Daily Republican., 1881-04-09
BOURBON TRICKS AGAIN.
UNFAIR PARTY STATUTES MADE
MORE gNFAIR.
The Democrats Pass II big Batch of
Partizan Measures Through the
House -- 4 Lively Running
Dcbate-Other Matters.

/ Special correspondence of the RErUBLICAN.
DOvEn, April S.--Dcmocratic rascal
i'y waa in full bloom in the House this
afternoon. The session was almost
wholly given up 10 party. Measure
after measure, drawn mp by the party
leaders, (rvrry one Ot them unfair and
dishonest, were passed over the "mphat-
ic Republican protest, and on every one
party lines were closely drawn. Every
lime the ayes and nays We're called, and
every time the vote stood fourteen to
seven. A good Bit Of lively talk added
To the interest of the proceedings.
THETAX EECEtPT BILL
The first bIli Oi political nature was
in the form ol Senate amendment to
the House bill, modifying Chapter 20,
Of Volume 10 of the State laws. II re-
lated to the stamping ot tax rccripS At
elections. The original purpose of the
bill waS TO require that all taN receipts
ne stamped when presented, whether
the owner votes or not. In the first
p,ar" the bin contained provision 10
This effect, but the Republican members
had it amrndrd, requiring that all per
son, shall present their tax receipts, hut
that it be optional, as at present,
whether they be stamped "r not in case
rh,. vote be- not taken. When the Scu-
at, came to consider the measure, il re-
stored the bill to itS original shape, and
although Mr.. bradford ,irungiy opposed
tn" amendment to-day the House al
once took deep water. In" amendment,
~ Mr.. bradford showed will work Il
great deal Of wrong and injustice. III
man applies to vote at the wrong polling
place by mistake, his receipt i, to be-
stamped with the same alaCrity dS Is
that Of thr man who applies through
dishonest motives.
A PURE SCHrSlE OF FRAUD.
Immediately after the action upon
this Chairman Graham of the Commit
Zee on Elections made a favorahie re-
port upon the act providing for UNI
form ballot AT elections. When put
upon its final passage. Mr.. Bradford
promptly attacked the bill.
II seemed to him that We had reach
ri II peculiar stage III our political his
tory. A man convicted Of the theft of
lood to Keep him from starving is Sc
vercly punished; and yet men are per
mnt+l in this day 10 work infinitely
greater wrong and gounwhippcd Of jus
lice. The bill now before the House
was simply An infamous mcasure-thc
most infamous he had ever heard OF
putstir Of Mississippi. 1t was caIrnll-
ted Ia work dholarily fraud. The bal
lots were to be SIX inches long and
three, inches wile-nu more, n" less.
rhS was IN outrage, and Intended to-
cheat the citizens ont If their right 10
vote. To make an allowance OF but
half an inch would have been bad
enough. Any election officer can do en-
actly what he pleaseS, because 1t is i'm
possible to iimd the exact size Of Il bal
lot. and it is therefore calculated to
work. The paper upon which the bal
lots are to bc printed must come from
the Secretary Of State, and all ballots
not printed in this must be thrown out.
This WAS unhcarl Of and calculated to
cad to fraud disirauchiSing all the mi
uority in whole equities.
Mr. Bradford was under the impress
sion that this would do the Democrats
no good. This outrage cannot be justi-
ned 1t is infamous Talk OF the
Eleventh Ward bill! Why that palcs
into inSiyniiiranCc compared. with this.
No Democrat would attempt t" defend
the bin, and the measure was an indi-
cation of the party ) weakness.
Dr. Tomln3on and Mr. Iahall, re-
piled that ;hry could Src nothing in
famous in the bill and that is all they
had to say in justification Of the bill,
ihcn it PASSED by u party vote.
BRDWNTOwS BILL.
Close following this came the bill to
relieve the newly formed Eleventh
Ward in Wilmington from city taxa
ton in part Again Mr.. Bradford took |
the floor and this time his ten minutes
were devoted more to sarcasm than
drmunciation by that bill, Mr.. Brad |
ford explained, the Democrats of Viii
mington say to the indignant Brown |
Town people, you can walk up and vote
the Democratic ticket for We have re-
licycd you of ONE half of the city taxes
for three years and one third for the
thrco years following. ''If the bill to
take Browntown into the city had been
u proper measure the people of Brown
town would not have objected to being
included and bearing the taxes. But
they did object and said, "we will vote
the Republican ticket" This is the
reason the bill is introduced; when the
papers stated that the bill was likely To
result diolStron>ly to the Democratic |
party they came down here with this
measure.
.Only this afternoon" went on Mr.. |
bradford, referring to an action tn"
House had taken short time betorr,"
we passed bill prohibiting bribery |
and Intimidation at elections, but now
it is proposed by certain baSe-mindcd
men that this body should engage i'll a
position which it declared only this
afternoon to be a penal otfnnSe.
Then DIR. Tomlinson took the floor
and said Harry Mcltire had told him
OF a Republican who had really given
rise to the Eleventh Ward bill.
"Yes," replied Mr.. Bradford, quick
ly springing to his feet, "the gentle
man you name is excellent authority on
matters relating to Democracy. The
gentleman you allude to is Mr. llcald,
n good Rrpub lean. He favored the an
neXa' ion scheme because the ChriStia a
! Improvement Company, of which he is
President has much land in Browutown.
1t is natural that he should favor the
plan. But let me add to what you have
said that az soon as he found that the
Browntown people were opposed to the
he withdrew from its advocacy.
ION DANGEROUS GROUND"
1t was Mr.. PilIing's turn now and
he made II ringing speech. No one, he
said, had asked for this bill but few
politicians who were lead
ing the Democratic party to political
The Democrats in their
legislation had been controlled by two
or three men from Wilmington. Who
are they? Do they represent and con-
troll that magnificent city? No! 81
give you this warming" concluded Mr..
Pilling, Tomorrow we separate and
you are to look to where your political