The Morning herald., 1876-09-01


mating candidates for the Legislature and
Levy Court by ballot, and authorized our
Chairman to ask theChairman of the county
to call special meeting to receive our
report, and he refused but had he have
called county meeting we should have
nominated by ballot in 1874, but his refusal
gave the enemies of ballot the chance to
send delegates In 1874, and these delegates
assumed to themselves the right to adopt q
code of rules, thus ignoring the masses who
favored nominations by ballot. 1t was very
reluctantly swallowed, and We passed on to
the present year, 1876. At our first county
meeting, after discussing this matter for
some time, 1t was agreed that q committee
of thirteen be appointed, who should make
such report that the people at an election
in each hundred, on the 5th day of
August, should determine whether candi-
dates to the Legislature and Levy Court
should or should not be nominated by ballot.
Nine only of this committee Of thirteen met,
five of that niEe reported an outrageous set
of rules and not one word about ballot, thus
knowingly and wilfully cheated the people
out of what was expected the right to decide
on the 5th day of August whether nomina-
tions this and following years should
be made by ballot. The outrageous
rules were voted down. Then the cry of
tricksters was raised, that the old rules
were still binding. And, therefore, the great
majority of the Democratic masses of this
county were to be cheated by the tricks OF
the five, William G. Whiteley, Ignatius
Grubb, Thomas Holcomb, Thomas Bird and
Nathaniel Williams, in making their report
of certain rules that were voted down on the
5th day of August. These five men, who
made this report, well knew that the honest
Democratic voters expected Of this said
committee, report that would have given
the masses chance to decide whether the
Democrats of this county were in favor or
not of nominating candidates for the Legis-
lature and Levy Courtb by ballot. The names
of these five men ought to be framed and
hung up for future reference of Democrats
as unworthy of q J future political respect
by the Democratic masses. Now delegates
have been elected again to meet on Satur-
day, and as these would be masters, and
packers, and ringsters supposed to take up
ticket just as though nothing had hap.
pened. Now Democratic ballot men, meet
these tricksters on Saturday, for, bear in
mind, their cursed rules say they can only
be amended or abolished at September
meeting, and Saturday will be September
meeting, and before any rogue delegates at
tempt to nominate ticket, let the masses
adopt resolution wipirg out all rules that
! stand in the way of nominating the candi-
dates of the Legislature and Levy Court by
ballot, then fix day for the election to
nominate, for we have two months of time
| which is amply sufficient. One other matter
| will say few words on, that is the appended
call for mass meeting on the same day OF
the county meeting, and speakers invited to
speak. Now, | have great respect for
| William Reynolds, our chairman, but if he
had suddenly dropped from the room, he
could not have shown more ignorance of the
feelings OF the Democratic masses in this
county. In the name of God, did he not
know we had lately held elections in every
hundred in the county on this all-absorbing
subject OF rules and nominations by ballot
did he not know all this matter ha d been
thrown back on the county meeting to the
disposal of them, and that probably the
Democratic meeting will not be a happy
family, for it must be decided there whether
the free white Democratic voters of this
county are to have their rights as freemen,
to express their wish through the ballot box.
or are the poor white voters in the Demo-
cratic party to be used as the negro in the
Republican party, to put lazy tricksters in
Office and maintain them. think 1t best ia
let mass meetings alone until we first try to
harmonize and become happy family. It
is high time the mass of white Democratic
voters knew their standing in the Demo-
cratic party. If we are to have masters let
them show their title deeds. Therefore, /
say, white voters of New Castle county,
who favor our nominations by ballot, come
TO the county meeting determined to have
your rights, and put down old ring packers,
and DO not be led astray by the sophistry Of
mass meetings. Let come what NAV, LET
US hx up county matters first, then after
tnat 1--WE we can take our coats ofand go to work
for Tilden and Hendricks.
SAMUEL TOWNSEND.
TOWNSEND, August 80, 1876.
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