The daily gazette., 1880-08-24
THIRD EDITION
Letter frem samI Townsend
For the Gazette.
TOWNSEND, DzL., |
August %. 4

TOWNSEND, DEL.,
August %.
A neighbor handed me the dirty Arab
sheet, EUery Evening, that lives by abus-
ing every party anu everybody, aud In
that paper Of the 10th there Is an anony-
nous communication, dated St. Georges
and signed Tolerance" that any per-
son who reads 1t can sea he Is .
three-faced hypocrite. First he sets up
the opinion OF the few against the mas
ses having thar right to nominate Dy
ballot-a right which belongs in this
country to every voter, aud III that pfin-
ciple Is not Democratic the American
Republic is . fraud. And this hypo-
critic, TO try to obtain q little sympathy
from the church people, says swear.
does mot the man who heads the peti-
tion TO break up ballot nominations,
swear? and the mau who closes the
petition, and the great body Of signers
Of lhe petition, also swear, drink rum
and play cards? OF course there are some
exceptions. He also charges that am
Ignorant. If 30, will lay that his I'm
clio Samuel" AZ some call me, has had
extraordinary luck in the last AZ years in
advocating the rights of tho white mas
ses 70 nominate sheriffs, coronars' and
Ii embers of he Legislature aud Levy
Court by ballot
have helped to sweep down states
men (so-called), lawyers, doctors, and all
Nould-be exclusives, so that when che
last meeting to re-affirm the right Of the
Democratic masses 10 nominate by BAL
lot was held, but four men remained out
Of sixty to uphold the tried-to-oe mama
g.rs OF the Democratic party and this
dirty, Anonymous slanderer goes TO the
columns OF the dirty, arab, ,piratical sheet
to boast of his Democracy and denounce
m.
1 calculated these would-be exclusives
who tried to run the Democratic party
woald curse and gnash their teeth when
their favorite sche me Of nominating
by packed delegates was taken from
them, and retai"ed where it properly be-
lOngs-in the masses. Your curses and
groans are NJ music in my ears. You say
ought to leays the Democratic party.
If DID, and took my voting-ty ballot
men with me, how many Democrats
would there be left. The County Meet
ing proves four out of sixty, and what
Iuld you few do. You could cut about
such figure as the fellow who said he
wished every body was dead ana he was
keeping tavern along the Big Pond.
Where were the customers TO come
from ? and what would you miserable
little squad of pretended Democr Ats do?
Your dirtiest hypocrisy crops out when
you sit on that csrrien corpse, the Every
EUening, and cry out fresh meat ahd pure
Democracy, and that l am opposing
Hancock. Are you drunk or fooR
4 helped put up the first Hancock and
English fiagin this State, before 8 pm. the
same day they were nominated. Al
though getting along in years. sat up
some nights last winter until near mid
night helping to arrange for .he assess
ment of the white Democratic voters OF
this hundred. l also helped get up and
am q mem Der of a Hancock and English
club at this place. and do not think
any Democrat Ia my old hundred, Ap.
poquinimink. complains of my not do
ing my duty TO help elect The ticket. The
fact is, l have strong suspicion that
this writer in the EUerv Evening Is q
young otfice-hunting Sol, gam 5ler and
swearer, whose daddy was a Whig, and
have been fighting for the Democratic
party before the clouts were off this
Every EUening nondescript, pretended
Democrat
SAMUKL TOWNSEND.