Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-10-20

The address Of ex-Congressman Follett
of Ohio, at the rink Saturday night was
one of the most pleasurable Of the cam
paign. 1t was a calm dispassionate discus
sion, appealing with force and effect to the
fair Judgment Of his listeners.
Hyatt's Military Band escorted the
7 Tenth Ward Democratic Club to the rink.
They were followed by the Cleveland First
Voters.
Chairman Victor b. Woolley, of the
Democratic Association of Wilmington
hundred, introduced the Hon. Charles b.
Lore as the presiding officer of the even
ing. As Mr.. Lore arose he was received
with loud applause. Heand Mr.. Bollett are
old acquaintance on the floor of Congress
After referring briefly TO this fact and the
pleasant memories It brought back, MIR.
Lore introduced Mr.. Follett to the audi
onee.
The speaker emphasized the falseness Of
the claims of the Republican party to any
genuine solicitude for the workingmau's
interests. Protestations of identity of in.
terests are heard loudly from every Re
publican platform, but when the elections
are over and when the congressional ses-
sion is past, the record is, as far rs amy
practical effort toward ameliorating their
condition or of affording them relief in the
direction they really needed, it is abso.
iutely nothing
The speaker showed how the farmer is
treated in similar manner. lie is re-
stricted and protected from the market for
his products to which he is entitled.
Three-fuurths OF the farm products of the
4 west are stored IN in the granaries, held
" for higher price, held there not by the
farmers but by the middlemen whose
ready cash the farmer was forced to take.
The farmers demand an open market, and
The time is not far off when their demands
will not only be hearkened to but will be
Tod nj ~, Z,
the one that will give that relief.
The speaker next took up that Republi
can sophistry that asserts that the CON
sumner does not lay the tariff tax. He re-
ferred to the daily record of the fact that
ever since the passage of the Mckinley
bill there has been conflict between capital
and labor. 1t is nothing but d story of
strikes from week to week and day to day,
from that of the Homestead trouble to the
minor strikes i'll almost every industrial
centre of the country. They talk of pro.
lection. What protection was there at
Homestead for the workingnien there ?
Had he no interests whatever to be con
sidered by his asserted protectors? Was lie
altogether wrong?
Labor needs also to be protected from
the hordes of undesirable Immigrants who
pour into this country annually. The
studied effort, and policy of the Republi.
can party is to throw wide open the Hood
Sutts Vi lluIllHTdllDn 10 lle world ana mere
in lies the great danger to American labor
Any request for fairer share in the
profits under the Mckinley tariff enact
ment Is met by phalanx OF cheap foreign
labor, ready to take the place Of the Amer.
can workinginan. The employer faces
him with the unanswerable alternative if
you don't wish to work for these wages
here are plenty of foreigners to take your
place Immediately.
-Four years ago the Republican national
committee protested TO be in favor of re
forming the tariff. But instead of reduc-
ing the burdens they, under the pressure
OF Lobbyists, actually increased them.
WAYNE MAcvEAGH's VIEWS.
At great Democratic meeting in the
Academy of Music, Philadelphia Satur.
day night, to which thousands tried in
vain to gain admission, Wayne Macyeagh
told why he had left the Republican party
and made up his mind to vote for Grover
cleveland. In the course of his speech he
said that he voted for President Harrison
Jour years ago, thus stamping as false the
Republican charge that lie had not vote
for Republican candidate for Prcsiden'
since the death of President Garfield III
whose cabinet he served as Attorney Gen,
sral. Among other things Mr. MacNeagl
aid.
| have always had fun share IF the
sunshine and enjoyments uf life, but M
lhare has never been to me 50 abundant
Is in these recent experiences Of good
fellowship ] do not HilIle 6Htv To TIL
kindness Of my ncighbors, the Journalist,
Of Fhiladelphia, for, apart from them,
ought to be more than satisfied, and am
when, on the one side. MIR. lSHyarl say;
hat he feels infinite comfort infndins
himself acting with me, and when, on the
lther side Mr.. Depew begins his hunor
,ils criticism by saying that ! am one OF
AIS oldest and best friends ana that f0I