Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-11-01
THE GREATEST YET.



i The meeting Of the Blaine and I.o-
gan Veteran Club st the Opera House
last evening was the largest Of the on
tire campaign, every seat In tho house
being dlled, while hundreds were
obliged 70 stand. There was 0 large
number Of ladies present. who occu.
pied seats In the orchestra chain. The
stage wAs handsomely decorated With
. picture Of Blaine In the centre, eur.
rounded with. . pyramid Of potted
fioweras the greater part of which wers
In bloom, while on each side were Dor.
traits Of Garfield, Grant, Lincoln and
oshsrs. The private boxes and around
the galleries were beautifully decora.
ted with haGs,
Shortly before o'clock the Veteran
Club came tu, headed By the nrst regi.
ment band, and were resolved with
cheers. Tho band occupied the or.
chestra, while the greater portion Of thu
club procoeded to the stage. where seata
hAd beeu pfuvilled tng th0m.
Colonel 1ooathe ~ ca0e ON eho staea
shortly after 8 o'clGck, end imnsd iate.
~ after the meeting was called to order
BY Major Swiggett, who introduced
Colonel GrimshAw 40 President and
Peter B. Ayars ~ Secretary, with q
long list Of Vice. Presidents.
President Hrimshaw said IL was
scarcely necessary for him to ifitrod noe
Colonel r. Stockctt Matthews,a - he was
we'll known, net only In Wilmington,
but all over the country.
Colonel Matthews WAS received witl,
round after round Of applause, and
when order was finally restored, be
said II was fortunate in this campaign
for the Republican party, that they
had trusted In the infslllbility Of the
Democrats to make mistakes, for he
did not think, had It been left to the
Republicans themselves, they could
have chosen . mnn whom iC would
have been more easy to defeat than
Grover Cleveland.
He spoke Of the Democratic Con ven
tion which nominated Cleveland, and
said that, schooled 10 1t Was In misfor.
tune, the wonder WAS that 1t should
have nominated such . man ~ Cleve.
land, inviting sure defeat, and the only
way 1t could be explained WAS by the
fact that 1t WAS done by the Democratic
party.
There has never bean o single hour
since the august sssemblage that
nominated him, took their grip sacks
and left Chicago, that . single one
could be found who would truthfully
say that they believed their choice
would be ratified by the American
people.
He spoke Of the many able men In
have chosen from, but they laid them
all aside, and set up Grover Cleveland
Is the choice Of the party. 1t was ne.
done In Ignorance, for they were wise
men, and It Ia to be supposed that they
knew what they were doing. They had
no right to be ignorant they were
bound by patriotism and duty to know
that the man they were nominating
for this high of{ice was capable OF
guiding and directing the ship Of State.
The Democratic party has been guilty
Of more crimea thsn any other party
on the faca Of the earth they plunged
this country into war, and while one
half OF them took up arms against the
United States, the other half were too
to take mp arms on either
side they tried 70 destroy this couu.
try, and failing In that, are now trying
to creep back into power.
He spoke Of Cleveland NJ hAngman,
and said that any man who had ever
acted ~ q public executioner, was to-
tally untitled to be the first gentleman
In land OF fifty five millions OF people.
Persons m light say 1t was his duty to do
1t, but he was not sp aking Of q man q
duty, but Of the kind of man that
would do II, and the fact stands out, and
cannot be denied, that Grover Cleve.
land became a public hangman, and
launched q fellow being into eternity
for six hundred dollars.
His course AZ Mayor WAS reviewed,
and the speaker said that he would not
assert that Cleveland, when Mayor,
gave newsboy twenty-five cents on 4
holiday, or bought himself q comb and
brush, and charged 1t to the county or
city. ~ he did when Sheriff, but he
would cay that he made pretty good
Mayor, rs he never did anything until
he was compelled to do 1t, by the force
Of public opinion.
He explained how Cleveland came tc
be elected Governor of New York by
nearly two hundred thousand ma.
jority, and said 1t was not an expires.
sion Of the will of the people, but because
of divisions in the Republican party
and because the honest and true men oil
that party always rise in their might
and punish :heir leaders when they
think they are not &C ting honestly and
right, something that never has occur
red In the Democratic party, and never
will, II 1t should exist for a thousand
years. 1t WAS the Republican vote tha'
elected Cleveland Governor of New
York State, and the men who nomiBa
ted him, blinded by his large majority,
thought he could be elected President O
the United States.
He arraigned the Democratio party
for their TREASON during the war, and
said they stood, hat In hand, and sale
to the South 10 ont Of tho Union, turI
out that gorilla, Abraham Lincoln, ant
when you have, at the point Of th'
bayonet, overpowered the people WHIT
elected him President, we will CONF
back, ~ . Democratic party, into
government such as You shall make t.
suit yourselves.
He gave ludicrous account Of thu
manner in which the COMMITTEES from
the Chicago Convention notified Cleve
land of his nomination, which WAS re =
ceived with laughter and applause by
the audience.
The speaker had taken the New Yorl
Tribune when it was prison offence tt
be found with q copy of 1t In his pos
session. He had taken 1t at q time wbeI
man In Maryland was sent to Jai
with a sentence equal to Q life sentence
for having a copy Of "Uncle Tom''
Cabin" in his house, and the laws tina
done 1t were made by the DENT cratic
party, and enforced by that party. He
with . righteous hatred, and IT HI
could he would curse 1t out of ex
istence. The party that did all tbos'
things is the same Democratic party o
to day. Is
Sometimes during the past seventeen
years he had been troubled, and bowet
his head in ANGUISH, as he thought