Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-10-25
OUTDOOR DEMOCRACY.
A shifting Audience Pass Like . Fleet.
Ing Show Before tsrommy" Ogls ana
Three Democratic Speakers.


A Shifting Audisnce Pass Like . Fleet.
ing Show Before ssrommy" Og,s ana
Three Democratic Speakers.
The outdoor Democratic meeting held
at Fourth and Market streets, on Sstut-
day evening, seemed TO lack numbers
and enthusiasm - much o. the indoor
meetings ut the Opera House and the
Academy Of Music. Instead OF the
thousand that formerly attended these
outside Democratic demonstrations, the
number on Saturday evening dwtndled
do On TO two or three hopdred, aud was
un worthy OF the name Of mass meet
inp.
Thomas M. Oxle was detailed to pre.
i'd, probably because he was the
champion office h older In the State.
The absence Of music also had o dead
ening effect upon the meeting, II =
gathering Of . few office-holdsrs, . few
more expectant office-holdsrs and =
number Of street gAmins could be called
q meeting.
Hon. 4. L. Martin was heartily re-.
ceived az he was presented as the first
speaker q the evening.
After paying tribute to the trans
|cendant virtues and honesty of the
great Demooratic party and renewing
to 1t his devotion, he proceeded to de.
molish the Temperance Reform party,
though he did not belive there was any
chance OF its success. Reviewing the
platform he found that the same reform q
were embodied In IL that have been nd
vocated by the Republican party, and
therefore the people should beware Of
It, He referred TO the inAlienable rights
OF tho American people ~ rights which
could not be taken away from them by
legislation.
He favored the enforcement Of the
liquor laws that were now upon the
statute books ~ being sufi1cient TO check
and keep down the evils of intemp per.
ance. These laws he said were found
quite sufficient In Sussex County where
they were enforced to the very letter,
At this junoture of the Meeting, Mr.,
Martin lost breath and the chairman
OF the meeting turned pale by the fol-
lowing question coming from an i'm.
pertinent Temperance Reformer In the
audience: "Why don't ORle enforce the
law, then?" When MI. Martin recoy-
cred his bresth, he went on without
answering the question.
Mr.. Martin thought that It was o
very good thing to be temperate, and
indeed no person who hAd the welfare
OF his nei2hbors at heart could help but
bs temporal man; he at least could
not help hut be 30. Some irreverent
urchin thst should have been padded, i,
said something about taking In signs,
but It was probably not overheard by
the speaker. Mr.. Martin thought .
drunken man was n most deplorable
sight, but he would not reform him by
Legislative enactments; he would do 1t
by appealing to his better na ture and
talking 10 him about the disgrace he is
bringing upon his wife and children.
He did not believe man was re-
formed by the whipping post and peni.
tentisry, and he did not believe . man
could be made moral by the enactment
of sumptuary laws. He then referred
10 Dochoster and Cecil Counties to show
the fallsoy and failure of local option
Ia va. MIR. Martin, however, said that
II the people on the second OF Novem-
bsr declared in favor of submitting the
prohibitory question to q vote of the
people be would cheerfully acquiescs.
Mr.. Martin then proceeded to review
the other reforms promised In the plat
form OF the Temperance Reform party,
He opposed any change In the present
mode Of assessing and collecting taxes,
aud he WAS sure that the election of ali
State and county officers would be
against good government. He was op-
posed to taking the appointing pow or
from the Governor, and he thought that
representatives from Seaford Hundred
could appreciate the wants of Whining.
ton. He thought the people OF Della
ware were peosotly satisfied to trust
the Democratic party to look after their
interests In the future as 1t has done in
the past. In conclusion he asked his
audience 70 give the party their votes,
promising that all would be right.
As Mr.. Martin sat down the greater
part of the audience scattered, and but
few were left to listen to Ezekiel T.
Cooper, ESQ.,, of Dover, the next speaker
Mr.. Cooper did as all Democratic speak
ers do, go over the past glorious history
of tho Democratic party, and by the
time this Ia done steam is up and they
are ready for other topics. When Mr.
Cooper got warmed up he went for the
Temperance Reform party as II it wal
the greatest foe the Democracy ever en-.
oountered. He thought IL was i'm
mensely funny that the Temperate,
Reformers should nominate candidate:
for Coroner In each Of the counties, al
If they had a voice In the Legislature.
Mr.. Cooper, chilled more BY his small
audienoe than BY the night air. let him
self down by bringing the choicest o
his eloqaence to bear upon Mr.. Biggs o.
the en- bodiment Of everything that wa
noble and hop oraDle, and urged all hi
hearers to vote tue Democratic ticket OF
the second OF November.
Chairman Ogle then introduced Levi
10. vandegrift as the nextspeaker OF th'
Ievenlng, but Mr.. VAndegrift not onl.
found very small audience present
but he was Handicapped by the "ol'
fogy" speech of Mr.. Martin, for MI
tVandegrift, though o Democrat, l
favorable to nearly all the reforms tina
Mr.. Martin was SO violently opposed to
He oould. however, without compro
mise urge the Democrats to be ON tn
lookout and not be deceived by the az
Iparent lukewarnness Of the opposition
| 1t was possible, he thought, that . leth
Iargy might exist In the ranks of th
democracy that would lead to its dt
\ feat.
| Notwithstanding the remarks Of MI
Martin, Mr.. Vandegrift went 80 far a
, Ito advocate change in the judicial syi
! TEN of the State. He thought 1t va
, mot right that case 10 court should b
!. postponed from term to term, piling u
UNNECESSARY costs upon litigauts. Fl
hventured also TO advocate the passae
> LOT laws that would thwart the bAllo
, box suffers and secure honest primar
elections, and these reforms he though
3 lcould be best secured by constitution
-, Ial convention.
1t was seen during the meeting ths
something serious rested upon Ohai