Evening journal., 1888-09-17
Nh. Gray On the Tariff.
Making a Strong Speech From
His Point of View.
BATES PLEADS FOR HICKMAN.

The Democrat ratification meeting on
Saturday night was a success. Fully ., 900
persons had assembled ut Ninth and
Shipley streets, when the meeting was
called to order by Register Charles H.
McWhorter of the county committee
few minutes before the hour. About :. 45
the First Regiment Band. followed blythe
Tammany Association, the vice president,
the Bayard Legion and the Y. Nj ID. G.
arrived on the ground. A stand was
erected on the south side of the lot and
was gaily festOoned with Chinese Ian
terms and the national emblem. Promptly
at 8 o'clock Register McWhorter an
nounced that General J. Parke Postles
had been chosen to preside and he named
the following list OF vice presidents and
secretaries:
William Herbert, Norris Wilson. J.
Poulson Chandler, H. H. J Baldwin, VIII
liam + Smalley, j. wilkins Cooch. James
ligan, Edwin r. Cochran, James Taylor
George @. Rothwell, William II. Quinn,
Anton Hauber, William II. Stuart, James
NJ Griffin James f. McGonigal Joseph
H. Carpenter Jr., Thomas NJ. Ogle. John
l.. Malone, William B. Norton, George T.
Barnhill, ,,Joseph Stoeckle, Rober Cotting-
ham, Owen j Hession, DennisJ. Mention,
Willard H. Porter, Daniel w Mullin.
John Pyle, John J. Dougherty, Jacob X.
Candy, j. Atwood Wilson, William Cree.
den, Richard T. Cam, Jr., Sewell C.
Biggs, l.. c. Vandegrift. John T. Kelley,
T. e. Singley; secretaries L. A. Parker
John May, Merris Taylor, Fred l.. kurtz
Alfred d. Poole, J. w. Aydon, John w.
Lawson, p A. Horty. James Gagan,
Charles A. Ryan, John Barden John r.
DAILY, II. w. Maclntire.
General Postles was warmly received
He felt honored to preside over such an
assemblage, to open the campaign now at
hand in this state. The speakers of the
evening would testify to those principles
promulgated by the Democratic party as
an aggregation of freemen. They would
| denounce, repudiate and deny that the
re 5ision Of the tariff as indicated by
/ President Cleveland in his message
meant free trade. and would therefore
! injure the manufacturer. He, as one Of
those manufacturers. denounced as false
the assertion that it would injure him,
and the cry raised by the protectionists
was unworthy the intelligence Of the
people He believed that such a revision
would be beneficial, not alone to the
working people, but TO the manufaue-
turers by giving them free raw materials.
General Postles then read letter from
Governor Biggs regretting his inability
to attend and promising at some future
time to address the people of vii
mington.
After the band had played the "stai
| Spangled Banner. Senator George Gray
was introduced amid applause. The Sen
ator at once commenced to deliver ,
spirited address; the best ever given BY
him to a Wilmington audience. II wa
clear and logical and was listened TO will
unabated attention. the speaker holding
his audience to the end.
He said in part 1T is matter Of grea
satisfaction for me to address you at thi
the opening meeting of our biennial cam
paign. You are my fellow citizens in
nearer sense than any Of any other par
of this county. You are my neighbors
With you is my lot cast for good or fo
i'll. | come to talk of matters in whic
we should have mutual confidence an
reliance. The solemnity of gatherin
like this impresses me. 1t is such
thing as is only possible in government
of free people | have no thought of dis
respect of those that differ with us, but
desire to place before them a few fact
and ask their candid thought. The Den
ocratic party is no new party Tn
greater part Of the history Of this cour
try is the history of that party. Bor
of the aspiration of the people for free
dom and of the hope to make themselve
freemen, it has creeds that will neve
die as long as free government remain
under the blessing of God to administC
, to the interests of all the people and nc
] I. = i. 1r Ff.rY
! years ago the working people Of TIL
country took one of their own numbt
and put him in high place, a straigh
forward, plain, honest Democrat. NJ
i, too elevated TO first accept the mayoralt
of a small town, then the sheriffalty {
his country and finally the high place /
holds. Four years ago I'll
Republicans in their arrogance
due to long continued power, told u
e Democrats that the people could not go'
( ern themselves. If Cleveland was electe
y disaster and ruin would come to us Gu
workshops would be closed. Some of OF
q well-meaning citizens said that if Clev,
t land was elected business would leay
this thrifty town, our workshops woul
be closed and the worlingmen woul
walk the streets They forgot that the
would have to account to the honest PEE
+ pie for this What has become Of a
their dull prophecies? Have any Of th
workshops closed? You were not scare
a into voting the Republican ticket and t.
5 day we have a right to call upon them
furnish excuses for their falsehoods. On
hundred fires have been lighted in yOI
I shops where there were ten four veal
l ago When has business ever increase
in Presidential year as il has in thi
When has there been such aetivityg W
I know that honesty would beget conf
d dence, and is there any one that does no
= feel safe with Grover Cleveland2
'Esnot this government honored at hon
p and abroad2 Does any one believe thl
n the United States win lower its standal
r to the British lion or anyone else as lor
as Grover Cleveland is President2 o.
fellow citizen Secretary Bayard, by
& diplomacy made treaty conceding 70 Il
4 fishermen privileges never enjoyed und
q the treaty of 1918, and without payir
T. SIS, 500 600 for them as a Republican a
e ministration did in 1873. and the Dem
It Gratis did not give free fish as the Repu
e licans did We find that treaty reject,
l- by a partisan Senate. They sought
reap capital out Of it, but never were m'
more mistaken They forgot that
: Democrat was in the Presidential chai
and in three days he bafiied them III
- only two foreign wars in which tn
- country was ever engaged in were su
cessfully fought under Democratic a
J. ministration, the one in 1912 and wi
m I ATa,-ioo II xvos the Democratic mar