Daily Republican., 1880-03-11
QuesttO ems for Assessor ward 10
Answer.

Northern District Of Wilmington, ha
been to us and complains Of what h
thinks to be our severe criticisms OF
the assessment which he made for hi
district, and though he made no threat
to us personally, we see an intimatior
in the "Gazstte," the official organ o
his party, that he contemplates institu
ting legal proceedings against the Re
PUBLICAN. Now we wish to say smphati
cally that personally we have nothing
against Mr.. Ward on the contrary, We
have always treated him respectfully
and have received the same treatment
from him. We have talked together,
joked together and laughed together
but never drank together, because Mr..
Ward like ourselves has been praeti.
oally an abstsmious man so far as SO.
cial drinking is concerned. As a
man, q citizen, apeighbor and friend,
we find no fault with Mr.. Ward, but as
an assessor who is expected to act i'm
partially between man and man, and
between the political parties of the day,
We are rather of the opinion that Mr.
Ward has been weighed in the balance
and found wanting.
Now Mr.. Ward let us have a plain
talk on this subject, The question to be
talked over is no secret, and s..e,ArefOre
We nssd not fear publicity. Did you,
Mr., Ward. :.zasks full, fair and impair
tial assessment of the HiSssso' e' Te''n
you are the assessor If so, what is
the evidence Of that fair and full as
sessment Is it 10 be found In the
hundreds of voters who are going to
and from New Castle every day during
the sessions of the Levy Court, and
whose names have never been put on
the assessment 7 Hundreds of these
men live in your district Mr.. Ward,
and wanted to be assessed. Why are
they not assessed? How does it come
Mr.. Ward that this great crowd of un-
assessed people is composed entirely of
Republicans, with perhaps here and
there Democrat that the cleaners of
that party failed to report and have
placed upon the lists How does it
come that there is practically a clean
and full assessment of Democrats in
your district Mr.. Ward : You say the
Republicans did not come forward in
person and apply to be assessed. Did
these Democrats whose names appear
upon the error lists OF 1879, appear in
person to have their names put on !
Did you not, Mr.. Ward, place lists of
names of Democrats upon the assess
ment, who never applied to you in per-
son : Did you not tell representative
Of the REPUBLICAN personally when he
asked you how it came that
the names of 50 many Democrats
we're illegally placed upon the
lists, that from the lists of names hand
ed to you, you could not tell whether
the persons named on them were en-
titled to be assessed or not? Did you
not in answer to another question by
the same person state that the Lsvy
Court or the Clerk of the Peace, or
whosoeyer's duty it was to do it, did |
not give you book containing the
names Of delinquents who it was un
lawful to assess9 We are not putting
you On trial Mr.. Ward, but We haye
a few more questions We would like to
ask you and if not Incompatible with
your present feelings and interests We
would respectfully ask you to answer
them. OF course an officer who has
done his whole duty will have no hesi-
tation in answering each question fair
ly and fully especially after threats of
legal prosecution have been made
through another paper. Did you not
Mr.. Ward refuse to assess the names OF
Republicans when handed to you on
slips of paper, as you had assessed
Democrats' Did not numbers of men
annoy you and your family at your resi-.
dence clamoring to be assessed! How
does it come that names given to you
in person in your Office in the presence
Of witnesses were no: put upon the
lists, and these persons had afterwards
to run the gauntlet Of getting assessed
at the City Hall, and falling there are
now engaged in the almost hopeless
task Of trying to get assessed at New
Castle by the Levy CourtH Mr.. Ward,
did you not refuse the offer of Mr.. .Thom-
as W. Saville, to furnish you with an
Office heated and lighted, rent free,
where you might meet the hundreds of
citizens who were seeking to get assess
ed and place their names upon the
listse OF the scenes which transpired |
at the City Hall in the struggle of Re-
publlsans to get assessed we need not
speak. The struggle it fresh in more
than thousand minds. We have al
ready stated that both Mr., Ward and