Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-09-29

BY Act OF General Assembly OF the state OF |
was declared That those who are, at the time |
of pas ling this Act, and tho who shall mere /
after be, and become Trustees of the Defore |
described tract of land, be, now ars, and here |
after shall BE- one body polite 3nd corporate |
in deed and in law, to alllntents and purposes, |
by the name, style, and title OF the Trustees OF
the New Castle Commons
Qttery-Wtll the gentlemen of the Board ana |
others outside, who contend that the LeglSla- |
ture has no power over this body, please inform
the inhabitants why after the Declaration OF |
Independence was established, such an act Dy |
the General Assembly of Delaware was ne
one OF the Bylaws passed by the Board of
Trustees, to go into effect on the first Tuesday
in March, 1893 was that the Treasure should
become bound to the Trustees of the New
Castle Common in an obligation in not less
than five hundred pounds lawful money OF Ine
State of Delaware, conditioned for the Que
and faithful performance of the Office of Treas
urer of the New Castle Common, or such other
security as the said Trustees shall approve.
Query.-When was this Bylaw repealed, or
has the Treasurer complied with its require
ments +? If so, when?
1s5O-51, when the late DR.. G. II. Black, who
was then Trustee, devoted care and patient
labor to their improvement, and by careful ana
intelligent management the land {betng dl-
vided into farms,) was greatly increased IN
productiveness and value, and in 1854 the rev.
enue having increased to nearly $1,000 per an
mum, the accumulation enabled them TO pay
off an old debt due the Farmers Bank, or
S2O,OO0 money that former Trustees had bor-
rowed to build the Town Hall, Market House,
and for paving streets, During TINS perlod tne
Schools had i0een supported, the town taxes
had been very light and all citizens, now that
the Farms were free from debt, supposed that
the town would be greatly improved and D1
released from all taxation. unfortunately, sew
eral years before this latter date, Q964,l tne
Democratic party began electing Democratic
politicians as Trustees, and now 3" Democrats
had to grow " How they have been culttva-
ted, and with what terrible results, every tax
payer in the now City of New Castle feels and
knows. During those years of Secession and
Rebellion, the most ignorant Union haters
were elected Trustees, and were led by COOL
crafty, and treacheIous Democratic politician
the citizens soWed to the wind and are now
reaping the wnirlwind
The income from the farms and other sources
| to the Trustees has for several years reacned
nearly $4,000 per annum, the rreasurer5 last 80
| called statement of receipts and expenditures
| showing business transactions amounting to
S14 431. .46 with 81, ,575 90 due the Trustees Yet
| with all these large incomes for the past six
/ teen years, in this centennial year 1876, the
| Trustees are indebted to the Farmers Bank
\ eight thousand dollars, and the Democratic
| Ring is still growing Democrats" for the COM
| ing campaign The schools have been aoan-
l doned, the citizens having been taxed last year
So 900 and this year "a 900 for their support, be-
/ Sides in these two years, s., 900 additional tax
\ for city purposes, making $4,000 taken out of
1 Jne DOCk6G OF taxpayers DuHL Julh ming Iudy
| "grOW Democrats"
one of the most astonishing and difficult
eonundTums to solve is that the old aristocrat-
| tc Bourbon Democracy, who are intelligent
| enough to see and know all the tricks OF these
Ring managers, privately hold up their hands
| in holy horror, yet when election day comes
round solemnly walk up to the polls and vote
for the men whom this Ring and their tools
have placed upon their tickets, calling tnem
| Democrats
we are frank to say that in this Board there
| are several gentlemen, upright, intelligent bus
iness men, who have attempted time and again
10 break UP this Ring by electlng a Treasurer
outside the Board of Trustees, VINO snail give
good and ample security, and bysabolishing the
siacting committee" and the election of Su-
perintendent who shall be paid reasonable
living salary and be responsible to the whole
Board and have urged that all purchases OF
slime, posts, and rails be by public notice and
contract. But these gentlemen are poWerless;
the Ring inside of the Board, Win tnelr aus
outside, are engaged in the "cultivation oi
Democrats"
, The position of Trustee is life office, and il
the taxpayers want this Reform, just
let them in November quietly deposit
a Republican ticket in the ballot box
and let New Castle Hundred give a Re
publican majority, or if the honest Democrats
from principle will stand at the polls and ALLOW
no man 70 vote who is not 5sgGilg 9.tattleea q q
: vote In this hundred, we will guarantee ina
4 | some men will have to go and work for theil
living, that your taxes will be greatly reduced
anu pubic SCuOUlS 5hppOlLCu W WV
Trustees of New Castle Common.
To those who are under the control of the
Democratic Fling, (and it is sad to see nov
: | many otherwise good men,they own by money
favors3 we say to you, Break your shack
les-be free men. You will be aston
| lshed how much your condition will be better
ed Your masters, like Tweed, will fly away
you will get employment with persons wnI
will not hold you as slaves and make you CONT
at their beck and call. Do this and you Will D'
g allowed to exercise your own free 1udgmen
a for whom you shall vote, even as Democrats
and not for men set up by this Ring, every on'
> | of whom are of course in their interest.
We are fully aware and have counted the
cost of attempting to penetrate tnls " Demo
cratic Ring" but we are hrm belleyer IN tl'
0 motto that Truth must triumph in the end. l
& may be far distant, but we intend to make
: | catechism for this Democratic Trustee RIM
r to answer, and answer they must, or eventu
| ally the taxpayers will. And as Samuel Jone
Tiden, millionaire, is the "Great Reformer,
| why may not poor, but humble citizen assis
him in this grand work of Reformation? I'M
Trustee Ring is, all powerful in money, (wh
n shouldn't they be with this large revenue y 1
speech makers, who will grow indignant an
talk big, in penny-a-llner scribblers who wi
= write all sorts OF trash about their great res
y pectability, and by msrepresentatlons an
Il raising false issues try to lead the people Of
lie from the true issue, but when Trustee OF th
- New Castle Common or any other Democratl
&c orator gets up in a meeting in this city to tie
lie cf the results of the Great Reformers i'll othE
N distant States or to talk about corruption
= Washington, just let each Taxpayer ask hil
III this question, and hear nothing further until
he is answered:
n Where are the one hundred and ninety thou
= | and dollars that the sO-caled So statements
printed yearly by the TTeasurer,l show haV
ia been received aud paid out IN the last sixtee
In years. (from 1860 to 1861 in the little city
l. New Castle, by the Trustees of New Cast
in | Common D.?
T. You remember the Old planter, who went il
al to New Orleans, and sitting on the balcony
e. the St. Charles Hotel, saw two gentlemen el
joying their sherry cObblers and after lookir
ii some time, requested the waiter to bring hi
40 fone of them things you suck through
n straw" 1t was a new pleasure; he ordert
ID the waiter to bring him second one, and Il
sf third, and, said he, "keep bringing them
iv SO let the tax payers keep a-asking, until thl
N get full ventilation of where all this money
al your money-my money-has gone, and let
at see if great waste and destruction hath Det
e. and still is committed by many evu dispose
he persons to the great damage and injury of I'll
n. Inhabitants aforesaid who are at present r
OF NEEDLESS in the premises
x Mr.. Editor, as my letter is already too loI
IA for newspaper column, and as propose
n penetrate this " Democratic Ring" under IL
ie It. LOUIS platform OF Reform, little deepe
in l will not trespass on your kindly given spa'
or until some future day.
CO | Yours trIIV TAX PAYER,