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

DEOuSDt Jul ny tlls lHVtsliShtlOu.
They do not say, as they should have
said, that every cent had been replaced
discovered in any default by this I'M
happy and wretehsd young man who
took refuge in crime OF auicide to
avoid the suffering that otherwise, he ba.
lieved, would fail upon him.
AN OLD SANDER NAILED,
10 that here we stand upon the record
and that think is the answer, and tine
only answer, We can make to railing ao-
cusations &s to fidelity or custodianship
OF the money of the psopls of this State
III Democratic hands. Applause Per-
haps it ia useless to meet anything that
is meant unfairly or stated disingen.
uously, for when man is determined TO
be unjust to you, and you are aware of
that fact, it is idle for You to make any
answer at all. Over and over again, for
want of something truer or better to say,
the charge is occasionally made up and
prHhshed elsewhere with great emphasis,
thai there is something in the laws of this
State, passed under Democratic author
ity, which DISTINGUISHES portion of our
people, who are fairly entitled to vote.
My answer is, first, that our laws have
lately, to your knowledge, been sub.
mitted to the decision OF the highest
court and you know what the de cision of
the superior court of the State has been
in regard to them They have been up
held IN every point as warranted by the
constitution and warranted in every wsy.
But j wish to state this as faot, and I
leave it to be answered by those who may
choose TO answer it, that to-day under the
machinery for qualifying legal voters to
become entitled to vote in the State Of
Delaware, the methods are far more facils,
far easier than they are in the states of
Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts
or Maryland. Applause. In any one
OF these states the prerequisites for o
man casting his vote unchallenged at an
election are more difficult, impose upon
the voter more personal trouble, than do
the laws of this State in which we live.
No intelligent man desiring to qualify
himself for the exercise OF the privilege
of voting under the laws of the state Of
Delaware has any possible excuse for not
so doing. Every method is easy, and
after the voter has given less attention
and less care than is required by the laws
OF the states l have quoted, north or
south, he will find that there can be no
question that his vote will be received
and under Democratic officials it will be
fairly couoted. Applause.
But, fellow-citizens, passing from this
rap review Of our condition in the States
having shown you by the books that IL
there be defect it can be cured; il there
be wan OF economy it can be remedisd,
IL there be dishonest defalcstion it can
be punished, let us hear no more till the
charges shall take definite shape, and
then lot them be met where they should
be met-before the iaries OF the three
counties of the State. [ApplaUss.1 We
do not screen dishonest tressurers
Robert j. Reynolds [applausel was a
treasurer OF this State, and earned part of
the reputation that will make him the
next governor of the State as treasurer.
Great applause We do not screen
them. They are open for punishm ent,
and no people, no patty, no class OF citi-
zsns, have proved themselves 30 ready to
punish deiau ters agains. tho public az
the Democratic party OF che S tate of Del
aware. [Applause.
OTHER IMPORTANT THINGS.
But, fellow countrymen, there are
other things in which your interest IL az
gleat, or even greater. 1t is your rela-
ton to the great family OF states; 10 the
great American Union OF which this state
is part. The phrase has even been
head and nsed, that our system OF govern
lnent is on It's trial. II is true; it is upon
its trial. Government, for its ssfety,
FOR it's welfare, depends upon the CON
slant vigilance of the people. Organized
power moves with sWiftness and certainty
to its ends; but the great mass of popular
power is 30 discovered and scattered that
it requires positive and dangerous fact
to awaken the people of the United States
10 the idea that their system, and the
principles upon which it is founded, can
be endangered.
And yet, being no alarmist, being dis
posed to believe that as the people see a
wrong 80 public opinion will right it,
yet, Notwithstanding, should not be
faithful to you, | should be unworthy of
the privilege which is yst mine and
which am exercising tonight, of com
ing into your councils, did l not warn
you that attempts have been commenced
which, il permitted to succeed, will
change the real and ruling powers of the
United States.
Do not believe those who tell you that
the proceedings in Congress at the session
whicn has just closed are the ordinary
struggle between parties for power. They
mean more thsn that. There was
French king o hundred years ago who
'aid TO one of his couusellors at period
Of excitement-"Why, this" said he,
lis q disturbance and an emeute.n
Sire" said the minister, sit is no dis.
.urbance; it ID a revolution" Aud so,
indeed it was, and cost that king his
life and plunged France into q conyuIsion
rom which her government has really
never yet ceased to suffer.
And 80, tonight, ask you, my fellow
ownsmen, l ask you to remember what
is not an ordinary clash Of
parties; other things ere impending aud
have come here to. night as we'll as l
nay to bring these things plainly to your
knowledge and TO your conscience. /
Ry that the acts of tue Republican
party, as exhibited by the majority in |
'Rch House oil Congress, with the Rcquies-
'ence cf the Preaidsnt, do contain the |
seeds OF revolution which, If not up
Footed will bear the fruits of revolution. |
Applause. They are exhibited TO me in
hree steps, just as the architect or
builder raises first the machinery by |
which he will put in place the materials
u his proposed structure, the scatfold-
ng, the derricks, the power to raise the |
materials to their place. 10 the Repub-
leans commenced at the beginning Of |
he session by seizing the rules for the |
procedure of the popular branch of the
congress Of the American people.
THE UsURPATIoN OF REED.
At first, you may rem her, when they
act they were closely approximate in
numbers, but they elected, in the ordi-
iary way, one of their number, men,
Ter of Congress from the state of Maine,