Middletown transcript., 1896-08-01
CANDIDATES NOTIFIED.

CANDIDATES NOTIFIED.
The notification of the nominees Of
the Georgetown Convention at the
Young Mems Republican Club Rooms
on Wednesday afternoon in Whining
ton and the reception by the club In the
evening were successful in every re-
spect. The speech of State Chairman
Browne was model in patriotism and
party enthusiasm and the acceptance
by Candidate Houston in reply read
like the speech of an old campaigner.
It will add to his popularity with the
Republicans who nominated him as the
young standard bearer in the campaign
The speech OF Mr.. Bird in the formal
notification Of Mr.. Higgins was full
of life and point as are all coming from
him. But few men can arouse ''the
boys" as can Mr.. Bird and he puts them
to work. The acceptance by Mr.. Hig-
gins was just such speech as his war
NEST admirers expected of him. 1t
should be read by every Dslawarean as
every citizens would be proud of John
C. Higgins as Governor of the State,
and without regard to party most men
can approve of the greater part of
what Mr.. Higgins said since it refers
to the progress and welfare of the
State. He said:
"Mr Chairman and Gentlemen of the
Committee: am profoundly sensible of
the compliment involded not only in the
nomination of which you now officially ap-
prize me, bnt also in the kindly and con-
siderate terms in which you have SO grace
fully conveyed it. The action of the
convention came as the unexpected. had
no intimation of such wish or purpose on
the part of any one, much less had sought
to obtain it, You are good enough to say
that it came as the spontaneous and united
wish of that convention. Believing that it
truly represented the people who sent it
there. its voice is theirs, and l am con.
strained to accept itsimandate a. call to
duty; and to one who desiie, To be q
worthy son Of the noble state such call
is imperative.
I'VE are not without our political trou-
bles and they .place added obligations for
such service. Delaware, with q population
not much above that of Lancaster county.
Pa, has two senators and representative
in Congress. state officers and three county
organizations with all the officers that are
appurtenant thereto-to say nothing of
municipal affairs. Is it any wonder that
Delawareans are politicians and that dur
ing election periods the political furnace
sometimes gets heated, seven time hotter
than its wont-so that those that are too
near its flames or too jealous in their ef-
forts become sacrifice to its destructive
forces? The very embarrassment of our
political riches thus becomes a dividing
and weakening element in the conduct of
political affa irs; and times are when men
take decidedstand for what they believe to
be the welfare of their State.
"For love of country and to preserve the
Union sons of Delaware freely and in large
number gave their lives in our great civil
war. Many, too, are to-day its lingering
victims whose shortened lives are, we trust
made tolerable by the action of the repub-
lie whose life they helped to save. If so
great price was paid for national unity
and to protect our liberties, what shall be
done to preserve them? This is the supre-
me question that every good citizen is
bound to answer. If he fails to do it in q
manly and patriotic way our civilization is
doomed. He may secure an Office for few
years perhaps-but for that mess of pottage
he will have exchanged the noblest birth
right ever vouchsafed to man. What a
heritage it is!
with delightful climate. well-drain-
ed. well-watered soil, fertile, easily cult
yated. of wide range af adaptability, con-
tiguous to many noble cities; with Wilm-
ington and its superb industrial and COM
merical developement; with charming
towns, villages and hamlets to concentrate
population, and consumption to the
products of an agriculture that cannot any
where be excelled for skill. intelligence and
enterprise; with ocean. bay, river, creek
and lake teeming with fin, fur and feather
where can Delaware be surpassed? Its
population is spirited, intelligent, neighbor-
ly and industrious. Its school system.
from the primary to the college is well
developed and needs only an organizing
hand to become the equal of any: Its
churches are as numerous and as we'll sup
ported, probably, as those of any popula-
ton of similar size anywhere-and, be-
lieve, that when the history of this fnan-
cial depression shall be written, chapter
will be devoted to the sacrifices that were
made to carry on the work of religion and
charity.
I" Our people desire progress. As much
possibly as any man in the State for the
past ten years have been thrown in in
innate relation with the people of the
whole state, and know whereof 1 speak.
They have given much of their time to the
study of civil, social, economic and educa-
tional questions. They have for many
years begged for a constitutional conyen-
tion, which if sooner obtained might have
preveE ted some of our present difficulties.
They have had all of the earnest yearning
for fitting, and, therefore, free, honest,
equal and unselfish administration of state
affairs that comes to every one who for
moment considers its necessity. They knew
there had been drifting away from the
purity and simplicity of our first estate and
they did and do want to return to it. They
want to hand their birthright, unimpaired,
to their children.
thine after time campaigns have been
fought upon such issues, and for a time ex-
pectation ran high, but in the main the
people feel that political schemes have
Jared better than for the aspirations for a
better administration of the laws and equal
lily under them. Many are looking forward
to 1896 as year of the beginning of better
things. The constitutional convention has
conoe. tho manila aro ahout tn mama thar