The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-12-29

ter through a long lifetime, whose wisdom
and sound good sense give every conf
dence to all who know him, that his dis
charge Of the duties Of the high Office to
which he has been called will be to the
credit and honor. and will promote the well
fare OF the state.
While, as l have already said. by the
loss OF the Senate we cannot legislate. yet
it is no slight part of our victory-of our
great yictory-that we have an equal share
with our opponents in legislation, in It's
power and In its responsibility.
We can formulate our demands as to
policies. We can pass In the House OF
Representatives those measures which we
conceive are demanded in the public inter-
est, and place upon the Democratic ma
jority of the Senate the responsibility for
their defeat.
We can In this way do our part to see
that every citizen OF the state entitled to
vote shall have the right freely to vote,
and freely to qualify to vote; that every
man shall have the right to pay his tax,
and, what is quite as much to the purpose,
shall be required to pay his tax unless he
is intact unable. Wecan do our part to give
back to the people the right to have the
election officers who represent their party.
chosen by the party and not by their op-
ponents; to make the police of this city in
fact non-partisan, and amenable to our own
mayor, and not to the governor: to both
strengthen and enforce the laws for the
purity of the ballot; to improve our school
! system for both races; and select county
superintendents because of their qualifica-
tioDs as scholars rather than as manipu-
lators Of elections; to take from off a
Christian people the horrid reproach of our
jails by the establishment of a peniten-
tiary; to improve our roads; to deal with
the liquor traffic in accordance with the
moral instincts of our people; to provide
Tor the election of a convention to revise
our constitution, that abuses may be
abated, aud liberty and right may be more
FULLY conserved in the fundamental law;
that we may thus in every way do our part
to bring about the sway of which the poet
sang of ''sweeter manners and purer laws"
For all these things, none Of which are
demanded by mere partisanship, but are all
in the interest of good government and
common right, we, as Republicans. have.
been contending and fighting and clamor-
ing for more than thirty years.
1 have been wont TO say TO the Demo-
Gratis and to the people, 'Put us in for
four years even IL you should turn us out
for forty" Things were needed to be
done in this state, reforms to be inaugu-
rated. abuses abated that could not be done
by party so long in power as the Demo-
Gratis have been, and intrenched behind
such barriers OF abuser. / have but slight
hope that we can have corporation from
the Democrats in the Legislature.
Yet, In certain sense. the times are pro-
pitious even for their aid. There is no mis-
taking ha re he t,,
ware, as well as elsewhere and throughout
the country. We are not far from New
York and New Jersey, and in both there
has been an awful shaking up OF dry
bones. When the electorate of the city OF
New York. composed Of the elements it is,
sweeps itself clear OF Tammany and De-
mocracy, our local Democratic magnates
may we'll quake in their boots for the reck-
oning that awaits them at the peoples
hands.
The Democratic party of Delaware rep
resented by their majority In the State
Senate, may find that IL they do not CO.
operate with the Republicans of the House
In such legislation as have indicated they
may be worse--worse for themselves as a
party. There are plenty Of Democrats,
and those that are among the best men in
their communities, who think that parti-
sanship unfairness in both legislation and
manipulation has gone far enough.
They have no especial admiration for the
group Of local statesmen who hava been
their party managers. Many of them--bow
many shall l say-voted the Republican
ticket and gave us that victory which we are
celebrating tonight. And the Democratic
party may make the present alienation of
such men permanent by continuing in their
al fhe, tuIx.
the lesson home TO ourselves, and reflect that
we can tie these RECRUITS to as by hooks
Of steel. by course In legislation of abso-
lutte fairness to all concerned. by honest leg
islation and administration, or we can very
promptly reduce ourselves again to min
ority. But 1t is not to the North or East
alone that we may look for this lesson II
is nowhere more largely written in the story
of the late election than over III. entire
South.
The foundations of the great deep are in
deed breaking up-a change Of momentous
character is being worked out. 1t is a mat
ter of no slight or mean pride that the Re-
publicans of Delaware have led the van of
that movement And II is mat
ter of no slight reproach to us
OF New Castle county and of
Wilmington that as county we had no lot
or part In 1t. Six years ago the Republicans
OF Kent and of Sussex electrified the state
and the country by carrying their counties.
We were then the one, the first Southern
state, to break away from the Democratic
column OF the Solid South. that solid column
always so threatening, and at last, when it
achieved Its purpose and got control OF the
National Government, so destructive to the
welfare of the country.
Six years have rolled around since our tri-
umph of 1883. The Democratic successes of
1890 and 1892 have proved to be but a tenn
porary reaction to the broad sweep of what
is the real tendency and movement of the
country
In that movement, that great movement.
thank God at last the South fully shares.
In a few weeks and thirty years will have
elapsed since the last gun was fired in
our civil war. A full generation then alive
have gone under the sod. and have been
replaced by the youth to whom the war is
but memory or history; by men whose
fortunes of themselves and their children
are wrapped up in that Americansm-that
broad Americanism which knows of slavery
and secession and disunon only as hid
eous dream; that shares to the full the
deep life of the republic and the welfare of
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