Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-01-31
MIR. HIGGINS AT DOVER
HE WILL NOT REMEMBER PAST
DIFERRRNCEs.
Concentrating the Republicans OF
Kent ami Sussex->peeclies from
messrs. Massey and Willis MIR.
Sniithers Not TItere.

Smtthern Not There.
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Stan corresl ondence Of Gazotte and Journal
DovER, Jan. 23.-DGver's greeting 10
Deiawnre's new senator elect tonight was
one that panned out more hearty than it
opened. There had been o perfunotory
atmosphere about tho affair; a sort of
''it's the proper thing to do, but we can't
be expected to enthuse much about il"
feeling, spiced, as q prominent member
OF the receiving club remarked yesterday,
with the enHment--''what's one mans
meat is another mans poison, you know"
But after the affair had gotten started TO.
night 1t moved on better than might have
been expected, although the absence OF
Mr.. smithers seriously Affected the una
nimity of the greeting.
Before going to Barton Hall, whore the
speechmaking Of the evening was to be
done, Mr.. Higgins held o reception
in the rooms Of the Capital Re-
publican Club, where the citizens
formed in line to SEQ their new aena-
tor and take him by the hand. He stood
with President of Council Hiram Reedy
on his right hand and George L. Whitta-
ker, president of the club, on his left and
had smile and pleasant words Of greet
ing for each conner. At few minutes
after o'clock, Mr.. Higgins was escorted
to Burton Hall, which wag comfortably
filled by some 200 people. His advent
was greeted with hearty applause. After
sispeech of introduction from AIR. Whitta-
ker,. Mr.. Higgins addressed tine gathering
saying:
Mn. HId9ISs' SPEECH.
b,.t.. y H. IL "A
tai Club, my fellOU Republicans of Kent,
and, suppose. ii is fair 10 say, Of Susser
county as soeH: 1 thank you from very
full heart for the Kindness and the courtesy
that you have shown In asking me here TO-
night. l owe the advancement which has
come to me to the Indulgence and the kind
ness OF Kent and Sussex counties. Zap
plause.l New Castle was without represen-
| tation In the Legislature, and, disre9arding
county lines, reversing all the traditions OF
all parties In our dear little State, you have
come to New Castle to honor me. You can
| not understand how deeply l appreciate
! the confidence which Is thus imposed, and
how realize what a duty 1t places upon
me, In the discharge OF the important iune-
tions which now fall to my lot. to know no
county lines [applausel, and / think that
At this point George Massey, ESQ.,, en-
tered the room and was received with
tumultuous and long sustained applause.
After the ovation to Kent's favorite can
didate had expended itself Mr.. Higgins
continued:
II there be any need at this stage 70 bring
about the harmony of the party In this
| State, after the sharp but interesting con-
test which has Just ended, that is an end to
| which we can all cooperate; that Is a task
| which confidently trust will be made easy
| and light for me; for, as I stand here to.
| night. see nothing that will prevent every
| Republican In Delaware acting and operat-
ing together, knowing no past differences
and only one object and that is the over
throw OF the common enemy. IApplause.l
My idea OF party matters Is that each
community shall be left TO manage Itself.
| [Applause.I think In all matters OF local
concern It should bs left ae far as possible
to the people OF the locality, [applausel and
in matters OF general coneern l can only
4 pledge myself here-I shall know no differ
| ence with regard TO the relations any men
have held In the past. [ApplRuse.l l be-
lieve that on that ground there can nothing
| nrlse which can prevent the onward march
( OF the Republican party to victory, lap-
pausel. and came to that conclusion from
no sudden opinion about 1t. In one sense
4 our success In carrying the two lower coun-
! tics may be termed accidental, but In q
/ deeper and truer sense 1t was the working
out Of the logical necessities OF the situa-
4 tlon, DO not believe that the people OF
| the three counties OF this State can be for
ever governed by party which disregards
! every consideration OF the public good, but
looks only to that OF private vantage. Zap
1 plausel Upon these two rocks the Demo-
1 cratic party has gone to pieces and II can
I not, I believe, be brought into line again.
| Applause l believe that the Republican
/ party only exists for the good of the people
| and only can be strong and successful as
| 1t serves the public we'll. When we depart
| from that idea or that line, then we 80 to a
defeat as certain as 1t will be deserved.
To-day good men, irrespective oil party,
look TO our advancement to partial power
as n haVbinger OF reform Ia every depart
m9nt OF tie government OF the State. ZAP
plausel We, ia my Judgment. must carry
these reforms through. We must stand up
to every pledge that we have made. We
have TO give service now, not merely By
lip service, but by our acts. and we must
stand steady to that course, whatever may
happen In the future. With that, belleve
MIR. Chairman, We assuredly shall go to cer-
tain success.
The achievement made by the Republi-
cans OF Kent and Sussex counties has chal-
lenged the attention, the interest and the
admiration of the whole nNtlon. Well II
may do so; for by that you not only re-.
deemed your State from misrule, but you
have secured the harmony OF the three
branches of the government under tho Rs-
direction OF the Republican party. [Ap-
plause. But for your achievement the
Hsnate would De tie and the dstermina-
tion would be left to the casting vote of the
presiding officer. From that great catas.
trophe you have rescued the country. APP
| plause. You have made hteach-the first
hreach--in the Solid South IApplauee.l
You have chopped off It's northeast corner
Iappiansel, but IL will not stop there, lap
Ilausel: 1t will so on aud on until every
pord0, stats is made Republican Gapplausel;
until the belief and support contained IN
these states Of the Idea of protection shall
have brought them all into line, and until
at least the Republican party shall have
been able to make the first solid step In tho
way Of solving the most difficult problem
that is to-day presented to the nation, and
one that has been with us tho longest and
will remain the last, and that Is the settle-
ment Of the race problem OF the South.
[Applause.l
look upon our Victory, not merely as So
curing TO the Republican party OF the ma
tlon the control In all its branches of the
national goTernment, but as relieving the
national party from the strain pnt upon It
! by the neressitv Of carrying the doubtful
states Of New York and Connecticut and
New JArsey and Indiana In the north lap
piausel; that 1t will go further and snow
The possibility of settling the important
questions OF the south upon tho line OF
maintaining, in all their integrity, not only
the thirteenth, but the fourteenth and tho
fifteenth amendments to tho Constitution
OF the tied States. [Appausel Gentle.
men, again thank you most heartily sod
most profoundly for the eourtesieA YOU
have extended TO me here tonight. PRO.
lopged applausel
HIS COMPETITIONS HEARD FRoM.
Chairman Whitaker then read letter
from Levi q. Bird, Esq and a telegram
from Charles H. Treat. Mr.. Bird wrote
that he was just going away from home