Daily Republican., 1880-02-03
A Campaixn Of Democratic Lsinx


| Rthe tone Of the Democratic paper
Of this city, coupled with the actions
Democratic onicials and the leaders O
the party, are to be taken as iudics
tioHs Of the course to bs pursued in tn
future, We may expect that everything
possible will be placed in the way o
obtaining fair vote at the next cleo
tion. A morning paper announces tha
some Of the members Of the Levy Cour
are very much inosnsed at the appoint
ment OF Supervisors OF Registration
and that they will not allow the bust
ness Of the Court TO be interfered with
OF course this means that there will b
no more opportunities given to got a.
sssssd. We do not knew by what su'
thsrity that obscure little haud-bill
speaks, but while 1t ne doubt reflects
its own sentiments, We do not belieye
that 1t has been chosen by the Levy
Court as its mouth piece. Another pa
per as naturally goes into Wholesale
lying and low yituperatisn as duck
takes to water. This paper, in its sour
ilous account Of the assessment on Sat
urdsy, says that negroes rushed in
from beyond the State line and from
ths surrounding Hundreds, and had
no difficulty in finding vouchers, who
sWore that they knew them and that
they were entitled to be assessed. This
is not enly black and malicious lie,
but 1t is a libel and a slander upon the
gentlemen who stood at tho assessors 8
desk and vouched for their employees,
beth white and black, who presented
themselves for assessment.
As Mr.. II. F. Pickels, Washington
Hastings, John W. Todd, Of the Dia-
mond State Iron Company, Huxley
Harvey of the Mccullough Iron Works,
George VI. Bush, U. s. Marshal McMul-
len, Post Master W. N. Pyle and host
Of other honorable and high minded
gentlemen whom we could name, were
vouchers for hundreds Of persons with
whom they were acquainted, principal
ly their own employees, the insinuation
Of the Gazette" is that they every one
perjured themselves. No wonder these
gentlemen feel aggrieved at such an in
sinuation, but the well known prspensi-
ty OF that paper for downright lying
about political matters ia 30 well estab-
lished that the aggravation does not
lead to indignation. The same paper
tries to create the impression that ne
groes came from down the Delaware
railroad to get assessed, and that they
found ready vouchers amongst the class
Of gentlemen we have already alluded
to; that it was known they lived down
the State somewhere because when tbev
got assessed they struck bee line for
the depot to which place they were fol-
lowed by some Democratic spy. The
truth Of the matter is that they we're
employees Of the railroad company, and
not only they but large number of
white voters also employees of the COM
pany got assessed and also went down
to the depot.
Such gentlemen as We have named
are not liars or peri but they are
our most conscientious, active,
and successful business men. 1t il
presumed that they knew who they
were vouching for, and on no account
would they even wink ut any infraction |
If the law, however erroneous and un- |
ust that law may be. 1t may be DOS
'ibls that err ors may have been made |
n the assessment, but the errors are
lot chargeable toths Vouchers. Some Of
he applicants may possibly have been
'eturned as errors, year ago, but this
s something that the assessors should |
rave known, for they were furnished
With books by the Levy Court contain
ny the names Of all persons so returned.
+ any such have been ass s,sssd the
have themselves alone to
,lsms for it. We will venture to asser:
Without the fear Of successful contra
liction that out Of the seven hundred
md fifty persons assessed on Saturday
md Monday, net ten Of them live be
'ond the City,and even if there are that
lumber, the error was made through
lot knowing where the city limits were
From tho tone OF the paper mentioned
- would bs justifabls in saying that
had been chosen to do the wholssals
yinE and slander for the party, and it
'ad commenced its work early. While
is anding so much fraud in the az
essnsnt Of Republicans, it seems
TRANCE that it has nothing to say Of
10 hundreds Of Democratic names that
AVE bssn put upon the assessment,
Ihs II is positively known were return
4 As srrsrs last spring, and which
suld net bs put on the assessment list
his tims without q clear violation Of ,
aw. Yet those names are on the as
sssnsnt. but the assessors we're noti-
ed that If thoy did not purge their ,