Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-10-28

Deln6 as large ~ their total vote IN the |
excising election of 1876, while the Demo-
cratic vote fell 7O3 short of the number
cast for Tilden. Do you suppose those |
700 are dead or have turned Republicans
In the light of these figures We repeat that |
If the Democrats do not carry New Castle
county it will be their own fault, and we
do not imagine they will stay at home next
Tuesday.
General Posuies and MIR. Belts.
No attempt has been made to asiail the
character of General j. Parke Postl.s. the
Democratic candidate for State Senator
from this city, though in their accus-
toned way our Republican friends have
assumed that Of course he IL not such a
man as Edward Belts, which is true, and
nothing like so distressing a fact to the
friends of General Fostles as those who
make the remark appear to imagine. Mr..
Edward Belts is an eminently respectable
gentleman, and President of National
Bank, and General Postles is young
manufacturer with his fortune yet to make
Mr.. Belts is man of quiet demeanor who
possesses considerable influence among
the quiet, Quakerish business men of this
city. They respect him for his sincerity
and honesty, though they all admit that
his conscience is neither cranky one
which stumbles over obstacles the rest
Of them pass over unconscously. Gen.
Postles was dasLing soldier under Han
cock, and he is, though we balieve
church -goer, far more a man Of the world
than MIR. Belts. In the matter of accom-.
pishing things and influencing men at
Dover we have not the shadow of doubt
that he would accomplish more in week
than Edward Belts would in whole sea-
sion The men who were down at Dover
working tor the Court House removal
bill know this.
Edward Belts il Republican and,
though man mild in manner, is Just as
intense partisan as can be found in this
city. Though as a business man, suffer
ing from unfair competition, he was the
first man to publicly expose Henry f.
Pickles for the abuse of his power AS
Councilman, he was among those who
subsequently publicly invited Mr.. Pickels
to come back into politics, and though
among the denouncers OF the old Ring,
We presume he voted for Gallagher in the
| ln,t 80 afrox hot hoo Bn,, Al,
cation to recover power. We do not
doubt that Mr.. Belts did all this conscien-
tiousy, through the intensity of his party
feelings, which led him to consider the
defeat of the Democratic party more i'm
portant than any other one thing but, it
shows that he is as intense partisan as
any man can be. General Postles is a
strong and consistent Democrat, but has
had no occasion for such tests Of his par
tisspship as Mr.. Belts has undergone
In this matter they are even, with an
equal claim upon the support of their
respective parties. ...
In the matter of principles not so clearly
defined BY the respective parties, there is
some difference of opinion. Mr.. Belts
advocated and approved the Bland dollar
bill and, though not Greenbacker, had
no little sympathy with their ideas. II
! elected to the Legislature he would vote
against returning Mr.. Baysrd, whose
J financial opinions he does not approve, tc
tha 10 hali
3 in the hard money, honest dollar doctrines
g of Senator Bayard he went to Cincinnati
+ and, in working for Mr.. Baysrds nomina
+ ton to the Presidency, defended his finan
: cial ideas with force and vigor, and il
elected to the Senate will cast the vote o.
Mr.. Biyard's own townsmen in tina
body for his continued repre-
sentatiou of them and their Stat,
: in the Senate of the United States
There are many other differences be
n tween the two Candidates, which woult
occasion difference of preference amonj
s men, and likewise among the sisters AM
> "the cousins and the sunts, " and amongs
l. men who really know both candidate
9 the division in merely personal prefer
% ence would doubtless be somewhat akin /,
% that which would prevail among womel
knowing both, and that would incline tn
e 'ssters and the cousins" to Genera
} Postles, while the aunts would drink te
D with mild enthusiasm aud great unaninlit
10 to the success of Edward Belts. Tn
- JOURNAL is with the Sisters and til
" cousins in this matter