Middletown transcript., 1897-11-13

| We believe that the success of our party
is essential to the best interests of Delaware
The reign of Democracy in this state ha!
been too long and constant. The past
twenty years or more have been period Of
degeneracy in that party. The Democratic
leaders of generation ago haye been dis.
placed by a class of men less competent,
but more unscrupulous--even the semblance
of political integrity has been laid asid e
and these rayishers of ballot-boxes and dis
franchisers of freemen have gloried in their
effrontery and fattened on their spoils. I'm
and still the public debts augmented; the
funds of the state have been used by the m
for partisan purposes, and their legislators
have from time to time played into the
hands of corrupt lobby. Some of their
prominent officials have openly defaulted.
while others adroitly continue their specu-
lations under the protection Of the party
lest crimes should be discovered and pun
ished they have perpetuated their success
sion:
Firstly DISTINGUISHING honorable citizens;
second, by bribery; third by frauds at the
polls; fourth, by false counts; fifth by re-
fusing to tabulate election returns; sixth, by
usur patton. violence and revolution;
seventh, by the passage of laws enacted for
and deeds;and eighth, by packing grand and
petit juries from the members of their
party, that these violators of law should 60
unwhipped of Justice
In short. nothing has been too unjust
for their approval, or too mean for their
CONFERENCE.-The shotgun policy of the
South in its worst days, and Ku-klukisms
in its most violent forms, have failed to
furnish specimens of political disorder so
contemplate, cowardly, and unjust, as has
been exhibited by the modern leaders of the
Democracy of this, the Oldest, and once the
most honored of the sisterhood of states.
While we view with adherence the theft
of the five seats in the constitutional con.
ven tion by the Democrats and their allies,
and most earnestly and heartily con denim
that crime. yet. as that convention has in
the main formulated and promulgated
constitution that is a great improvement
on the old one. We hereby approve and
ratify that constitution, reserving the right,
however to contest in the courts those pro-
visions of it which deny to persons of the
right to trial by jury, as it heretofore
existed in this state, and as we believe is
guaranteed by the Constitution of the
United States, we shall also use every effort
to render this unjust apportionment made
by that convention of the senatorial and
representative districts more fair and Just
We therefore call upon all voters of our
beloved state to give their support in the
coming campaign of 1893 to the party that
gave full liberty to the nation-that recon-
structed and made more permanent the
Union out of the chaos of direful civil
war-that re-established the national credit,
restored specie payments. extended and
fostered commerce and manufactures
The party that is pledged to the enlarge
ment of intelligence, the security of per-
sonal liberty-the improvement of our riv-
ers and harbors, that is pledged to support
those men who'll the hour of the country's
danger, made every sacrifice for its preser-
vation and the promotion of the peace and
prosperity of the people. The party of the
American, as contradistinguished from all
others. The party that glories in American
ideas That believes in manhood, an d des-
pises the hollow mummeries of a rotten
aristocracy. The party of the poor man.
of the whole people, of all patriots.
And We. the true representatives of the
Republican party of Delaware, in conven-
ton assembled extend our hands to all or
gonizations and welcome to our ranks all
men who believe and subscribe to the fore
going declaration of principles.