The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-10-27
POLITICAL MATTHIAS
Republican Meeting at the East Lake
Club House Last Night.
MR. BAYARD AT THE OPERA HOUSE,


A meeting of the Republicans Of the
Ninth ward was held at the corner of
Thirty-second and Madison streets. East
Lake, last night
The meeting was held under the auspices
Of the East Lake Republican Club, a new
organization of nearly 100 members The
public meeting was preceded by meeting
OF the club, at which constitution and
bylaws were reported by committee on
permanent organization appointed at pre-
yious meeting.
Following the adjournment of the bus-
ness meeting of the club addresses were
made by II. II. Hoffecker, George w,
Roberts and Frank Wooley.
MIR. Hoffecker was the first speaker. He
referred to the political campaign as a
great civic contest In which the leaders
nave been chosen and the principles de-
clared. 1t Is a contest in which the appeal
Is to reason and not to force of arms or
political strategy. The questions at issue
are those which affect every voter in his
personal and domestic relations. They
are not mere theoretical questions, but
questions affecting condtlon-whether
that condition shall continue or be
changed. The continuance or change of
this condition involved the question of a
renewed progressive movement in the af-
fairs of this country, or the continuance
d an unprecedented rapid rate of retro
xression. He was an advocate of the Re-
publican party because he believed 1t to
be the party of progress and that its policy
assured the prosperity, virtue and happi-
ness Of the people. 1t Is the party of i'm
provement, progress and sound finance. 1t
Is the party of patriotism and national
han I,,
tonal crisis it has stood for liberty, law
and for the full payment of every ma
tonal obligation. Its policy OF protection
had enabled 1t to save the country when
1t was threatened with destruction, to
produce greater degree of prosperity
among the people than any other country
had ever known, and to pay the greatest
war debt ever incurred by nation.
These ideas are all embodied in the Ma
ticnal Republican platform and in the
state platform. The Democratic party, he
said. had no platform but to get into
ONCE and stay there. (Applause) The
Democratic party has no history which
Its speakers can or will refer to. Its plat
form is platform of phantoms. 1t at
tempted to scare the Republicans with
ghosts Of dead issues; talked loudly about
the disgrace OF trying to buy the state,
while its active workers were trying to
buy negro tax receipts; tried to revive the
ghost Of the mixed school Question when
both white and colored voters of the Re-
publican party had declared against them.
tAppause) Upon that old worm-eaten
chestnut the chairman OF the New Castle
County Democratic Committee had at
fsmpted to base a political speech (Ap-
pfause)
sDme apt quotations from the speech Of
Tie Hon. w. L. Wilson of West Virginia,
Of Wilson bill fame. Wilson's assertions
OF returning prosperity were denied by
Virginia newspapers, records of the reduc-
tinn Of wages and the closing OF industries
in his own state.
George w. Roberts spoke of the condi-
aions of labor under Republican and Demo-
cratic administrations. He quoted the CEN
sps records, showing that the foreign-born
residents Of the country had come to this
country during Republican administrations
and had located in the Republican states.
Hs claimed that every one Of the millions
OF naturallzed citizens in the Republican
s.ates was a witness for protection and
Repuhlicanism. They had chosen to live
In liberty loving progressive states-in the
mates of free men, free schools, of COM
Portable homes--and in civilization that
assured them civil and religious liberty.
Frank Wooley spoke briefly and earn
estly of state and local issues and was
Sr5uusntly applauaed