Daily Republican., 1882-09-13
WEDNESDAY, sEPTEMBKR ls.'sS.
The h al1hcat1On"

The OutpOuring OF Republicans az the
Opera House last night was an earnest
plea for justice and protest against
the iniquity of the Democratic party
National matters were not somuch to-.
p;cs of discussion as state matters
Democratic legislation in Delaware
abou nds in so many overt acts of injus-
tsee to the people that there was no oc-
casion to go abroad to seek subjects for
argument and illustration. The SPEAK.
ers in their speeches were euiogistic of
the personal fitness Of the Republican
candidates for Governor and Congress
and many of them made sharp, pointed
bits against the actions Of the Demo-
cratic party that could not fail to leave
an impression upon the minds of un
prejudice6 men. Democratic preten-
sions for honesty and economy were
aired by Mr., Watson, who was Demo.
era at the time the State, under Demo-
cratic rule, created the debt under which
1t now labors, but who is now an earn
ast Republican of twelve years stand.
ing. Mr.. Watson knows whereof he
speaks. The son of leading Demo-
cratic ex-senator, and fourteen years
ago clerk of Democratic House of
Representatives, he had a chance to
know something about the inside work
ings of the party of which he was mem.
her, but which he now arraigns before
the bar Of public opinion as being un.
patriotic during the war, and selfish,
arr Ogant, ,extravagant and unprincipled
since tho war. Mr.. Watson held up
before his audience the sham preten-
si0ns of the Dem ocratic party for hon.
esty and economy to pititul ridicule,
while he showed how the Legislature in
1864 met in special session called by
the Governor to devise means to keep
the Democrats at home, to hold the
State for tie Democracy. 1t was at
that session that a million of dollars
was borrowed and paid to drafted men
TO enable them to procure substitutes
TO take their places in the army, and at
the same time only gave two hundred
dollars bounty to men who voluntarily
enlis- ed, while other States were paying
$500 and some more. OF course it was
well understood that but few men
would volunteer in Delaware for 5000
bounty, while they could get three
fmes that amount in other States, and
the party was right in Its coujectures.
Very few did volunteer, but the money
was all spent nevertheless in paying
for substitutes for principally drafted
Dem ocrats, that they might remain at
home and vote to keep in power a party
4ha symp&thizpd with the South. In
whitening terms of deDunciation MI.
Watson characterized the actions of the
democratic party for afterwards auda.
4Giously applying to the General Gov.
ernment to pay off this debt which was
30 evidently tinctured with disloyalty
that the Government has not paid off a
dollar ef it until this day, while every
dollar of the loyal debt of the other
States has been assumed ard paid off.
This is a sample of Democratic Econo-
my. had that party been loyal and
borrowed enough money to pay $500
bounty TO enlisted men, every dollar
of the debt would have been assumed
and paid off long ago from the National
Treasury. Had this been done Della.
ware would now have been free of debt
AS it was before the war, and there
would have been no occasion for the ex.
DsssiVS taxation which has oppressed
the industries of the State. This ia a
sample of the boasted economy of the
Democratic party of the State.