Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-07-14
d. IRr1xG HAxDY,s DEMOCRACY.
An Enthusiastic Meeting of the George


ana Peter L.. Cooper were extremely inter-
esting. The wigwam was filled with a
good audience and the speeches were fol-
lowed throughout with the closest atten-
ton and most evident enjoyment.
The interior was prettily decorated with
wall at the rear of the platform was draped
with an immense flag, the old Seventh
ward heirloom that has inspired the
Democracy of those precincts for 15 or IL
years. In the centre of the folds was a
beautiful framed portrait of Senator Gray
after whom the club is named.
Frank Jeandell, president of the club,
was in the chair and at his side sat Secre-
tary II. f. Chapman. Mr.. Jeandeil, In
introducing the first speaker, Peter L..
Cooper, warmly welcomed every Demo-
| crat of the city.
Mr.. Cooper explained that he was not
present to make an address. He desired,
| with the rest of those present, TO listen to
the speaker of the evening, l.. Irving
Handy. He congratulated the citizens OF
New Castle county, of the State of Della
ware, and of the whole country on the
magnificent work accomplished at the
national Democratic convention in the
nomination of Grover Cleveland and Adlai
y. Stevenson as the standard-bearers of
Democracy. Applause.
Grover Cleveland, the speaker continued
is the one man in this country who has
placed himself fairly and squarely before
the people on all the great issues of the
day, This is campaign of clear-cut
issues-tariff reform, honest money, equal
i2ation of taxes, the Force bill and the
| Federal elections enactment.
After briefly touching upon these points,
MIR. Cooper closed with an urgent demand
OH all Democrats to see to it that they are
each and all duly qualified to cast their
votes next November.
President Jeandell then introduced Mr.
| Handy.
If we can't beat Benjamin Harrison
next fall, the speaker said, there is no Re-
| publican We can beat, and if we cannot
win with Grover Cleveland there is no
| Democrat that We can win with. Grover
| cleveland represents all those things we
love as deeply AS liberty and our country.
After touching upon various points Of
interest the speaker reverted to the feat
| ures oi the Force bill. The man who loves
the general government and has no enthtl-
slasta for his state is not patriot. You
must first love the Seventh ward, and then
you can love your city, then New Castle
| county and then comes your love for Della
ware, and with that you are ready to love
| the Union.
In the name of Delaware | protest
against this proposition of the national
| government to occupy this city with Fed
eral bayonets. When our representative
goes to Washington, his papers from the
| electors OF Delaware are not to be asked
tor-no-but we want to know what your
Federal supervisors say?
The Force bill is not intended for the
gallant Carolinas alone,nor for Mississippi,
but 1t is launched at the bosom of Della
/ ware. II the day ever comes that Delaware
cannot be trusted to hold her own cleo
tons it is time that the State of Delaware
| disappeared from the sisterhood of states.
| AS l travel around elsewhere in other
states the base calumny is thrust on me
that purity of elections is impossible here.
| Well, perhaps in one of the Wilmington
wards, according to all hear, at the last
election there was not very much of that
commodity discoverable. understand it
was all razors and negroes, biily-goats and
| tin cans.
But by the might of the Eternal and the
strong arm of the Democracy, that will
never again happen in that ward.
l have met many and many good Re
publican who says II do not like the Force
bill" l prophecy that from the quiet
dropping OF the head which accumulated
the remark, that there will be many a
silent Republican vote fall to the Demo
cratic ticket next November.
THE REPUBLICAN PROGRAMME.
The Republican programme is a Force
bill in the south, corruption fund in the
north, victory at the polls, and then the
whole government rushing onward to re-
| coup the men who paid into the cor.
ruption fund. We buy you in the north,
| we Chain You in the south and rob you all
| over the the country.
| The speaker then turned his attention to
i protection. They say. he continued that
the results of this protection go into the
worklngmen's pockets. If could see this
money going straight into the pockets of
the poor man | would not have so much
to say. ! would tighten my teeth down
| hard. But does the money go to the wage
Garner? The argument is that the manu-.
facturer, through Mckinley protection,
| having got more money for his goods can
| afford to pay more. But does he do 1t !
| Please God not. That is where the pro.
lection tariff breaks down. The manu-.
tacturer is enabled to get more by it, but
1t docs not make him pay more.
AT HOMESTEAD YESTERDAY.
The speaker had returned only last
evening from Pittsburg, where he was q
witness of some of the incidents connected
with the Homestead trouble He solemnly
| asked that he be not charged with the
crime of exploiting Democratic sentiment
from any supposed vantage ground oil
| those terrible memorie5. But still, it is a
protected industry. He was talking with
the workmen there, and pointed to the
splendid buildings, libraries &C., erected
for the citizens of Braddock and near
other workingmen's homes by Mr.
Carnegie, at an outlay of hundreds oil
| thousands of dollars.
No, Mr.. Handy" stalwart employee
replied, with set teeth, Carnegie never
has built a library but the sweat of his
workmen has built the library"
ASKING FOR BREAD AND GETTING BULLETS
These workingmen, Mr.. Handy contin.
ued, were as you, respectable men, Ameri
cans many OF them, all Americanized
They are net parcel OF Huns and Poles
1t is untrue to say so. They are Just as
good men as work in the Wilmington
shops. When / think of the empty
stomachs and empty Notwithstanding for
bread and getting bullets-somehow my
sympathy went with them.
The national government gets its money
out of you and me. The city of Whining
ton puts about $3.50, 900 every year into the
national treasury, and that docs not allow
Tor one penny on protection. You may
| double 1t for ta4atfon--not less than
| Sl,UOO,O0O. We feel the burden but don't
know where TO place the exact source.
REPUBLICAN, EXPECTATIONS.
The Republicans expect TO carry Della,
ware next fall. Laughterl. They think
they have the Democrats on the run. They
think that by rfotous means, Dy threats.
and that unless the Democrats do thus and
SO, there will be trouble
My old friend, the Hon. +. Eden Bach,
the man who is paid to do certain office
work at Washington and gets his monthly
pay accordingly, / understand that ne has
talked publicly of shedding blood (his own,
Isuppose), if someone does not do some
thing. Laughterl.
Mr.. Bach should not shed any blood.
Il at ., sN,1- 4
intend to be scared, nor do | think your
election niinnrS arc likely In he. ,.nr,r nnsil,,