Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-10-18


wards, who listened to the eloquent ap.
peals OF Senator Gray for an active and
vigorous campaign which will wind up
next November i'll the triumphant return
State.
Previous to the meeting a committee
from each ward escorted BY Hyatt's Mill
tary Band proceeded to the Headquarters
OF the Third, Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth
wards in succession and then the parade
returned to the Weccacoe Hall. The big
meeting room was finely decorated with
the national flag. Upon the platform
were Ebe W. Tunnell the candidate for
governor, Senator Gray. Governor Rey-
nolds, Attorney General Nicholson, Branch
ii; Giles, Peter J. Ford and others.
Peter ]. Ford, member of the county
executive committee, nominated William
a. Reilly as chairman of the meeting.
The Following were vice-p presidents: j,
Harvey Spruance, John j. Hanley, Harry
Mitsil, Neil Dougherty, John D. Maief,
Robert Cottingham, George Bradford,
John J: Ryan, John White, John Ban
Fergus Kelley, William Mailer, William
q. Baugh. Charles O'Connor, Edwin +.
Scott, Cornelius Mundy, owen J.. Hession,
John Hamilton, Joseph Griffith. The
secretaries were: Daniel w. Lynch,
Thomas F. Magarity, Richard T. Mention,
Robert Husbands.
Following an inspiriting air from the
nand, Chairman Reilly arose and briefly
introduced the orator of the evening
George Gray, man, he said, who needs
no Introduction to the Democrats of Will
mlngton. Cheers.
The Senator said in effect II is kind of
your chairman to say that do not need
an introduction TO my friends and elbow
citizens OF these wards. My friends, am
here to talk of things that closely concern
both you and me. This, as YOU know. is n
government of the people. If Won are
honest and aim high and nobly in yonr
aspirations, SO the government will be of
the same character. The stream cannot
rise higher than its source. You are its
tountain-head, its authority. and that is a
good old Democratic doctrine. The Demo-
cratic party, which you and | love, was
born oil great fundamental doctrines. The
party was born to fight against privilege
born in order to protect the rights of the
people against caste aud the privileged
classes, The people who formed this gov
ernment, before you and | were born
knew something of what despotic govern,
ment meant. They came here and planted
the seeds OF popular government.
IL was the Democratic party, more than
any other agency, that watered and nour-
lshed that planting and developed it to its
present fruitage. They are the guardians
OF all that is free in our liberty loving in.
Stitutions.
Power always tends to go from the many
to the few. And even in land such as
ours there were men in our earlier history,
who thought that government by all the
people could not be success. So you see
at the first the Democratic party found
itself opposed by the old Federal party who
believed in what they called strong central
government. They enacted what is known
as the SeditiOn laws, which enioined that
you should not talk or criticize people in
power. But the Democratic party had d
belief in the rights of the people, and
IS because of the righttulness of
that belief that they were able TO
stand. remember when the Demo.
cratic party went into defeat all over the
land in order to vindicate popular liberty.
liberty OF conscience of all the people of
al denominations against the Know
Hothing party. Loud cheers. And the
democratic party was right.
The Democratic party believes that no
set OF men. no matter how worthy they
may be, have the right to use the taxing
power Of the government for their private
ends. The Democratic party stands against
all privileged classes. When the people
protested against the continuance of the
Republican war tax, the reply of that
party was that 1t was for the protection of
American labor, for the benefit of the
working people. Protection is beniynant
phrase. IL IS a term that signifies care and
solicitude, BY such specious phraseology
the Republicans conceal their methods.
why should Protectionists charge the
Democratic party with advocating doc.
trines at war with the interests of the
great masses of the working people of this
country! The working people OF America
are democrats by a large majority, and
tile PrntaptinniatQ he
party wants to reduce the workingmans
wages. How absurd that is
ME-. TuNNELL cHEERED.
At this moment Ebe w. Tunnel tho
Democratic nominee for governor, accom-
panied by Governor Reynolds, Attorney.
General Nicholson, Deputy Attorney
General Branch IL. Giles and Others en-.
tered the room and took seats on the nj Il
form. They were warmly greeted as they
j want to know, continued Senator GRAY
what it is that makes wages better in mis-
country than in others. All authorities
on the subject agree that wages so far
from being helped by protection, are in.
jured by 1t. 1t is the natural wealth of
our Fields and hills, boundless al! over the
land that makes human labor valuable.
Republican speakers assert that because
wages are high in this country they need
protection. If 1t be protection that makes
wages high why is il that wages are
much higher in free trade England than
in protected Germany?
In 1888 Mr.. Harrison was elected and
Mr.. Cleveland laid down the reins Of
power. don't suppose there was one
man IN thousand who then dreamed that
the Republicans intended there should be
an increase in the tariff. Yet, as soon as
they got into power down came the trusts
and monopolies to Washington, their rep.
resentatives crying out, We have con
trihuted to the fund that put the Republi-
can party into power, and we demand that
tins tariff shall be written up for our
benefit John Wanamaker toll the story
of how they contributed. But Mr.. Plumb
said that the protected manufacturers who
got the benefit should have the fat fried
out of them to pay the piper. The speaker
then recounted the history OF how Inc
tariff was written up ON various articles.
in some cases ITO and $50 per cent for the
benefit of protected industries.
But | must be brief in nv remarks
Senator Gray said, because | want TO give
you chance to shake hands with your
next governor. Loud cheers. YJu ey-
pected the Democratic Congress to do as
you, with the rest of the American peopIe
told them in 1892. Mr.. Cleveland and the
Democratic Congress believed it was their
duty to take off something of the burthen
that was pressing American labor to the
earth. They went forth with courage and
high hope to do their best. For 81 years
protection had been entrenched fast in the
Statute books of the country. The moment
the bill was introduced into the Democratic
House. the din of battle was heard. Every
obstacle was placed in the pathway of re.
form. The foremost men that could be
found were in the lobbies to speak and
plead for protection interests. Misintepre
tation and even falsehood was head all
around.
When the bill came to the Senate, with
its little majority of two, with no power to
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