Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1874-10-15
r4r POLICY OF DEMOCRATIC L1alsIA.
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rNI POLICY OF DE20C1A1IC LB0l1I.A.
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This 10 the time to vote ysa or nay on the
question Of perpetuatins tbs line Of Democratic
II the people want one more OF
he sort with which the SLATE has bean afnictsd
for ysazs, now ia the time to cay 70, and il, on
the other hand they desire to terminate the OBJ |
structivs, illberal, and onsrous system Of legis.
lAtion with which the Dsnocratie party in this
State 10 identified, they have, In the election Of
November, the opportunity to express that WILL
We presume the people are tired Of ouch
system. They have been long suffering and
patient. They have borne the innictien with
few groans. They have voted again and again,
but BY steadily decreasing maiorities, to main
tain the system, although it has been both un-
Just and burdensome to them The time has at
last come to throw il on, aud we call upon them
not 70 neglect the opportunity.
The unreasonable and illiberal policy Of the
several Democratic Legislatures which have sat
n Dover within the last eight years, in the per.
iod since the war, may be shown in the follow
ing specifications, every one Of which is well
known, and undsniable:
/. Persistent refusal, BY repeated voter, IN
every Legislature, to make any amendment Of
the School Laws.
a. Repeated refusal, by distinct votes III seyers
Legislatures, Of the petitions Of colored citizens
that they might be taxed for school purposes, and
the proceeds devoted to main'a separate schools
for their children.
8. Repeated refusal to permit the people to
vote upon the holding Of Constitutional Con.
vention.
4. Repeated refusal, by successive Lesisia.
tures to fairly adjust the tax laws and the con
tinusd policy Of maintaining excessive taxation
upon the people, in the form OF taxes on mort
cages which are twice collected from tho dcbto
class, taxes upon special industries, which or
no more concerned than others in the rosinten
ancs Of the government; taxes upon travel whicl
grievously injure special locslities taxes upo
marriage. which tend TO bad morals, and hay
long been condemned az contrary 70 publ
policy; taxes upon the savings of tn
working classes. accumulated in their loan US
sociations and, at different sessions, by sue
csssye notifications and changes Of the reyenH,
system, framed outside the Legislature, by per
sons not members Of it, and who we're paid gu
Of the public purse large fees for the service
taxes which were unequal, unjust, and burden
souie.
5. Continued refusal TO grant, in any ror.l b.
!. any means, squalized representation in the Leg
stature, md the maintenance Of Ri outrageous
and uu-Republican discrimination against tax
payers and citizens residing in New Castle coln
ty.
4. Persistent refusal 10 eiiact niiy liberal rulle
OF the distress OF in-olvent debtors, by the pas
sage OF laws making exemption from seizure ant
sale upon execution and the maintenance OF
systsm which scarcely has its equal fol- harsh
ness in any other State Of the Onion.
Z. Persistent refusal OF the petitions OF thu
working people for the repeal Of the law of at
: attachment OF wages, and the maintenance O
F that severe, mpolitie. and degrading system, /,
Difference 10 the desires Of the justices Of tn
" peace and coI-tablss who mako fees from il
i operation.
s. The enactment, at various -essious, .
measures designed to defeat and uulty the law
:, = Of Congress the continued and persistent man
n Hesitation of opposition to the just settlement o
the War Issues.
: .. Tie persistent effort to di-iranchse the col
ored voters; to make the assessment Of citizens
which lis necessary IN order that they may b
qualified voters, difficult aud troublesome
= and the steady policy of party discrimination i
this respect, in favor of Democrats and agai,s
Republicans, eliminating at last in a law whic
u is spty and fairly described as one designed t
- cheat the county out of its taxes and the peopl
II ont Of then votes.
~ We shall rest here. with these specification
. though we have but partially drawn the indie,