Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-02-22

MR.. TOWNSEND COMES OUT sQUARnLy Fan
SINGLE DISTRICTS AND INoRRAsrn
REPRESENTATION.

MIR. TOWNSEND COMES OUT sQUARF1v von
SINGLE DISTRICTS AND NoRsAss"
REPRESENTATION.
TO Ms Editors Of E0sry Egs,,iao W.
say | have come out In favor Of sine
districts. As you are young men. "a
may therefore not. be acquainted with m.
history of politics Of Delaware for m6ny
years back, or In Vows readings You ma,
have overlooked IL. Long before Dr.
posed to make two counties out Of New
Castle county was In favor of single ais-
tricts and the nomination of candldai,
by ballot-thus destroying nomlnation
ring combinations. took an active nst,
on tho 4th day of June, 1888, at COUNTY
meeting held that year at Christlana vii.
laSe TO have sheriffs nominated by ballol
and after a strur gle for two hours again.
James A. Bayatd and his friends. tb'
friends of nominations by ballot CARRIE
our point, and uninterfuptedly for thlrt,.
four years we have followed that courc
The Wings followed us, then, one YEA
We afterwards passed a resolution TO nomi
nate county legislative ticket by hundred.
and so nominated one year. This was 10,
! liberal for the New Castle and Whining
ton Rings, and was abandoned, but the,
forced the Wings TO nominate by ballo..
and they, through the names Wing party,
Native American party, aud Republican
patty, have followed down to the presen
day the practice of nominating Thur
Legislative and Levy Court tickets in hi,
County by ballot. Further, IL You vii
look over the files of the Gazette, 20 "a
years back, you will find the much-abusel
Samuel Townsend was the first MIN 10
propose that Wilmington city be made ia
two districts or hundreds, divided by MAJ
ket street. A resolution to that effect wa,
written and offered by me at a meeting at
Blackbird, and passed, the single dsttii [
feeling was one of the principal feellnes
which led to the calling of the Constitu-
tional Convention in, believe, 1866.
In that convention, instead of making
each hundred in this county separate dis.
tricis, Notwithstanding there were mr..
qualities In the population, and ALWAYS
will be, Appoquinimink aud Red Lion
hundreds were dlstricted together :, ST.
Georges hundred, lying between then,
was made a separate single district
, Therefore, with such an absurdity, / vote
against the ratification of the constitution
and the new constitution was so objection
able, that the people of Delaware Justly
voted il down. ! am now, and alway
, have been, in favor of the rights of tn
Wnlte nashtss huu VIII OF tue maJOrNl
! thereby expressed, and further, I Om il
, favor of the State of Delaware being laii
,, off IN thirty-hve election districts, hun
/, dreds In all cases where il can be, foImin
! the limits of districts and New Castl
/ county to have fifteen Districts, Kent te
! districts and Sussex ten districts, and Wit
a fair, honorable platform, in my opinio
the friends of white mans supremacy
, and the doctrine of the joint resolutiu
! that Mr.. Wilds offered, we could nearly,
. not quite, carry every district of the Tint
/, five.
: believe, with a white mans p,atforr
= and single districts, the uomluntion az
= election by ballot Of membegs of the Lei
Z lature and Levy Court, tho white men
y carry every district in this County, as W,
. as the ak distyicis in Wilmington. 4
! one am ready 30 fight the Republican
- on this issue, and dare them to battle wit
~ their negro allies. All our white Poop
B., of this County want, Is TO know what ID,
are voting for. They have been somewhi
mixed up and demorallzed this last fe
= years, but unfurl the white mans standai
y and the Republican negro-equallty paii
a in Delaware will be wiped out.
:, SAMUEL TOWNSEND.
- Townsend, February 10, 1878.