The daily gazette., 1882-11-02

better condition. The farmers had had full
returns of their harvest, the banks were full
of money on deposit, and business In the
Sherif's Office was so dull as to be the cause
of much complaint. 1t was difficult, there
fore, to see what there was in this time OF
prosperity to give even color to the absurd
demand for change.
The Republican platform was dissected.
In it there was cry for free ballot, and
yet the same party were illustrating their
notions on that subject by going over the
county and swearing the negroes, who form
q very large portion of their party, to vote
with and for them at all elections until they
died. AID then the plank asking for q fair
count Why, said he, II there are two
words the Republicans ought to be
ashamed of they are thOsc-"fair
count" II he were Republican
he should be careful not to use them. A
fair count by the Republicans was ridiculed,
their records at elections where the ballot
box had been polluted and the grand steal
of 1876 were referred to as examples OF Re-
publican Inconsistency in fair counting.
The Democrats, on the other hanu, had
always favored u fair count, as was shown
by their action two years ago in / lie mrddle
caused by the ignorance of the Republican
inspectors of the Eighth ward. The Demo-
Gratis scorred to take advantage of the situa-
tion at that time, and always made bold
and u hard fight at the polls, and did not
want to revise the will of the majority.
The cry for rctrenchment and reform
was ridiculed In coming irom such men as
it did. RctrenchDent would he nocessaryif
the want-to-be bosses got their hards in the
Treasury. The Republicans had started the
campaign ON State Issues and had cen fully
met. Other matters were casually referred
To In Mr. Bates intellieibe manner, and in
closing he said the election was
not n thing TO be loo ked at
alar of, and success could he acc, mplished
and was assured by the individual actiOn
OF every man In the party. Every citizen
must perform his own duty. II every man
voted and saw that bis neighbor old the
same there was no question but that the
Democrats would succeed and carry every
officer next Tuesday.
GERMAN MEETING Al INSTITUTE HALL.
John Griner presided at u large meeting
of German Democrats at Institute Hall,
last evening, and John X. Bradford, Esq, OF
| this city, made a brief speech in German, at
| the conclusion of which he introduced
Louis Sahade, Esq, editor Of the Washing
| ton, ID. c. iSeatia.et.
Mr. Schade stated that he would take a
| text for his speech : Help your iri,nds and
| defeat your enemies. (Applause.) He
| would show them who were their friends
Il anu WHO JnClT IIC tIiCh BdfC u
sketch of the history of the Democratic
party since its origin. He claimed that the
| old love of that party for the emigrant
| really called it into lie that the indigna-
| tion which the alien and sedition laws had
| called forth amongst the more progressive
| people had placed Jefferson in the Presi-
| Dental chair, aud that the first act of the
| Jefforsonian Democracy was the repeal of
/ those obnoxious laws and a reduction of the
1 Of mo I'm from fnitr tO FIVE
years, just as it had been fixed under Wash
| ington's Administration. He then spoke
| Of the noble fight of the Democrats against
the Know Nothings, the final overthrow OF
the latter and their new appearance as the
present Republican party. For time the
latter had concealed its innate hatred
| against the foreigners, but long continued
| power had revived the old feeling which
| now found vent through their onslaught on
personal liberty, and the advocacy of
/ tyrannical prohibitory laws. The foreign
| born citizens were now coolly told, as re-
Gently had been shown In the Western
| States, to 70 whence they had come, because
they would no longer demean themselves to
| support that party which allowed them less
| liberty than the Gar to his serls.
He then spoke in highly eulogistic terms
| of Senator Bayard. He reminded them that
| little Delaware, through its representatives
| in Congress, was greeted in the councils OF
/ the nation and elsewhere with respect and
admiration. The question was now whether
they would destroy that fair aud honorable
reputation by ousting those who had gained
| it for them, and substitute for it a notoriety
as undoubtedly Dick Harrington and the
other Washington fugitiyes would give it,
1 of which notorieiy, however, not one OF them
would feel proud. lie read an article
from the Republican General Boynton to the
| Republican Cincinnati Gazette, in which the
| Delaware Republicans were, appealed to not
| TO disgrace the party by sehding men like
| Dick Harrington to the United States Senate.
In that article 1t was also stated that 'Dick"
had secured majority of the Republican
nominees for the Legislature in his behalf.
Mr.. Schadc then stated that he also appealed
to them in behalf of the honest citizens OF
the District of Columbia not to put the
safe burglary conspirators in power.
He gave them sketch of that
most atrocious crime and asked them
whether Dick Harrington, the fugitive
from Washington, the associate of probes
sional burglars and thieves, should repre-
sent them at the Capitol of the Nation. 1t
is true the papers had stated that he now
declined that honor, but who could, and
would, believe Dick Harrington, though
he now was the head and front of the Della
ware Republicans and had the 'extreme re-
grets" of Mr.. Blaine.
Mr.. Schade spoke nearly two hours and
was frequently interrupted by applause.
Brief addresses were also made by George
Gray and George II. Bates, Esqs
MR.. HIGGINS AT NINTH AND LOMBARD
sTREETs--HE DEFENDS HIS ACTION IN
| CERTAIN MATTERS.
At Ninth and Lombard streets last even
ing Anthony Higgins, Esq, delivered a
| sourUhat lengthy sUeech on local issues to