Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-01-15

hveness OF the people ON questions inVolv-
ing right and wrong been better illustrated
than here, AT the head of your state gov
ernment there will soon stand a disciple of
true Democracy, elected by voters who
would have the right and not the wrong
when their consciences were touched,
Though there have existed hero conditions
and influences not altogether favorable to
an unsellish apprehension Of the moral at
tributes of political doctrine, believe that
if these features Of the principles of true
Democracy are persistently advocated the
time will speedily come when, as in day,
the patriotic hearts of the people of your
great commonwealth will be stirred to the
support of oilr cause.
1t remains to say that in the midst of
our rejoicing, and in the time of party
hope and expectation, we should remem-
Der that the way Of right and Justice
should be followed as a matter of duty and
regardless of immediate success. Above
all things, let us not for a moment forget
that grave responsibilities await the party
which the people trust; and let us look for
guidance to the principles of true Democ-
racy, which ARE enduring because they
are right, and inyincible because they are
just"
WHAT MIR. BAYARD SAID.
Chairman Thompson, in introducing ex-
Secretary of State Bayard to respond to
the toast of "The Federal Government . re-
ferred to him as the "bg statesman from
little Delaware" Mr.. Bayard, upon aris-
ing was received as those who proceeded
| him, by cheers and the waving of napkins.
of recreation, hut found that he wits CON
| demned to be disciple of work. For that
he had four years Of work, for it was his
honor to assist Grover Cleveland in his
mission Of work for the American people,
| The victory of the Democracy was crafty
ing, but very incomplete. 1t gave us the
| executive department, but il left the most
important branches in the hands of our
| opponents There were two occasions for
work for the administration of Grover
| Cleveland, and two results to be attained
| first, that the administration of the affairs
of the American people should not fail,
and secondly that the results of such ad-
ministration should not fail. Therefore
the administration of Grover Cleveland
was under the dispensation of work and
not under the dispensation Of recreation.
lie continued:
Il say TO those who will be in his second
administration to take point from me
that it will be no sinecure, for it will be a
place for work.
mo government for men can be perpet-
uated without limitation of those chosen
to administer it, For power will grow
upon what it feeds. Arbitrary power will
therefore, become therlle, and what is the
twin brother of arbitrary power but COR
ruption2
"To-day do we not witness party that
is corrupt because it is arbitrary. Have
they not cast off from their hearts and
souls the constraints and the limitations
of the constitution they swore to uphold? !?
The rules of Reed in the House and the
proposed gag law in the Senate are with
out warrant in the constitution of the
United States. The political creed of the
party i'll whose name we have gathered to-
night is widely opposed to arbitrary power
under any circumstances or under any
political exigencies. 1t is in the Demo-
cratic mind to comprehend the occasion
that the advancement of the party to
which our opponents belong shall be at
the risk and at the cost of the country,
''No, gentlemen, this occasion IS
marked one. There was an election few
weeks ago in which there was an express
sion which was the clear-spoken voice of
the majority of the American people. On
that occasion there was an opportunity for
comment, and we ought to make that
comment emphatic and decided, for it was
the voice of the American people ex-
pressed and heard which should be to-day
expressly considered and obcyed.
"The danger is to-day that the tenant of
our property has received his notice to
quit If he has to quit he proposes to
Tue II ilbL W stb llIC W
them Where was there ever case of
landlord and tenant, such as we have wit
nessed between the American people and
the temporary agents in charge?
"The individual citizen is the symbol of
our society.
Sin our Federal system the unit of our
system is the state, and the Union is the
aggregate of the states. The just right of
the states is the Union of the states. De
stroy the citizen as the unit, make the
slate the unit, and the citizen is the mere
fraction. Destroy the Union and make it
y unit, YOU reduce the states to mere
fragment.
IF the declarations that we witness to-
day in the Congress are enforced, liberty
must perish. There are two parties in this
land, one of which seems to me to be gov
erned by an arbitrary law for its own ad-
vantage, while tonight see party sub
ordinated to all party demands and sub
ject to the limitations of the constitution.
Such party need not be called into exist
ence. It is here to-day, and its exemplars
addressed Won tonight before | spoke.
Here is the pilot of the ship of your party.
He brought it into the sea of peace of law
and order There was an election in the
state in which the honor and honesty and
safety of the commonwealth appealed to
the heart of the people, and the man who
was tried and found true was called again"
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