The daily gazette., 1882-07-15
r,, YOUNG DEMOCRATS.
The Address of the Executive Committee
of the Young Men's Democratic AssOci-
alton of Delaware,

Inc Auuress OF th1 hsAscuHF1 D9nnnfhtAoo
of the Young Men's Democratic Associ-
alton of Delaware.
i. T. Cooper, Esq, of Dover, the chair
man of the Young Mems Democratic Asso-
citation of Delaware has issued an address
urging them to organize. 1t opens as
| follows:
You are standing upon the threshold of
| another political conflict. The eyes of the
people are turned with anxious gaze towards
| the end, and the hearts of the large majority
| are beginning to throb with anticipation OF
| another triumph in behalf of the Democratic
| party and its time-honored principles. To
expect any other result would be shutting
their eyes to the demonstrations of expert
enee and the conclusions of common sense
| The Democratic party in the aim and pur1
pose Of its policy, unquestionably represents
the prevailing political sentiment OF this
| State, and with proper organization of all
| the elements of party strength success fs
| assured. This means work and unity Of
action. If we expect to achieve success in
the approaching contest we must not be
| loiterers in the fields of activity, and if we,
| together with our elders In the faith, are but
faithful to the trusts committed to our
charge, the prospect before us, which the
forbodings OF some have invested with
gloom, will soon begin to brighten.
"You, who have grown up to manhood
since the echoes of civil war have died away
and now are entering upon the grayer duties
Of life, now that the State and nation are
facing the new problems and the new diff
culties developed by the changes of the past
twenty years, have duties to perform which
you alone can perform, the neglect of which
| would be a reproach to your manhood AS
fellow young men with a common interest
in the welfare of our State and the pro-
lection Of her institutions, we address you
to-day with the confidence that you will do
your duty to the end that the good name
and fame of our honored little State, shall
be preserved.
''To your elders you must look for cohn-
sci, but they who wear the scars OF years OF
conflict in which the wisdom of experience
is gained, now call for your aid and rightly
look to you for the activity and enthusiasm
which are the privileged possessions of
youth. The inevitable personal stritcs Of
political life and the feuds and enmities
that live after them, are scars that belongs
to the veterans alone. Your generation
knows of those enmitles by report only and
you have nothing in your own path to
impede the close and harmonious union
which alone makes action effective. In a
Democracy individuals are comparatively
powerless; IL is organization that gives
power, and makes the might of majority
irresistible.
'tDelaware is Democratic by majority O
thousands, as before intimated, but in orde
that the majority shall show its power a
, the polls, it needs to be exhoTted, eneeur
! | aged and organized. 1t has to face part,
which, though comparatively 'contemptibl
in numbers and largely exotic in origin ant
material, is, ON many accounts, the NOR
dangerous for those very reasons. The Re
publican party has had uninterrupted con
{ troll of the Federal Government for almos
!, generation, and the result of that eontro
= : is such as to make many thoughtful citi
! zens almost despair of the future. OF fire.
: | government. The material growth of thi
: giant Republic has so far proved iirepress
;, ble-the very extreme OF misgOyernmer
- failing to do more than temporarily chee
V It., as in the panic years from 'I3 to n
y Yet the scandals of its eorruptions, 4
~ system of bosses, its prostitutions OF Il
= public service, its Robesons, Chandler
y Camerons, have brought the nation to pat
N where even Pennsylvania, that Republiea
~ ~ Issachar, can bear no more, and in tha
:. stronghold Of the party we see the beginnin
II of the end.
: "a brigade of its army offlce-holders an
IL ex-office-holders, skilled in all the arts to b
: learned in the administration schools 1
Washington, control the Republican part
,s of Delaware, nay rather is the party, tt
40 they WELD the ignorant mass Of itsYoters {
"A If the votes were deposited by themselves
ar and thus, backed by the tar-reaching an
70 growing power of federal patronage an
e corruption, they now pay no hee
IL TO the respectable element which con
: stitutes a small minority of the Repubhca
N party, who, because they were Republican
re during the war or for some local reason
~ years ago, are unable to free themsely'
~ from the superstitution cf a name and clin
~ to an organization which their better natu
er abhors, only because what they once az
If hered to bore the same banner. Such
party polls its every vote, acts with II
precision and rapidfty Of professional trool
and has besides, in federal patronage and
administration purse, means of eorrupho
II almost unlimited.
The bulk of the Democracy on the oth'
d. hand is made up of men who are jealous
m the fame oftheir State, and eager Tor h'
he growth and progress, self respecting and r
de- spected-her independant farmers, HI
4 steady yeomen and workingmen. They a
n the men who kept her wholesome, al
w honest free from debt or reputation, an
q. have made and administered her laws Il
more than quarter of a century"
w The address closed with stirring appea
ID impressing upon the young men the nece
he sity of organizing, s