Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-10-27
DrsHononrD, AS WELL AS RoBsED.

That the close corporation Of greedy politicians,
who have for several years ruled this State, have
most wretchedly misgoverned It scarcely any
intellgsntlmen longer doubt. The Independent
Democrats in Kent county. who have thrown off
the shameful yoke of "the family" attest this
fact with no uncertain language, and back their
assertions with incontrovertble proofs. Incom-
petence, ignorance, tyranny and corruption have
marked the administration of public affairs, and
everywhere the ugly fact crops out, that, while
affairs have gone on from bad to worse, and an
unwieldly, oppressive and unequal tax law has
failed to reduce the State debt and scarcely
sufficed to pay the interest on It, yet single
family has grown rich at the public expense, and
It's parasites have fattened at the public crib.
Such state of affairs Is alarming to Taxpayers,
and disgusting to honest men Of oil parties.
But bad as this is, 1t Is not all, and scarcely
The worst that this miserable ring rule has
brought upon our State. We have not merely
been robbed, but disgraced. The name of our
little State has been made by-word and re-
proach throughout the Nation by the attitude
the incompetents who have controlled her desti-
nies compelled her to assume. Ruled, absolutely,
by Knot of country politicians in remote
village, men beyond the reach of the liberalizing
influence of frequent contact with the world,sh
has been stubboynly thrust athwart the current
of modern progress, to be cursed and insulted
by all who passed her. and those who accom-
plished this monstrous stupidity were jubilant
at their success She has recorded her impotent
protest against every step of modern progress.
She has shaken her puny fist in the very face of
destiny, and been ignored with contemptuous
SMILE She has, in short, been made to occupy
the very position that Senator Salisbury, in his
speech at Newark, claimed for his party, that of
fool dancing like mad-man in front Of the
first railroad train on new road, to protest
against the innovation on the old order of
things.
Such action as this undoubtedly brings no.
toriety and by some distorted judgments such
notoriety may be mistaken for honorable fame,-
Senator Salisbury evidently looked on the jump
| ing fool, whose story he told, with hearty ad-
miration--but the great mass of intelligent
Delawareans, who feel a natural and proper
Affection for the place Of their birth, keenly feel
the ignomny and scorn which such actions have
brought upon their State, and resent them even
moro bitterly than the impoverishment Of the
State treasury. ''who steals my purse, steals
trash" but these men have tflched from our
State her good name and left her poor indeed.
Those who feel this, and they are many, cannot
fail to recognize the opportunity presentedin in the
approaching election. Success now will wipe out
the disgrace put upon our State. The one fifth
part of her people, 80 long disfranchised, have
been restored to their ancient rights, and for the
first time for many years, the whole people of the
State will have voice in the direction of hei
affairs If now they repudate the party which
has disgraced her, they demonstrate that hei
people never really consented to the actions Of
the g Ring" but that she was governed by 4
minority Of the people. Vote to retain the
"Ring' in power now, and their past action il
endorsed, and no subsequent change can remove
! the disgrace from our name, the stain from ou
! escutcheon. A majority Of the whole people will
have ratified the entertainment of rebel com
mssoners, the refusal to raise the national flag
the insults to our noble soldiers while in the fell
and to their memories by refusing their bodie
| burial after death, and Delaware's page in tn
history of this war will be black forever. Ii
= view of this, can any man, who really love
y his country or values the fair fame OF his Stat
f fail to vote to repudiate the reasonable GREY
Y which has brought her nothing but poverty an
b disgrace.