The daily gazette., 1880-03-29
MONDAY. MARCH 10. lsso.


MONDAY. MARCH 20. 1850.
The REPUBLICAN THROWS UP THE
SPoNeE.-We knew that the GAZETTE
had been putting some very plain and
anmistakable facts in reference to the
vote of Delaware before the RepHbli.
can ; but we hardly hoped to secure
so complete an acknowledgment Of
their effect on that paper as must be
drawn from the following paragraph
taken from its issue of Saturday.
We publish the article entire to show
that it is not garbled in any way. The
Republican says:
'FThere is no use in multiplying
words with the Gazette in reference to
the prospective vote of Delaware next
fall. 1t is enough to know that the
Democrats though polling a majority
OF the votes cast have never yet with
in our recollection polled majority of
the voters in the State, and neuer aoill in
q full dssessment and fair election.
We have never said yet that the Re-
publicans would carry tie State nert
JaU but have said and yet say that if
the Democrats would assess all the
voters entitled to be assessed, and then
for once make an honest contest with
out the aid of fraud and repeaters the
Republicans would carry the State by
1000 majority, and well does the Gazette
knows that fact"
Now, after searching through all the
lanes and alleys of the city for three
months and getting every negro they
could find to go to New Castle to be
assessed, and assuring them and its
readers generally that it was only
necessary for them to do this to en-
able the Republican party to carry the
State by two thousand majority, the
Republican is so fully convinced, after
reading the arguments and figures pro-
duced in the GAZETTE that it openly
acknowledges it has no hope of the
Republican party carrying the State
next fall and declares it "neUer said
get that the Republicans would carry
the the State rert fall"
We. are glad the Republican has
been sufficiently honest to give it up.
We have seen it assert day after day
language that was calculated to make
the most skeptical think the writer
thereof was confident of the success
of his party. But now all the trouble
and fuss over assessments at New
Castle, and the abuse and censure of
theLevy Court, we are to infer, was for
nothing-that there is no hope what
ever of the Democrats being beaten
next fall, and the Republican denies
it ever said the Republicans would
carry the State. That is all very we'll
Now, having convinced the Repubh-
can that it had been deceiving its
readers all along, and induced it to
avow as much in such clear and un-
mistakable way, we hope we may be
enabled to show it that the Democrats
are honest and fair in their politics,
and that as we polled in 1876 for Tilden
more than half the legal votes in the
State We can well afford to do without
''repeaters," although they were
brought into the State and distributed
about the city and county in great
numbers by the Republicans a few
years ago.
Tilden carried the highest vote ever
cast in Delaware-that is susceptible
of proof. Now, the population of the
State is set down in the school books
at 125,016. The usual average of one
voter to every family of six would give
20, SO2 voters in the State. In 1876 the
total vote polled was 24,125. This
was higher than the average. OF this
total vote Tilden received 10 1881 votes.
Hayes received 1886. Now these
are rigid facts and it is said Figures
cannot he." They show that the
Democrats carried the State by re.
ceiving a large majority of all its
voters. We, therefore, protest thai
the Republican is entirely at varianc,
with the truth in its conclusions above
The GAZETTE does not 'know thai
fact" 1t knows as we'll as it car
know anything that the Republican ha,
endeavored to falsify the facts in regarc
TO the elections in Delaware. Agai,
it is nonsense to talk about men Al
vOlers who do not vote. A voter is .
man who votes, who not only pride
himself sufficiently in being a fire.
American citizen as to keep himsel
assessed and his taxes paid prepare,
to vote when the election day come
round, but to be a voter he must cas-
his ballot like good and patriot,
law-maker and law-abiding citizen
Such are voters, and we mean opl,
such when we talk of voters. 7
would not matter legally if there wer
10000 men in the State. The MAORI
ty of the votes cast records tho will -