Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1874-10-22
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TESTIMONY ~ 70 TIE LAST LRoIsLATuRL FROM
NoN-AEfuBtzcAN MISUNDERSTANDING COM
xENTs ON TEE sxssloN OF 1873.
Unlesa the people have short memories, they
have certainly not forgotten the record Of the
Democratic Legislature Of 1873. Its uniform OPP
pos,tion to al measures Of Reform, its rejection
Of nearly every proposition Of that kind and it's
reluctant concession in one or two cases where
the public demand was too strong to be prudent-
~ refused, cannot certainly be forgotten.
Of what was said At the time the Legislature was
sittng-how people talked Of it-whst their
comments and critcisms upon II werc. These
extracts from the editorial columns OF one OF
our city papers are not from Republican stand
point; they are not the criticisms OF opponent ;
they are, indeed, structures which come from
newspaper which IL charged with desiring the
election Of another Democratic Legislature, in
order to secure Mr.. Baysrd's 7ckurn to the
Senate.
Let us turn to the extracts:
From wilmington Every Evening, Feb, 1s, 1879
The stata-S Senate did very unwiss thing in
defeating the bill which passed the House
repeating the law for the attachment Of wages
We were not 80 much surprised that the Senate
should have defeated it when left to ito own
natural prejudices, which have made it stumb-
ling block to all reform or wise legislation, dur
ing the present session Of the General Assembly
AZ that the shrewd Democrats OF this city should
have permitted its defeat ~ vi this Legis-
lnture could sit q few months longer, il would
ALLEVIATE every working maj in this city from the
party controllingi it, Its members seem absolute
" crazy.
IFrom Wilmington Every Evening, Feb Is, lsIa.l
They have good Saying down at Dover
nal "a la ctn ~
and slaughter-house it his been for every
good and beneficent measure
from ,Wilmin lton Every Evening, March 90, 1871
/ A more offensive uncaledor and in eyeryway
obnoxious appointment to a paltry Office could
scarcely have been made item that of -
- for Constable, and tie appointment is
made and remadesby direct acton OF the Legis-
lature, without the Intervention of the regular
constitutional appointing machinery.
From Wilmington Every Evening March 81, 1873
We have looked over Mr.. prde's correspond
ence for the last few days, seeking to detect the
ground for offence in it, and though we find
hearty denunciation Of the fellows who arc now
mismanaging our State affairs, We do not find
decent pretext fer the Houses action, -. He
shall stick to the Legislature like burr az long
as it sits there. menacing by its continuance
the best interests Of our State, aud tie welfare
OF our people.
from Wilmington Every Evening, March ~, 1871
We looked to this Legislature with hope and
treated its members with courtesy We hoped
that the commonest dictates OF political prudence
would lead it to make some effort, to at least
ameliorate, If not to remedy the wrongs under
which our people suffer. We have had hope
after hope for decent action at their hands
blasted. They refused with dscourteous and in-
decent haste, to allow the people of
this county to decide by their votes a
matter which concerned none but them
selves. They lave defeated measures for
the repeal of these odious attachment laws at
the dictation of petty 'Squires and coustables.
they have utterly refused to consider the out
rage on the people Of this County by the exist
neglected bills essential to the proper growth of
our city, and threatened to take from Our peo-
pie what little vestige of the power OF sef-gov-
eminent is left them.
[From the Wilmington Every Evening, Apr. 3, 1873 |
The House has instantly killed the PROPOSE.
ton to give the people Of this county just repre-
sentation by the unanimous vote Of the men,
bcis OF the two lower counties. :. This refusal
to remedy this wrong is one Of til" most open,
shameless acts of absolu'e tyranny ever COM
mitted.
lFrom Wilmington Every Evening April 10, isISl
Our legislators begin their sessions at 8, in
stead of 10 o'clock in the morning, and hold night
sessions, while bills are fairly rushed through.
This is necessary to enable them 10 adjourn thus
I
they had wasted less time in divorcing people
and driving cattle.
lFrom Wilmington Every Evening, April IA, lSI4.l
Our Legislature has nd journed,to the relief of
the whole State and especially TO the relief of the
people of this city.
[From wilmington Every Evening, April 10, ls1a.
The Legislatures sins of commission, howev-
ernre thrilling, composed wi y its sins Of omission.
1t refused to do the simplest acts of Justice
aHkpI n N al N n md inn
disregard for the wishes Of the majority of the
people of the State residing in this county, Il
committed stupid acts Of folly and WAS Oh The
whole miserable failure, extravagant in
spending the peoples money, outrageously I'M
just in refusing to tighten unjust, unequal and
bnrdensome taxation, if it happened to find that
the bulk OF the burden lay on the shoulders of
our DISTINGUISHED people.
lFrom Wilmington Every Evening, May =, 1874
The article is headed "a Legislature which
did Nearly Nothing, and Cost the State, $780,
ODO. 1t proceeds to show that $40 OFT of 4Uj
acts passed by the Legislature were unworthy
Its attention, and that only 81 were of Il general
nature, and then sayH i
But into Che long cnapter or Its failures To do
justice, or love mercy for the poor and needy, it
ID needless to go.
1t frittered away its time in diyoreiug people in
COW driving, in laying out roads, &C., and 10 snt
{, menace to justice and a disappointment to all
hope, for nlnety-seven days, paying itself there
Tor III gold, and costing the people directly near
ly twenty thousand dollars, wasting thirty thou
sand more on an old buzzard-roost for State
Capitol. and pleaging the credit Of the
for $500, GOO to build railroads in Il lower county
while refusing to remit one cent of the ouerous
and unjust taxation laid on the roads built with
Their own money by the people of this county,
These are truths which cannot be gainsaved
charges which cannot be met but we can hope
and expect nothing better so long as this vile
system of government by the minority continues
to curse our State,
From Wilmington Every Evening, May Il, ls5g
The last Legislature of this State seems to
have had all absolute genius for committing stu.
pid llunders 1t did many wrong things and
avoided doing many right and just things pur-
posely, but when now and then it did try to do |
good thing, it seems, in nearly every instance to
have given its act some foolish or,worse feature.
-. Let orr people trace every wrong and on. |
preston under which they suffer from lcgisa- |
tive action to the fountain head in the infamous.
y unjust system of representation which cna-
Dies minority to govern the State.
From the Dover Letter of Wilmington Every Eve |
ming, June 10, lSiS.l
Chiei Justice Gilpn and Associate Justice. |
Wootten, Hoil5ton and Wales roncurred in the |
opinion of the Chancellor Itlat the railroad tax |
bull was unconstitutional and the ''new tax law" !
the deformed child of ignorance and prejudice, |
was strangled in its cradle.