Evening journal., 1893-05-10

to community what pure blood is TO
healthy body. Sound money in the every
day transactions of everyday life. To-day
values shrink if money tightens or If
capital is alarmed If the thrifty holder
of deposits in our savings banks questions
their security; if wages threaten to
lower or to cease, what has caused 1t. Is
it not the unwisdom and financial meas
ures enacted by the political organi-
zation to which we are, as an
organization, opposedg Must not
history settle upon the Republican
party and President the passage Of bill
that is to day recognized by every
thoughtful man as menace to the
safety of every man, woman and child in
our midst. ! refer to the Sherman Silver
Purchase act. l declare it to be what
you know it is, and what every thought
full man in this country feels it to be,
menace to every honest man. What are
the best hopes for its defeat but in the
brave, simple minded, straightforward
man whom your vote and my vote as
sisted to put in the Presidential chair
Loud cheers.
''You will acquit me of any superfu
GUS attempt to speak in praise of Grover
! Cleveland; but, my countrymen, when
we exerted ourselves to place the reins of
power in his hands we were building
better than we knew We were serving
our country through our party, and do
believe that from one end of this broad
land to the other, subtracting sel6shness.
party hatred and personal ignoranee-I
believe that the sense of self preserva-
tion of the American people recognized
that mans presence in that place of
power as a rock of refuge and safety of
this broad land from one end to the
other. Cheers
''My friends, it is not mere party
fight. That is simply part of it. 1t is
the blessing that party action well
directed may bring to the entire nation
To make party organization fruitful of
result that at the end of it all lies the
welfare of the great, land that God has
given us. When we shall have stopped
as / pray God in His mercy we soon shall
stop, this senseless purchase of metal
that the American people do not want
and which they have had more than
enough of when the delusion shall have
passed from mems minds that you can
turn GA in 100 by an act of Congress ;
that we can, by an act of Congress, re-
peal that great primeval decree that a
man shall eat his bread by the sweat of
his face and that the values are not the
subject of the human will, it will be all
the better for the country. After that
plain, great truth has dawned upon our
people and we have got the
blood, our circulation, in proper order,
there looms up again the grave
question that there must be Just
and equal laws of taxation in
a popular government Sound money is
essential 40 mi, r,olfffoo1 health ond fha,
comes the question of unjust taxation
and its results. say there is simple
principle. That is the substitution of
the present rules of taxation for the
rule that you shall not take by taxation
from its honest owner a dollar or penny
that is not actually needed for the eco.
nomical expenditures Of our general
government. leave to you these great
words in parting because they have
burned themselves in my mind and heart
after public service, not short as you
I know.
"Of all ideas fatal to public tranquility
and the encouragement of honest indus
try is that made under the forms of Law
7 take from the honest owner the fruits
Of his labor for any other purpose thar
! to support the government, TO secure
him peace and a government to give him
! peace
, Discomfort Goes with Injustice.
Sound money is needed for publ,
health Equal taxation is needed to ere
J ate that domestic tranquility which oui
constitution is ordained to secure, anS
when the time comes when people will
! not be tranquil, you may be sure tina
D the spirit of liberty will not have died
e There is a discomfort in being treate,
( | unequally. Never let US have to be con
? tent as long as we have not Justice Sur
- ! am that my personal knowledge anC
close association with the simple minded
straight forward honest man whom GOl
a has given to us as our chief magistrate
{ justifes me in asserting that
S he will prove ever faithful, ever true II
0 those principles, and / know that in thi
g state there will be a steady organization
t to follow him and let him rely on thei
J. support under all circumstances As a
r American citizen, loving my fellow Cit
/. zens, Republicans as well as Democrats
s /, feeling that this party of ours is a
?, organization for the benefit of all, neve
y; was so much of a party man as now anC
r. | believe my party was never so seful {
It my country as now.
r. Friends and brothers-Before us
e the symbol of Little Delaware (pointin
e to the figure of game rooster on a tab
it near by.) 1T is not the blue hen, but
ic is the blue hens chicken 1t is a ma
IS bird and it is a game cock. There
N nothing finer in all the animal creatio
than the undaunted courage of a gan
es chicken. They, like Delawareans, nevt
a shrink from encounter. There al
in plenty of states with more men and mol
~ dollars, but it is in our power TO SO
IS there is no state with better men an
ID fewer dollars. That belongs to u
ne brother Delawareansl That belongs
at us, brother Democrats. If any distin
~ tion has come to me to stand alone an
ut represent this country in the mightie
or civilization of modern times, it is becau
TO l have followed the Delaware idea al
q that of the men who carried that chick'
d through all the fights.
h Delaware's HOnOred Son.
is General J.. .rke Postles arose at d
conclusion of Mr.. Bayard's speech al
proposed three rousing cheers for Del
nd wares most honored SON. They we
at ven with will, every man rising
ily nis feet in honor of the guest of [