The daily gazette., 1882-10-11
AN OPEN AIR RALLY.
A. REPusLlcANs MEETING Ar
FOURTH AND Market.
Bird AND HAsTINas TAIK.
one Reads His speech From Manusctipt
snd the Other Hripss One, Difsrsnt
FROM what He MADE, IN y Circular.

- ->-st - Ohro1fars
Inc Republican meeting nt Fourth and
Market streets, Last Might for the casi,a
beneatof Mr.. Hastings, and the particula,
ucuiar benefit Of Mr.. Bird, whose speech n
much amended fprml D Published with !
trumpet flourish IN supplement by ths
morning organ to-dayp was well attended
and II. =. Pickles presided. The band
stood out In the crowd and after 1t had
played an air Mr.. Hastings was INTRODUCED
He came forward with . big roll of mani
script under his arm. This he pnrolled and
proceeded 70 read with calm dignity and
anon with eloquent gestures his speech
winch he said was q statement of what bis
Congress. -
- PAvoRINo THE rEoPLEaUsg
4 lie was In favor Of politics which had ia
~ Ehnrd. and unrelenting work-machiHe
| work, but with the. people running The
machine. A little common sense applied
70 Civil Service would do q great deal loI
good, but he doubted whether the Civil
Service Commissioners would ever develop
anything Of practical utility. Here is what
ne said on the subject OF political assess
ment would compel no Government
empfoye 10 contribute to the political funds.
Nor do think II necessary to do so. Gov.
| erDment employees are not fools and win
hardly stand idly by while another partyiis
| trying to put them out Of power"
MI, Hastings then went on to sound the
OLD alarm OF protection to American labor.
lie did not purpose TO p0ise as the work
lfnRman's friend. The American laborer
needed no friend, no guardian and asked
none. fl fffi -4~trfs qNrITI
A voiee--why don't you 60 to Congress,
lhic) by Godi III 20 10 hell for you.
=, MI; Hastlngs-If you,n keep, quiet m
The drunken man subsided and Mr.
Hastings went on TO declare without hesita-
tion that he was In favor of the maintenance
Of such tariff laws % will absolutely protect
the labor OF the American workinRfnan. II
might be asked whether he (Mr. Hastipps)
being In the iron business did not need pro-
lection for himself. Yes, but he did NIT
need 1t any more than the workingman, Iif
as much. It,was hardly necessary to tell
his audience that the labor required to pro
duce any commodity gave cost and value 10
that commodity. That being 60 1t was plain
70 see that IL labor were cheap, goods would
be manufactured more cheaply, 1t cost
less 10 manufacture goods in Europe be-
cause wages here were double what they
were there.
During the course Of his remarks Mr.
Hastings quoted largely from the speech he
made at Institute Hall two years ago.
Mr.. birds SPEECH.
MI. Bird followed. His speech had the
uarlal energy, butit was widely different in
some respects from what he prints this
morning as his speech. He argued at great
length upon the need Of an increased repre-
sentation according to population, and de-
clared that It would never be secured
through the Democratic party. The Re
publican party had promised It to you at
every State convention which had been held
for years. WIN you. accept us with our
promises made In good faith, or will you
still cling te the canoe and the stage coach,
and die finally hemmed In by a wall, at the
edge Of which progress and civilization
cease their journey
True, Mr. Bird went on 70 say, the Demo-
cratic party's candidate, Mr.. Bates, had said
he was In favor Of representation, but he
could not do anything, Mr.. Bates was q
fine gentleman and he was very fond OF
him. He then paid his respects TO him as
follows: "They have nominated a man
who Is one-balf Democrat and ohe-half a
Republican. He was q Republican post
master under President Lincoln In Michi-
gan. He was then q Republican. He ID
now no Democrat, and the Democrats know
It, Every Democrat who works at Harlan
Il Hollingsworth's knows 1t. Why you had
better have H. @. Turner. Il took man
to be . Republican postmaster under Mr.,
Lincoln. TO make MIN progressive. Support
the Democratic ticket II you would rather
be hemmed nby wall beyond which civil
lization ceases It's Journey" This part Of
his speech Mr.. Bird does not publish in
the morning organs supplement to-day.
n In far hnn
needed judicial changes.l He said: "No
people in any land have cause TO be prouder
of puref and better selected judiciary than
this State from the beginning of Its history
to this. time have been blessed with. No |
stain has ever touched the ermine of q Della,
ware judge. Her greatest statesmen have
been her greatest judges and from the
great Clayton down their decisions have COM
manded the respect of all English-speaking
courts. But our judicial system Is no longer
IN keeping with the march OF improvement |
fails now. What met the ends of
justice then utterly fails now"
This part Of his speech Mr.. Bird prints, and
he publishes also statement that it is
necessary to have n change SO that the same
judges shall not sit as judges in the county 1
court and also In the Court OF Appeals ; but
he did not allow to 20 into type the follow
ing strong language I: sis IL right that
judge-and God knows judges are but
human beings-I've found that out-should
ST, filed with bias and prejudices In
the case which they tried before. Give us
just judges, unbiased and unprejudiced, SO
that we can have fairness"
The license system Mr.. Bird denounced
with great deal of emphasis, but the only
thing he puts himself on record in the report
In the morning organs supplement Is that
he would change the law requiring "a
citizens to sign the license application.
How he would change it, he says In there
portin the supplement- as follows
"How would you improve it2 / would
wipe from the statute book the required ly-
ing certificate of character. This State has
legalized the sale Of liquor, and from Its
sale directly receives an immense revenue
every year. The certificate Of the twenty
four respectable, citizens, that the applicant
Is man Of eobriety and good moral charae-
tor, maYshe perfectly true, but why require
the certificate of himi Why not of a
grocer, or q plumber. This at
any ratetkwould have the appearances Of
straightforwardness, and is not lying
sham." Il
What Mr.. Bird really did say was that he
would not require any more in the way Of
license from liquor man than from
grocer, ora ciothier or any other trades
man.. .9-E '+ VI II
Mr.. Bird In Tie course Of his speech took
up the cudgefin defense Of the characters Of
,ertain leaders In his party. he said
But we are told by the speakers OF the
Democratic party that those now leading