Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1880-01-05
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DOVet ID Undergoing INC snIVop VI
terrible mental excitement caused
the report that the Republicans ha
petition cd the United States Circr
Court for the appointment Of super,
sors Of elections who have also 4
power 70 supervise tks registration
voters. II maintains Of course
might have been expected, that the a
sessmsnt Of taxables is no registratit
Of voters, and that if Judge Bradfol
''seeks to clothe persons with authorit
to interfere with the duties Of assessor
or the several Levy Courts Of the Stat,
or lends his Office to conspiracy
prevent the due execution of the Law
Of this State relating to assessments,
will be q misdemeanor in office, cogniz,
bic BY Congress, and punishable b
impeachment" We do net suppos
that such sanguinary threats will hav
much weight with Judge Bradford OF
-cept to incite him to make rigid 81
animation of the law bearing upol
the subject, and when once salts
fed that he is right no threats of tn
kind referred to will deter him from do
ing his whole duty. The organ in it
phrsnsy says: "We have no registra
ton Of voters in this State, such as il
contemplated by the act Of Congress
authorizing the appointment of Super
visors and this fact was known to tn,
petitioners, some of whom are lawyers. >
It is true that such men as Hon. N. B
Smithers, who stands at the front O
the learned constitutional lawyers O
the State and George v. Massey, Esq,
sounder lawyer not being known in
Kent county. are amongst the petition
ers for the supervisors, and it is not tt
be inferred that these men entered int
this work without giving the question
that consideration due to its i'm
portaEcs, and We may fairly
presume that those learned ad.
vocates Of the law know fully Al
veil what they are doing as the editor
Of the organ Pretends to know. The
very anxiety shown by the organ is in
-djcative OF the fear Of the results Of an
honest assessment Of the voters, and it
very uDjustly charges that the object
of the movement is to get some traudu-
lent votes int the ballot box. The
utter absurdity, and We might say vim
dictiveness of such a charge is evident.
How could two Supervisors, one Re-
publican and the other a Democrat CON-
pei the election officers to put fraudu-
lent votes into the ballot box 7 Repub-
lioans and Democrats have not been in
the habit of making such combinations
for the purpose of committing fraud.
Their duties are merely to scrutinize,
to watch and to note if any
person is denied the right to be assessed
or to vote if he is otherwise qualified
and to note if anJeperson not qualified
is assessed or allowed to vote. How can
tits be q fraud upon the ballot The
proposition is SO open, so plain, SO hon
est, SO fair, that honest objection cannot
be urged against it. The truth Of the
matter is that those Directing to such a
course have no desire to have an honest
election by all the voters in the State
for they know that the majority would
BIZ against them. 1t is a well ascertain
ed fact that there is Republican nj
jortty of at least one thousand in VII
mington alone if all the citizens were
legally assessed and would 20 to the
polls and unmolested vote their senti-
nents. The majority in New Cas-
tie county would be from 1900 to
1000. In Kent where the organ referred
to is published if there was an honest
assessment and an honest election, the
Democratic majority would be entirely
swept away, and in Sussex the Repub
licaRs would have majority. Instead
Of Delaware giving forced majority of
from 1000 to 5000 for the corruptionists,
on fair vote she would give 1000 ma.
jority the other way. This is what the
organ fears. This is what Democrats
fear. This is why the appointment of
Supervisors is objected to. They know
very well that an honest, full and fair
election would snatch the State from
the Democracy, would elect Republi |
canslsgislature, Republican Congress-
man, and send Republican to the
United States Senate in place of Mr..
Bayard, whose term Of Office expires
with the present Congress. The Dover
organ says, "their course (meaning the
Rspublicans,) will only put decent men
on the watch to prevent them from
carrying cut their fraudulent inten-
TONS" To this there can be no objection |
for the assessment and the polls cannot
be too carefully watched and guarded
by honest as well as decent men. Let
us have the watchers.
Ar THE meeting Of the Republican