

DELAWARE. 



223 



Tlio number of deaf, dumb, blind, and feeble- 

 minded children provided for by the State is as 

 follows: 



In thr Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb.. T 

 In Hi.' (oluiiibia Institution (Washington) for the liuuf 



and I >uinl) . 2 



In in.- ivninylvaiila Institute for Instruction of the Blind 8 

 In Hi.' Pennsylvania Training-School for Feeble-minded 



Children . 2 



Total. 



It 



STATE SEAL OF DELAWARE. 



The convention of the Republicans of Dela- 

 ware for the appointment of delegates to the 

 National Convention of the party was held at 

 Dover, on the 18th of May. The following 

 resolutions were adopted : 



The Republicans of Delaware, in State Convention 

 assembled, pledging their unalterable devotion to 

 the cardinal principles upon which their party is 

 founded ; and desiring that the integrity of the Gov- 

 ernment shall bo maintained ; that its obligations 

 shall be honestly and fully paid in coin, or obliga- 

 tions convertible into coin at the pleasure of the 

 holder; that its administration shall be honestly 

 and faithfully conducted in all the various branches 

 and departments thereof; and that home industries 

 shall be properly protected, so that the skill and re- 

 sources of our common country shall be rendered 

 remunerative and productive, do declare that in our 

 opinion the national standard-bearer in the centen- 

 nial campaign must be an exponent of the principles 

 herein set forth ; and believing that by a long-con- 

 tinued and active public life, and enlarged experience 

 aa a national legislator and otherwise, and an un- 

 compromising integrity, preserved despite the most 

 persistent and malignant attacks, the Hon. James 

 G. Elaine, of Maine, meets these requirements : 

 therefore 



fiaolved, That our preference be, and the same is 

 hereby, expressed in his favor as an eminently prop- 

 er person to become a presidential candidate, and 

 our delegates to Cincinnati are hereby instructed to 

 observe this preference so long as in their judgment 

 and discretion it may be possible to secure his 

 nomination. 



Suoihud, That in the judgment of this convention 

 the delegates from this State to the National Con- 

 vention, to be held at Cincinnati, should be repre- 

 sentative of the people, disconnected from official 

 position underthe Government of the United States. 



A warm discussion was occasioned by the 

 last resolution, which was understood to be 

 aimed at Dr. J. S. Prettyman, as he held a 

 Federal office, and had been designated as a 

 delegate to the National Convention by a 



caucus of Sussex County. The opposition to 

 him WHS believed to arise not so much from 

 the fact that he held a Federal office as from 

 his known opposition to Mr. Hlaine, and pref- 

 erence for Mr. Jiristow, as the candidate for 

 I'r.'sident. After a heated debate, the Sussex 

 delegation withdrew, and agreed upon another 

 candidate in place of Dr. Prettyman. 



The Democratic State Convention for the 

 choice of delegates to the National Convention 

 at St. Louis was held at Dover, on the 13th of 

 June. The sense of the gathering was ex- 

 pressed in the following resolutions: 



The Democratic party of Delaware, strong in its 

 ancient faith, and loyal to those principle)* of free 

 government upon which the Federal Union was 

 formed, declares 



1. That a strict adherence to, and maintenance of, 

 the limitation of power, contained in the Constitu- 

 tion of the United States, is the sheet-anchor of our in- 

 stitutions, on which the safety of our future depends. 



2. That the attempt of the Federal Administra- 

 tion, now in radical hands, to absorb the police 

 power of the State, to control the election to office 

 by congressional legislation and executive inter- 

 ference, and to substitute a centralized government 

 for the " home rule" of the Constitution, is viewed 

 with alarm, and should be met with the rebuking 

 ballots of a free people. 



3. That the Republican party now in power has 

 prostituted its high trusts to personal and party 

 ends, and, by its flagrant corruption, wrought upon 

 us a national humiliation and disgrace. 



4. That the attempt of President Grant and bis 

 advisers to thwart the Democratic House of Repre- 

 sentatives in the exposure of official fraud and mal- 

 feasance is an outrage upon the whole people whose 

 servants they are. 



5. That the necessities of the times imperatively 

 demand a return to those home-bred virtues of our 

 ancestors, honesty and economy in the administra- 

 tion of public affairs, and to those methods of gov- 

 ernment which will secure a real civil-service re- 

 form, by cutting off a multitude of unnecessary 

 offices, and making preferment in the public service 

 no longer a reward of partisan zeal. 



6. That the currency of a people should constitute 

 in itself a standard and measure of values as well as 

 a calculating medium of exchange, and that to coin 

 money put of gold and silver was the only power on 

 the subject delegated to Congress by the Constitu- 

 tion; that the disregard of this wise limitation of 

 power, and the introduction of an irredeemable 

 paper currency among the people, has caused en 

 enormous increase of the public debt, and has been 

 the prolific parent of wild speculation witli the con- 

 sequent bankruptcy and ruin ; that wisdom and 

 obedience to the charter of our Government alike 

 demand a restoration, at the earliebt possible day, 

 to a money of value of gold and silver coin and a 

 currency convertible therewith at the will of the 

 holder. 



7. That a tariff whose object is to raise revenue, 

 and not to favor special classes, is demanded by tin- 

 interests of the whole people. 



8. That the people or Delaware recognize tho 

 eminent public services of the Hon. Thomas F. 

 Bayard ; that in all public trusts he has been faith- 

 ful to duty, and in his public and private life pure 

 and without blemish, ye, therefore, declare th:t 

 lie be our unanimous choice for the presidency of the 

 United States. 



9. That the delegates to the Democratic National 

 Convention, this day appointed, are hereby in- 

 structed to cast the vote of this State in said con- 

 vention as a unit for the Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, 

 and to use all possible means to secure his election. 



