Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-07-07
NUMBER 1S4.
IT is "wEAK AND WICKED"

[From the Philadelphia Press, June s0thl
A brief review of the Democratic ticket ena-
bles any unbought man to pronounced it weak and
wicked. 1t is quite as bad as the old one which
last year was swept overboari VIII the Demo-
cratic party have the integrity to do so again
We ask it on behalf of the community, and not
Of the Republican party, which will be benefited
by keeping the ticket Just nominated in the field
for tolsereper Toe hdue nominated a bad man On.
a aoedk one the Democracy haze nominated a
,o0rse one. We are speaking now Of the City and
Legislative ticket
In due time we shall review the lives and re-
cord of the nominees for the principal Offices,
and to-day we merely call attention to the fact
of the weakness and infamousness of the ticket,
which has been literally conceived in sin and
born in iniquity.
Wherever the honest citizen is to look to for
redress and reform it certainly is not to the
Democratic party, which at present is fairly rid
den by fraud and crime.
"MANy DEMOCRATS Will. NOT SUPPORT IT."
[From the Evening Bulletin, June aothI
The completion of the Democratic nominations
yesterday has given anything but satisfaction to
the decent men of the party. Owing to some
dissatisfaction among the Republicans with por-
tions of their ticket, an excellent opportunity
was offered of putting forward the names Of
some men who might have had chance of be-
elected. But this opportunity was thrown away
with scorn One convention was "run and
managed by Mr.. Samuel Josephs, who has had
himself renominated for the Legislature and
who has for some time been Offering to bet $100
to $40 that he could name the ticket. Mr.. Dia-
mond, who was Joseph's nominee for Senator
last year, did his work In the convention, which
was, further in the interest Of the gamblers,
thieves, and pickpockets. One delegate. who
keeps groggery in another, where he lives with
a woman not his wife, has been In prison for
various crimes.
The selection of a candidate for Receiver of
ala x~sxr i - ~cts IIu
Vanstavoren openly declares that he was cheated
out Of the nomination by q gang Of thieves gam
blers and brothel-owners, who came into the Con-
vcntion and controlled it, and 30 secured the
nomination Of Timothy A. Sloan. As for the
nominee for Clerk of the Orphans Court, Mr..
Joseph Megary, he is the individual who has
been boasting that he was white man, wanted
to Fave white mans party and did g not want .
nigger vote" OF the other nominees good
deal also might be said ; for while they are not
all bad, the ticket, as whole, deserves to be
beaten Many Democrats will not support 1t.
THE WHOLE AFFAIR REPuIsrvE.
[From the Evening Telegraph, June sol
As WHOLE it will not bear comparison with
the Democratic ticket of 1867 or that Of 1868,
or the reconstructed Democratic ticket Of 1859.
There is not a candidate on their Row ticket who
possesses single attribute that is likely to win
Republicans from their allegiance, and the whole
affair, in being arranged to suit the local mana
gers of the Democracy, is necessarily repulsive
to all who are gifted with n0bler instincts.
Out of number of wel-known Democrats,
Frederick Gerker was selected as the nominee
for Sheriff with unanimity that cannot easily
be accounted for on any other theory than that
either ring or corrupt motives controlled it.
The nomination for Register of Wills is an in
suit to the community.
CRACKERS AND CHEESE CANDIDATE.
[From the Morning Post, June 80.
We find that Mr.. Frederick Gerker was nomi-
nat I'M nf
Henry Gerke-, the well-knowl glue manufac-
tu, err and we believe, member of lis fathers
firm. His military record is very brilliant. He
served during the war-as quartermaster, and
everybody knows that quartermasters occupied
positions of the greatest danger. They had
charge of the crackers and cheese, and though
in the rear they were the objective point of the
hungry rebels. Mr.. Gerker never lost cracker,
and successfully resisted all the savage attempts
to dispo3sess him Of his cfeese. He will there
fore bea strong war Candidate against Mr.. Leeds,
aid will receive the entire vote of the Home
Guard.