The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-07-01
A MONSTER
MEETING.
Republicans Ratify the Noni-
nation of Mckinley and
Hobart.
4 LARGE CROWD PRESENT.
Speeches Delivered by Many
Prominent Republicans.

Prominent Republicans.
with the knowledg that they had ticket
which was sure I'd win, 1000 Republicans
met at Tenth and King streets last night to
ratify the nomination OF Mckinley and
Hobart as the standard bearers Of the Re-
publican party. The streets around the
stand were crowded with enthusiastic Re-
pubiicans who cheered the speakers. The
First Regiment Band furnished music.
Hugh G. Browne called the meeting to
order and asked that Charles Baird be
made chairman. Mr.. Baird was chosen
I with applause.
Mr.. Baird said in part:
We are here to ratify the choice Of the
Republican convention at st. Louis. The
convention met under extraordinary cir
cumstances. The country had been plunged
Into trouble. Men have asked for work
without being able to find 1t. Now we pro-
pose to show other countries and people in
our own country as well, what we can do.
TO secure prosperity we have but TO put
In office the man whose life has been given
TO the service Of his country-that stalwart
statesman, William Mckinley To give
him companion we have called upon our
sister state to serve us, and she gave us
Hobart.
General James II. Wilson was the first
speaker He said:
GENERAL WILSON'S SPEECH.
' ''This is no ordinary occasion. We have
come together to ratlfy the nomination Of
our candidates for President ard Vice
President and to declare our adherence to
the platform upon which they stand. These
candidates were selected with a unanimity
rarely ever equalled in modern days. And
they were selected by the people, not by
the bosses, and the people will elect them
in November by an overwhelming ma
5orty. Senator Thurston, who easily car
ried off the first honors at st. Louis as ora
tor and statesman said in tones of impas-
stoned eloquence this is the year of the
people, when all must bow to their sover-
oign will You will all remember how the
Democratic orators, during the last cam
paign with singular unanimity declared
that the Mckinley tariff was a robber
tariff; that the manufacturers were robber
barons, that they had not divided fairly
with the laborins men; that their hands
had been rammed down into the laboring
mans pockets up to the elbows; that the
prosperity which seemed to prevail under
the Mckinley tariff was fctitious that the
rich were growing richer and the poor
poorer; that the right thing to do was to
vote for Cleveland; elect a Democratic Con-
gress. which would repeal that iniquitous
measure the Mckinley tariff act, adopt |
free trade, capture the markets of the |
world and thus create an unlimited de- |
mand for the products of our manufactures
and our farms; that then wages would rise, !
and wheat would sell for dollar and a |
quarter a bushel. All the demagogues |
Populists, Anarchists, Single Takers and |
free silver men Joined in the hue and cry. |
By the aid of disqualified Republicans |
Cleveland was elected and Coxey and his |
army marched on to Washington. The Will |
&c. tariff bill vas passed and reciprocity |
was repealed, but long before the Wilson
bill had found its place on the statute
books, the deluded voter, the Democrat as /
well as the Republican, they had beguiled |
away from the party which had given them
such prosperity for thirty years as the |
world had never known: like the foolish /
boy that hitched himself to the mule to
take him down to water, knowed he had
made mistake the very first jump the
mule took.
In few short weeks shops and factor
les were closed or running on half or
quarter time, and laboring men Of this
hitherto prosperous and happy land were
walking the streets in idleness by thou
sands. A blight had fallen upon the coun-
try-wages had declined. Wheat, instead
of selling at a dollar and a quarter a
bushel, soon sold for lower prices than at
any time since the introduction Of steam
boats and railroads for its cheap transpor-
tation to market. The Wilson bill, with
its free trade tariff, and the repeal OF
the provisions Of law, giving us reciprocity |
with foreign nations, like Brazil, which
furnishes us with coffee. and the Spanish
American countries, which supply us with
sugar and hides, had failed to capture the
markets Of the world. They had failed to
fll up the Treasury but had left the
revenues too small by s26O. 100000 in three
years. Under it the government is bank
rupt. or would have been but for the pa
triotism Of the people, who have money
to invest, and have lent it freely to the
Treasury at fair rate of interest.
To-day is everywhere discomfort and un-
happiness. The Republican party which
has conceived and passed all the great
remedial measures of the last third Of a
century, comes to you now with an able |
and honest ticket, and platform sound
In every plank. 1t asks the people to
again put 1t in charge Of the government.
And will you not do it? 1t comes to you
with unanimty never surpassed. Its
representatives gathered from all parts of
the Union-the East the West. the South
all speak to yon in the same tongue; all
favor the revision of the tariff, the re-
establishment Of reciprocity; all favor the
maintenance Of the present gold standard
by which paper and silver dollars, for capt.
talist and laboring man alike, are made
worth 100 cents all the world over; all
favor the Monroe Doctrine all favor the |
re-establishment Of the merchant marine;
all favor the protection Of American la
bor and American capital all favor good |
9th with the Union veterans and with
Unions creditors, and all favor the
ition Of Mckinley and Hobart. l.
aus stands the gfand Old Republican
y, where It has always stood for the !
,le. for law. for prosperity. for justice
for fair and honest dealing, and for
eater America
let us now consider for = moment the
position Where is it? Who Is it?
hat is it? Look to Chicago! There Its
convention is assembled, but what spec.
tacie 1t presents. Torn by faction and di-
*ided, l will not say on the tariff, for that,
thank God, is settled, but on the money ]
question, hopelessly, irreconcllabiy torn
the representatives Of the West ,and South
crying out for free siver-the representa-
Etives of the East, favoring honest money.
The very phrase which l have Just ut
fered indicates what they think Of those
who oppose them. All the great leaders
|bf the party, Cleveland, Gray, Whitney,
c.nll ptn jip,a l
honey All the little leaders Of the party,
Harris, Uhe unrepentant rebeD, Jones,
GBoies, Stone. Blackburn, and the list OF no.
bodies. whose names are unknown beyond |
fheir counties, are ciamoring for free sill.
Ser as the panacea which is to cure all
Ahe Ills OF the body polite! But this Is
mot ALL Altgeld, the anarchist, Bloody !
Brides" Waite, Tillman PETER and But
der, tho Populists, and doubtless Coxey
and Debs, with ruin and disorder in their !
[train. are also there in person or by proxy