Daily Republican., 1880-04-15
Few Castles Assessors.

Will CFSek, heu Lion anu AoAeo"o-
Hundreds, and to the tolerably fair as
sessment in White Clay Creek, New
Castle, AppoquiniminE and Blackbird
Hundreds. OF the five first named thret
lad Republican assessors and two Dein
,crats. TLs four las. named had Dam
1era;ic Assessors, who, while they as
'gased ali who applied, made no extra
fort to see that every body who die
not call personally upon them and wee
| N titled, was assessed. A little more
Il fort on the part of these Assessors las
referred to would have insured as full
an assessment for their Hundreds as fol
the others. Had the assessors in these
nine Hundreds named been as remiss
n their duties as were those OF the two
districts Of Wilmington and St Georges
Hundreds, the Levy Court, had the Law
allowed, might have sat until the mid
ile Of May making assessments and
then at their slow and measured rate
YOU 1 still have failed to assess all who
we're omitted. l. is only in these two
Hast named assessment districts whsrs
the Assessors have succeeded in SHOW
irg most co18picpously how to carry
out the fdll intent ard meaning o!
the law, which was SO changed by a
Democratic Legislature that it was
made possible for Assessors not to as.
sess the Republicans and still assess
all of the Democrats. In St. Geor.
ges Hundred pretty nearly all OF
the Democrats were assessed, but the
Assessor of that Hundred was not SO
lost to sense of lis duty as TO re-as5ess
the Democrats on the error lists &C.
turned TO the Levy Court in 1873
judging from his official conduct he no
doubt purpo7ely Disseminated against
the colored people of the Hundred, son 9
three hundred Of whom he must haze
known were entitled 20 lie assessed ana
had it not been for the almost super
human Efforts made by r. Z. Smith and
Richard Lockwood, very few Of In en-
would ever have appaared upon ia"
assessment before the meeting Of the
Levy Court. However as it was, aboo'
one hundfei were assessed by tlis
means and at great expense a hundreJ
and twenty-five or somewhere therea
bouts were assessed by the Levy Court.
In the loose manner III which the a.
sessments were made in that Hund!F6
a few Democrats entitled TO BE- assessed
were omitted, bat they were gathersa
up by Mr.. Purnell !. Lynch, the popu
lar an feutlemanly Democratic eapdi
date for Sheriff from that Hundred aDd
taken before the Levy Cou' :, the favor
of which lie had AMI got tuem assessed
It was oniy in both districts Of "
mingtop, where the law was palpal'y
and plainly violated by assessing I'll"
Democratic = ror list and thereby &C.
curing s9me fcar hundred votes for the
Democrat'c p&"tv. Had the wv peer
CARED out, thes. four huniysi ppr
sons wculi have Leen compelled to &C
to New Castle, as the Republican
did to get assessed, and it isl
Just possible they would MT
all lav4 gone. The manner in
which the assessment was not honestly
naie in " II og!on and St. Georges.
while comparatively full and honest as
were made elsewhere in the
,oHUty IS taken by sensible public as
IN ev.4en! intention to give the Demo
'rati@ patty the advantage, AMI in ad-
vance pre- nare for the election Of the
ticket by tie disfranchise-
u5nt q some titteeu hundred Republi-
ans by simply not assessing them.
Under these circu INSTANCES the Levy
Court Should have bent all its energies
10 undo the errors of the assessors and |
o perform the dnties which were theirs
Dut which they had neglected to per
orm, The outrageously loose manner
n whi.h the assessments were male in !
1t. Georges and tn tive str cts of
Whining ton would have u tiled the
Levy Curt in having q rea'Se isment
made by assessors appointed by en-
selves. Had the asss me 1t in Will
nirgton and St. Georges been as fair
md full as they were in other Hun
lreds Of tie coanty, then the Levy |
CJult would not have leen under the
n4ttsstg Of spending nearly the whole
of Ma ch in doing what the assessors
hould have done but did not and
would not do. Had ths Republic leans
made 70 efor: to get their men assessed
y the assessors in those Hundreds,
here Won d have been room for com.
l&int b. the Levy Court, Tut when it
wei known that every reasonable ef- !
7rt was made in Wilmington without
uccess to get assessed, IL is to ray the
east cold com ort TO be told repeatedly
y members Of the cour; that he
hundreds Of person Llo ing at the