The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-10-08

cratic free trade had shut up the mills and
factories and the people who had formerly
Hooked to the market to buy with honest
earned money had now come to 1t to beg
| for charity soup.
Mr.. Eberhart said he had appeared be-
fore the congressional committee in charge
or the tariff hearings. He said he was
| convinced that the Southern Democrats
mad deliberately undertaken to ruin the
| industries OF the North. When manufao-
turer ppeared before the committee and
told the congressman that the proposed
| schedules would close up their factories
these Southern congressman would say:
20, that's a bluff"
There were Northern Democratic con-
| gresspen who saw the mistake the party
was making and would gladly have ac-
knowledged 1t and patriotlcally tried to
legislate for the good of the country, but
| they were bound hand and foot by the
Democrats of the South, who wanted free
| trade, One OF these congressman had said
to the speaker: almost thou persuadest
me to be protectlonist." This man ac-
knowledged that the protection Democrats
were powerless. The South wanted free
trade and the South is the Democratic
party.
These men, said the speaker, had an op-
portunity by simply acknowledging a mis-
take, and that is the only thing to do when
mistake is made, to have earned the
gratitude of their countrymen and to have
gone to honored graves as patriots. They
have missed that opportunity have wasted
it and brought desolation upon the land;
they have robbed the poor people of this
country of their lnalienable right to live,
and to live comfortably from the products
OF their labor. The iron has gone into the
hearts of the laborlng people Of the United
States; they know now how they have
been deceived, the poverty, the want, the
woe everywhere present in this once happy
prosperous land Is the unanswerable proof
Of this deception. The months of idleness
and want since the beginning of the Demo-
cratic administration has destroyed all the
glttering pictures of free trade prosperity,
and the people are coming back to the Re-
publican party. They will grind this
Democratic administration to pieces under
their feet. Applause)
In closing his speech Mr.. Eberhart ad-
vised every dissatisfied Democrat to vote
the straight Republican ticket. II they
wasted their votes in coquettlng with the
Prohibition or Populist parties they endan-
gered the success Of the laborlng peoples
friends. That way OF getting into the Re-
publican party was too long for this crisis.
A few votes for the mushroom parties that
could not succeed in any event might re-
suit In giving the whole case away again.
He said 1t would be a burning shame IL
the one congressman from this state-a
state so thoroughly Identified with the
manufacturing interests of the country,
was not Republican in the next House of
Representatives. He had listened with
great interest to Mr.. Williss address. He
commended his Idea of the true American
spirit. and closed by urging the people to
vote the straight Republican ticket.
HUGH g. BROWNIES SPEECH.
Hugh G. Browne, secretary OF the Re-
publican State Committee, was introduced
and spoke briefly on state issues.
He urged the young men to stand to-
gether for the integrity and prosperity Of
the state. They could not afford to have the
state government remain as IL is, but must
in self-defence move 1t up abreast of the
bigger and more progressive states. He
ridiculed the Democratic claim of honesty.
He said there was little public virtue In
being honest at the expense Of justice and
progress.
He also charged the Democrats of hypo-
critical professions Of love for the public
schools. He said that $4,000 had been
taken from the school fund to pay state
constables appointed to serve the Demo-
cratic party.
The meeting adjourned with three
cheers for the whole ticket.