The daily gazette. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1874-1883, 1879-09-05
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The new City Council met, last night,
IN the Council chamber, and was organ
lied in the usual way. And l will take
this opportunity Of expressing my views
of the ability and duty of the men the
people have, by their free sufirages, elect
ed TO govern the city the coming year. i
must, say that am. very favorable i'm
pressed with the belief that the charac-
ter and ability OF this Council win COM
pare with. any we have had since the
days when WIN. Il. Sellers was Presi-
dent, some thirty years ago. The party
in power last year commenced well and
their first work was to begin to econ0-
mize by reducing salaries and doing
away with some of the offices, and In
this way the taxes were reduced, aud it
was this that brought them In o favor
with the people, who haye returned the
same party to continue In the same way
of well doing. Economy in the conduct
Of every department. of -the city, will, i
hope, be the rule WI icli win govern
every member, and II tl,is is done, which
] think can aud will be, our taxes the
coming year can be still lower. q ,...,i
i hope you have taken care in organiz-
ing your committees, putting the right
men In the position OF chairmen, and
having no fav0ritism. have no fault to
find with the last years committees, ex-
cept with the chairman of the Street
Committee, who spent all the money
| ppropriated before the year was. ended.
These, committees SHOULD run their re-
spectiye departments IN accordance with
the money that is set to their credit.
The cleaning OF streets ought to be
| given out by contract as there could be q
saving OF from $1,000 to $4,000 year II
| this was done. Thousands were savcC
last year BY giving the lighting of the
city in that way. Every member Of the
Drmoerat party ought tofeel proud wher
WE think that the people on election day
wsnt quietly to the polls and voted, fol
there was but little distur bance that
know of, and by your table H. appears
that the vote is not as large al last year1
which proves there was very little If auy
fraudulent voting. Then when the votes
kwere counted, the Democrats had car
ried the city ticket and elected mere
1 Cpuncilmen than they had expected TO
This sho ws plainly to me that our vic
tory was not SO much Of party az it was
OF economy in running the city, and
lowering the taxes.
The cardinal doctrines of the Demo
cratic party are economy, no, est 'gis
lating for the many and expressing nj
one, "equal taxaiionv and free elections
And now, IN conclusion, have met bu
few of the defeated party but who ar,
y well satisfied with the result; or, in othe
words, the way the election went does
not appear TO trouble them much, for thu
4 sensible ones did not find fault with the
way the city was run, before the eiec
ton. There are a few old sore heads, a
we call them, left vet. l heard one o
them last night using disrespectful Ian
guage by. calling the winning party har'
names, such as copper-heads and rebel
and black Democrats. He appeared +,
be almost ready to bite himself, like
! viper does when 1t gets mad. hope thi
Couuoil will run the city in accordanc
with the charter, making no debts exceT
those they expect to pay with the take
and rents vf the then current year, an
to have no floating debt at the end &
year, as the former Councils did, yea'
: ago, to the disadvantage of the peopl'
Let their misdoings prompt you not I
follow In their footsteps, and the voter
at the next election will return thi
same marty again, 4.