The daily gazette., 1882-07-28

that he had been named after " Al. Curry's
father"
When the Committee ON Resolutions came
IN and Mr.. Bird got up with the platform
printed slip fresh from the Sentinel press
lin his hands, the convention showed the
hrst signs of respectful attention. Levi
looked his best and his reading was in the
dramatic style In which he is SO successful.
The reading elected but little applause. The
remarkable document Is given below
THE PLATFORM.
The Republicans of Delaware IN conyen-
tton assembled reafiirm their adherence to
! the cardinal doctrines of Republieanism as
| enunciated by our National Conventions.
| We pledge ourselves anew to these great
constitutional doctrines, the enforcement of
| which has made and continued govern
ment ''of the people, for the people, by the
| people"
We demand fair and full protection of
all American industries, believing that the
working men of America ought not to be
compelled upon unfair terms to compete
with the pauper labor Of Europe ; foster
ing care of our shipping interests, that
American commerce may have living
| chance on the seas just and wholesome
reform of the civil service as against the
Democratic "spoils" system n free ballot,
| lair count and honest return, as against the
shot gun and tissue paper ballot. We affirm
our adherence TO the doctrine of equal rights
for all men, and local selfgoyernment, but
declare that we are a Nation and not a
league, and we believe that free schools and
| common school education are the only
| sure foundations of a free government,
Deploring the untimely death of our cho-
sen leader, the late President James A. Gar
field, regretting +" the deep damnation of
his taking of, and embalming him in tear
full memory, we tender to President Arthur
and his Administration our fullest conf
dence Taking office under exceptionally
adverse circumstances, at critical period
his GOODNESS, courage, executive ability, and
devotion to the true principles Of Rcpubli-
eanisln, not only excite our warmest alInira-
tiOn, but demand our unqualified and con
tinued support.
We declare the Democratic party of this
State to be unworthy of the continued con
fidence in its people, because having been so
long in power they have become utterly re
gardless of the wishes of the people, as ex-
pressed from time to time in their petitions
to the Legislature ; they have been extray-
agant of the peoples money, and by a sys-
TEN of accounts, both in State and county
finances, have concealed from the people
full and accurate knowledge of the eXpend-
iture ofthe public funds they have been
| prohigate beyond parallel in their allow
ances 10 Legislative attaches, attorneys,
| printers, tSc., by which they have created
aud maintained Ring at the public ex-
pensc they are opposed TO the education
Of the poor mans children, believing that
| the ignorance of the many is
necessary 10 the maintenance of few ::
| throwing every obstacle in the way of
immigration into this State, they have
steadily opposed public improvements; they
have neglected to take advantage Of the low
| rates of interest upon which money can be
borrowed, and by system of unwise and
| injurious taxation have crippled the energies
4 of our people and, failed to protect the
abundant supplies and advantages with
which nature has blessed us; In short, they
have illustrated the Bourbon who, learning
nothing new, ties us to the dead past, re-
gardess of the magnificent energies and inn
| provements which everywhere surround MS;
| that while nature, climate, situation, prox
unity to markets, are all fayoring our State,
we find the one impeding obstacle to be
Democratic control. To remedy these evils
We declare ourselves to be the Party of
Progress and Reform and affirm our ad-
herenee TO the following doctrines which we
believe TO be for the welfare of our
people.
Representation on the tasis of population
is fundamental principle OF true Republi-
can Government and ought to be estab-
lished.
The State should be divided into Senatorial
and Representative districts, and the Sena-
tors and Representatives in the General
Assembly should be elected in such districts
| exclusively by the people thereof aud the
counties divided into Levy Court districts,
| and the Commissioners elected exclusively
by the people thereof thus securing the
| right of the minority To be represented in
both these bodies.
All county officers should be elected
| directly by the people thereof, and their
pay should not exceed reasonable com
| pensation for the service rendered.
Our present Judicial system ought to be
simplifed so that justice in civil and crimi-
nal causes may be more speedily, less eX-
| pensively and more conveniently admins
| tered.
More liberal exemption laws should be
enacted, applicable to all debts hereafter
contracted, and in any such enaetments 1t
should especially he provided that wages for
the current year should be wholly exempt
from attachment or execution process.
Our present assessment and collection
laws were conceived in sin and born of
inquity the purpose et their being was
and is exclusively to perpetuate the misrule
of the Democratic party and their admins
tration of the Levy Gonrts Of the several
counties has, in pursuance of that purpose,
been in derogation OF the rights Of ifeemcn,
costly, unjust, partisan and dishonest.
That to secure these objects and insure n
a wise economy in the expenditure of the
peoples money, and the natural and egiti-
mate growth of our State, the time has come
for such general remodellng of our laws
and system of government as to demand Il
change in the organic law and we there
fore declare ourselves III favor Of II Convrn-
tion of the people To so alter and amend the
| Constitution Of the State as will secure that
retrenchment and reform SO necessary to its
growth and prosperity.
Mr. Birds speech, supplementing the read
Ing, was even more dramatic than his elo-
cution and little more successful In strik-
ing responsive cords in the hands and feet OF
the delegates, all of Which were set in mo
tion in happy applause when he sat down.
JAKE MooRE's MARTYRDoM.
People pricked up their ears and negro
delegates stopped eating peanuts when
Colonel Smalls motion to proceed to nomi-
nate Il Gubornatorial candidate was passed
and Jacob Moore took the floor. With what
good grace this was done will never be
known, but the speech which Mr.. Moore
made did not have the hearty ring thai
usually eharacteriZes his efforts. 1t was
manly, though very much like funeral
Grafton, and Dan Layton looked on as
grimly as one of the moumeis. ~ have
come here to-day" he said, with his hands
In his breeches pockets and his rotund form
: standing like statue, "as representative