Evening journal., 1900-10-05
CITY REPUBLICANS RATIFY
HARMONY TICKET BEFORE
VAST GATHERING OF VOTERS
CcOntnued From First Pngs).

rt-ttcCftN mas n utaH lNraDit htAS
is no doubt this year that on the s-
sues that are before MS, that the pro.
pie OF the United SItes win re-Uleul
William Mckinley. (Apnlause). No
man can occupy the chair OF chief
executive OF this country withous max.
inc some enemies. Beixs president
the chances are always weakened
rather than strengthened. believe
that when the historian writes Of the
next four years he Will record On that
scroll OF paNiOtism and fame the rec
ord OF William Mckinley. When Mr..
1 Mckinley entered upon the duties OF
his high position he was bound TO pro
lection and sound money. / VIII Rot
stop 70 count The achievements h0 has
attained. The great oblsGts of demes'
I tic concern are that we realize at last
the place chat ths United states has
taken among natone % the earth.
I With one stroke We swept cruel, re-
mOrseless, deerspit, ola Spain from Tie
Western Hemisphere. We have hftsa
the yoke from Cuba, and have given
/ freedom to Porto Rico and chance 70
share in the good things enjoyed In The
| United States. We have taken In the
]
now In China. William Mckinley VIII
[ hs reelected, and we will retain pro
lection and honest money. SOUND
money will continue 10 be the medium
/ OF exchange throughout the world. We
will put statutes on the books that
VIII restore American-built ships On
the high seas.
For yice-president we have named
Theodore Roosevelt He il an Ameri-
can in every fibre of his bcdy, O pa.
triot and a statesman. We will elect
aim vlce-president and four years
hence we will elect him president
Deep as has been my interest Ia na-
uonal AFFAIRS. J nave gfton wished that
the United States would let us settle
our own affairs / have often wished
that we might be able to give this
country as good an administration as
did the Wings 1t has been hard a,
times to live under these d mocrai-
laws, but thank God they have been
wiped cn Every mans vote is now
counted and the majority IS now Oh
our side. We have named @ Ueke
which viii he elected. The power OF
appointing county Officers has beaI
: rightly taken from the governor anC
he has been given the wholesome vet
. power. Il Is almost impossible for !
law to pass without his consent Thi
is a great power but we have az hon
est and courageous man who VIII b
able to intelligcntly consider this mat
. ted. We have much TO DO in recon
structing tho state. for since 1855
there has not been Legislature f.
which both houses were Republican
laws must be enacted TO regulate take
to prevent stealing. We have q nal
d in honest. Quaker born, New Cast
, county horn, upright John HUM, Go
/ bless him and holp elect him.
For Neutenaut-gOyerno we hav
Phiiip l. Cannon that son az 5uasal
? He Is in every way capable Cf nltn
the office Of governor, though he vi
r not succeed John HUM. For the snOi
p. term in Congress we have o enn " biz
% for whom we must all drop a iear Fl
4 Congress we have DR.. Bah. and we ai
going to elect him to show people whl
. kind Of men we have here. ia Nj
= Creek hundred he has raised the Nc
b jOrity from 75 to 250, and thet is nc
bad.
r 'For state treasurer We have Mart.
- q. BHrris, and no money VIII
!, stolen while he is treasurer. Purni
2. Normal Jr., win audit the a.
y counta
, "I.ast. but not least. IL Dr.. George v
q Marshall for insurance commissions
p voted for him for Congress In the COZ
venhon. Big hearted. genial. he Is
patriotic Delawarean, a worthy son
l. Delaware COllege-he viii make a got
Insurance commissioner. OF my frier
n Ward / cannot say oil / would iik
The lawyers who have felt his ste
3. believe he will make such an attOrne
general as we never had"
o Mr. Higgins then proceeded % r
. view the administration Of Preside
Cleveland and the action OF the Oh
Is cago convention.
"sixteen to one he said, %. was r
I'd vived at Kansas City. and your repr
N sentative, Handy, gave the major ~ 7
IT, Thus we went on issues from q
e tariff to free silver and thence % q
Chicago platform. Then when II w
reahirmed we thought we had Z
le Democrats pinned to an issue b
'i- when Mr. Bryan accepted he made 9
issue imperialism. Then with Crok
's- and the New York Journal On one 81
and Bryan on the other, they ma
is the issue trusts. For particulars I
60 ator. John Diggs and Willard Sau
bury. Now, like the Iishmans a
i. they have jumped again and decls
~ the issues in this state are home ifsu
=, This is whore we want them. We
nd not forget that for twenty-five yei
IT, they refused to allow us to vote. ih
nm shall not Gosbelize the state. In IL
rs. lucky the laws were once fair,
rs. they have been changed. Thsy
-rd nullifying the fifteenth amendment
rs. those Southern states. / go gunnl
ar in North Carolina, and there is
led more fear Of negro domination th
est than in this county A responsi
Democrat has said that II they gaiI
% the Legislature this time they wo
~ keep control for twenty-five years.
~, the last Legislature they had char
'n' for this city which would have gi'
John Dickey control for six years
OF "We are going to vote for prosper
irs. We will vote to put shipping b.
and upon the seas. We are going TO Y
.on, to make Delaware Republican
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