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

believe that ii is our duty to succeed Ap-
plause and we have resolved TO remove
from the path of that progress to SUCCESSES
any question in regard to the personal
character or fitness Of the candidates we
present TO you.
For, believe me, my trienda, the issues
which fill the atmosphere of this great
republic ore profound and important in.
deed, and no man in the country Can
have higher duty than TO zee that lie
votes according to his intelligent con-
science on the election Of the seventh Of
next November.
HONEST STEWARDSHIP.
And now, my friend1, one word as to
our little State. The Democratic party
has had control of this State for q long
period dating back almost uninterruptedly
since 1852. II is right and proper, when
they ask you within the State to extend
your confidence and enlarge their power
for another official term, that they should
submit to you some aooount of their
stewardship. We OF the Democratic
party do not believe in the policy OF ad-
dition, division and silsnce, (appiause]
but we believe that wherever there is u
plain, distinct charge of default or omis-
sion on our part, that it is our duty, in
self-respeot and in respect to the psople
whose sufrages we ask, that we shonld
meet that charge as plainly and fairly as
it is made. Appiause] We do not
glory in that silence that seems to me
like confession of guilt that we witness
III high quarters in other and larger
States. Great applausel.
Ii you would know tine facts of the
stewardship of Democratic government
in Delaware look TO the accounts. They
have not been concealed. They have
been published. They stand before you.
hold in my hand the auditors report
for 1889, in which every expense of the
State of Delaware is act forth in figures,
in type; and the name OF every man who
has been paid and the amount that has
been paid is here. It has been in print
for year, and every year preceding a
similar account has been rendered, and
we stand for judgment on the record.
Applauss.
The State is mot rich; the State is poor.
We have no great fortunes in this State.
We have no considerable fortune in this
State that has any emanation from the
treasury Of the State; not one. Zap
plause. No Democratic Site official OF
Delaware has grown rich out Of the plum
der of the Delaware treasury. Zap
plRuss. Honesty has been the mark; no
detaloaIion is there. Hero stand the
items, and, if you will permit me, will
turn to the summary of that account Tor
the year 1889, as rendered. by that honest
man and true official, William Herbert,
of tho town of New CASTLE. Applause
THE BALANCE SHEET.
Gentlemen, in 1861 the nation was in peril,
and vast expenses were called for ct that
time to meet the exigency. Armies were
to be raised and mon clothed and fitted to
go forth to battle. III this State when
the demand was made for troops there
were many men under the CONSUMPTION
who found it hard beyond words 10 leave
their aged parents, their wives aud Oh J.
dren, and go forth leaving them without
means Of support. In that state of things,
recognizing the condition OF the State,
the legislature of the State, with what
believe to have beeu the approval OF
the people Of the State, stepped forward
to aid them; aud tbs main part OF the
debt Of Delaware was incurred by the
creation of a fund that should enable
men who had The charges upon them to
which l have referred to subscribe
moneys with which to induce others to
go in their stead and to pay the commute.
ton money which was ordained by the
government Of the United States. That
was the foundation of the debt of Della.
ware. There were, my fellow citizens, q
great many of that class of men General
Grant justly described as '1ong range
warriors" who fought then, "a they do
now, OF great distance from the foe
[applausel, and that ciass Of men of
whom we hear, sometimes as orators and
sometimes as officials, denounoing this
part of the debt OF Delaware, took their
money like little men and sent somebody
else to do their fighting. Applause.
But our debt has been diminished and
the summary of our affeirsis this: We
1899, $50 and our credits bearing interest
amount to 81, 247, 300. IS; leaving surplus
OF $34S, 25O.l3. Applsuss. So that, il
tomorrow we were, as a political oorpo-
ration, to be dissolved, there is divi-
dend to be paid out of the treasury of the
State Ct Delaware, and the assets there to
meet it, to every man, woman and child
in our midst. [ApplRuse. The credit
of the State has been maintained by good
sense, by strict integrity, by economy.
When William Herbert two yenr3 ago
found that there was a debt OF $3.50, 900
drawing four per cant interest he funded
it, without effort and instantly, at the rate
OF three per cent per annum. Glad in
decd were the keen sighted men OF our
moneyed centres to avail themselves OF
the credit of state whose name had be-
come aynonym of integrity and honesty.
PUT YOUR FINGER ON IT.
Fellow citizens, railing accusations
cannot be met except by general denial,
and by the demand which make upon
those who Rssail the integrity of Demo.
cratic fiduciAry agents of this State-put
your finger on the amount and on the
man and then we will meet it. They
have press, as you know; they have
orators, as you know; but 1 think thiB
canvass has begun aud will close without
their being able to put their fiagers either
upon an amount OF money or upon man
in the Democratic party's official corps
that has defrauded the State OF d slaware
ont OF one penny.
am not unmindful tbat i'll our sister
county of Sussex charge was made of
the discovery of great wrong and fraud
in the treasury aud finances of that
county. sent for the report OF the Re-
publican com nittee, made by Republi
cans alone and signed by Republicans
alone. 1t is in my hand; il can readily
be in the hands OF any oi.izsn who |
chooses to examine it, and, although it is
not q matter for us in New CASTLE to be |
meddling particularly in the affairs of |
the people of Sussex, who have the |
choosing of their own levy court, the |
choosing of their own local officers, yet,
love that county, love |
its people, and do not sit willingly by
when l believe that they have been I'M