Daily Republican., 1881-03-05

Four Years ago.
The Democrats of the Delaware Leg
islsture, as if not yet content with
having already made their State ride.
ulous in the eyes of the Nation, yester
day gave it the finishing touch of par
tisan malignity, partisan bigotry ard
the most sublime stupidity and ignor'
auce, in passing resolutions of sympa
thy for the defeat OF Samuel J. Tilden
in 1876. 1t is, however, but an out
burst of that latent feeling of disloyalty
that turks in the Democratic bosom and
only seeks such occasions as yesterday
to come out for an airing before the
public. Nothing more could be expect
cd of a party that refuses to be tied
even to the tail end OF progress that it
might be dragged along by the current
of advanced sentiment. The Democracy
of Delaware would rather liDgsr behind
and freeze itself by the dying embers
of the lost cause than TO march forward
with the advancing army Of progress
and reform. We do rot wonder chat
such intelligent and fair-ninded Dem.
ocrats IS 7. N. Williams and A. C.
Williams looked troubled and amazed
when the resolutions we're introduced,
but i. is rot to their credit that they
allowed themselves to be dragooned
into voting for them. However, moth
ing more could be expected of a party
that refused to hoist the National flag
on the State House during the rebel
lion; that entertained the rebel com
missioners from Mississippi, and cSun.
seled with them about taking Delaware
out of the Union; that plunged the
State, up to that time clear OF debt,
into debt not yet paid, to pay bour-
ties TO men if they remained at home
from the war; that recommended the
wives and orphsns of misguided sol
diers to the charities of cold and IN
syupathising public, but never gave a
dollar 70 help them in their hour Of
need q st furnished smugglers for the
rebel ar ~ and then elected them Ia
Congress- that taxed school teachers
for the privilege Of teaching school in
the State at twenty-five dollars q
month; that never gave dollar to
educate the oolored people of the State
aud then insults them by calling them
bigoted and ignorant: that defeats all
measures tending to public improve
ments unless the money can be flched
from the general Government that
employees an attorney to collect from
che Government the money paid by the
:Sl&te to keep men from enlisting in the
'UniGn army ; that fees attorneys to de.
fend ballot box suffers and violators Of
the Federal election laws before the
United States District Court, and in
sAers that plants itself firmly and
squsrely in the path Of every reform
and beneficial movement that would
shed lustre on State once represented
by the elder Bayards and the Clsytons.
We sre glad that there is rising and
growing party in Delaware that has no
sympathy with the ridiculous resolu |
tions offered by Mr.. Jones. That party
was in q minority in 1876, when this
great fraud is said to have taken place,
of $500. Four years afterwards Han
cock, the leader Of these weeping DEM
ocratic Jeremiahs, only had few votes
over 200 majority. If Tilden had been
the great defrauded man that the Dem
ocratic Legislative resolutions says he
has been, the Democratic majority last
fall would have been doubled. Twol
years more will wipe ont the little
dwindling Democratic majority left,
and then Mr.. Jones and his fellow
wsepers and walters will be retired to !
the shades OF private life and he de-
prived of the privilege of insulting the
intelligent people Of Delaware and
making our little State the butt of ridi-
Guile for the whole nation. "The mills !
of the gods grind slowly but they grind
exceedingly sure"