Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-07-22
Tine Mas or tho People.

Than Senator Hoar, Mr.. Blaine has
no more able defender. His defence of
him in the great Boston ratification
meeting tar outweighed in importance
and influence all the puny attempts of
Che Independents to be little and be-
smirch him. Mr.. Hoar strikes the key
note of popular approval and enthusi-
asm when in reply to the insinuating
inuendo that MIR. Blaine had done moth
ing Of memorable public service, he
says, if we except our great soldiers,
Mr.. Blaine has been for nearly twenty
years the most conspicuous personal
presence in the country. Mr.. Hoar
had thought him one of the very great
est of the great leaders who have con-
Quoted the American people along the
difficult pathway of danger and of glory
which they have travelled for the past
twenty years. His hand was found in
the framing of the XIVth and XVIII
Amendments. He had thought, indeed
he had known, that he was in the very
Utmost councils when the Resumption
Act was framed and that his influence
carried it through the House over
which he presided. He had thought
that he had been Speaker Of the House
of Representatives during six crowded
aud eventful years.
He had though that among the great
orators of the country he had been of
the very greatest and most persuasive in
the debate, which satisfied the Ameri
can people 10 take up the heavy burden
of the debt, TO keep its currency unde-
pressed and it's credit safe. He had
thought that when in Maine the am-
bilious larceny of the Democratic party
undertook TO pilfer a whole State Gov
ernmeut at once, it was his leadership
that by peaceful means and lawful
methods, baffied the conspiracy and
saved the State. Mr.. Hoar remember
ed, t. o, that the next year, when the
Republicans had the temptation to
retaliate in kind, and exclude Cover
nor Plaisted by technical objections,
it was Blaine who said Zone ma
jority for Mr.. Plaisted was as good as a
thousand" This is the man the Re-
publican party has presented to the
people for their suffrages. A man who
sprang from the people, one of the peo-
pie, and will always be with the peo-
pie. There is no di.siinulation nor de-
ceit about him. The people see through
him, and know what he is.
Different from III S was the action OF
the Democracy of New York. The city
was robbed by political thieves, corrupt
practices had sprang up and was prac-
ticed by dishonest off ;ials. Governor
Cleveland was the great reform Cover
nor, and to him and the Legislature TIA,
people looked for protection
A great mass meeting was called
without distinction of party at tn,
Cooper Institute. A committee drew
up and had presented to the meeting /;
series of resolutions, which embodiet
their grievances. Their money wa
fiiched from them in the shape OF taxes
and it went into the pockets of n set o
political parasites, who We're eating tn,
heart out of the city, and there SCENE,
to be no redress.
What was the result of this grea
meeting? The measures of reform
were taken up by the Legisla
ture and enacted into laws. It wal
confidently expected that the great re
form Governor would sign the bill
without hesitation. 1t was found, how
ever, that two or three great pot
criminals, high in Office III the city, ia,
very men who brought this bad govern
ment upon the ity, would suffer
these bills were to be signed and bt
come laws. The people looked tor ia
Governor TO sign the bills and reinov
Hubert o. Thompson, Commissioner q
Highways, and Sheriff Davidson tror
their offices. Democrats, publican
aud men Of all par les expected this t
be the least the Governor would do
How did the Governor act? Instea
OF signing the bills he vetoed them, an,
instead of turning Com missione
Thompson AMI Sheriff Davidson out {
their offices and having them prosecu
ted and sent to the penitentiary a
Tweed was, he had them taken to CHI
cage, where they assisted i'll havinj
him nominated for President, and no,
they are amongst the foremost of IN
reformers shouting for Cleveland an
reform. The people are seeing throug
all this gradually. They are weighin
carefully the characters of the two me
nominated for the Presidency, an
there will be no fear of the result. Tt
man who is OF the people and for IL
people will be the one selected.