Daily Republican., 1880-02-02
aaiurdax,s Assesslnents.

Saturdays Assessments.
There never was mere glaring proc
offered to show that thousands Of Re
publicans have been deliberately dis
frsnchised than that offered at the city
hall on Saturday. Though about siz
hundred were assessed, five O'Clock the
hour appointed 10 close came on with
hundreds yet waiting in line to have
their name placcd upon the assessment,
and though indispossd at first to do 80,
We are glad that the assessors through
the persuasion Of the Supervisors Of
Registration at last finally yielded and
agreed to have another session to-day
to give several hundred more chance
who did not get their names put on the
list on Saturday. A glance over the
extra assessment including those as
ssssed on Saturday, shows that there
we're at least two thousand Eve hun
dred disfranchised voters in Whining
ton, three fourths Of them being Re-
publicans, and after all that can bs done
there will probably be some four or five
hundred who will fail to be assessed,
and will be deprived Of their votes for
President next November. Such an
exhibition Of Democratic rascality was
never before brought to the light in
Delaware. By passing amendments to
the assessment laws and the laws gov
erning the collection Of taxes making
il difficult for voter to get assessed and
to pay his tax after he is assessed
these wholesale acknowledgements have
occurred, ard the Democrats have bsez
kept in power though there has
beea no time within the last
ten years in which there was
not q couple of thousand more
Republicans in Delaware than Demo-
Gratis. The latter who stoo | and looked
on the o ID spectacle last Saturday at
the ity Hall OF a thousand disfran-
chised men struggling to get assessed,
must have telt tteir cheeks blanch
with shame when they thought Of the
means made use Of to keep themselves
in power by disfran chisiug honest men
and olling up q majority by the aid Of
repeaters and Democrats who had no
difficulty in voting whether assessed OF
not. The fectiveness Of Supervisors
of Registration was fully portrayed on
Saturday. They prevented nobody
from getting assessed who had right
to he assessed, but through their pres
ence and determination hundreds OF
voters got assessed that without them
would have been disfranchised from
voting at the next election. This how
ever is lust what the Democrats did nc
want, and of course they have been
grievously disappointed, and because
they know that the appointment OF ST.
pervisors would prevent them from
carrying out their cherished mode O.
disfranchising Republicans at will, is
tie reason why they SO strenuously OF
posed the appointment Of Supervisors.
Though the scene of last Saturday was
dis1racecul in reflections upon the g.
tions Of the Democratic party, We are
gratified that such an opportunity was
given to convince the public Of the
enormity Of the fraud that had been
practiced. Their, we're hundreds Of
citizens who had heard the matter Of
disfraL chisements talked over, and who
had read of it in the REPC BLICAN, but
who were slow to believe that such
things did really exist.
We told them from time to time that
there were two thousand difranchised
Republicans in Wilmington alone, but
the assertion sounded so extravagant
that they attributed the assertion to
the heat of extreme partizanship. Now
they have had a chance to see for
themselves, and the verdict of many
who looked on was that half the truth
had never been told. We are fully vim
dicated. If the same proportion Of new
assessments were made in every Hun
drei in the courty on Saturday as
there were in Wilmington, and the
Democrats do not spring some diaboli
oil la for the disfranchisement Of
votes, next ia ! elections will be the
Waterlo) of sham D, mocracy in New
Castle county.
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