Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-10-09

o'hto. ne u manufacturer" said MIR.
Kane. "whn is in hearty accord with the
principles OF the Democratic party, and
now take pleasure in introducing to
You Samuel Bancroft, Jr."
Hearty applause greeted Mr.. Bancroft,
and advancing to the footliehts. he made
a brief address that captured the atten-
tion and inspired the applause of the
| sudieuce from the first. His recital OF
the reason that gradually drew him from
the Republican party into the Democratic
lines met with hearty demonstration OF
| approval, and his graceful introduction
of the speaker OF the evening was the
beginning of furore OF applause that
was renewed again and again. M. Ban
croft said:
l wish to express my thanks to your
committee and TO you for the compliment
You have paid me in asking me to preside
over meeting such as this, called and
intended especially to be addressed by
our honored friend, who perhaps more
than any other public man OF our day
has preached and praciicsd a doctrine
very dear to me which the founders OF
the state of Massachusetts, put into their
bill OF rights when they said that this was
ito be the government OF laws, and not
OF men,"
Possibly this might be all that I need
to say, but my position tonight is a
peculiar one, and feel that fow words
of personal explanation from me are
duty owe to myself as we'll az to you.
good many years ago l fully believed
that was Republican,; but this was In
the time when the party had live and
vital creed which commended itself to
both my heart and my intellect. One
canon OF 1t was expressed with great force
by the first Republican President from
the steps of the Capitol on the 4th OF
March, 1861, when he said:
Those who nominated and elected me
placed In their platform, for my
acceptance. and as a law to themselves
and TO me, the clear and emphatic resolu-
tion which l will now read
hes0tUed, That the maintenance inyioate
OF the rights of the states, and especially
OF the right OF each state to order and con-
troll Its own domestic institutions according
10 its own Judgment exclusively, 10 essential
to that bnlhuce OF power on which the per-
feetlon and endurance OF our political fab
rlc depends. And we denounce the aWleJs
Invasion by an armed force OF the soil OF
any state or territory. no matter under
what pretext. as among the gravest OF
Crimes" l now relterte these
H., Y.
held In restraint by constitutional checks
and limitations, and always changing easily
with the deliberate changes OF popular
opinion and sentiment, Is the only true
sovereign OF a free people. Whoever rejects
1t does OF necessity fly to anarchy or
despotism.
believed in that doctrine then, as /
fully and empnatioally believe in it now;
but any man holding such sentiments is
sadly out Of place in the party of Thomas
b. Reed aud Henry Cabot Lodge. In
fact, he ia worse than an alien. and
stranger in strange land. Another
matter. am manufacturer and q very
highly prote cited manufacturer; but as to
the croed Of the party or William MoKin.
ley L am herelio, and unlike Ben amin
Buttsrworth, 1 trust that have the oour-
age OF my opinions. To find the kind Of
Republican doctrine that | hold and
have always held have to 90 back for
some IL years. In the tariff debat4 of
1879 John Sherman said that it was be-
yond the wit OF man TO construct tariff
that would produce revenue of $780,
OOG,O0 year, and that would not be
sufficiently protective OF avery interest.
He said also in the same debate:
A few years of further experience will
convince the whole body of our people that
system OF national taxes which rests the
whole burden OF taxation on consumption,
and not one cent on property or income, Ia
In rinslcally unjust. While the expenses of
the national government are largely caused
by the protection OF property, 1t Is but right
to require property to contribute to their
payment. 1t Will not do to say that each
person consumes In proportion to his
means. This is not true. Each one must
m n Inn or h.aY ~. b 1na
not bear the same relation to the eonsump-
tion OF the poor as the income of the one
does TO the wages of the other. AS wealth
accumulatea, this Injustice In tue funda.
mental basis OF our system will DO felt and
enforced upon the attention OF Congress.
Would ask you it this does not sound
as II Grover Cleveland had said it?
William b. Allison also said In the
same debate;
1t is claimed that the high rates Of our
present tariff are necessary because the
revenue to be obtained therefrom Is essen
tial to the government, and that II we
reduce the rates at all the effect will be the
depression OF all the Industrial interests OF
the country. The tariff OF 1916, although
professedly and eonfessedly tariff for
revenue was, 30 far as regards all the Rrehs
interests OF the country, as perfect tariff
as we ever had. When we compare rhe
growth OF the country from 1910 to 1859
with the growth OF the country from 1850
to 1860. the latter decade being entirely
under the tariff OF 1876, or the amended
and greatly reduced tariff OF 1857, we lind
that the Increase OF our wealth between
1850 and 1860 was equivalent to 1873 per
cent, while it was only "a per cent between
1910 and 1860. four years OF which decade
were under the tariff of 1912, known as
high protective tariff but the average rate
OF which was about 20 per cent below the
existing rate In 1872, or ~ per cent under
the tariff OF 1912, as against Al per cent
upon all our importations under the
present tariff.
Holding by these doctrines and believ.
ing thus, is it any wonder that have
drifted in such good Republican COM
pany as John M. Palmer of Illinois,
David A. Wells of Connecticut, and
Edward Atkinson of Massachusetts into
tine company and the party OF John Oar
isle, Roger Q. Mills, Ispulon b. Vance,
George Gray, Grover Cleveland, last, but
far from least, Thomas Il. Bayard, who
needs no Introduction to this audience
from any one, and who will now address
you. Applause.
The reception accorded MIR. Bayard
was prolonged and enthusiestic. The
applause subsidized only to rise and swell
again, and 1t was fully two minutes
before the noisy denomination finally
ceased and he was permitted TO begin his
address. With even more than his usual
imprsssiveness, and with q deliberatiye
conviction that gave the emphasis of
truth to his every declaration, MIR. Bay
ard aaid:
My Felio,o Citizens: sm glad to con-
graduate You upon the character OF the
candidates Of sred for your suffrage by
the Dmocratlc party. Not only are they
f.ar, Ala candidate faw nnun.n.. L. |