The daily gazette., 1882-11-07
THE EVE OF ELECTION.
SENATOR BAYARD'S PLAIN
AND EARNEST TALK.
LAST WORDS TO DEMOCRATS
The Senator Speaks About the Issues OF
the Campaign-The Men who seek to
Get Into Power--Corruption Denounced.

The Senator Speaks About the Issues OF
the Campaign-The Men who seek to
Get Into Power--Corruption Denoune nesd.
1nst;s;.te Hall was never filed with a
larger or more enthusiastic audience than
that which greeted Senator Bayard last
evening. The seats and standing room were
all occupied and many were unable to gain
admission. The meeting was organized by
the election of J. Park Postles as chairman,
and the usual roll of secretaries and vice
presidents. Chairman Postles stated that
there was but one speaker for the evening
and he was too well known to need an in
PRODUCTION. AS Senator Bayard arose he
was greeted with d storm of applause. He
spoke substantially as follows:
Friends, Feito,D- Citizens and Brother Dem
Ocrd,s: The time for discussion and DELHI
Grafton is now exhausted. The time for
action has come and the question, is are
you ready! (Cries of Yes.) The hour is at
hand to march forward to the battle. Un-
less well informed men are misled and all
signs and indications fail, we marc h to GER
tain victory In every county of the State OF
Delaware, tomorrow. The Republican
party has, after all, done us good service in
this campaign. The chairman of their State
Central Committee has been but justly as
sailed, and the party or leaders have sprung
To his rescue, to the disgust and mortiica-
tion of the respectable class OF the party.
My friends, / have addressed 70 many
meetings In this campaign, and seen the
good sense displayed by the people, that |
do not fear the result. Upon the Republican
banner, are painted retrenehment and
reform. The Democrats are charged with
peculation and dishonesty, but the accusa-
tions have not been proved, but fallen fiat
at the feet of the originators. The charges
on the other side, am but too sorry to say,
have been fully proven, to the disgrace OF
the State of Delaware. ] charge you TO
prove any dishonesty that has occurred
during the past thirty years where the De-
mocracy were in power. have gone through
the State and seen nothing but prosperity,
nothing to indicate that the State Treasury
has been plundeied, but have seen popu-
lation well supplied with all the comforts,
who arc not ready at present to turn the
reign of government over to our opponents.
have made specific charges against the
Chairman of the Republican State Central
Committee and his associates, which are
clear facts and Of a most regretful nature
Have any newspapers of different politics
from us endeavored to dispute these
charges 1t is said the Republican party
had taken a pledge from the person who
lashes the whip, that he would not ask for
office. 1t might be found in time that If the
man did not seek the office the office would
seek the man, by one of those mysterious
processes known only to men who have
committed burglarics OH safes and the like.
What is the reason the party took from him
a plcdgel Did they not see the monstrous
and shocking implication, viz: that 1t was
impossible for this man TO hold office with
out disgracing it,
The Republican party Is nearing dissolu-
ton all over the Union. The wages of their
sins is certain death, From Ohio you have
heard, and in New York, Pennsylvania, and
other States you can hear the echoes of their
rattle. They catch on anything, as a dying
man does to life, to save themselves from
destruction. Money is poured in some States
for corruption, but thank God they have
none in this State, and thank God they
won't get the State. They have bled the
scrub women and scraped them to the bone,
and Hubbell had his purse well filled until
tina leeches In Ohio and other States came
and bled it.
Take for example one OF their assessed
men in Philadelphia, Major Phipps of the
almshouse. He Is one of their shining
lights and moneyed men, but where did the
money come from. He was a monster in
human lOrln. The poor were lett 10 Ole
and the starving were Knocked. There are
respectable men in the Republican party,
whom am glad to associate with, but a
man is known by the company he keeps.
Such was the case with these men. They
soon drifted in with bad company. The
speaker then referred to the leaders of the
Republican party in the South, saying they
were Democrats at one time, but for the
greed for the patronage had joined the Re
publicans. They were at one time de-
nounced in the most bitter terms by the Re-
publicans, but they are only too proud to
nurse them now.
The speaker, after dwelling on national
affairs, referred 10 to-day's election.
Let no man who can vote fail to be vindi-
Gated, but let the result be complete. Show
your manhood, vote and sec that all vote
who have right to vote, and sec that your
votes are counted. We are here, Com
mittee of the Whole, and let us see to the
safety of Delaware, and especially to Will
mington. See that the indifferent vote !;
take the sick to vote II it be possible, or, in
other words, see that all Democrats vote.
If YOU do this the city of Wilmington will
give 800 majority. AT the conclusion of the
address there was the greatest enthusiasm
and three rousing cheers were given for the
whole Democratic ticket in Delaware and in
New York and Pennsylvania.
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