Daily Republican., 1882-10-11

their home, writhing with pain from
smallpox in the winters cold an
storm, no place other than rude tent O
board or of muslin Uas provided for
them In their pain and misery ; and
yet, oh yet, you have had the power
for twenty-five years TO legislate
home adequate for these poor unfortu'
Mates, have the effrOntery and brazen
impotence to talk to the poor man
about the economy OF your administra.
tion, and that you owe no debt. VI
one thing I am sure, ever let the Re-
publican party for one hour get the con
| troll of this State, from that hour a
home at the expense Of the State is pro-
vided for these poor people. You, in
deed, point with pride to your record
of economy, and the financial condition
of the State. Tell me what you do
with the thousands and thousands OF
dollars annually finding their way into
your treasury. The city of Whining
ton, alone, pays into your Golfers more
than enough to meet the current ex
penses Of the State. You have taxed
every form of industry, domestic and
foreign, that ventures within your
borders s-railroads and steamboats,.
manufacturers and machinists, taverns
and storekeepers, lawyers and doctors
/ don't think you have taxed births, but
you do marriages, and did deaths In the
coitins we are actually buried in.
Where, I ask yoI, goes all this money!
The inscri ptions upon the Pyramids OF
Egypt were a fool compared to the
hieroglyphics of State Treasurer's Re-
port in this State. And yet with all
this you pride yourself on the condition
OF your State, and in the record OF your
party.
TIE REPUBLICAN PARTY WILL GIVE
YOU THESE CHANGES.
Now, II you agree with me that the
time has fully arrived for radical
change in the Constitution of this State
and that Representation as nearly ac-
corded to population as the people may
demand is right now denied US by the
fundamental law of this State, then l
ask you all-free men all-men of AL
political shades-men of reason and in.
telligence, in all these needed re
forms the Republican party has not
stood in the front, leading the advance,
and making the only promises by act
and by platforms that have been at all
made to the people Of this State. |
charge the Democratic party in its
twenty-five years of continuous and
exclusive legislative control in Della
ware with having failed to make one
single step forward in favor of any
Constitutional change looking toward
such a remodeling of that instrument
as would meet the changes of time and
circumstance in the growth of q hun
dred years. charge that party with
having continued themselves in power
by the enacting of system OF laws,
which, submitted to any impartial
tribunal having the power to act,
would long ago have declared them un'
constitutional, and against the very
spirit of a republican form of govern
ment. l charge them with steady
system of class legislation, in which the
people Of one portion OF the State have
been made to bear the burden OF taxa
tion, thereby relieving almost entirely
a large community in the State from
the payment of any taxes nc all. l
charge them, that in all their legisla-
| ton from 1860 to this day, they have
aimed to degrade instead of elevate the
colored people of this State. charge
them with a thorough and complete
spirit of illiberality. with absolutely
checking instead of encouraging the
march Of improvement, with driviug
immigration by their fossil notions
from the State, and of perpetuating
themsel yes in power by corruption and
through fraud.
PERSONAL ABUSE.
But we are told by the speakers Of
the Democratic party, that those now
leading the Republican party in this
State are unworthy men, and that in
their hands, should success fall to US,
ruin must necessarily fall upon the peO'
pie of this State.
Long ago-not too long thought
found a lesson in life, the keeping of
which has surely lost me no friends. 1t
was that personal abuse never did and
never will make friends. You are wei.
come, gentlemen, to all the abuse you
see proper to heap upon the heads of
those who are not here to answer. II
it please you, go on, and stop not till
! you have exhausted the full category of
your venomOus abuse. Can 1t be that
| the characters of the men who make up
the Republican party in this State are
| to be placed in the scales of ustice and
weighed ont ounce by ounce, with the
characters of the men ofthe Democratic
party ? Then DO it so-we will meet
you there. But you cannot by cam
paigr of abuse against any one man, or
any set of men, avoid the issues in his
struggle. The people shall hear them,
and shall determine whether you have
not forfeited all claim, and all demand,
and all respect, from the people OF this
State.
DEMOCRATIC VIRTUE.
But for the Democratic party Of Della.
ware to make an issue on virtue, If you
please, on its virtue, is such a role for
them to play, that wonder dead men
90 mo- turn in their graves. You vir-
tuous ? You skeleton of sin and ini-
duity Democratic virtue, aud espe-
Cially Democratic virtue In Delaware
l don't wonder we've got comet tail
end upwards, and in the morning.
Democratic morality and virtue It's
enough to N AXE the stars laugh, the
moon turn inside out, let alone upset a
comet. Men OF the Democratic party
Leaders oft You have shut your
eyes to all your own wretched and
damnabls misdeeds, cruel aud outrage.
GUS wrongs, for 25 years, and now with
those heaped over your heads, gray in
crime, you can only CRY out in terms OF
personal denunciatiop, and appeal tc
the passions and prejudiCes OF your fol.
lowers. You use no argument, you
have no vindication to make Of your
life---it's been purity as sweet and 4.
white as the driven snow from heaven
DEMOCRATIC HISTORY III DELAWARE.
Attev twenty i've years Of controI, in
which you have stood still, Or moved
backward, making not a single steI
for war4-with progress blocS dream,