The daily gazette., 1880-01-06

Too SANGUINE.-The Republican
entirely too sanguine. 1t looks for en-
tirely too much help to its party fror
the appointment of United States Su
psrvisors. 1t says
"Their duties are merely to scrutinize
to watch and to note if any person /
denied the right to be assessed or to vot,
il he is otherwise qualified and to not,
II aDy person not qualified is assessed o.
allowed to vote. How can this be &
fraud upon the ballot? The PROPOSE
ton is so open, so plain, so honest, Sc
tair, that honest objection can not bt
urged against it. The truth of the mat
ter is that those objecting to such Q
course have no desire to have an honest
election by all the voters In the State
for they know that the majority would
be against them. 1t is well ascertain
ed fact that there is a Republican ma
jority Of at least one thousand in Will
mington alone if all the citizens were
legally assessed aud would go to the
polls and unmo!ested vote their senti-
ments. The majority in New Castle
county would be from $50 10 1000. In
Kent where the organ r,feIred to is pub
lished If there was an honest assess
ment and an honest election, the Demo
cratic majority would be entirely swept
away, and in Sussex the Republicans
would have majority.
Instead of Delaware giving a forced
majority of from 1000 to 5000 for the
corruptionists, on fair vote she would
give 2000 majority the other way. This
is what the organ fears. This is what
Democrats fear. This is why the ap-
pointment 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
a Republican Legislature, a Republican
Congressman, and send a Republican to
the United States Senate, in place of Mr..
Bdydrd, whose term of office expires
with the present Congress. The Dover
organ says, ''their course (meaning the
Republicans,) will only put decent men
on the watch to prevent them from
carrying out their fraudulent inten-
tions." To this there can be no objec-
tion for the assessment and the polls
cannot be too carefully watched and
guarded by honest as we'll as decent
men. Let us have the watchers"
1t will be seen from the above that the
effort is not to perfect the State govern
ment; not to reduce taxation; not to
economize and pay the State indebted
ness, nor strengthen, enlarge and make
more effective our public school system
No. No. That is not what is desired by
the political battle it now proposes u
enter and therein invoke the aid of the
U. S. Courts and government.
A Republican legislature is what i
wants Republican Congressman an,
a "Repnblican Senator in the place o
Mr.. Bayard." And who would he be
pray? Judge Bradford, Of course. Fo
he has been candidate candidate 70
that office and the judgeshlp which b
fills, (very worthily,) for years. Surel
we have no objection to the Judge, ex
cept that he is politically against us, an
we have no confidence at all in hi
political predictions. If the Rspubl
cans can beat the Democrats at th
polls and want the judge to step dow
and out Of his present well-pald, honori
BILE and easy place, we have no objection
There are some others in that party tn,
would like to have his place, and thi
they will work hard to get it we do nc
doubt.
Bnt-that fatal but-they have got
beat the Democrats first.
The Republican is entirely too sal
gum. 1t failed to beat us when it la
the whole Levy Court and city police
l.ie b ,ck Of its corrupt party leaders vii
the assistance Of still more daring [
). officers, aided by the 5000 negro vote
1t incorporated into the Republics
party ranks.
We publish the extract from the r
publican that 1t may be read ali over Il
State. Democrats will see from it iu
what is intended. The negroes Of WI
mington are to give the Republica
power here; the negroes OF Kent are
be taken into the embrace OF the par
again from which they were kicked O
in 1878; and the negroes of Sussex q
to be looked to to put that county in
, the hands of Radicals to fill the pub
schools with negroes or break them
entirely. If this is done, the Democr,
, will have invited it all hy their having s,
tanned no-party papers-papers that {
known to be endeavoring to break
, both the great parties that mere facti
, may step in and rule and ruin. 7
; Republican is mischiefmaker and
now endeavoring to bring on a collisi
between the State authorities and
t government authorities. 1t will not 81
d ceed, as it should not.
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