Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-11-07


| The contested election cases now being tried
before Judge Allison, in the Court of Common
Pleas, attract much attention. These suits are
brought by B. +. urwciler, late Republican cam
didate for City Commissioner Il. NJ. Batturs
ditto for Clerk of Orphans Court; and William
T. Campbell, for Register Of Wills. Republicans
know well enough, now that il is too late, that
their ticket was not such one MS should have
been nominated. To give sample Of its animns,
| 1t is said of Mr.. Cowel the candidate for Sheriff.
that he declared after the election (and his aon-
election) that the - Niger defeated lin,
using All expression not pleasing to refined ears.
The ticket, in fact, was scarcely in any particular
| what 1t should have been, but this does not eX-
| plain or excuse the undeniablt frauds practced
| in the election. OF course the Democrats talk
| lightly or satirically of the NATTER and 1t may
| even be cruel jest to advise these gentlemen to
sue for Justice in the Courts, but whether success
full not, where the right lies is not doubtful to
honest men. The average Democratic majority
| for the offices named was about 900 votes, and
| II is claimed by Mr.. Urweer and his fellow con-
testants that certainly $500, and most probably
many more .franduent votes were pollcd. These
frauds were mostly perpetrated in the Fourth
Ward, "a region known to politically, thorough
| ly corrupt. One precinct In this Ward returned
165 Democratic votes when there only $50 voters,
all told, properly assessed. AT many of the poll
| ing places all the election officers were Demo-
Gratis, when the law intends that they shall be
evenly npporioned to the parties voting. In other
| places where there were Republican officers of
| election such officers were threatened with per-
sonal violence, and did not in all cases escape
from its iniliclion. The matter was argued in
Court yesterday, in the presence of an immense
and highly excited crowd. Judge Allison, after
some debate among Counsel, postponed the case
for ten days.
The rights of builders in the matter of how
far they have the right of the streets in building,
repairing, &c. is being somewhat ventilated.
ftttl Of hos ofa.tn
obsruct nearly all the streets Of the city are uni
versally recognized as nuisances, but it seems
that builders have the right to the streets ;
city ordinance passed in 1917, and never re-
pealcd, giving them 10 feet from the curb for their
purposes. The building of the City Railroads
makes this law, to its full extent, dead letter.
and the Street Commissioners restricted the priv
ilegc to seven feet. Builders herein feel them
selves aggrieved, holding they have no room very
often, for their operations, though the new limit
leaves but single foot between the brick piles
and the railroad track. How dangerous prox-
unity this i, has often been told, and now sad
accident OF person jumping from u car and be-
ing caught between il and some distractions in
the street, has awakened an agitation of the matter
and we shall perhaps have the right and wrong
of it. 1t would seem to be hard matter 10 set.
tie, The building interest is of the greatest inn
portance and IL is necessary that all facilities
should be given 1t. The Railways, on the othc
hand, are public necessity, and the builders al
present make II Jeopardous to ride upon the cars
How to settle it
The Girard College trouble instead of being
satisfactorily ended has become newly compli
: Gated. 4 numerous company, includsg mem
= bcrs OF Council were present at the college build
- ing on Friday to witness the inauguration OF Mr.
Allen, the newly elected President, when an orde
o from court was presented stopping the proceed
. ings The matter is becoming dsgraccfu to til
. city officials At as lats date us the 1th of Sep
I TENDER the Directors of the College declared III
Office OF President vacant Major Smith, the IN
# cumbcnt, having proved utterly unworthy of hi
: trust. Yet this gentleman has managed to get
:, party around him and has defcd the efforts Q
The college board to eject him. In the mcantim
the affairs of the institution are in great disorder
discipline destroyed within its walls, and publ
confidence, without, shaken and alienated. I'll
n charges against Mr.. Smith were OF the most SER
Gus nature.
~ The investigating committtc-wlich include
Ie Mr.. Geo NJ. Truman, Jr Mr.. Robert VI. Fous
n and others OF cur most upright and bcncvolel
- citlzcns-deelarc that they approached the sui
ject with the utmost chartableness and dclicac
y, Of feeling for Mr. Smith, but that they found III
Y facts to be even worse than rumor had state
% them. To list their own words they found g iii
20 Institution drifting along without purpose, cla
60 or compass; moral mould and rust upon every
II thing; dirt in the house, ycrmin in the beds Iii
: appointments of the tables broken torn and oilei
80 sivc; and all grades of crime committed, froi
70 abscondng and petty larceny, up to fornicatio
10 and arson" Mr.. Allen is known from his bus
is ness administration Of the college, to be Just Il
70 man it needs. The directors and the public n
" well assured of this and he has besides been du
IN elected; and yet by miserable trickery he Is III
II allowed to begin the reforms which 1t is quite N
re cessary should be instituted at once if Gir,rd Co
a iege Is to hold anything of the high character
nj has heretofore enjoyed. The graduates OF IL
u. college are scattered all over the states, and
y mostly men OF mark in their several position
OF This question therefore cannot fail to comma,
rs a widespread interest INDEX.