The daily gazette. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1874-1883, 1876-11-02
Cahooting With Negroes.
For the Gazette, .

NM 4iDlIOls-sDluCc tUc very
uished gentleman who has the honor to be
the candidate for the Sherifialty on THERE
publican ticket, has shown fondpess for
newspaper notoriety as well as his friends
for him having had the use Of two papers
all the time and sometimes three. ever
keeping his name fresh before the public
in some shape. But the most noticeable
feature of which is the speech made by
himself at meeting in Brandywine Hd.,
some days since, published verbatim for
bis benefit. He will certainly not COM
plain if we take part in something Of the
same sort. Sometimes people show their
wisdom by keeping quiet, and we are in
clined to think it would have been better
for him had he done so. Why, we might
suppose from the tone of that self-extoll-
ing speech, that his trumpeter was dead,
or that he thought everybody fools, ex-
cept himself, and that no one had any re-
collections of what transpired within the
last fifteen years Of which he speaks Of
carrying mortgage Of $4,000 on nice
farm, and keeping the interest paid like
man.
Since he has taken so much pains to
show how verypoofauddeservinghe is and
that Mr.. Grubb had, Or would have hadat
some time, (and he failed to show which)
about $1,000 let us look back little and
see what he has had to pay his interest
with. In 1868 to 1864 he was Collector
and Constable of New Castle Hundred,
out of which with his good management
and industry we would suppose he would
have saved near $1,000, after the expiration
of the term of office there was no oppor-
tunity of his getting hold of the public tit
again until after the election OF Grant.
But on the 4th of March, 1860, Grant was
inaugurated and in less than four months
Mr.. Mem was appointed TO better office,
Assistant Assessor of Internal Revenue
which he held for four years, that office
being vacated and all others being occu-
pied there seemed to be no alternative but
he must be relieved for awhile; but how
long was he contented with his nice fal N
and no office? Why in less than sixty
days from the time he made his last draw
upon the public funds for the balance Of
his 4S months pay and which being the
last of q little less than $4,000 he had
drawn from that same source, he annOuu
ced himself as a candidate for Sheriff and
will, no doubt, think it hard if poor
worthy, industrious fellow like him should
fail to capture that amount of the public
money awaiting the next Sheriff.
Now, we would like to know if this
amount of the public money in addition
to the annual income of a nice farm
would not loosen the grip of that mort
gage which he has used as an electioneer-
ing pretext for the last three years in the
,zn. 90 and xul,at
kind of fastening has it? And another OBJ
lection we might offer to the gentlemau's
being elected to Office he seeks, is, the
hope expressed by some of his colored
friends, little, over two years ago, OF
having their color represented in that Of
flee in the form of a deputy, in the event
of his election, in order to explain how
this hope became known, it will be nee
essary to refer to meeting held at Brown
town by some of the colored men, for the
benefit of certain candidate, and which
was not intended to be public, but made
so by the intrusion of some of Mr.. Nc
Mullen's friends who being over Jealous
for his success and for the defeat Of other
candidates, availed themselves of this op-
portunity Of putting up a job on them
and of which the EUery Eceaing gave us
brief account at the time. At the meet
ing alluded to, colored man by the name
of Peter s. Blake, who was at the time,
and is yet, we presume, in the employ OF,
and at the disposal of John M. Dunn,
ESQ.,, who Is, no doubt, one of Mr.. Nc
Mullen's friends, put in an appearance,
and at his earliest opportunity, took the
floor, and, in the fOin OF speech, made
quite an effort to excite the candidate
present to reply, but failing so to do,
showed plainly by his actions, after the
meeting adjourned, that he had not yet
fulfilled the mission on which his mas
| ter had sent him, and placing himself be-
tween said candidate and the door made
personal attack upon him as he came
out, to which attack the candidate indig-
nantly replied: ''Blake, have no talk for
you, am at the full extent Of my errand
these people invited me to come out here
| in order that some of them might have an
opportunity of seeing me, and | know as
much about what you are here for as they
that sent you, to pick something out OF
me that you can run around this town
with making capital against me, and
want no clash with you" To which
Blake replied:
81 don't want any clash with you (Mr
candidate) but we did think you might
answer our questions. All we want tC
know is, if you are elected Sheriff, would
you make a colored man your deputy"
Candidate-"If ives your choice, or
| if your candidate was here, there would
be no questions asked"
To which Blake clearly and emphatic
ally replied:
ave have waited on our candidate ant
he answers all our questions satisfactoril-
ly."
Now what did all this mean? Was it tt
@ It some hold on the candidate present b.
which to defeat his nomination, or was
to secure pledge for another candidate
for the colored deputy, in case the frs
should not be nominated.
The reader must draw his own conclu
|sions. But to say the least, it was certain
lly the strangest, if not the sharpest prac
Itice we ever saw played on any one, il
any party, and there is one fact in cor
nection with it that is clear to every min
that the whole thing was used against tn
candidate present, in a manner that tol
largely in his defeat. Yes, but say, yo