Daily Republican., 1880-03-30
DEMOCKArIo WORK.
How Delaware Republfcaus are
Disfrnnehised-Ba y ar DIS own
County Completed.

A correspondent from Wilmington
who evidently understands the political
situation In Delaware has written q
letter which appeared in yesterdays
New York Times giving detail Of the
plan by which the vote Of Delaware
has been manipulated 10 favor Of the,
Democracy. After showing how the
work was done In Kent and Sussex, the
writer passes on 10 notice New Castle
In the following terse, true and des-
criptive manner:
at is in thA end OF the State, how
ever that the greatest amount Of un-
fairness has been displayed. When
the Levy Court met st New Castle, at
the beginning Of March, memorial was
presented; signed by many OF the
leading business men manufacturing
firms, and others Of this city-about
900 or 300 altogether-ststipg that the
number Of bona fde residents OF the
county, male citizens Of the State Of
Delaware, above the age Of q, whose
names had not been put on the lists
by the assessors, was "upward Of L.
lOO," Of whom 800 were residents In
this city. They constituted large body
To get over 10 New Castle, and as
separate AFFIDAVIT, with 9 personal
"vousher" Is required in each case,
the labor was considerable. The Levy
Court at once showed signs ofintending
TO obstruct the assessment Of these men.
Notwithstanding earnest and oourte.
GUS appeals from two or three delega-
tions OF the most respectsb BILE citizens,
and the petition Of the business men,
already referred TO, they would not
hasten the business and accommodate
the applicants for assessment by de-
signaling days on which this work
should be taken up aud assigning par
ticular days 10 each hundred.
This would have been greatly to the
convenience Of the unassessed persons,
but 1t would have tended to tho quail.
fcation Of larger number Of Republi-
can voters, and the Levy Court decli-
mad to do anything Of the sort. The cor
sequence has been that men have ap.
peared in the courtroom day after day,
and have sat in squads OF ten and
twenty, for hours, waiting the dispatch
Of the most trivial matters Of routine
business in order 10 present themselves
with their afidavits aud "vouchers."
On Tuesday last Is men came from St.
Georges Hundred, in the lower end Of
the county, travelling q distance To
New Castle and home again Of per-
haps fifty miles, and the court, the
first day, would assess only very
small number Of them, adjourning be-
fore four o'clock In the afternoon, after
having sat only since 1890, with an
interval 70. dinner, while fifty or more
stood waiting with their afRdavits.
Some of these men had been up before,
and those who we're cut of in this out
rageous way had TO be brought back
again, making, in several instances,
actually three trips, yet the court had
been consuming time in considering
matters 80 entirely trivial and unin- |
portsnt that the object was unmistak-
able.
1t arouses dsey sense Of injury and
wrong here that such q course should
be pursued. The behavior OF the ass
essors OF this county, few excepted.
was very unfair, but the action OF the
Levy Court, which assumes to be
boy OF responsibility and Intelligence,
Is gross travesty upon honesty and
justice. II should be remarked, and
the country generally is asked to re-
mark it, that these outrsges on Repub
licans are perpetrated here at the
home Of Senator Baysrd.
His attention has been called to them
came from Washington 10 Wilmington, |
remaining here for day or SO, at q
time when the agitation over the Levy |
Courts course was at its height. Yet
he has never, to the public knowledge,
said word or lifted finger to secure
decent and Just administration of the
State law by the men who ought to ad-
1t fairly, but do not. They
are his psrtisans and followers. Many
4 Il T. L.