Daily Republican., 1880-10-26
COUNTY CON MITl EE'A ADDRESS,
Nene RoWna aud Sensible Advice
10 WlImimKsOn YetsSs.

The following address, issued BY the
city bran,h ofthe New Castle comfy
committes, will we'll repay the readers
careful persual:
To the Voters Of the City tf Wilmington and
County Of New Castle:
The serious business Of choosing the
men who are 10 make and administer
your laws for term OF fyears Is at hand
You are restricted In your choice 80 the
candidates Of the Republican and Dem
ooratic parties; these candidates are
we'll known to you. On behalf OF the
Republican party We ask that you
vote for the Republican candidates,
tor the Goilowipg reasons:
First. That they are better qualified
for the positions for which We have
nominated them than the candidates
opposed TO them, and, therefore, that
your best interests demand their eIec.
tion.
Secondly. That the administration
Of public affairs by the Democratic
party in this county, since it, eleva.
ton to power, has besn un~ise, unfair.
dishonest, tyrannical, in this; that it
has deprived large Numbers Of your
citizens of the means Of exercising
their right to vote, thereby depriving
the court ty of large revenues, and in
crsasing the burdens Of the freeholders
and those who are placed on tie assess
msnt liGt,. 1t has, through its officials,
violated the spirit and letter ofour Laws,
by preventing our citizens from having
their names placed upon the tax lists;
by atfcrding the least possible opportu.
nity to our cit Gems to qualify them
selves under the law, to vote; by per
mittine those same officials, through
ipsxcusable carslessness and apparent t
intention, to drop, alter, and omit, the
names Of oitzsns in the processes
through which they ara required to
pass, in or1erto Le placed, properly,
DON the tax collectors, duplicate.
W. charge that the Democratic par.
ty. under the form and color OF laws
made by themselves, for that purpose,
have dishonesty disfranchissd large
numbers Of our citizens, and deprived,
In this diareputable manner. the Re-
publican party to the power to which,
in equity, it Is entitled.
The proof Of this charge Is 90 we'll
known to you that 1t is. not necessary
TO set il fol tn in this appeal. The 90.
currepces of last winter at the City
Hall in Wilmington, aud before thu
Law Court at New Castle in the
epring, and again few days ago, are
too fresh in your minds to need any
abatement OF them here.
n the Democratic party claims to
enjoy its power by the right OF its be-
inc in an honest majority, what need
ia There Of these Wholesale disfranchise'
mental and II these citizens are dis
franchised solely from regard for the
llaw. how does it happen that in nearly
every case the citizen disfranchised
proves to be, in politics, q Republican
Ia this an illustration of the "ffee
Ra,lot and Full Vote, Of which we hear
40 muoh in their platforms and speech
"a. and which they paint upon their
transparenciesf
To snm It up, we rspeat that their
nd ninistration Of public affairs with
referspce to the qualification OF voters,
h aa been unwise, unfair, dishonest and
ty yrannical, because 1t has robbed the
ci,isep of his right to vote, the county
Of revenues to which 1t is honestly en-
t;tlsi. and majority Of the right to
rnis. which, under Republican form
~ government, Is tyranny Of the worst
sort.
now holds possession Of Offices dishon-
es,,v obtained, that 1t is guilty OF de-
Th.rs,s @ fraud in the count, and that 1t
sssks 70 profit by the advantages thus
umt,;,lv and dishonesty obtained
in nrsof Of this We have only to refer
I,hs voter to the City Election contests
in Tho ,all Of 1879. and to the recent
.an,. connected with the Little Election
in the Third, Fifth and Ninth wards
ns.h,s c;tv. We ask general attention
70 70 the fact that the Republican ticket u,
oast in the western precinct oftne lniiu ,ea
u"ss ~.sa " wss returned IS 126. We also
".i, a,tsp,iou to the fact that's paper
oontsininp e declaration that tue sign
srs tbsreto, did, on that day, vote ,ia IN
that precinct, Of thst ward ana ~; u,u
vote v the Republican ticket, has reosi-
we'd 2O3 signatures also. .,,o. ., the
u,aS wsrd b1l votes were cast and esA
xsrs vera counted. That the election IN
this precinct was conducted ratarns IN Sr ID do
fair manner, and that the re'arns ,,at,nr Wv