Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-11-03
PUBLIC PRETENsEs AND PRIVATE PUR-
P0SEs-THE RECORD OF THE RING,

when men protesting high regard for great
National principles use the power Of leadership
only to advance their own desires and ambition,
1t ID time for the masses to disown their author
ity, and escape from their thraldom."
We make this quotation from the address, at
Dover, a few weeks ago, of Hon. John A. Mich
olson. Mr.. Nicholson was member of Congress-
from this State, elected by the Democratic party
in 1864, and again in 1866. He refers, in the
paragraph quoted, to the conduct Of the Sauls-
bury Ring, whose action he was denouncing, in
his speech.
Now, this is the view OF leading Democrat
upon the character of the clique who have up
| to this time controlled his party. He has seen
| and felt their rule. He states what lie knows
by actual experience. And he confirms, most
| conclusiyely, precisely the charge we have made
/ against the officers Of our State government.
They pretend to a high regard for national prin-
| ciples, yet they are really advancing their own
designs. They bawl white Mans Party" and
at the same time hold fast to the public purse
They are screaming and Yelling with desire fol
National economy and at the same time are
extravagantly, foolishly, and unlawfully squan.
derins the funds Of the State. They complain
of National taxation, and yet have laid State
tax, which is declared by leading Democrats, t.
be zone of the most Objectionable statutes evel
'enacted by any Legislative body
The people are discovering these facts. WhoI
it is proposed to make another member of tn,
salisbury association succeed, for four YEAR
more, its present imperial head in the Cover
nors chair; and to put the latter to succeed, fc
| aiX m tlf ,vb n ia I
the private desires and ambitions begin to stic
out SO prominently that, in the very stronghold
of the Ring, hundreds of Democrats openl
dsown their authority and escape from thei
thraldom.
The election is not yet here, though the tim
5 for work is short. Let every opponent OF th
corrupt organization. whose members pubicl
pretend to be so attached to national principle,
and privately are so cruelty injuring and preyill
upon the public welfare, give one stron,
earnest, effort to overthrow them. 1t is to IL
|. interest of every independent Democrat til
d this should be done. One citizen is as deeply il
terested in the general welfare OF the State
another, but the members of the Democrat
party who cherish for themselves an honorab
ambition, must zee that their party is simp
ruled to its own destruction by 40 selfish al
= INSCRIPTIONS coterie of despots If this we
not true, would such men Henry Ridgel
: Edward Ridgely, John A. Nicholson, Geor
W. Cummins, and hundreds of others, in Ke
!. County openly denounce the leaders of the
party: Ii the salisbury Rule had not be-
N corrupt and tyrannical, wonld these senteae
for one moment, have thought u leaving til,
y, party at this time
From one end Of the state to the other it
: the highest and best interest of the people
! destroy the domination Of its present rulers. a
replace them by new and upright men. In t
election OF Thomas b. Coursey and Joshua
u Head there will be, not only the triumph
er Reform, but the triumph of the People.