
attempts tocreate false alarm and apprehension
nthe part of the people of the Northern States
that the Southern people were still antagO-
nistic to them and to their interests, that they
hate the government and mean only to vote
for somebody who would overthrow il at the
first chance. 1t seems to me that this bubble
must be pricked. that this falsehood must be
nailed to the counter. When Hancock has
the ''solid South' for him. it seems to me that
the North had better be solid the same way
Iapplause if the Southern people propose to
choose Hancock for their President for the
same sincere end. l believe you will agree
with me that the concocters of such stories
must be great knaves and greater fools. The
Democrats have given by their votes, in Gin
cinnati, and will in November next, prove
by electing him that they love and respect
the man who il true to the Union and the
Constitution of his country.
And now, gentlemen, if the war fol
the Union is to be success, and
God grant it may be, what better
illustration of the success of the war could
any one ask than to find a man who led the
hosts of the Union receiving the vote oi
every man who drew sword against iii
Applause. Talk of your victories; what vic
tory is like that-the victory that can turn 9
foe to friend-can bring back the citizen tC
his allegiance? If that be not the fruits ol
statesmanship, pray tell me what is states
manship? Applause and cheers.
During Mr. Bayard's speech all the win
dows aud balconies of the square were
filed with ladies and gentlemen, some ot
whom used opera glasses with which tc
better see the great statesman.
Mr. Grubb resumed his speech and CAV,
many and cogent REASONS for ihe nomina
tions ,nude.
Mayor Almond came forward and sait
he had the pleasure of introducing one o
Delawares delegates to Cincinnati
George I'll. Bates, Esq, stepped forwarI
and said;
FtlloD Citizens: have no disposition
to detan you for more than a few
moments, for after hearing 80 fully from
one whom not only Delaware, but tn,
whole nation, delights to honor, oarno
feel that you will cure to stand here longe
to hear anything may say. Indeed, hav
ing been assured that there were severa
other &, ntlenen to address you to night
gave up the idea of doing SO and therefor
| find myself in the situation of Marl
Twain VINO, wien Galled on unexpected,
speak, said that lie regretted that he dit
not have the four hours which he required
to prepare himself for an extemporaneou
speech.
AS the only representative of Whining
ton, the home of Bayard, in the Cincin
natl Convention, feel that should brini
home to you the message that believ
the heArt OF the convention beat mos
truly for Bayard But the delegate
assembled there for one purpose--i
select the iittent stindard-besrer to leat
the party to present victory-and tn
result Of comparison of views was, tina
while Delaware did not obtain her frs
choice, one who WAS pquestionably he
second choice was nominated. When thu
result was nscertained. Delaware willin
to giya up her snu to the service of th
nation. hut glad also to retain him as he
own representative In the Senate, refuse
to su'k Wa cieerfnlly acqniesced and
rs your epresertGtivas raid to the Demo
cracY os other states that Delaware woul
b. proud to show her devotion, by giyiu
to Hancock M large a majority IN sh
would hGve given Bayurd Democrats G
Delaw are. did we not in this rightly repr,
sent you? (Lond cries uf yesD | ca
assure yuu that the choice of Hancrc
wns not the result of Il mere stampede c
boom. IL ives the deliberate judgment {
the assembled Democracy, that his nom
nation would accomplish two result,
First, clean handed, pure and const
tuiiona administration of the Federi
government,
Second That Nectionsl agitation nhcnl
cease and the bloody SHIRT should not onl
be folded up and laid away. III Senate
Bayard said, but that 1t should iirsl
washed out and hung up to dry.
Not only was there solid Sonth but {
wcll solid North, solid East and IL soil
; West for Hancock Aud ihasu.uch 6
some nt Cincinnati objected to Mr.. Bayai
,, because he was born south Of Mason aI
nixon's line, we determined 10 nominal
Hancock and carry enough of the Norther
| States to move, as speaker said at Uii
cinnati. Mason and Dixons nerorthwar
, to the shore of Lake Erie.
: Ref, renee has been made to the fact tn
an houored statesman of Delaware, whom
short time since We laid to rest, favor,
, the nomination of Hancock iu 1868.
( found to-day report of his speech mao
i twelve years ago at ratification meetiu
l held in this city after the nomination
; Sey ymour-With your permission | "
: reed you his words, which have bee
echoed here to night, by his living ar
: honored SON:
a "My own preference was for Gen. Hancoc
! who was not only great and gallant soldi
4 but he was endowed with the views of
= statesman and patriot. His course in M
Orleans was precisely that which a wise al
= sagacious civilian would have pursued. a
v his correspondence, and especially his lett
, in reply to Governor Pease, of Texas, was
! document that would do credit to the able
y of statesmen. | do not believe that there o
y ten lawyers in the United States who cot
= have written that letter or one superior to