Daily Republican., 1879-09-19


share Of the government, have At las
come TO believe that no Republican hs'
any right which Democrat is bound u
respect"
A Fraudulent Party Crying Fraud
A great deal has been said about tn
elections held few years ago, BY tn
democrats, and charges have been free
" made by Democratic papers until Il
has become . stale morsel in every
Democratic politicians mouth, that the
Republicans were guilty Of committing
wholesale frauds ct that time through
the assistance Of the colored peoples
votes. So freely have these charges
bsen banded around that there are
many who really believe they were true
and 1t is no more than proper that the
people should be SET right upon that ques
ton. At the time the colored people had
just b-en admitted to the polls and the
privilege Of voting having been some
thing new and novel to them many no
doubt voted illegally without under
standing the real criminality Of doing
30. As We have already intimated
there were in all probability more or
less votes polled illegally not only by
the Republicans but by the Democrats,
but there was never time since the
negroes commenced voting when the
Republicans anything like equaled the
Democrats in trickery and illegal vot-
ing. The enfranchisement of the color
cd people, clothed about one thousand
nsw voters in the city Of Wilmington
with perfect right to cast their votes
provided that they we're otherwise
qualified by the State laws. After all
that has been said, it is extremely
doubtful whether more than three
fourths Of the newly enfrsnchised voters
ever exercised the privileges which the
amended constitution conferred upon
them, bat If we listen to what the
Democratic papers say, and believe 1t,
we would have to conclude the most of
the colored people voted two or three
times each. Those who are conversant
with the facts in this case know what
obstacles were unjustly laid in the way
Of the colored voters to disfranchise
them, and this being SO plainly palpa-
bic that many of them thought it no
harm to vote anyhow. This is what
gave rise to the cry of fraud by the
Democrats. They bent their whole
souls to the purpose of disfranchising
The colored man. Legislative all was
invoked and laws passed by which as
SCISSORS need not assess, and collectors
not collect from not only colored voters
but from white Republican voters as
we'll. Every year an election is held
The aggregate NUM- Der Of votes has been
growing less, until last fall at the Gov
ernOrs election, only one half the vote
usually polled was cast. This encroach-
nent upon the vote was all done by
,he Democrats. and the more they at
empted to disfranchise honest voters, X
he more they have seen what they have
imagined was fraud, until up to the
present time when there are but few
# them left entitled to vote, they =
till keep up the cry of fraud 4
" colored voters. We are constantly
eminded Of the negro frauds of other
ears as a justification of the wholesale
Democratic frauds which have been
'erpetrated year after year, but which =
wing to the holiness with which they
Vere perpetrated the present year, they r
lave only been brought to light. All
he time that the Democracy have been
inging these charges against the Re- @
'ublicans, they have had their repeat
RS like, "Jimmy" Darrsgh, "Gus"
'Donnell, "Brockey Tom," "Dave"
indley, ."Bill" Miller, and such like,
Tho were doing their dirty work for
hem and ofsetting the votes OF good r
epublicans who had not been already =
heated out Of their votes by Democrat.
Assessors and Collectors. Were the ~ ~
auds of the Democrats in Delaware,
nee the enfranchisement,of the colored =
'ople of the State, brought fally to the D
yht and exposed it would make chap -
7 of villainy and violence by which -
% State is secured and kept in the i
party as would darken the Ct
story Of the latter years Of the Tweed " "
nasty Of New York, and we hope the er
" is not far distant when the bottom tn tn
cts Of these frauds and villainies will tn
} exposed TO the gaze of an indignant 7O'
'ople. Iniquity will not always tri- 81 81
nph. &C. 80
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