Daily Republican., 1880-08-24

First Ward-Henry Howard.
Second-Thomss McVey.
Third-Thomas Cloud.
Fourth-L. B. Morrow.
| Fifth-Henry Pickles.
| Sixth-ThOmas Saville.
| Seventh-Lilburne Chandler.
Eigh,h-Lex Barney.
Ninth-(not yet selected.)
Tenth-John Mclaughlin.
During the preliminary business
Hon. VIM. Ward accompanied by Col
S. A. Macallister, John Il. Adams ant
Lewis Thompson, entered the room ant
was escorted to the platform amid tn,
most enthusiastic applause. John Dill
ahey, prominent Colored Republican
OF the Fifth Ward, was also spplau dec
as he took seat on the platform.
Anthony Higgins, entering a fe
minutes later, was the signal for
another and a prolonged out-burst o
applause.
The preliminary business being over
President Bach introduced Hon. Viii.
liam Ward, of Chester, the first speaker
of the evening.
After the applause had subsidized,
Mr.. Ward said he was happy to meet
the young men OF Wilmington, but the
evening and the state of the political
canvass was somewhat similar, they
were both decidedly hot, but notwith.
standing the intense heat at the pres
cut time, it was nothing to what the
political heat all over the country
would be in a month from now.
He referred to the growth of Republi-
canism III his own congressional dis
trict and thought the same interests
which made his district 80 strongly
Republican should operate alike on
Wilmington. Chester and Whining
ton were both manufacturing cities
and what fosters trade and manufac-
lures in one should do the anne in
the other.
He then eulogized the Republican
party as the one to which every young
man of advanced ideas should attach
The party that would take a
nan from the tow path and the wood
pile and bring him step by step
Up the rounds Of the ladder OF
fame until he reached the very pinnacle,
as General Garfield had been brought,
vas the party for the young men
VI the nation to join. The Repub-
lean party had never made a move or
Uttered a word in Its platform that it
iced wish 10 be changed.
1t is the party OF living ideas, leav-
ng dead issues to be taken up by their
opponents the Democrats.
Mr.. Ward referred to the impending
ontlict,as one which was to be the turn
ng crisis in American politics.
If the Republican party is defeated |
his time, it would turn back the tide of
'rogress ard liberal ideas at least 30
ears, but it would rise again, because
wa; the embodiment of truth and
wing ideas. But if the Democratic
srty is defeated this time it is defeated
,rever.
Never again in the history of the
merican nation will you find a party
oming before the people of this coun.
~ trusting foT success upon one sec.
on alone. know we are told that it
an idle thing for us to raise the cry
sectionalism. know the Democratic
arty hastens to throw the mantle of
harity over the past, and they say
nat our very cry is the averment that
q do not want to bury the issues of {
ne past. | am in favor OF burying
le past. / would be undertaken, chief ,
lourner, funeral procession, all, if the |
cad issues could be buried. But the I
to OF the country will Iot permit it.
Ike Banquo's ghost, the nations I
rongs will not down. Yes, the Amer.
an people want these issues buried,
The mission of the Republican party,
10 speaker thought, was not finished,
ID indeed would not be until the t
'irit of sectionalism was crushed out i
existence. There were no such evi. i
'nce OF the latter conclusion. If the b
'uthern Or Democratic party has &C. i
pied the results Of the war any men /
IN of the past would be wrong, but as .
ere is part of the country yet in !,
mpathy with the extreme sectional
N OF the South, the Republican party n
'uld be abandoning its duty to d.. II
ate from the purpose of its mission. F
The action of the Southern States "
ace the war was criticised by Mr.. F
ard, and the peril under which the t'
lnlry is existing in there being SO $,
UGH OF possibility Of there being a in
'ong rebel sentiment in control of the -,
yernment, was pointed out. Al
That sentiment with the control of
executive and legislative branches m
uld bring the judiciary under its "'
1trol, and then they woxld wipe out sn
laws paused by free states, and blot Fl
from the statute books all coustitu- II,
nal amendments passed to protect Pl
8 country from the numerous war g;
inns. In,
The speaker was loudly applauded 4
when he had concluded the follow +, re
was read and received with cheers: DO
MONTGOMERY County, Aug. %, 1885, =
the Young Mems Republican Club ~ Il.
'ennsylvania sendsl greeting. The "
oublicans here are alive to the is de
8 of the hour. We know who ~,
'ote for and support. Business men. lie
etofore Democrats, openly avow
lr intention to vote for Garfield
Arthur. Do not diminish your J
husiasm. Hold fast to the banner
right. Let your voice be heard in Il
'ember next, and please II,
A REPUBLICAN, sire
From Hancock's own Home. . eur
nthony Higgins, Esq, spoke for q frs
ri time. The organization and pur sec