Daily Republican., 1881-04-11

MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1851.
Thre Partisan work of the LEG isla-
4MFe,

10 tne great JOY a the S''u N'hAH "
the State, Had the adjournment tx
ken place two weeks sooner notmRg
would have suffered and the people
weuld have escaped much obnoxious
nnd Objectionable partisan legislation
What was most pee.led TO BE- done the !
members of the lower counties Wiling
ly defeated, snd what Vas net
wanted BY IA mSjerity of the people was
fastened upon them ia spite ol every
protest. Amongst 80 much bad parti-
san legislation IL. : hard tocaii cut that !
which is good, and when it is chilled
out and placed ppon the scales Of JUS
lice it is but the weight 1i feather
compared with ythe greIt loaS ot OBJ
.jectionable laws that have BEEN passed.
Leaving out the stock laws, owl,
hawk, muskrat, ditch, road and divorce
bills which oGcMRied great portion OF
the time OF the Legislature, there is
little more left to 44low for the SlnteI =
work that is not of the most extreme
partisan character.
The Delaware Western cha"ter and
the bill retunding the Stat" dent at tour
percent only are exceptions as measures
of impoa tance Leave out these, where
can We and other, et general ints'eSt to
4he State that are not partisan: ltis
true that the legislature did for tase first
time in tae history &; the state give
frfe to assist in the education ofcolor-
ed childre., but the dribble of =, 400
ahuS appropriated would scarcely make
thirty GEMS tor each c0lOred scholar,
while more han "a dollar head II APP
pynpria.ed ~ white scholars. Had the
siominaBa pa 'ty throwG aside political
and race prpiudics and nave given all
citizens the same chanCe OF an cdnca-
4ion they weGld have b~en entitled 10
the praise asl gratitude OF the whGe
people OF the State, hat aS they haze
allowed petty narrow political prejH
dice ID warp tb .ir better judgments, the
credit which would naturally belong TO
them tor " hat they did do vii be with
held in IN them.
The Legislatm is PERHAPS more con
.picuoue for def.4,tin the ieast attempt
4 secure.aven iDE reaSed repre.se ntation |
IT, say nS4 hing about represen t.stion ac-
r,rding 70 population, "" doubt |
wh-ther iG any other State in thea niou !
such iueQGsity representation exists !
A.. IN DrlaF,srr Tie representatives Ol /
d.. .glO population rule by a two third !
vote the cpaesentatkres OTIS, 900 people.
The attempt 10 correct this inequality
was rset by sL< most violent opposition
by the DeRnnsEats, only one meGlber Of
that party vutif Z with the Republicans
slider the subject So fa" as the Demo
s'racy of y rnt aad Sussex counties j.
concerned notice has been served by il
alpon the Republicans that no TeliefmAv
ever be expected from that party and 30
long az the Democracy by chicanery,
fraud and djsfrancii scment or by any
-0ther mea4,s is enabled to bold those
counties, so long will the heel cfdespot- .
ism crush the majority to the earth. |
Let them crush. the hanier the better |
Even a worm when tread up0I will |
turn to bite the heel that crushes il. |
Neither will an oppressed people for
ever submit to injustice, injury and in
suit
What il the further record OF the
democrats in the Legislature? An eff
fort was made 10 have the assessment
laws 70 modified as not purpOSely TO-
distranchise any one. but instead they
were made restrictive and severe and
the assessors and Levy Courts are au-
thorized TO establish standard of
morals and respectability 10 entitle a
person to be- assessed.
Instead of hereafter as heretofore per
mitttns each party to print as many (
tickets a. they saw proper, the clerks
of the peace are authorized to dole out
the paper upon which they are to be
printed in such quantities as he may
see proper, by which means the Re
publicans may be kept upon short al
Iowance. In short it is adopting the
Mississippi plan Of acknowledgements
which enable man like Chalmers to
crush ont a Republican majority Of 10
300 in one Congressional district and
return himself as the member-eIect
three successive times.
This not being enough, the corpora
tions and larger firms Of Wilmington
which employ thousands Of hands are
placed under the political lash of the
Democracy and are to be punished
not only with heavy fines but imprison-
.ment if they ever ask hand in their
employ to vote differently from what
. he had voted. But this iSnot all As
the Democrats could not have torch
light paradeS without rioting, tearing
ont negro headquarters, stoning negro
churches, cutting out negro barber
shops and cigar stores, and chasing
negro women through the streets with
shouts of "kill them," the Democratic
Legislature of the State passed the bill
to prohibit all political parades here
after, though no violence could be laid
to the charge of the Republicans. How
ever we are not finding special fault
with the bill, for parades were both ex-
pensiye and useless, and as the Demo