The daily gazette., 1882-09-30

Detnocraes, ana tne rirst Regiment Band
furnished the music.
| The room filled up rapidly about 8 O'Clock
A few minutes after that when Caionel II
b. McIntire called the meeting 10 order and
announced DIR. G. Elton Buck as president
and nearly hundred as vice presidents, @
stream was still pouring In, and there was q
sea of faces In the auditorium when DIR.
Buckle stepped down to the footlights and
introduced George Gray, Esq.
The officers Of the meeting were as fol
lows
PRESIDENT.
G. Elton Buck.
VIcR PRESIDENTS.
Robert r. Robinson, j. B. Bell,
George 0'Neil, Enoch Moore, Jr.,
Allen Speakman, James Christy,
james ii. Ray, Willard Springer,
William T. Porter, Levi p. BARLEY,
John p. Almond, Abram Palmer,
John Otto, Sr., Edwin s. Way,
Charles McCloskey, Charles B. Dougherty,
Archibald Given, Michael Lynch,
John p. Springer, James P. Cloud,
Thomas r. Dilworth, Peter J. Ford,
Charles Derrickson, John Mealey,
Harry H. Wells, Alfred Dennsy,
Clark Collins, Patrick Plunkett,
Theo. Y. Armstrong, j. Max Hammond,
Arnold Naudain ,Jr., Jamea Murray,
Edward Mahoney, james v. Carlisle,
Charles Cannon, Thomas Ford,
Walter Cummins, Samuel c. Pe'rce,
William j. Morrow, Andrew G. Wilson,
George e. Ward, IsAac G. Pyle,
Edwin A. Parker, George Robinson,
G. Hill Brinton, William H. Blake,
Albert Thatcher, John McCloskey,
George r. BArnhill, George Hepborn,
Dennis J. Mention, John McSorley,
Alexander Mcleod, Howard simpson,
Thomas J. GOslin, Emil Bucher,
Howard Ogle, Joseph Niedermaier,
Milton Lackey, Peter Ebner,
James McGrath, Mansel Tweed,
Andrew Wilhelm, James Davis,
George Steinecken, John III. Nebeker,
John Hartman, George Iindall,
Peter GrosA, Caleb Barrett,
David w. Hughes, John Simpson,
Alexander Carlisle, John Jordan,
J. Harry Hanson, Thomas McElwee,
Benjamin Lattamus, John Stewart,
Thomas Lamb, VIM. b. Lockerman,
Samuel p. Frost, Thomas ]. Houston,
Israel Ridings, William Green,
William NJ. Cloud, James w. Mitchell,
Benjamin France, A. p. Crockett,
William Wilson, C. =. GriffenbeFg, Jr
Joseph Handy, John Lockerman,
Norris Wilson, Mortimer Records,
Benjamin w. Dlckey, Samuel Roberts,
Milton Steele, William Campbell.
SECRETARIES.
Henry B. Morrow, John NJ. Newall,
William H. Brady, z. Harold Rhoads.
Mr.. GRAY's SPEECH.
In opening, Mr.. Gray spoke OF the i'm
portance of the Government, and no inter.
est could concern his hearers more nearly
than the politics and complexion of the
Government. He begged to be heard. II
he did not tickle the ear with oratory he
hoped to be pardoned. He would talk rather
to hIa hearers heads than their ears, and he
would endeaxor to show them that in this
campaign interests IS vast were at stake as
during any preceding campaign. The
Government is just what the people being
In 1t choose to make It. Good government
cannot come from bad men, 1t is for you
to say what shall be the Government oil
Delaware for the next two years.
Mr.. Gray then went on TO sketch the two
great parties. He spoke of the Democratic
idea as being a government for the people
by the people. This principle has stood and
the party Is now 80 years old, nearly as old
as the Government itself [applause1. The
mants of the Democratic party. 1t has sue
cessfully conducted two great foreign wars
and has doubled the area of the country.
Thst area, instead Of being kept for the
people has been parceled out to corporations
and speculation by the Republican party.
An area equal 10 the six New England states
has been given to = single corporation. 1t
has been squandered like spendthrift
board The Democratic party trampled
under foet the alien and sedition laws, and
raised solid front against knownothingism
It has always been In favor of the simplest
and most economical form of government,
and has held that that governs best which
govern least. That is the Democratic idea
| the Jeffersonian idea.
The speaker turned his thoughts toward
the Republican party. What contract
| A party that could only be maintained In
power BY force and fraud that is million
| and half In the popular minority, and yet
STAYS In power through strong gov
ernment that marshals the negro vote with
white officers that protects corruption and
theft, and holds up In high places such men
| as Dorsey who went out into Indiana
two years ago and bought her for the Dem
ocrats.
The chair, (correcting) the Republi-
cans you mean.
Mr.. Gray, (laughing)-You know what
mean. Mr.. Dorsey 10 no more of Demo-
| crat than the chairman of the Republican
| State Central Committee Of Delaware Is a
| Democrat. Loud applause. They say
Dorsey la only one man, but the Republican
party has not been honest enough to repu-
| iiate him. He still directs the party, and
ats high and honored among Its people,
able to buy juries and defy justice.
The Democratic party is a national party
| In Delaware, as elsewhere. It's history you
can read in the statute books which ite
Legislatures have made. It's record here IL
good and there is not point into which the
| Pepublican party can insert Its lance. The
/ Republicans talk OF retrenchment and re-
form don't know what they are going
To reform unless II is to reform an honest
Democratic government out and Harring'
ton, Fisher and Lohand government in.
They talk of retrenchment but don't say
| what they want. Some years ago, Della
ware Representative at Washington spoke
to Rhode Island Representative about the
cost OF the Delaware Government. lie SAID
Il only cost $30, 900 to run it, "Well," said
the Rhode Island man, "that's all damned
ridiculous noneence, don't believeanything
of the kind" And so 1t is everywhere, the
Democratic Government of Delaware is the
wonder OF the land. Mr.. Gray compared
the leadership of the two parties. The re.
cord of the Democratic party 10 plain and
clear nothing 10 hidden. To look for the
record of the Republican leaders, go to the
Criminal Court at Washington. In the
name of honest and decent government; In