Daily Republican., 1880-10-26
GREKRAL weODRoRD's srEECm.
As tho Opera House. Oct. 23a.-A
Faii Presentatton Of the Hssse of
the CampaiGn fFSEn She Elsqae us
New Yorker.

the CampaiGa from she EAsqaens
Now Yorker.
Owing to q great pressure upon our
columns yesterday We we're unabls to
publish anything but 8 brisfsynopSis Of
General Woodford's spseoh, delivered
at the Opera House on Saturday even
ing, Oct. 2si, and We publish 1t entire
to-day.
Mr.. Cesar A. Rodney, who presided
at the meeting, introduced tbs speaker
In few we'll chosen words ~ the IA.
nous orator from the Kmpire S.s,s,
General Stewart L. Woodford."
General Woodford was welcomed by
q round Of hearty applause. He said:
MR.. CHAIEMAH, LADIES AND GBHTLR-
nRS: Four years ago at the invitation
Of citisens Of Wilmington l was per-
mitted 70 stand upon this same platform
to declare the creed and rehearse the
principles OF the Republican party. l
then vsntured to assure the people OF
Delaware that il we succeeded in the
then pending canvass We would resume
specie payments on the hrGt OF Jana-
ary 1870 Iapplauss.1 We won the vic.
tory and to night every dollar Of the
paper money OF the country whether 1t
bs the national promise to pay in the
shape Of the grsenbaok or the BILLS Of
tho national banks, every dollar 10 not
only as good rs the gold It promised in
this country, but 1t is q gold certificate
wherever the sun goes in his journey
sround the commercial world. lap,
plause.
| WISE pRoPHRcY.
Ithen vsntured TO assure you that II
Rutherford B. Hayes [applaussl should
bc elected President that no act would
be performed during his sdministrs
tion, either at the suggestion Of our
party or with his consent, that would
psralyzs American industry. lap
plause.l
We gained the election [applausel
and wherever our flag floats American
labor Is prosperous and has won and
Ia earning good wages which are paid
in good money. Rvery furnace is aGams,
every mill Is In operation, tongues OF
Are stream from the stacks of every
rolling mill in the land and wherever
the American workman seeks employ
ment under the benign protection Of
the American system, labor has Its just
reward. IApplsuss.l
also vsn!ured then to assure you
that Republican victory would be fol-
lowed by g better condition OF things
all through the soath. Tonight we
are on the eve Of another presidential
contest. 1t 10 not, in my humble 1udg-
msnt, struggle betwesE Hancock on
the one side and Garfield upon the
other Tapplause;] it Is not even a strug
gle between thu Republican party on
the one side and the Democratic party
upon the other; 1t is higher, it is deep
or.
Parties mean, parties are, the exprel-
sion Of public opinion. The rule Of a
party is the r7le OF an idea, and the
struggle this day ia between all the
forces that look toward the nationality
OF the republic on ons side and all the
forces that are looking backward to a
dead and dscaying past. [ApPlause.
DHLAwARR's INTEREST.
| What interest has Delaware In this
struggleH Muohl Your acres are few in
comparison with the mightier States,
your population Is but small, but yet
Delaware has grown to be hive OF
busy industry. Delaware should not
be o part OF the dead sonth; Delaware,
with her heart Of FIRE, with her pulse
beat Of enginery, should be part and
parcel not alone Of the great and grow
ing north but par! and parcel Of the
Igreat,r and growing nation. lap
plauss.l :.
The first need Of this State, as 1t
seems TO me, Is an absolutely sound
and reliable financial system. Labor
|, should earn the best Of wages Zap
plause;) capital should receive the bsst
of profit; all that works and all that
speaks should have the value OF labor
and Of th ought measured and paid for
in the best money that t1e world can
give. (Applause.)
New / frankly conoeds that the Be-
publicsn party has no. upon the money
question met my highest ideal. am
one Of those, not many in number. on
either side, who believed that when
} the war ended the right Of the govern
, ment to reissue its paper premises In
the form OF the greenbaok forever died.
r But history and the record Of The past
fifteen years will demonstrate this
whatever has been done to secure q
souud financial system has been dene
by the Republican party, lapplau5e j
whatever earnest and effective opposl-
ltion has been made against a souna n
nanoial systsm has been made by the
Democratic party. [ Applause.
ABOUT BATARD.
honor your distinguished Senate.
for his advocacy Of hard money las'
winter al Washington. lshoula have
, falt stronger If in the fall Of 1875, when
ths Democracy rallied for initiation In
, Ohio, that distinguished Senator had
bsen by my side, fighting against soft
money where the fshtmeant something
r applause .,,,
the story Of these parties upon this
money question. The subject may be
tri:e i will endesvor to be concise,
and ;fI err anywhere, any friends In
this great congregation is at liberty to
set me right. ..S
when In the throes Of war we had
' snept all the gold and silver tdat were
IN the federal treasury, when the pres
sure of the war required new outisys,
tasrs came time when, in default Of
coin. we were compelled literally TO
o.oa;+ of tha nation and issue