The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-07-30
take decided stand for what they believe

so bieot pilCo was pau IDT HdtlOna
unity and to protect our liberties. what
shall be done TO preserve them? This is
the supreme question that every good Citi
zen is bound to answer II he fails to dc
1t in manly and patriotic way our civil.
zation Is doomed. lie may secure an Office
for few years perhaps-but for that mess
OF p0ttage he will have exchanged the no.
blest birtbrIght ever vouchsafed to man
What heritage II Is!
with a delightful climate, a we'll
drained. well watered soil, fertile easily
cultivated. of wide range OF adaptability,
contiguous to many noble cities; with Will
mngton and its superb industrial and com
mercial development; with charming
towns, villages and hamlets to concentrate
population, and give consumption to the
products of an agriculture that cannot
anywhere be excelled for skill, intelligence
and enterprise; with ocean. bay, river.
erik and lake tceming with fin, fur and
feather-where can Delaware be sur
passed? Its population is spirited, intelli-
gent, ncighborly and Industrious. Its school
system, from the primary to the college is
well developed and needs only an organic
iHS ~ 'h6 Nlhdi VI any. 40
churches are as numerous and as well sup
ported, probably. as those of any popula-
tion of similar size anywhere-and, | be-
licve. that when the history of this iinan :
cial depression shall be written, a chapter
will be devoted to the sacrifices that were
made to carry on the work of religion and
charity.
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 speak
They have given much of their time to the
study Of civil. social economic and educa-
iional questions. They have for many
years begged for constitutional conven-
tiun. which II sooner obtained might have
prevented some Of our present difficulties
They have had all OF the earnest yearning
Tor fitting and, therefore, free, honest
equal and unselhsh administration of state
affairs that comes to every one who for a
moment considers It's necessity They
knew there had bean drifting away from
The pIuiy and simplicity Of our first es-
tate and they did and do want to return To
unimpaired. to their children.
Time after time campaigns have been
fought upon such issues, and for 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
ity under them. Many are looking forward
to 1896 as il year OF the beginning OF better
thugs. The constitutional convention has
como. the people are about to name their
wisest and most trusted who shall prepare
fundamental law replete with all that
our sister states have yet devised and ap-
proved together with what shall be original
with themselves. aud specially applicable
to Our condition.
eff, sir We shall be so happy as to con-
duct the coming campaign upon broad
principles, with strong advocacy of these
demonstrating and invoking the aid OF
all good men-we may engage the conf
deuce and assistance of these of whom
have been speaking. Parties are breaking
up as in go and 81 party ties broke like
flames touches cord-so now our people are
in deep concerned for the future Of our ma
tional government and party ties will no
longer hold them. Fortunately the Repub-
ican party has for Its leader a strong,
equabie man: massive in his citizenship
and all the characteristics that go to make
up human reliabllity--and he stands upon a
plain, Just conservative. patriotic and un-
euniyGIal platform. His competitor is COM
rarativeiy young and untried. The nation
has never given him its confidence. He is
revolutionary in his tendencies, emotional,
unrestrained and under influences and with
affiliations probably more than tending to
the anarchial. Partisanship ends when such
a choice only is given TO the patriotic voter,
and he must prefer the safer man. Let us
then as far as we may determine upon a
campaign OF accommodation and COnserva-
tisrn aud strive to aid our nation and our
state to achieve all that seems to be right
and possible.
In the years of organized effort for the
oisvatlun OF ourselves and our fellow-citi-
zofs. of which | have already spoken, !
have been thrown with fellowworkers in
relations that precluded party politics. |
have passed years OF intercourse with some
OF the most valued of them without know
ing to what party they belonged. To be in an
atmosphere of effort thus exalted is one of
the privileges OF a lifetime. From 1t one
cannot step down into the traditional acri-
m0ny OF a political contest. | am sure you
will not require It of me. No one doubts
MY Rebutlicapism. let no one expect of me
any other than the even tenor of the way
your noInihation seems to have approved.
Il need not promise you, gentlemen Of
It ,y l,a 10
who sent that convention to Georgetown,
that if am elected will give the best ef-
forts of MY life to the faithful discharge of
the duties of the chief executive office of
my native state. 1t remains then, sirs,
only to say that accept the high honor of
this nomination with all Of the obligations
and duties 1t imposes, leaving the issue,
under God. to the people of Delaware
MR.. HOUSTON NOTIFIED.
When tbs applause of Mr.. H!ggins's ac-
ccptarce had subsded Hugh G. Browne
aross 10 notify Mr.. Houston of his nomi-
nation for member OF Congress. He said:
"Th. echoes Of the last shot had died
away. human rights as guaranteed under
the Constitution haI cease! to be mock
cry, aud freedom had become fact; tho
Federal Union had been vindcated; when
the younger generation, men Of our age,
first saw the light OF day. The immortal
Lincoln mad passed away at the hand Of
the fowl assassin, but the span CT our
lives has en- braced Grant. Hayes, Garfield,
Arthur, Blaine. Harrison and Mckinley.
That span has covered the reconstruction
of the Union, the maintenance Of the ma
tional credit, and period Of prosperity
never equa!led in history. We have seen
G nation baskinS in The sunlight OF pros
perity and we have seen 1t overhung with
the black pail OF commercial stagnation.
financial panic ard business depression. We
see It to-day standing at the fork Of two
roads, one leading 70 d!sh0nor, repudia-
tion and anarchy. tho other to law and
order, national honor and national integ-
rity. As in the dark days of '6l the Re-
publican party stood for freedom, for the
Federal Union. and for the national homer
so this year the Republican party stands
for freedom and not for anarchy and COM
munlsm stands for the national credit
and the honor Of the Republic. III the dark
est days Of the Republic twas the Repub-
lican party that rescued the nation from
the disutegraton and preserved 1t in its
entity, 90 to-day against the assaults Of
free trade and a debased and dem9ralzed
currency the nation again cries out that