Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-10-25
came up on the stage to bid goodbye
and thank him for his address.


and thank him for his address.
SENATOR FRYE AT THE AUDITORIUM.
Senator Frye of Maine addressed
Republican massmeeting in the Audi
torium that night on the issues which
the Republicans expect to introduce as
their principal argument this fall, and,
although the speaker was very tedious
at times by reason of his frequent resort
TO statistics, which lie paraded before
his indulgent hearers, the audience was
good.natured and charitable enough TO
bear with the Senator until the end.
The address occupied nearly two hours.
The Auditorium was just about
filled by tho audience who were more
anxious to hear the kind Of argument
the speaker of the occasion would adj
vance than anything else, and many of
them brought their wives and sweet
hearts along to share the burden of the
speakers remarks on the tariff question.
A brass band was sent out to drum up
all the recalcitrant Republicans they
could find and this succeeded in attract
ing q number to the scene of the speech
making who otherwise might not have
been present, There were some decora-
tions on the stage, including flags and
pQtted plants, and directly over the
head OF the speaker some ono had sCs-
pended the words "America First and
the Rest'of the World Afterwards"
Captain Edmund Mitchell, Jr., made
the announcement that Colonel Nelds
had been chosen to preside over the
meeting and as the latter stepped to the
front of the platform, he was greeted
with applause. The Colonel in his in-
trodnctory remarks spoke Of the pros
perity of thecountry during the 30 years
of Republican administration, stated
that we were now reaping the fruits of
the free trade theory put in practice and
uttered one Of President Cleveand's
famous sayings ave are confronted
by condition and not u theory" Hav-
ing said this the Colonel looked sad and
then went on to show how the business
depression had impoverished the work.
ingmen and said there were thousands
of workingmen out of employment to-
day. After citing some of his reasons
for this depression in business, during
which the Colonels face assumed pic
ture of sadness to more marked degree.
he thanked the audience for their kind
indulgence. and then shifted the scenery
by the introduction of the Statistical
Senator from Maine, who was warmly
greeted. -.-
Senator Frye, like Colonel Nields,
began his speech by drawing II word
painting Of the American workingman,
during which be traversed the banks of
the Sandy river in Maine, noted the
men in the fields, the farmers with their
flocks, and compared them before and
after the season of depression in bust.
ness, the blame of which he heaped
upon the Democratic party. He told
his hearers that 1892 was the banner
year in the history of the Republic,
spoke Of the 30 years of Republican rule
as period of business prosperity, but
failed to tell of either the bankrupted
treasury which confronted the Demo-
cratic party on their restoration to
power or the extravaganza of the
billion dollar Congress.
Senator Frye then went on to say
that at the end of these 30 years the
accumulation of wealth in this country
was $30,000,000 more than the whole
world laid up in the same space of time.
"Why Gladstone" continued the
speaker, "twenty years ago in his book
Daughters Beyond the Sea- stated that
the daughter in this country might
some time oyertuke her mother. Sup.
pose he had written this book in 1893,
how different ii would have been. The
very next year was interrupted by u
season of disaster; mills were shut down,
spindles ceased singing, men were
thrown out of work and Coxey's army
IN NaotInnfnh lIpit,fF
that year sos banks closed their doors
and one'sixth of all the miles of rail-
roads went into the hands Of receivers,
foreign commerce dwindled and balance
in trade fell off one half"
The speaker attempted to prove that
the money panic was not due to the
existence of the Sherman act, which
provided for the monthly purchase of
silver. and said that the money panic
was broken before the Sherman silver
purchasing clause was repealed. lie
then went on to give the inside history
of the Sherman act, and paid his re-
spects TO the father of that obnoxious
measure, who singularly enough has
acknowledged that it was compromise
measure. Then followed another half
hour of argument pointing to show the
causes of the depression In business.
lie said it was the shadow of the Demo-
cratic administration which produced
the depression. Damocles' sword was
pointed at the people. The Republi.
cans, like Damocles, were represented
as lying upon their backs with the
SWORD of free trade suspended above
their heads. 1t was this, the speaker
said, that paralyzed business.
Passing from this "scene of desola-
tion,h which he had painted in radiant
colors, Senator Frye turned his aLten-
ton to free ships and said there was
| disposition to shut out the shipyards
here. "rhe Democratic party" he said,
'has reported Free Ship bill In the
| House and propose to import Clyde
built ships to this country without a
dollars worth of duty"
The new tariff bill, he said, pleased
no one except the sugar trust aud the
| whisky trust and made the assertion
that sugar is now II cents higher by
reason of the duty. He next spoke of
| the dutiable articles under tho recently
| enacted tariff bill and tried to show that
| Congress had repealed the tariff on arti-
Giles that were as u rule too costly for
| the average Observation-Disclosures lOr
instance--and placed sugar and other
commodities on the duLiaDle list,
At the conclusion of the address
short speeches were made by Senator
Higgins and the Rev. Jonathan s.
| Willis. There were calls for William S.
Hilles but the latter did not respond.
GERMAN DEMOCRATS.
The meeting at German Hall Thurs
day evening was the largest gathering
| of German citizens ever held in this
| 1, l,,.