Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-11-11
TIE POLITICAL OUTDOOR
The situation Reviewed-Neyv Castle
CountS DemOcrRiic In Isso

""'t"' Ee"e oouThd( Inc bhtt e
over, 1t may not be an,ss or Improbable
to survey the situation and forecast the
political future.
Inc Republican mountain has l.loted
and the result is ridlculously small. They
expected 800 majority In New Castle
county aid have barely 200. They
expended their substance and set their
hearts uron securing the Lngiplaturn and
defeating senator Bayard's =, election, but
in spite of bribery. bug.a booiue and bull.
DOING they have been b-fii d and beaten.
Instead of being jnhilHnt they arc iny-
less, instead of beng hopeful they are
detected. They are gnawing flo and
munching apples of Sodom.
10 an intelligent observer the election
OF Democratic governor Two years hence
and the success of the entire Democratic
ticket in every county in the State is a
foreRone conclusion. A hasty review of
the Incidents attending the resent canvass
IN this county aud State MD the least
political srgacity will justify such cnnclu-
sion, u i. evident that the mie Of. elton
furnished no test of the real stfeNe & Of
the Democratic party in New Uastlt
county, especially in Wilmington. lts
full vote was not cast and could not be
brought out It's Organization was iuper-
tect and most Of lis best workers inert
There WAS adequate cause for this which
will not exist in 1882 The psrty was
loaded down 10y unpopular nominees and
by the ofliuiousness of some of Its most
offensive elements. Macy Of its most
active supporters were pi5nlt ia by ill.,
differences aud punihers If lis voters nlier-
ated by disgust Fully 200 r"iuae,: to vote
at alt while M many more voted with the
Republicans, under th9 Impulse of The
tnriif scare, ur tie coercion Of huildr2lug
employers. A few Of the baser sort
bought by bribery, betrayed their party
and their manhood, Thus were tau, 400
votes lost to the Democracy in New Castle
county. If these had remained steadfast,
Wilmir gton would have been carried, and
the county Democratic by large mH iOrity.
According to the official returns The
average Republican maturity in Whining
ton was about 400 and ia the entire county
only 200. The Democrats III the huudreds
outside of Wilmington had over 300
majority. If they had poiied their full
vote In Wilmington therefore it is evident
that they would have hId small me iority
in the city and handsome one in the Gu
tire county.
This they must have IN 1882 fer the fol.
lowing reasons In the recent election
the Republicans had the benefit Of the
very full vote which only Presidential
campaign can bring out. In addition to
this, the Republican party having been
beaten in 1876, was fighting for its very
existence. 1t was q party ~ bay, ir M
an agony of lear, and fought with the
energy Of desperation. IL was literally
death grapple. 1t employed every means
and resorted to every artiiice TO secure a
further lease of life. II paused ut moth.
ing. Hence the power of the General
Government, the Tears, pre- JUDGES and
passions OF national campaign, the pros
petity cry, the tariff scare, the il tllence
OF capitalists, the threats and ontrea;ies OF
employers and the power of m0ney--all
that could appeal TO the feelings and
interests Of men was concentrated upon
our city and county canvass
In addition to this the Republican
necussty Of securing inuj lrIty in the
Uuited States Sanete, joined IN envy AID
srltt II against Senator i3aynrd both in and
out Of DelnwHrp, stimulated special and
formidable II mt 10 defeat hs II election
regardless of cost or meaos The fac,
that the average legislative vote through
out the State IN nearly hUu less than that
given the electoral ticket is pregns ut proof
of this base effort.
In 1882 the potent il, iuoncps of Il Presi.
Dental canvass will not effect our State
campaign. Then the Republicans will
have Is smaller vote. Hheir efforts cannot
be no desperate. They can have no tarin
scare, no bulldozng, 10 imported cor
ruption fund There will b. no effort to
unseat Senator Bayard and homo OF this
overt or cover. malice which hat struggle
engendered
The Republican party of Delaware has
done its best and worst in 1870.
In 1852 the Democratic psrtT will p.oht
nv experience. FurpGarDtd by escape
from impending pcrilit wlil he foraarn,ed.
sense of common danger will unite it in
ne common purpose 10 maintain its i'm.
periled supre mney. Strrtltd from the 7lum.
Der of over-GoLidepce which hnd lu!ed il
INTO insecurity, il Will arise AID shake on
tine lethargy which lad well nigh been
fatal. lt will clear the decks for action
Ineiirctlves viii b retired. and the oraiu
aud Drawn will GO to The front
In making nominations its aroused
voters will effectively extinEuish meritIefs
seli-ssekeTs and, IN organizing for the
campaign, sond to the rear its hraying and
laundering incOmpetents. They will SIZE
that state and county tickets art nominated
which will inspire public confidence and
not popular disgust and will attract the
confidence and Jealous support of the in
dividual votes and the efficient party
worker.
In 1882 the hypocriticaI dEtranchise-
ment "hullabgloo" will be impotent. Our
assessors aud levy court will see that all
entitled are assessed, but that no more non
resident negroes are placed on the assess-
ment lists.
The result will be an increased Demo
cratic and Il decreased Republican vote.
The negro vote in Wilmington will not
again be permitted to exceed the census.
At the next election the Democrats have
every reason for hope and the Republicans
for despair of success in this city, county
and State.
In the Greeley campaign Of 1872 UNI
popular nominations Inflicted upon the
Democracy far greater disasters than the
present. In 1874, by the nomination of
Governor Cochran and an unex 1eption-
able ticket they retrieved their fortunes
by signal success-and this iii the face
of full negro assessment and of party
flushed with victory and confident OF
further triumph.
What was done in 1874 can moro easily
| be done in 1882 if Democrats have the Wis
dom and virture to seek success by similar
means. The white men of Delaware
undoubtedly prefer that party which COM
prises two thirds of their own race to the
rule of ignorant negroes aud their pitiable
minority of white allies The Democratic
party must become guilty of gave errors
and gross misconduct before it will be
/ discarded for Afro Republican domination
and before true Delawareans will displace
our Bsvard4, Saulsburys and the like for
such tl"dGiing statesmen, such aspiring
| incapables and such would be leaders as
are ambitious TO suppiant them. ...
OBSERVER.
/ rs INTBODr DISFR JNCHISRD"