The daily gazette., 1882-10-25
THE HON. RICHARD NJ.
THE REPUBLICAN, CHAiRMAN's
SPEECH LAST NIGHT.
GENERAL DUPONT AN ABSENTEE
A Meeting at Which Only the Friends of
the spoiis System Took rart-Harring-
tons Long and Bitter Talk.

Last nights meeting In the Opera House
chairman Harrington's meeting, IL was
called--was the most slimly attended polti-
cal gathering of the campaign. Long after
So'clock the house was only partly filled, !,
| ana many seats were vacant during the
whole evening. The stage was Only partly
filled and the only prominent members Of
the opposite faction from Mr.. Harrington
| who could be observed In the places Of
honor were IT. F. Pickles, Lewis Thompson
and Mr.. Hastings. Mr.. Pickels clappcd his
| hands oftener than anybody else. Mr.
| Thompson glowered on the whole thing and
Mr.. Hastings modestly blnshed when the
| Chairman of the State Committee gave him
| lavish praise.
General DUPONT refused to preside at the
meeting, and said so in the following letter
which Mr.. McLear who called the meeting
to order had the hardihood to read:
| "GESTLEMEE: l regret that circumstances
| nave occurred TO prevent my having the pleasure
| OF attending the mass meeting Of the Republi-
can party to be held at the Opera House this
| evening With my earnest wishes for the sue
cess OF the efforts now being made by tho Re
publican party for New Constitution repre-
| REFORM
lie proposed Philip Quigley a. chairman
and lot of people as vice presidents, which
he dared not read because not more than one
in four were present.
Without much ceremony Mr.. Qugley,
with the nervous air OF a man who had "A
set speech which had suddenly left him, in
troduced the "Honorable Richard NJ lIar-
rington," and the chairman came forward
amid much applause.
In opening he said "From this platform
Democratic orators and through the Dem
ocratic press Democratic writers have dec
Grated ME with their censure. II any man
has come here this evening expecting Il
reply, he has mistaken both the man and
the cause. During the whole of the cam
paign have but one thing to regret. i
have made 40 personal illusions whatever,
and what regret is that private letter,
which was not intended for publication
should have been published in the press"
Mr.. Harrington then went on TO speak of
the grand principles of Republichnism, and
that 1t was not so much of men as of meas
ures that the Larty was contending for. The
questions at issue in this campaign, he said,
were equal representation and untrammeled
suffrage. He said on local subjects he
would pass over Mr.. Bayard's TRADE, over
Lore's remarks, and failing to see anything
in Grubb, take up Mr.. Bates speech as
the only calm and dignificd statement of
the issues in this campaign.
In his speech, then, he proceeded TO take
Mr.. Bates speech up by sections, and, while
he did not attempt to controvert that gentle
mans statement that the Democratic
party had favored representation accord
ing TO population, he said that
John NJ. Clayton had not opposed such
proposition. To show this he cited the
speech of James A. Bayard made in the
constitutional convention of 1858 to show
that In 1881 John NJ. Clayton had said that
he was in favor of representation according
to population.
The speech was specially marked in its
bitter aliusions to Senators Bayard and
salisbury, and Mr.. Harrington charged that
Eli salisbury, G. IL. b. Day and Governor
Salisbury were the authors OF the assess
ment law, and that Mr.. Bayard was
responsible for an amendment to 1t
which made it more iniquitous. He alluded
to Senator Bayard's speech in the Opera
House, to prove this, and quoted his speech
as reported in the GAZETTE. He didn't
think even Mr.. Bayard should be held re-
sponsible for what appeared in the GAZETTE,
but the GAZETTE was all the authority lie
had for what Mr.. Bayard said.
The speaker denounced that law and also
that for uniform ballot, and made II long
allusion to the Kent county detalcations.
He did not charge that any one had stolen
money, but simply blamed the apparent
deficiencies upon the loose system OF book
keeping used.
Some people in the crowd called for Mr..
Hastings at the conclusion of Mr.. Harring-
toms speech, and lie was about 10 reply,
when the crowd left the place in haste.