The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-10-08
A RQUS|NG MEETING
The Eighth Ward Republicans Turn
Out In Force.
WusElNGNsN turn OUT En- NAssE.


| Three cheers for the whole ticketv'
| "Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!i"
This was Lewis T. Grubbs way Of dis
missing the great Republican meeting held
at the corner of Lombard and Eighth
streets on Saturday night.
Mr.. Grubb had presided at the second
muster of Delaware's Industrial army. The
victims of Democratic tariff tinkering had
met in council, had listened to the gospel
Of protection preached by men whose first
| interest Is in the United States and for
the prosperity of its people, and were going
away to work for and vote the Republican
| ticket
| The meeting was another great outpour-
| ing or the people to hear the sure promises
| OF returning prosperity under an incoming
| Republican national administration. 1t was
great meeting for numbers present and
FOR effective speaking. Two thousand
| workingmen assembled near their homes
| to protest against the continuance of the
| Democratic party in state and national au-
thority and to vigorously applaud the argu-
ments of Republican speakers.
The meeting began at about O'Clock;
there were large number Of
| people present at 7SO O'Clock; at
| about 7.ij O'Clock the Eighth Ward Repub-
lican Club marched to the ground and took
| position on Lombard street and a few min
utes before o'clock the Third and Tenth
Ward Republican clubs arrived and were
| greeted with a great outburst of applause
amid brilliant illumination from fire.
| works set off in front of the speakers
stand Several houses near the meeting
and on the clubs line of march were brill
| liantiy Illuminated
The stand was placed well back on the
lot and about an equal distance west Of
Lombard and south of Eighth street. The
| crowd came quickly after the clubs arrived.
| The space ia front and each side of the
stand was covered with people whose earn
estness in the Republican faith was mani
tested by patient listening and by frequent
cheering of the speakers.
Lewis T. Grubb presided at the meeting
and at o'clock, when he introduced the
first speaker, the Hon. Jonathan S. Willis,
Republican candidate for Congress. John
p. Eberhard, Pittsburg Pa, chairman of
the Glass Makers National Association;
General James H. Wilson, chairman OF the
Republican State Committee; Washington
Hastings, Medford Cahoon, John L.. Byrne,
ii. w. Perkins, president of City Council;
! Edmund Mitchell, Jr., w. S. Hilles, c. NJ.
Leitch, Hugh c. Browne, H. G. Knowles,
Joseph Hyde and number of other promi-
nent Republicans were seated with him on
the platform.
JONATHAN S. wILLIS'S SPEECH
The first speaker was the Hon. Jonathan
s. Willis. He spoke for nearly an hour
and made an effective and earnest address,
and was frequently interrupted by ap-
plause.
He began by saying that he had been
born in Democratic family and was
rocked in Democratic cradle, and ifrshat
party had stood fast by the principles
enunciated by Andrew Jackson, Thomas
Jefferson and George Washington, II 1t had
elected to stay loyalty under the old flag
he would have been a Democrat still; but
the party had deserted the principles of
the fathers OF the Republic and arraigned
itself against American principles and had
tried to strike down the old flag. The
party had left him. He had chosen to be
true to principles rather than to party and
because of this determination was privi-
legged to stand In and be associated with
the grandest aggregation OF patriots and
statesmen and in the grandest political or
ganization the world ever saw. (Applause)
He could not be Democrat now, and he
would tell the people why. First, because
the itlhuGlhtiC party WHel III pOWeT uOeS
not guarantee every man his constitutional
right to vote. Does the Democratic party
of Delaware guarantee every man his right
to a vote? CA voice: "Dickey says that it's
his buslness,") Yes, and that is my busi-
ness, too and do not intend to allow any
man to rob me or to rob any other man OF
his vote If can help it. If there is any
one thing which makes me ashamed of my
citizenship in Delaware 1t is that men are
deprived of their votes by unnamable diff
culties." The speaker declared that vote
obstruction was proving losing game for
the Democrats. The decent, honest men
OF that party are protesting against 1t and
are threatening to vote against the party
II the distractions do not cease.
Another reason why he could not be
Democrat was because of the homage the
leaders of that party pay to royalty. He
said half-hearted Americans bowed to and
Initiated the doings of royalty, but 1t had
remained for a Democratic President of
the United States to attempt to rethrone a
heather queen and enslave the sons of
free Americans, who had overthrown a ty-
rant and sought to found a free govern
ment. That is not in accord with Amer-
can principle. There is no sympathy for
monarchs in this country, and there can
be no king under the American flag but
the citizen voter.
Another reason why he could not be a
Democrat was the attitude OF that party
on the tariff question. They promised the
country that they would destroy the prin-
ciple of protection and make a tariff law
to produce a revenue. They didn't do
either The Wilson bill has too little OF
free trade for a revenue law and too little
of protection to be a protective measure.
1t is child without a parent-a thing
without sex-nobody knows who its father
Isl President Cleveland refused to stand
sponsor at its baptism and allowed it to
live only because he dare not kill it. ZAP |
plause.)
The Democratic party protected the |
South in all its products but sugar, but |
exposed every Northern product to free |
trade with Canada Cotton ties OF the |
South, which the planter sells for the |
same price that he gets for his cotton, |
are free. while the hoop iron Of the coopers
OF the West and North is taxed. 1t took |
the tariff off eggs. and the women Of Sus-
sex county are as mad as March hares
about 1t; 1t took the tariff off Irish pota-
toes, and the potato growers Of the PENN
sula are beginning to find out that the
Democratic tariff is hurting their business
This great party that at Chicago promised
to lower the duties on manufactured ar
tlcles and raise the price of farm products
took cents dozen OF eggs and 10 cents
bushel off potatoes. 1t promised a reve-
nue. tariff. and passed an income tax That
is the kind of tariff law that the Demo-
cratic party made. Its rate $ cents of
eggs and 10 cents off potatoes. t does not
protect anybody 1t does not raise a reve-
mn haDpftS |