Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1880-03-31

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4 WILxIse4os, Del, March 2o.--Whsn
! heard, The other day, that the Demo
srats In Delaware were engaged in q
scheme 70 disfTanchiss two or thres
Thousand Republican votsTs, the stsry
lappsaYsA incredible, bssanss Q motive
for sush performance seemed 70 be
wanting. IL ! had bsen asked 10 nams
. State outside Of the region Of rifle
slabs and tissue ballots that was IN
Iqusstisnably Denomatic, I think
shouid have said Delaware without .
moments hesitation. For the Demo-
Gratis TO attempt 70 capture that Stats
BY ffaud locked like Q wholly gYatui-
tous, and therefore Improbable, place
of pslitical rassality. II was - Though
10 man should Try 70 rob his own houss.
| Ivas not . li,tls surprised, there
Here. In talking with the prominent
Rspablieans Of this city today, 70 hear
them say that tho State II going 10 bs
lighting ground this year, and 70 learn
that the reports Of an effort 10 exclude
q large number Of Republics voters
from the franchise were not sxaggsYa-
ted. "How dsss this pocket borough
Of the Bayards and the San, aburys be-
come Sighting ground In Ls cam
paign'" asked. "fwo things have
brought about the change" they re-
lplied. sin the FIRST place, the faetional
quarrel in our party between the Fish
er and Anti Fisher wings has burned
itself out. Seme Of the leaders are
dead; some have moved away, and
those that are left have hArmonised or
forgotton their differences; 90 that the
party 10 in better shape now than IL
has been In .! any time before, since
1858. In the second place, there Is =
growing dissatisfaction with the tyran-
nioal old Democratic rule, which brings
many business men Of moderate politi-
cal opinions over to our side, and gives
us larger proportion Of the young
nen coming Of age than our opponents
GET"
TO justify further their hopsfulness
these gentlemen say that the County Of
Newcastle, including the City Of Will
miDgton, has legitimate Republican
majority Of 500; that the County of
Kent, which used to Offset Newcastle,
will not give q Democratic majority
this year Of over 900 and that Sussex,
the remaining county, is close, the
Democratic majority having been cut
down in recent years to 200. Thus III
the Republicans can do as veil as they
have reason for thinking they can do
in the third, the Stats will bO theirs
next November with Ito three eleoto-
raj votes. Indeed, they insist that II
the election laws were Of kind 70 en-
courage instead Of hinder q full Repub-
lican vote, their majority would be at
least 2,00e.
II will be seea that with Democratic
Levy Courts and Demscratio assessors
throughout the State the facilities af-
forded by this Law for DISTINGUISHING
Republican voters are remarkably good.
A few weeks ago the Delaware Demo-
cratic leaders became alarmed at the
apparent harmony and strength Of the
Republican party and netsrmined 10
take advantage Of these facilities. As
though instructed by high political au-
tho1ity, Democratic assessors in differ
emit parts Of the State left Of their lists
The names Of large numbers Of Repub-
lioan voters, many Of whom were per-
tectly well known 10 them as men who
had paid their taxes and voted regular
ly for years. In the county Of New
Castle over 2,o00 names were omitted.
How many were left Of In the other
I've counties I have not yet learned.
The men whom II was thus attempt.
ID 10 diSfranchise are for the most part
,olorod people, but In the city many
white mechanics and operators in the
factories are bit. The Democrats un-
ioubtedly expected that the ignorance
'f the colored people would prevent
their finding ont that they had been
left OF the lists until too late. Besides, II
they counted on the poverty Of those
who might learn Of this insidious as
'ault upon their rights 10 prevent them
rom going to.the county seats and ap-
pearing before the Levy Courts. In any
,ase they believed they could disfran-
,hise enough Republicans to make
themselves safe at the Presidential cleo
ion. |!
Whom the Republican leaders found '
mt what was going on they were ex-
'eedingly indignant at what seemed TO
hem scheme to beat them In advance
~ fraud. Instead Of diseouraging q
hem, however, the affair had the ef- J
eet Of making them unusually zsalous =
md enterprising, for they saw that :
he Democrats were really afraid Of
hem on . fair ballot. They set to
york, formed committees TO bafile the !.
raud as far as possible, and raised o
und 70 pay the expenses Of getting 7
'oters before the Levy Courts. They =
Ipplied to the United States District y
;snrts to have Federal Supervisors Of .,
appointed, something that =
lad never before been done IN Della y
vars. The Democrats resisted this ap- =
,lioation on the ground that the Levy y
;ourts were net Boards Of Registration = =
within the meaning Of the law. There = =
vss q legal battle before the Court, but Il
he Republicans, maintaining that, TO
IL practical purposes, the courts did
egistsr voters, won the victory. The 4
ppointnent Of the Supervisors has = =
lad an excellent moral effect. !,
On the two days appointed for the q
SCISSORS TO correct their Lists the 2 Will -
,ington officials were besisged by an ~ :,
rmy Of voters, white and black, whose =, r.
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