Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-10-28
At THE OPERA HOUSE.
Speeches Last Night by senator
salisbury and Robert a.. Mona
gEnD, E>u,

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salisbury and Robert o.. Mona
giiin, Esq.
About a thousand people gathered 10
the Opera House last night to hear Senator
Salisbury and Robert l. Monaghan, Esd
of West Chester, discuss the Issues of the
campaign. The speakers were Il little late
in arriving aud the band filed up the wait
10y playing several good selections
AT 10 the meeting was orgauizaa with
the following officers:
| President-James p. Hayes
I Vice Presidents, two from each ward
Peter Heusted Patrick Hughes, Peter
| q. FuTy, }. Frank Ball, Alexander
Mcleod, George Finck Lewis Paynter,
William l} Hylaud, Alvin Allen, James +.
Clsperson, Thomas NJ Ogle, DR.. W. f.
| Qninby, Thomas Q. Doud, Frank Kane,
Charles McCloskey, William Is Norton,
William Sweeney, Thomas L. Mouseley,
j. NJ. Hammond, David W. Hughes
Secretaries--H. Clifford Bertolette, Z.
Harold Rhoads.
Senator salisbury WAS received with
hearty round of applause, lasting fully one
minute He spoke as follows:
| Ny frRop-citizens need not assure you
| that ! am happy to meet you this evening, as
| am always happy to meet my felnw-citzens
Z
some of the questions now agitating the
| public mind. The two great political parties
| oil the country are now engaged in a very
important campaign, III which the citizens Of
Delaware have an equal interest with the
| people of every other state.
We remember with pride the past history
| and record of our state. We remember that
| on the battle field and councils of the nation
the early men of Delaware took an important
part, and none of Us can review the past
| history of our country without feeling proud
OF our little state. Appause.l
ouR SYSTEM uF GOVERNMENT.
We have government which we love one
which our foreIathers provided for us and
which il rightly administered will promote
the best interests of the people of this land,
| and attract the admiration of mankind the
world over. There is no such system of
government within the wide circle of the
universe. II provides that we as citizens of
Delaware shall manage olir own local affairs
aud the general government shall administer
the general affairs of the nation.
But while we have the very best system of
government ever devised among men, if
rightfully carried out. i'll our short life as
nation We have seen it violated and it
becomes lis to watch with vigilance and care
that no further infractions of that system
shall take place, and that the rights and
liberties 1t guarantees to lis snail be handed
down unlmpaired to our posterty,l Applause
THE TEST To APPLY.
Two great parties now ask for the suifrages
of the American people, and come as one
OF the humblest advocates. to present the
claims of the Democratic party. You must
judge of parties MS of men-by their acts
The same rule you would apply to test the
character and worth of man. You must APP
ply to tost the character and worth of a partv
Let us apply this test.
You all know something Of the history of
Illtr Ia tFar 4. 4.
yesterday. Thelmen who laid its foundation
were the men who controlled the convention
that framed our constitution and secured the
enforcement of the rights Of the people and
of the states, for which the party il to-day
cOnteudng. Applause Its foundation is
the largest liberty of the citizens consistent
} with the rights of the whole people, APP
1 / p!Aust.
| The Republican party proclaims that the
/ doctrine Of state rights is odious. The lte-
| publican candidate for Congress. u gentleman
e | whom | respect, says, III his letter Of accent
0 ancc, that the doctrine of state rights is
hcrctical. llerctical. wien your foreiathers
provided expressly in the constitution that
! the rights not delegated to the general govern
1 ment were reserved to the states and to the
\ people
4 SIXTY YEARS.
= From tSo1 to lSGn. with slight intervals. the
. Democratic party ruled the land. 1t built up
NbNlI llNlllulllllb Your commerce;
! established your credit protected your honor
against foreign powers, and when ii went ont
| OF power left your institutions in the most
, healthlul condition they ever were SIX hun
=, dred million dollars have been expended on
y the naval arm of the Government since 1850
4 and that arm is infinitely weaker to-day than it
=, was in 1850. Through all the long history OF
the Democratic party challenge our enemies
!. to point to a single instance where ii violated
~ the constitutional rights of any citizen. how
n n ever humble. IAppausc,l
n Contrast this with the history of the
4 Republican rarty shall not hold it respon-
- sible for acts committed during the war
under the plea of military necessity, hut
" direct your attention to its acts since the war.
n 1t learned in that war to disregard the rights
OF tie people and of the states. and the
reason it has not destroyed them was because
the Democratic party has stood in the front
Il CRYING out, "Spare the Constitution and
a preserve the rights of the people" IAp-
planSe, When | entered the Senate there
l. We're but eight holding-ovor Democratic SEN
l. ators. but that little band stood mp for the
rights OF the people and Of the states and to
e rescue the Constitution and deliver that
i heritage of their rights and liberties back to
=; the people. Applausel
"a After awhile we obtained power in the Sem
=, ate, aud later in the House; we obtained n
: President but to crown its iniamy this party
q stole the Presidency, and through fraud de-
feated the will of the people of this land.
IS Applause.
d THE PRESENT ATTITUDE.
e The Democratic party to-day stands forth
l. asking that peace may rest on this whole land.
that the wounds made by the war may be
/ healed, that the strife and contention engen-
e dered by tine war and kept alive by the per.
~ sistent Efforts Of the Republican party may
4 pass away, and peace pervade the whole land
: and prosperity abound.
e The Republican party has been trying for
II the past ten years or more to engender feel
= ings of hostility and luminosity between differ
,r ent sections talking about ''southern out
h RACES" chronlcliu< every crime that TOOK
!. place III the south for the purpose of appeal
4 ing to the prciudlces of the North. The most
= eloqucnt speech ! ever heard John Sherman
= make was recital of the outrages upon Eliza
Uiuckstuu. when lie knew at the time that the
r Whole story was manufactured for political
I effect. | say upon my responsibility lis a
u. senator and as man that when John Sher.
Q man was nlNkng these appeals on behalf ol 4
la negro wcnch whom he paraded before the
senate aS paragon Of purity who had beer
y most oltIagUuusly abused by the people OF
e the South. he knew she was one of the most
N abandoned prostitutes in the land, and dest
tute of character among her people.
Il Tho speaker charged that the book OF
q allidavits produced to bolster mp this case wa,
. u book Of perjury, bought and paid for out Of
4 the pnblic treasury ana spoke of how Ii,
- knew this.
J, THE SOLID SOUTH.
y. In what is the South solid except opposition
u to the Republican party? Why is it solid il
: this? Because for 10 years the Republicans
/" maintained over that people n carpet-bal
n government. employed Federal soldiers t,
d oppress the propr and deprived them O
d their votes while the negro wns enfranchlsed
T. used military power to dsperse their cgisla
a. lures. The South is SOLID against the liepub
a llran party becatse it has felt its oppression
+, and tyranny.
20 in lsI2 -, as a consequence of this mis-
10 rule. property on Canal street and othc
80 principal streets of New Orleans woud no
10 rent for enough to pay the taxes against it.
,o TtE TARIFF.
Is ! know Of no man in this land opposed to
tarlif. From or very earliest history on
system of raising revenues has been by tarin
and while We have debt 10 pay and II gov
~ crnmcnt TO carry on we must have tariff.
%, liut the tarii1 is not n partisan question
= There are men in the Republican ranks win
y 90 us tar a. any Democrat in supporting
ic tariff for revenue only. and there are Demo
Gratis who gu AS far as any Republican in call
ing for high protective tariff
high protective tariff never yet brough
general prosperity to any country. II ina
foster certain special interests but not til
general industries of a nation. But, so lon
~ as We have government to support we sha
~ be compelled to resort to tariff for raisin
revenue, for You are not to imagine that W
!, are such fools as to resort to direct taxation
Ia l.