Evening journal., 1898-10-29

in part: Ladies and Gentlemen and
Fellow Citizens: Though l come
amongst you almost a total stranger,
shall not apologize for my presence,
fer knew before l came that any man
coming within your borders who bears
an honest reputation will be given a
generous welcome.
The fame OF your hospitality is as
broad as this land, and know that
citizen Of Texas is as welcome here as
a citizen of your state would be Ia
Texas. Tonight we bend the two.
Sometimes they are spoken OF as the
greatest and the least, but taken in
other ways than acreage, Delaware is
among the greatest. From the founda-
ZION Of the state until now Delaware
has been able to point to her repre-
|sentatives in the Senate and House,
and claim them among the greatest.
In all her history Delaware has never
sent a man to Congress who took
higher position in a shorter time than
Mr. Handy. None Of the members have
commanded more respect. II the peo-
pie OF this state knew him as / know
him; If they knew how he stands, he
would be elected almost unanimously
Go take the record. 1t speaks for him
as it has seldom spoken for any man
during his first term. He viii be elect
ed, for he deserves to be.
Some Of you will say you cannot ap-
prove him because of his politics. None
of us is as good as his politics, for
they are of pure, undefiled Democracy.
In your own business you would not
turn aside a tried workman for one
untried and unknown. Select your Of
hcers as you would your servants, for
they are your servants. 1t was so in
tended, but Sometimes they strive to b.
your masters.
Delaware was Democratic when the
Republican party was twenty times
better than it is now. l do not be-
lieve there is money enough to buy
this little commonwealth. Sometime
the Democrats quarrel among them
selves. or course our friends who IA
gored sound money were wrong. Tney
helped the Republicans because they
were hungry None of US were d.
charitable as we should have been
They called us cranks and we calieC
them gold bugs; they called us repudi
ationists and we called them poems o
the corporations. Finding the Demo
Gratis had made a mistake in actini
with the Republicans, the Republican
tried to hold up the administration
They wanted to talk of the war, unit
they found out how badly the war wa
carried on The Republicans had to ap
point a commission to investigate. Tn
chairman was Granville p. Dodge, VIII
was convicted Of fraud in the Unioi
Pacific matter They summoned tn
. generals to testify. No one said tina
= the generals we're ill-treated. The
fared sumptuously where champaign
$ and apollinaris flowed Why did the
b not summon that Baptist preache
7 who said that the reconcentrados wer
better treated than our soldiers, @
that Catholic priest who declared tina
T. he saw a brave young soldier sui1ei
ing with fever. dying in the rain.
r TELL me that this great country wi
j give its sanction to this treatment? W
= eove them what money they wanted.
never fight Republican when he is
the head Of this nation, and is fghtir
foreign foe. I will join with hir
F. but when the fight is over we mu
e know how that money was spent. "
Il suspended the law requiring bids Il
Il SUPPLIES, because the American soldi
l. could not wait. We said 90 into Il
} markets Of the world and buy. II the
u bought tainted meat from those WI
contributed to the campaign fund, thu
81 must answer. II they appointed hor
p doctors to attend the soldiers th'
r must answer. DR.. Huidekoper, WI
% WIG in charge Of a surgeons work
10 .ho army, had been doctoring hors
=, and dogs for fifteen yeaSS- Then fouoN
this Peace Commission to Paris to Sc
10 t.e question which should have be-
3 eattled in Washington. They lodge
lie The finest rooms in the finest hotel
l. Paris; rooms reserved for royalty. III
10 is the way Republicans treat rich al
a poor. Maybe they are honest about
~ when they came to levy taxes
p this war they put them on the poe
ar The man who buys a piece OF tobac
Id pays more war tax toward the W
he than William Waldorf Astor pays
y $50. 900. 900 Of property in New Yol
They exempt these men and lay 1t up
NJ your STOPPING shoulders. On the m
OF who smokes a 10-cent cigar they laid
tax of ner cent; on a man W
ds smokes a scent cigar. per cent, a
nj on the man who buys cheap smoki
: tobacco. they laid 20 per cent. The 7
nuhicans themselves owe il to the
Ke selves to punish their party for its &C
.es This bill teens with injustice.
I What do they mean, when We me
- X omen the mints to the coinage