DELAWARE. 



187 



Association for the Education of Colored Peo- 

 ple. 



The number of indigent deaf and dumb, in- 

 digent blind and insane, and also the number 

 of indigent feeble-minded children now main- 

 tained in the various institutions outside of the 

 State, the expense of which is apportioned to 

 the different counties, are as follow : 



In the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb.. 1 



In the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb 10 



In the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the 



Blind 2 



In the Pennsylvania Training-School for Feeble-minded 



Children 2 



In the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane 2 



Total IT 



The population of the State as finally returned 

 in 1880, and as compared with the returns for 

 1870, is as follows : 



Of the population in 1880, 74,108 were males 

 and 72,500 females; 137,140 native and 9,468 

 foreign born; 120,160 white and 26,448 col- 

 ored. 



Of the population, but 35,965 were not na- 

 tives of the State. Of the foreign population, 

 5,791 are of Irish, 1,433 of English, 1,179 of 

 German, 285 of Scotch, and 208 of Canadian 

 birth. Of the native population born else- 

 where than in Delaware, 11,059 were from 

 Pennsylvania, 9,562 from Maryland, 2,238 

 from New Jersey, 1,321 from New York, 642 

 from Virginia, 264 from Massachusetts, 217 

 from Connecticut, and 1,194 from various 

 other States of the Union. 



There were in the State 38,298 males twenty- 

 one years of age and over, of whom 27,447 

 were native whites, 4,455 foreign whites, and 

 6,396 colored. Of persons ten years old and 

 upward, 16,912 were unable to read, and 19,- 

 414 were unable to write, of whom 6,630 were 

 native whites, 1,716 foreign whites, and 11,- 

 068 colored. There were living in the United 

 States 155,517 natives of Delaware. 



According to the census, the State produced 

 3,894,264 bushels of corn, 378,508 of oats, and 

 1,175,272 of wheat. Accurate statistics of the 

 yield of peaches and berries are not at hand. 

 There were on farms 21,933 horses, 3,931 mules 

 and asses, 5,818 working-oxen, 27,284 milch- 

 cows, 20,450 other cattle, 21,967 sheep, and 

 48,186 swine. 



The following are statistics of Delaware's 

 manufactures : Number of establishments, 746 ; 

 capital, $15,655,822 ; males above sixteen years 

 of age employed, 10,250 ; females above fifteen 

 years of age employed, 1,426 ; children and 

 youths employed, 962; yearly wages, $4,267,- 

 349; value of materials, $12,828,461 ; value of 

 products, $20,514,438. Nine States are infe- 

 rior to Delaware in manufacturing interests. 



The statistics of Delaware's cotton manu- 

 factures are: Establishments, 8 ; capital, $874,- 

 570; spindles, 46,188; looms, 822; officers 

 and operators, 797 ; bales of cotton consumed, 

 7,512; pounds, 3,236,184; cost of cotton, 

 $427,855; pounds of product, 2,867,969; 

 yards, 8,644,028; wages of operatives, $192,- 

 727 ; value of products, $871,007. 



POLITICAL CONVENTIONS. Under the present 

 Constitution each county has three Senators 

 and seven Representatives in the Legislature, 

 while the population of New Castle County is 

 greater than that of Kent and Sussex together. 

 This inequality furnished the chief local issue 

 in the politics of the year. Both political par- 

 ties pronounced in favor of a remedy, and 

 Governor Hall, in his message, uses the fol- 

 lowing language on this point : " The large 

 growth of population and wealth in New 

 Castle County since the adoption of the pres- 

 ent Constitution has rendered an increase of 

 representation from that county in the Legis- 

 lature a necessity. It is your duty, therefore, 

 to adopt such legislation as will result in the 

 accomplishment of this needed change or re- 

 adjustment of the basis of representation in, 

 the General Assembly." 



The Republican State Convention met in 

 Dover, on the 27th of July, and adopted the 

 following platform : 



The Republicans of Delaware, in convention as- 

 sembled, reaffirm their adherence to the cardinal doc- 

 trines of Republicanism as enunciated by our National 

 Conventions. We pledge ourselves anew to those 

 great constitutional doctrines, the enforcement of 

 which has made and continued a government " of the 

 people, for the people, by the people." 



We demand a fair and full protection of all Ameri- 

 can industries, believing that the working-men of 

 America ought not to oe compelled, upon unfair 

 termsj to compete with the pauper labor of Europe ; a 

 fostering care of our shipping interests, that American 

 commerce may have a living chance on the seas ; a 

 just and wholesome reform of the civil service as 

 against the Democratic " spoils " system ; a free bal- 

 lot, fair count, and honest return, as against the shot- 

 gun and tissue-paper ballot. We affirm our adher- 

 ence to the doctnne of equal rights for all men, and 

 local self-government, but declare that we are a na- 

 tion and not a league ; and we believe that free schools 

 and a common- school education are the only sure 

 foundations of a free government. 



Deploring the untimely death of our chosen leader, 

 the late President, James A. Garfield, regretting " the 

 deep damnation of his taking off," and embalming 

 him in tearful memory, we tender to President Ar- 

 thur and his Administration our fullest confidence. 

 Taking office under exceptionally adverse circum- 

 stances, at a critical period, his coolness, courage, ex- 

 ecutive ability, and devotion to the true principles of 

 Republicanism, not only excite our warmest admira- 

 tion, but demand our unqualified and continued sup - 

 port. 



We declare the Democratic party of this State to be 

 unworthy of the continued confluence of its people, 

 because having been so long in power they have be- 

 come utterly regardless of the wishes of the people, as 

 expressed from time to time in their petitions to the 

 Legislature ; they have been extravagant of the peo- 

 ple's money, and by a system of accounts, both in 

 State and county finances, have concealed from the 

 people full and accurate knowledge of the public 

 funds ; they have been profligate beyond parallel in 



