Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1894-10-24

to Themselves There VIII BE Demo-
cratic Victory in Delaware.
Special Correspondence Evening Journal.
DOVER, Oct. "a Ambassador Thomas
F. Bayard spoke to 200 persons in the
Opera House here last evening. II was
by all odds the biggest meeting held here
during the present campaign. DR. Henry
Ridgely presided Ebe w. Tunnel,
candidate for governor, and Samuel
Bancroft, Jr, candidate for Congress,
occupied seats on the stage. Mr. Baysrd
was enthusiastically received when in
troduced. He said:
''Mr. Chairman, my friends and, to
use the title that / prefer to- night, my
fellow DelawareRns: No explanation Is
needed at any time as to why l should
seek to come into the councils Of my
fellow citizens of this state when they
are considering matters which touch their
welfare, their honor and their prosperity,
because this is my native home. 0n the
soil OF this state | was born; here have /
lived, and by the people OF this state
have been treated with kindness, with
confidence, with respect, with honor.
Every tie that may firmly bind man
to community binds me to the people of
this state" Applause.
The ambassador compared the con-
dition of the country on March 4, 1880, TO
the state of affairs four years later, when,
for the 6rst time since 1861, the Demo
cratic party had President of its own
choosing, controlled the house by large
majority and had scanty aud almost
nominal maj jority Ia the Senate. All the
measures that had been passed and the
consequences OF which were exhibiting
themselves, the ambassador continued,
had been enacted by Republicans
He then said: III the trade policies of
the country had been unwise If the dis
tribution of public powers to private
hands for private use ha' followed-for
all of that the Republican party stood
then and stand to-day and ever will
stand truly and justly responsible
Mr.. BaysTd spoke of the ''change" in
1892 and proceeded to demonstrate that
the people did not make q mistake when
they placed the Democratic party ia
power "There was dagger that the
Democratic President Of 1883 had stated
to the people, he said, "thst by an hon
est and strict collection of the taxes, by
an honest and economical expenditure of
the funds Of the government, q surplus
was gathering, and had gathered, that
was dangerous to public business; was
useless ana ought TO De abated.
'If there was 8 scarcity of money Gre
ated by the accumulation la the Treasury
the obvious method was to diminish the
source Of several supplies SO that ths
people would pay less and enjoy more
and public business should not be dis
turbed by a congested Treasury. Thai
was common sense. It was honesty. Bu
it did not suit the purpose of the incom
ing party And the surplus disappeared
amid prohlgate, excessive, lswlcss ex
penditure-all expended for the purpos'
of making the people otthe United Stste
believe that the government should sup
port the people, and not that the peopl
should support the government.
"Then the Treasury was emptied AM
put in debt, and then bill of enormou
taxation, laid in the name of protection
to American industry (the McKinle,
tariff bilD, and then a bill urged on b
the same principles by those who owne'
the mines of silver and were intereste
in their developments the bill whic
bears the name Of Mr. Shel man, tn
Sherman Silver Purchase bill, my friends
those measures had been passed befor
the election of 1892.
1.-The people of this country by q
instinct of self-preservation, felt ths
the policy engendered by the McKinle
tariff was shutting them out from Ii
markets OF the world that under IL
plea of protection to American industri,
it was in fact protecting every workma
except the American, in every mark'
save our own. They saw the Silver Pu
chase bill of Mr.. Sherman looming like
terrible shadow, darkening the horzo
filing the hearts of men with apprehe
al nd mr. IN ,fu Int IN
There stood the Republican party; M
Harrison was the Presidents he had
Republican House; he had Republic,
Senate. 1t was his duty. under Il
Constitution, to lay before Congress Il
true condition of the country. And no
ask you what did they do? What
they say2 What was the attitude of th
Administrations What was the attitui
of those party managers2 know notl
ing that will describe it, except pa
in the history Of France.
Mr.. Bayard then alluded TO the reil
Of Louis XIV, under which Fran
swept on to destruction by &
revolution in 1889 Continuing n
Bayard said: The attitude Of Preside
Harrison and of the men whom he had
his Cabinet, especially Secretary of t
Treasury Foster, as be sat there smir
ing and rubbing his hand and smilin
they all said: This will outlast I'll
administration and the Democrats shi
shoulder the ruin that our mpeten
and corruption have wrought. This
the truth this is the truth. It stan
written on the sky; it stands writ
forever in history
Mr.. Bayard referred to the remarkal
decrease in ocean traffic since the Repu
licans came into power and said th
hundreds of captains who once earn
their livelihood in Delaware had be
deprived of an honest living.
The remainder of his address v
confined chiefly to state issues. IF I
people are true to themselves" said
1.-THE sun on the evening of Novembe
will fall with an honest majority in ev'
county for honest men intending
maintain their government by adheri
TO those principles that shall make n
respect the rights OF others and ins
upon respect TO themselves
That Joyful Feeling
With the exhilarating sense Of renew
health and strength and internal Gle