Daily Republican., 1882-10-13
FRIDAY, OCTOBER ,s 1854.
REFORM needed IN DeIaw are.

The Democratic success in Ohio
should have no influence in Delaware
more beneficial to the Democratic party
than If there had been Republican
victory. Delaware stands in an entirely
different light from Pennsylvania and
other strong Republican States thai
will be influenced by the Ohio Demo-
cIatic tidal wave. They have been
ruled by the Republican party until
animosities have been engenuered, fac
tional contests have sprung up, and in
many instances dishonest Republican
officials have brought disrepute upon
the grand old party that has done more
for enlightened progress and human
liberty than any party has ever done
before or ever will do again in the
time it was in power. The good done
90 the nation by the Republican party
will never be lost. Its grand achieve
ments will never be oEliterated. The
four millions of slaves it has liberated
will forever remain free. If there is
not Republican party there will al
ways be party of reform that will
keep an age ahead of the Bourbon that
Clings to tie past and never learns any
thing new. But this il not what we
started out to say.
We will say now that there is much
more need of the edisentegration and de-
feat of the Dem ocratic party in Della
ware, than there is for the defeat of the
Republican party in Pennsylvania and
Ohio, looking at the question even
through Democratic telescope. The
Democratic party has been in power in
Delaware thirty years, and even ad-
mitting that it has not broken open the
State Treasury and stolen the States
money-about all the credit that is
claimed Tor It-where, we ask, is the
enlightened progress it has made? 1t
has certainly had time enough to make
some reforms in legislation. What Is
the condition in which the State is
found at the end of thirty years? One
third of the people Of the State dis.
franchised from any vote OF voice in
shaping the Legislation Of the State.
They have no say whatever in the Sc
lection of United States Senator. Az
last spurred up by public opinion, the
sluggish old party has Tor the first time
offered to increase tn, r. presentation of
New Castle County, # it is continued
in power it has takuu thirty years to
come to the conclusion that something
must be dcDa and finally laA promised
iICrGaE ed repTesentatiCL-. Nt represeL-
tatiOn aCCuTulng to pOpu alton. If it
took the Democratic party thirty years
to come to the conclusion to make that
move, are We to believe it is in earnest
now? But it is not alone in the matter
of representation that the Democrats
have negleCted-nay, more than that
refused to provide for the vital inter
ests of the State, and to keep even
within sight of the advanced progress
Of the Republican States TO the North.
BourbOnism still clings to the life term
judiciary, and only at the late State
Convention If the Democratic party
did it Sc, the need of judicial reform.
If it took them thirty years to come to
the conclusion that 1t was unwlse to
appeal a case from the decision of a
judge in the courts below, to be head
by the same Judge in the court of errors
and appeals, are they really honest
now in their professions of reform AZ
ter having repeatedly refused to make
provision for the education of all the
children of the State for the last fifteen
years, are their promises now to be ac-
5epted in good faith? Thirty years is
certainly long enough period in which
TO correct the evils which have crept
into the State Government, and to
tormu mulate and carry out needed re-
forms, but thirty years have passed
and what have we? Fifty thousand
disfranchised citizens, from 5000 to 1000
children absolutely deprived Of an edu-
cation, though four Democrats in the
Legislature, aided by seven Republi-
can members, did make out to give the
ColOred people 81, 400 year for the last
two years for educational purposes, pro.
vided they would provide their own
school houses; Legisle ture elected by