Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-09-27
of all the people, for all the

citizens as bounty and benefactlon.
That is the Democratic theory. That is
what you and |, my Democratic friends,
believe in. That is our creed, and it is
as sacred to us in one sense as the creed
of the Holy Church. We believe in these
principles, and that is why, year after
year, we find this old patty still arrayed
against new forms of antagonism, against
new enemies, against mistaken senti-
ment, here and there. but always pre-
senting the same brave front, and
always holding high the standard of the
peoples government. Applause.
Now, my friends, 1 have been ad-
monished this evening that this is a rati-
tication meeting in which there are II
number of true and tried Democrats, |
whom you all know and delight to
honor, who will have the privilege OF |
speaking to you, and to whom you will |
have the satisfaction of listening. We
are here tonight to give each other the
warm grasp OF fellowship, and to resolve
highly and bravely that VIC will carry
the candidates that we have nominated
to victory. Great applause.] We are
here to ratify, as the call for this meet
ing expressed it, the nominations which
the organization of this old party of
ours in Delaware, this old time-honored
organization has put forward for the
| sulfrages of the people in the State, and
to ratify the choice that your State con-
vention mas made for governor Of Della
ware, and to agree that we will place
that honest, that good citizen and that
sterling Democrat, Ebe w. Tunnel,
| Tgreat applause ut the head of our
| State government. do not know how
many men here know him, but as one
who has known him nearly lifetime,
| can tell those who do not that none
know him but to honor him; none name
him but to praise him.
Your State convention also, in the
performance of its duty, was called
upon by you to name for your suffrages,
representative in Congress-and that
was no tritling duty to perform. In this
crisis of our affairs, when privilege, and
capital and corporation greed are max
ing assaults upon the citidels of your
liberties, you want man there who
knows how to defend the peoples
rights against the attacks, the combined
attacks, of trusts, corporations and
greedy protected capital. And where
could they have looked for man to
hold higher the standard of tariff
reform? Where could they have found
man that would tread more loyalty in
the footsteps of that great chiettain OF
. your cause, Grover Cleveland great
applausel than Samuel Bancroft. Jr. p
the honest, intelligent fellow-citizen of
) yours and mine who has illustrated by
, a lifetime in your midst the virtues of a
high citizenship, and demonstrated to
oil who know him, his intelligence and
familiarity with those great truths that
: lie at the bottom of this great cause fol
i, which we are all enlisted. Applause.
My fellow citizens, one thing is GER
, tain. One thing you may write dowr
= as fixed. One thing can be extracted
! from this chaos of political sentimen
! and conflicting opinioLs, and that il
: that this great cause OF tariff reform
that you carried to such triumph il
1899, is not going to fail now, or taxi
I any backward step, but keep right OF
= = ana forward in the path in which tn
! people of this country placed it ol
. the 9Th of November two year
! ago. Do not be afraid, my friends
. when you hear your Republican
y neighbor talk to you about the fail
Y ure of this great cause of the people
J Do not lose faith when you hear ou
y enemies who are trying to sow dlscor
In your ranks, and are really dismayec
So though they pretend to be courageou
IL and whistle to keep their courage NJ
Do not be afraid when they tell You this
II the cause of tariff reform has receive
" any back.set or disaster in the two veal
: that have succeeded the election {
Il 1892. Why, my friends, strange as
'r may sound, these Republican enemies {
Q tariff reform of the Democratic part
ie and of the Democratic theory of govern
Y ment, profess that they are very muc
IT, concerned, very much distressed becau!
~ the Democratic party has not kept i
OF pledges. Now | do not know, but
u think that they may save their tears an
y. their lamentations for occasions thi
will betit them more than any dereli
or ton OF the Democratic party in u
past. We will give them something
of shed tears about ON the 9th OF ne
he November, unless | am mistaken.
ng think that we can bear the criticism
ty the Republican who tells us, you ~
dis me. who believe in this thing, th
"after all you have not kept the pledg
of your party and that, therefore, "
must 90 out Of power" Let US see
lust a brief moment that | will allu
myself to trespass upon your XII
attention so long, as to explain whal
mean. The Democratic party in Is
told the American people that the NJ
Kinley high protection was humb
and o fraud that their protection was
sham; that instead of protecting I
masses of the American people and
, toilers of this great country, it mere
protected those who wrote the sche
ules of the Mckinley law for their oN
benefit and left the masses of the peol
:.. to shift for themselves. Now | want
:::::::' know whether we have kept any of G
=; pledges in regard to that law. /
eg Mckinley bill is no longer on
IA statute book, thank God great {
ii plausel and the very day that its rep
- went into effect the skies frightened
81 around tile horizon. You breathcd fir
~ air. You were once more brought bi
~ to your own again. No longer cou
= what Mr.. Cleveland called Mad p
tection," rob you in the name of
American workingman. They took
dollars out of the pockets of the mas
of the people in the name of Americ
labor, and put them into the pockets
lam. the private beneficiary for whom
c;ol tariff laws were made. That, in a la
mo. measure, has been remedied by this
rido Democratic Congress which you hel
as ~ I to send to Washington. 1t
ow- very true that We have not d
'Ie I ali that we wished to do, and gu
q n that is one reason why are Republi
I Tho friends are so distressed. They wo
yelI like us to stop, but when we get go
md We do not stop until we reach the {
We 4 for which we started. We were
nv able TO do all we intended to do al