Daily Republican., 1882-10-25

Monticello. If he had lived at this dA,
why heaVens-he would rend Demo
Cracy from one end of the State 70 tn
other and exclaim, Monticello has lef
Il mouse!" Applause.
n The speaker said ouce upon time {
= great painter had drawn two pictures
: Ono, the figure of man-strcng healthy
: and vigOrous-man as he was in his
o primeval state. From his eyes Shons
!, the bright glow of intelligence, on his
8 brow the kiss of intellect. The other, a
!. man, decrepid, decayed, pestiferous,
b weak, crOuching-tbe mere resent blancs
s Of a man-the Democratic party of to
0 day.
| The other the Republican party; 1t
said, "Pass sentence on me; 10, | &p-
peal to Time" Mr.. Bates, In another
part of his speech said the Constitution
WAS plain, ETC., and further stated
J that the Wing party were responsible
for the condition of the present evils of
the constitution and had said 1t was
notorious that under John M. Clayton
they had absolutely their own way.
John N. Clayton whO once filled the
seat in the Senate OF the United States
where Senator Salisbury now wAbblss.
J Loud applause
The speaker then referred to Senator
Bayard's career, and said where ia the
Democrat to-day who car point to any
public Improvement, auy national Gu.
2Ctment, any national measure, any
great act of legislation In this State,
and great national improvement that
Thomas +. Bayard, your model states
man, ever brought forth or fSstered ?
Yes, one act he did help mnke-the
assessment laws OF Delaware. Laugh
ter.
OF Mr.. Salisbury he had no word of
personal disrespect. He Was not there
for that purpose. ThA only thing he
bad 70 complain OF was that the
Democrats were not able to get their
eyes open, or if they did the dazzling
light Of the nineteenth century had
struck them blind. He wondered if
one hundred years hence anybody
would be inquirinz about MI. Bayard.
AS for Uncle Eli. we'll, they might
answer that themselves. Laughter |
The truth Of the whole IN after is that
New Castle county was responsible for
| the present state Of the Constitution. |
Kent and Sussex are not to blame, and |
they will march straight on until the |
7th OF November, when we intend to
capture the Democracy. Applause. | |
He then quoted from q speech OF
James A. Bayard and said that In 1880
he (HarringtoD) had submitted to the |
Republican State Central Committee,
the question Of District representation,
but had never read the debates ON the |
q nestion, when it was submitted to the |
Legislature, until last Sunday. He did |
not know whether 1t was just the kind |
of reading for Sunday, but said it was
solemn enough to read any day.
(Lsughter.)
The Democrats were standing with
no particle of foundation, and they ad-
mitted in their own convention that
the position Republicans had assumed
was the correct one though through
some misrepresentation they would
ever have people believe that, though
Republicans wanted the slumberinR
child wakened up and put on its feet,
they CHE DemoCrats) should have the
DursIhg Of 1t. Talk of equal represen-
tation, the house of Salisbury and the
Democratic party would never give 1t.
Step by step they had resisted it for
twenty years. Mr.. Bates and others
had spoken of equal representation; but
were they the Democratic party? No
man was party; it took the masses OF
the people to do 1t, aud only when the
people came to ask for it, would it be
do, g.
Jas. A. Bayard was man Of brains
but the people of New Castle county
were not and that is why you did not
get equal representation. But let the
hODored man rest in his grave and your
children honor his memory.
He then spoke of Senator BAyArd be-
irg under a contract with meu Of Kent
end Sussex, which he dared not break,
for when he broke it he walked ont of
the United Senates Senate. Mr.. Bates
had tried to lay the blame of the pres
ont constitution on the Wings. They
would find running all through his
speech great deal about political an
CeStOrs.
They would find running all through
his speech great deal about political
ancestry. 1t reminded him of the old
ladys saying about the DotatO-that
the best part Of it was underground. |
The best part Of the Democratic party |,
was now under ground and the remain.
der they proposed to bury decently on
the 7Ch of November Laughter |.
That party belonged to the past; it lived
among the dead all the time. But
though it had been said that the mis- !,
sion Of the Republican party was at an :
end, it would live. 1t had demonStra- T
tod its ability to outliVe civil war, t
and it had taught men to spell Nation
tEff fh ~ hi N ~ and with n little [
"s," Applausel The child had sim !
ply grown into mature manhood and .
would lift from the intellect Of the peo ]
pie the darkness which Democracy had e
placed upon it.
The days of the Democrat party being |
numbered, then they may sit down in q
their graveyards OF defeat and think of '
their ancestry. 6
He spoke of the inception of the l.
movement for equal representation by
the Republicans in 1873-l874. All the ;
way from 1862 to 1882 not a Democrat I
hau taken the advanced position to put
this question in shape that it might be
submitted to judicial tribunal, James I
A. Bayard in his argument at the Con-
stitutional Convention in 1858, had ar
.ued upon the gross injustice which
was being perpetrated on the people of I
New Castle county at that time by rea- t
son of their enormous growth and he t
said it had bee me exceedingly unjust.
If tbav was so in 1853, how much more
SO IL 1882
The speaker then took up the discus d
siou of the collection and assessment a
laws, and said that the true American 8
ought 10 feel ashamed to have to stand 4
up 20 discuss laws conceived in sin and q
born in intquity. There was proof Of \
com bination in this State to rob men Of d
he most sacred rights they bad. A c.
solsmn compact had been entered into
10 defeat the workings ofthe Fifteenth b
Amendment. He would mentiou names q,
Ell salisbury, "Gove" salisbury, G.
Charles H. b. Day-and the amend "
meut, drafted for the express purpose p
- Adj = he oh IF tho Fiftgantb | o