The sun., 1900-10-05
REPUBLICAN TICKET
IS RATIFIED By
MONSTER MEETING
Greatest Gathering of Its Kind
Ever Held in State of
Delaware.
OVATION TO NEXT GOVERNOR
He Was an Unpledged Candidate.
Greatest Enthusiasm Expressed.
Speakers Hold Closest At
tention of Audience for
Nearly Three Hours.

The Republican ratification meeting
held ut Tenth and King streets last night
was tn greatest meeting of its kind ever
held i'll Delaware.
The crowd was the largest that ever
gathered at political open air meeting
in this State. The greatest enthusiasm
prevailed and although the meeting con
tinued from o'clock until close to IL
o'clock the immense crowd stayed until
the last, when Il mighty cheer was given
foi. John Hum, the nominee for gover-
nor. and the ticket.
The meeting was called to order by
Philip q. Churchman, Regular Republi-
can State Chairman. Music was fur
nishcd by the First Regiment Band.
Among those seated on the prettily
decorated platform We're: John Hum,
nominee for governor; Herbert II. Ward.
for lieutenant governor; Walter o Hof-
feckpr, for congress, short term: DIR. J..
Heislcr Ball. for congress, long term;
Martin Burris, for treasurer; Dir. George
w. Marshall. for insurance commission
en-: Union Republican State Chairman
j. Frank Alice, j. Edward Addicks, An
thony Higgins, Walter II. HAYES, Will
liam T. Smithers and w. u. Denny of
Dover: Horace G. Knowles, DR.. G. X.
Layton and others.
In opening the meeting Mr.. Church
man said the Republicans had the
strongest ticket they ever had and pre-
dictcd victory in November.
Seth II. Feaster was made chairman,
and at once introduced the first speaker,
Anthony Higgins.
Mr.. Higgins said they had met to
ratify the national and State ticket and
that in addressing them he would not
say fellow Republican citizens ns he be-
lievcd there were many in his audience
who had hitherto voted the Democratic
ticket but had now turned over in their
minds what was right TO do in the fu-
| turc.
| Mr.. Higgins dwelt for time on ma
| final issues. and touched on the results
of the Spanish war, saying among other
things that Porto Rico now shared in
our prosperity. He stated that four
more years Of Mckinley would mean
the building of more ships and more
| prosperity.
He said that it was his desire from
| boyhood and youth that New Castle
county shoud have il good government
out of the hands of the Democrats. He
also wanted to seq the municipality talk
on out of their hands. He desired that
everyone in the State should have
: chance TO vote his convictions freely.
| He praised John Hum, nominee for
governor and the other men on the
ticket. He scored l.. Irving Handy for
giving 16 to its majority of one i'll the
committee at the Kansas City Dcmocra-
| tic Convention, to get it inserted as
plank in the Democratic platform.
He said the Democrats did not seem
to have any paramount issue. 1t had
| first been 16 to 1, then Imperialism. and
now trusts. He said he would leave the
discussion of trust to John Biggs and
| Willard Salisbury. Now he said the
Every Evening said the Democrats
would fight il ont on home issues and he
was glad Of it, He declared that
| Democratic legislative nominee of this
county had declared that if the next
| legislature was Democratic they would
| fix mp matters SO Ms to keep the Rcpub-
cas- out of power for twenty-five years.
| Walter IL. Hayes spoke next and said
the Democratic issues were the Chicago
platform and Il ghost. The ghost he said
was imperialism. This word he said
| meant supreme toHlTbl Hlu vi ''hlS' 'lN
United States desired to have supreme
control. Bryan and Croker he said were
the greatest imperialists in the country.
| Croker and Tammnny Hall made every
body in New York. either get in or get
out. He touched on trusts and said the
| Democrats were opposed to all trusts i'll
which they were not in. He mentioned
such Democratic trusts as the ice and
cotton bale trusts and said the former
trust had forced up the price of lee in
New York from As o SIPS.
| He ridiculed Peter ]. Ford Democratic
nomincc for governor for talking about
|purity of the ballot and said that while
the lcpuhicans were charged with steal
ing IL president, the Democrats in Dea-
ware had stolen constitutional conven-
ton Armed police he said had been
sent to Kent county from this city to in
timidnte people of Georgetown on return
dnv.
! Hc criticised the Democratic control
of the county tax office saving il cost the
county $1S.172 not to collect some S50.-
900 of dclinHuent taxes.
William II. Smithers of Dover spoke
next. He declared that the Democrats
of the State had received their death
blow y week ago when the Republicans
clasned hands over tho grave of their
mast Quarrel and mistakes. He said the
Democrats had done all in their power to
nurse the quarrel and had heen on both
sides at once. He said BRYAN claimed to
he second Moses. hut he had the
strongest set of Isarelites hack of him
and if he succeeded in crossing the Red