Evening journal., 1888-10-15
TREAT AND THAcKERY,
They Address a Meeting of Republicans
IN caslsey 1Taii.
BY letter to EvEaINo JouRNAI.


By letter to EvEs1No JOURNAL.
NEWARK. Del. Oct. 15.-The Repub-
licans held a meeting here on Saturday
evening at CaslSey Hall, ID. j. Murphy
presiding. Charles II. Treat of George
town, Del, and A. c. Thac1ery Of Elk
ton Md, made the addresses. The
former sketched the promises and per.
formances Of Cleveland's administration.
He showed lack of statesman-lik sagac-
ity in his letter of December, 1884 10 Con
gress before his Inauguration imploring
Congress to pass the silver bill, prevent
ing coinage and predicting dire
results The bill was not passed
and no paralysis to trade or great drain
of gold took place. Cleveland's letters
and rules on civil service reform had been
made the jest of the political loafer. His
advocacy of the Morrison tariff bill with
its crude and oppressive terms to cause q
horizontal reduction of 20 per cent on all
imports was a blunder. The Mills bill
was the product of Southern statesmen
who were now cGntering over the North
urging the acceptance of its reductions
that, if ratified by the people. will cause
more prostratiOn of manufacturers and
dullness Of trade than anything since
3D. The kin of these gentry used to
perambulate the North and talk 50 beauti-
fully Of the rights Of the states and asked
to be let alone in all that concerned the
interests of the South Some people Of
/ the North took the bait, but the result
was the notorious fact Of secession in.
stead Of plain state rights
The South win not tolerate the pres.
ence of Northern statesmen to advocate
1 : Ia
cans saw that they want no industrial
/ legislation from the Southern man who
draws his inspiration from the constitu
ton Of the late Confederacy It's tim,
"a hear another Douglass expose Ia,
national danger as he did in 1860
The South plays with loaded dice
having thirtv-eight more Representatives
in Congress than they are entitled to b.
counting the coiored vote as basis, al
though they suppress the black man
ballot at the polls. How long would TIN
South endure this from the North2
It is these thirty eight votes that die
tate to-day the future industrial polio,
of the North Let these either surrende
this grand larceny of our political right
or permit free ballot and honest count
The speaker alluded to the broken prom
ises of Mr. Cleveland not to take secon,
term
His appointees bowled off the track a
St Louis every Democratic aspirant fo
the Presidency. His horde of retainer
passed his ready-made platform an,
compelled Henry Watterson, the fire.
trade apostle, to be its godfather an
advocate
The surplus was a misnomer Their
was debt of $222, 600 600 due in 1891
and &130 000, 600 in the treasury. Wouli
any business man in face of bills payabl
call his deposit in bank to meet his note
a surplusg
President Jackson got himself electe,
, aid ran his administration on his opposi
tion to national banks Mr.. Cleveland tool
the surplus and gave it to friends Of hi
administration. who were in the banking
business. He had loaned $50 600 600 o
public money to his personal friends, on
Of whom was Chairman OF the Demo
ratio National Committee. The speake
in conclusion touched upon Delaware
interest in this campaign. The speech Q
Mr.. Thackery. was devoted to discus
sion Of the tariff.