The daily gazette. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1874-1883, 1879-09-16

TIE KeptOttc0N AuOWs suss S.S
GAze1rs has insisted upon the necessity
Of keeping the ballot box free from
Illegal votes, and that II said only the
other day that illegal voters u there
we're any should be prosecuted; why
then does It call on Us for our epinion ON
this subject agains The Democrats are
always sure 70 b the suasrers where the
l.v, srs set aside It elections. We have
uniformly insisted that the els4len laws
should be kept inviolste, and If there has
been any illegal voting by the Demo-
crsts the GAzKrrf knows nothing about
"; nor did 1t suppose that so much ras-
cality existed among Republican voters
until the fact Of the forged and coun-
terfeit receipts were detected after they
had bean voted upon by hundreds and
perhaps thousands Of the poor whites
and ignorant negroes, who we're leo &c
break the laws by the Republican poll
ticians in high positions. The poor
negroes we're not prosecuted by the
Democrats because they were the igoor-
ant tools OF men who secured ONCE
through their crime. But It'll said, also,
that some Republicans used counterfeit
receipts who own property. There was
q baseness and criminality about the
forged receipts which astonished every
good and upright citizen. The Collec-
tors stamp was then by law ordered, and
when after two or three years use that
was found to have been counterfeited BY
the Republican politicians, the people OF
this county, especially honest Republic
can voters, swore they would not sustain
such open, bald-faced crime, and many
of these ceased to vote at all, and many
others voted the Democratic ticket. The
result was that the most criminal Of the
Republican leaders had TO leave the
State. We had hoped that this was the
end Of illegal voting in this city. But
We find by the police reports that Re
publican repeater who acknowledged hi
crime was bound over to court yester
day. We regret to find that this man
after voting for the Republican ticket II
the Second Ward, where the Democrat
have large majority, went to the Eight
Ward and voted Republican tickle
again with one Democratic name upo
it. In this ward the Democratic cand
date whom he voted for did not need b
vote for he was elected by the large ma
jority of eighty-ons. Now we beliey
the reports in the two newspapers {
this city that the Democrats voted fror
800 to 500 illegal votes are wholly will
out foundation. They are gotten up in tn
interest of the Republican party by on
and to bring od,um upon party politics b
the other. With the majorities that tn
Democrats had there was no use in n
sorting to reporters, as the Republican
did few years ago when they imports
some three hundred roughs from Phil
delphia, who after voting 10 all the war;
where the Republicans had Inspector
threatened to kill Marshal Dunn becau.
he refused to pay them; and doubtle
they would have beaten him badly b,
be not made extraordinary speed un
be got out OF their reach and kept aw
until they had left the city. The /
publican then did not seek to find
peaten-they were of its own party q
their whereabouts were known to
the chief officials Of the city. 1t N
with propriety say that crimes commit,
by the Repub leans are no excuse for
tAliation by the Democrats, who |
promised reform. We admit it, 8
don't believe the stories that II and
no-party helper circulates as to
wholesale repeating by the Democrat