Daily Republican., 1878-11-25

town - the future capital Of the con-
solidation. III M
Brother Why didn't you say 70 when
you wrote your article, W would then
have had the Ne,os ior Peninsula
Union. I
From tho state Sentinel.
The number Of Democrats who are
just now standing around hoping for
an Office is large, II not Astonishing.
They we're all original Hall men, and
If they are 10 be believed the Governor
elect owes his success altogether to
them. tt"-<
Now would be an excellent time for
Governor elect Hall to make new de-
parture, and appoint no man to Office
who asks him for one. There are bet.
ter men who never ask for an Office
than those who do. We should be
glad to sea the Governor adopt this
plan, Just to see some wriggling
amongst the politicians.
II is a fact beyond dispute that gross
carelessnees of woods will soon re
duc- the supply greatly below the de-
mand. We doubt If a better invest
ment can be made than preserving
young timber now growing on our
lands, or in setting apart certain por-
lions of the farm for woods and plant
ing young timber thereon.
This Is an excellent suggestion of
our contemporary. Delaware is as
much adapted to growing timber as to
growing fruit, and there are certain
portions of it that will never be fit for
anything else.
From the Newark Ledger.
The Legislature should pass law
for our counties to pay stipulated sala
ries to all officials except Collectors of
Taxes, thus reducing and a. the same
time equalizing their Compensation
The Sh-ritf's Office OF this county is rs
tmatsd to be worth $20, 900 tor term
Of two years, while the Judges OF our
Courts are allowed only from 81 500 to
", 500 per annum.
That is goodiidea, Brother Ledger.
We notice that Sheriff Hires, just elec.
ted in one of the counties of New Jer-
sey, has promised to turn all his costs
over to the county except $1,000. sala
res would be preferable to all county
and State officials.
We are not in the confidence of the
Southern people, and have no authority
to speak to them, or We should advise
them not to heed in the least this accu
sing cry of a "solid South" If they
have the right of suffrage at all they
are at liberty to vote for whom they
please, and are under no obligations
whatever to divide their votes between
the two great parties Of the country.
Those are, golden words and We
heartily endorse them. 1t is the very
essence of Repu blioanism for every
: man to vote for whom he pleases, and
no Republican will deny the people of
the South this right, but while doing
50 they insist that their Southern
brethren shall not keep others from
voting as they please and for whom
they please, and that they shall not
I cast vote for every two citizens as was
done in Charleston. That is all neigh
] Dor. DO you understand?
D From the Breakwater Light.
- On election day, from fear of defeat
y or inherent tendency to commit fraud,
the Democrats of Bread Creek hundred
aided and abetted by Joseph Vaughn,
= Inspector, deliberately stuffed the bal
Z lot box to the extend Of fifty one votes.
This outrage was so bold in its charac
ter and so bunglingly executed that it
was readily detected by the opposition,
) but even after that it seems more fraud
ulent votes were cast
1t is now thought that this fraud was
. committed in other hundreds through
, out the county, and that the Democrats
/ obtained most if not all their majority
5 by this species of fraud.
= 1t seems that the plan was to vote
tickets, one inside and smaller than
the other, that could BE- easily shaken
5 out. The Light says that every whip.
stitch the inspector would pick up the
ballot box and violently shake it, bu,
:, in spite of this there were six of tbe
n double tickets that would not fal
j, apart. This sounds very much lik,
the little jokers" of South Carolina
but We had no idea that the plan wa.
. practiced so near at home.
From the Peninsula News
Itshould be remembered that from
- the very necessity of the case sole
e south ensures a solid North. The worl
/ of the Republican journals from nov
Q until the close of the Presidential cam
=, paign of $780, is to maintain the soldi
~ ty of the North, and to this end tn,
J. New York Tribune already has a bril-
|. liant special correspondent down South
g writing up the frauds and violence by
d which that section is forced to be soil,
H for Democracy The reaction in tn,
North against this outrage is row tn
,f greatest aid to. Republican consolida
. ton. That this would result we fre
quently stated year ago.
We advised our able contemporary
week ago to quit lusting after tn
Greenback idols, but we had no idea i
would take our advice so soon and ge