Smyrna times., 1886-08-18
REAPPoINTALENr CONDEMNED.
Senator McWhorter offered the fol-
lowing, which was adopted
A HOFecker and Cooper Meeting.

Fairview Lodge, /. o. G, T., held n
harvest home Thursday in A. ]. White.
mans grove, Mill Creek hundred.
which was attended by about 1000
people. The cOmmittee-L. NJ. White
man, o. w. Eastburn, William w.
Vansant, Thomas Hardness, f. Essie
Moore, Harriet Little and Sallie
Whiteman made admirable arrange
ments for the meeting. At 9 o'clock
cavalcade Of q hOrsemen met Messrs.
HOffecker and Cooper, respectively
the temperance candidates for Gov
ernOr and Congress at Newark station
and escorted them to the grove in the
heart Of which a stand had been erect
ed and seats arranged for the accOmo-
datiQn Of the people.
The speakers of the morning session
were II. w. Morrow, Alfred Gawthrop,
and Rev. +. L. Hubbard, all of Viii
mington. \ recess being taken
splendid country dinner was served.
At o'clock the meeting re-assembled,
when George w. Todd, of Wilmington,
made an encouraging and animated ad-
dress,
J. r. .Hofecker, the Temperance
candidate was received with marked
manifestations of applause. He ex-
pressed great confidence in the success
of the cause and was gratiied at the
feeling of uncertainty that had taken
possession of the Democratic party of
the State. His few words created
great enthusiasm and the remark be-
came general that Mill Creek hundred
would so for Ho1fecker.
Richard NJ. Cooper, the candidate for
Congress, was the next speaker. Like
his associate on the ticket Mr.. Cooper
is a plain, straightforward talker, of
good appearance, and perfectly ut home
on the platform. He gave the whole
history of the temperance movement
in the State, and his naive statement of
facts as to the manner in which the
Democratic party, through its repre-
sentatives, has been treating the ques-
ton, brought repeated applause. He
is a careful, conscientious speaker, and
improves as he goes along with his
topic of which he knows all that is
worth knowing for this situation. He
showed by data that intemperance was
worse to-day than it had been twenty
years ago, and proved that the So
called license laws were absolutely no
protection against the evil of drinking
intOxicants. The twelve respectable
men" whose names appeared on so
many applications for license would,
as a rule, if exposed in their true light,
bring the blush of shame to genuine
respectability. The original license
! law required that these twelve men
uhaVT11 ho fronH oil eO91 NJ
| but as n sanity old Democrat expressed
himself on Dover Green during the
first term of court in Kent after the
law went into effect: 81 am afraid
this law will hurt the party" it was
felt that the party could not afford to
make so decent a requirement of the
liquor sellers, and during the very
very next Legislature the act was
changed from requiring freeholders to
respectable " citizens. In 1881 the
temperance folk made a prodigious eff
| fort before the Legislature to get a
local option bill passed. The House
contained seven Republicans from New
Castle county and it passed the bill
asked for by over $1,000 Delawareans
over their own signatures but the
| Senate, which contained but one Re.
publican, Edward Belts, of Whining
ton, defeated the bill. 1t was said that
a man wrote a letter from Washington
advising the defeat of the bill and that
man has never cOntradicted the charge.
In 1888 the temperance people made
another effort. The chairman of the
House committee, to which the locaI
option hill was then referred, asserted
that local option was a failure, which
was false, of course, and so secured its
defeat in that branch. The Seneto
passed the measure; everybody knows
that a measure must pass both homes
in order to become law. In 1S85 the
question was once more pushed beforo
the Legislature. In the House there
E,r. were l,''1,l TWO men, one from Kent and one
from Sussex, who were sincerely in f. e. : :
vor, OF local option. Speaker Comao,,s - ~,
nad appointed the Sussex represenfss :
i've to the committee which should
nave had to consider the proposition