Daily Republican., 1882-10-11

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leaders In Kent and Sussex, have had
to submit quietly to this, the greatest
outrage ever inflicted upon q form Of
government having for its name repub-
lican.
Wilmington, this your growing home.
jumping with every breath of returning
spring into renewed life and stronger
Vigor, with her workshops, her ma
chinery, and her steamships, making
her name the pride of her people where
ever they go, is today only allowed
one Senator and one Representative
while her population Ia greater than
that of the balance of the county, and
very much larger than either that of
Kent or Sussex.
In other words, Wilmington had for
twenty years but one Representative,
and has now only one Senator and one
Representative TO represent q popula-
tion of 10000 people, while the county
of Kent has seven Representatives and
three Senators for population of 49,
900, and Sussex the same number of
representatives and Senators to repre-
sent SO, 900 people,
And yet for 25 years and upwards
this has been the Democratic idea
of honest representation and fair
dealing to you, the people OF this town
and county.
God knows it's time somebody moved
and something was done. You will
never, Dever get 1t under Democratic
rule,
It's tailed you and will till you die.
It's unprogressive. It's immovable.
1t hates to wake up. II glories in the
days Of stage-coaches, as against
railroads, and would rather float
lazily along the stream of time in the
Indians canoe than own the commerce
of the world. Its orators never fail
to point with pride to the fact that
Thomas Jefferson Eode to the Capitol
on horse, back, and I doubt not had we
followed the Democratic idea of pro-
gress, every President since would
still have been riding there on horse
back. Poor Mr.. TIlden, sooner than
not have gotten there at all would have
staked his lite on one of Jewell's
mules.
What has the Republican party said
to you? In the platform of every con.
vention held for years we have promised
you, the people of this busy town, you,
the people of this gro wing county, you,
the people OF this little State, that we
will give you representation just and
fair, and as near to that of population
as the people can demand. Will you
accept us with our promises made in
good faith, or will you still cling to the
canoe and the stage coach, and die
finally hemmed in by wall, at the
edge of which progress and civilization
cease their journeyF
OUR JUDICIAL SYSTEM.
But this is only one of q score of
needed changes which call for a COM
plete revision, nay, new Constitution
for the people of this State.
No people in any land have cause to
be pIouder of q purer and a better
selected judiciary than this State from
the beginning OF It's history TO this
time has been blessed with. No stain
has ever touched the ermine of Della
ware Judge. Her greatest statesmen
have been her greatest judges; aud
from the great Clayton down their
decisions have commanded the respect
of all English-speaking courts. But
our judicial system Is no longer in
keeping with the march Of improve
ments of hundred years. What
answered then fails now. What met
the ends of justice then utterl y fails
now.
Under the constitution of this State
to-day a man cannot be tried forlthe
larceny of q chicken unless at least
two of the judges are holding the court,
and weeks of every year are consumed
In the trial of petty larcenies with three
out of only five judges in the State pre-
sent at the trial. 1t is grave q question,
indeed, and one which should long
ago have been passed upon by those in
power, as TO whether change in our
judicial system, looking, toward a single
Judge holding the court in each county
with full and clear rights of appeal
from any decision he might render.
We desire new judicial Oystem-a
change in the Constitution of the States
80 that the same judges who hear
case tried and pass their judgments up
on it in the lower courts shall not again,
if the suitor thinks he has been wronged,
sit in Judgment on the same case in the
Court of Appeals. If an appeal Is tax
en- from the rulings Of the judge below,
surely the same judge should not sit in
judguen upon his own ruling.
j A Constitution in which o judiciary
J as created for the wants of people
who had less than fifty causes year
for trial, will not meet the necessities of
people who have over five hundred
causes year upon q trial list steadily
growing for want of complete and
radical change in our whole law syS-
TEN.
The Democratic party has seen this
all these years, yet blind, aye, worse
than blind, dumb to the demands-the
crying demands of the p9Ople--have
J stood still, listless, moti0nlass, afraid
, to move, lest some unwashed, uGkempt,
unshayen wretch from the swamps or
forests should Cry out progress, pro-
gress
CHANGE IN OUR LEVY COURT SYSTEM.
Again, VIC promise you change II
our present Levy Court system, and If
placed in power We do not make our
promises good you need not trust us
again, for az you know, we come be-
, fore the people every Two years asking
, their franchises.
Under the present law, law which
, the Democratic party nave failed and
refused TO change, aman running for
the L9vy Court runs all over the coun'
ty. In other words, the DIFF rent hun
dreds have not the control of the cleo.
ton of their own Levy Uolr5'men.
They nominate, but after that, by the
present law, their individual interest,
or rather Hundred interest, ceases
, Blackhird or Appoquinimink hundreds
have the sans right to say who shall
be- the Levy Court-maD from Whining
ton, as Wilmington herself has. Now
what's the result ? Why, instead OF d
, divided politica! Levy Court, made NJ
of tua political complexion Of each Hun"
r dred community, you have solid po-
, hCical Levy CUnrJ, made up OF the par
ty that happens TO carry the county.
The result has b1en that till two