The daily gazette., 1882-03-21

ChriatiaAa Hundred.
TEE PEOPLE UNDERSTAND that
the Republicans controlled this city
fOr twelve or fifteen years had their
own way about everything. For a
long time with only one or two, and
longer time with only three or four
Democratic members in the City
Council. The result was the most
outrageous extravaganza. The city
was run into debt over half million
Of dollars with nothing to show for 1t.
Then came the attempt to build the
t'CoOl Spring Reservoir" when the
scandalous waste and outrageous sys-
tenn Of favoritism at the expense Of
The city become SO apparent as to
appall the most honest men of the
Republican party themselves, aud
they declared they could stand it no
longer. The consequence was an ex-
Ro9o Va VIC ubo bhob ndu DoOu Luduo
Of false tax receipts counterfeited with
q county seal, made expressly for the
purpose, SO exceedingly good in imita-
tion that it required an expert to de-
aect it from the original, but so fatally
defective when detected that none
dared TO dispute that it was counter
felt. Tax receipts in imitation of the
genuine receipt were prlnted-the
names Of the tax collectors forged In
80 excellent way that it was difficult
to discover the difference. These
forged tax receipts with counterfeit
county seal stamped upon them were
given to negroes from all parts of the
county and State, and from Maryland
and Pennsylvania, and voted at win.
dows whore there were Republican
judges of election who had no con.
scientious scruples, and thus from
year to year were the negroes used tC
defeat the Democrats, until they were
used at the nominations of the Re
publican party to keep more homes
Republicans from being run for Office
IL become SO bald that no man whom
the leaders of the negroes were op
posed to could get nomination. II
fact the men who controlled the ne
grOes saw that they must hold thei
position by fraud and the use of ne
groes or the opposing clique of NOR
honest Republicans would get int,
Office and turn them out. Each Re
publican clique or faction preferred
being succeeded by the Democrats
And thus it came that the Democrat
secured power in Wilmington. The,
have used it to better advantag
for the people, and hence it came tina
for two or three years no effort wa
made by the Republican party to ge
back into power in this city.
In the short time the Democrat
have been in power they paid the i'm
mense floating debt, reduced th
taxes built the reservoir, erected tn
building for the Departments wher
the city business is transacted, sc
cured the erection and completion @
the beautiful Court House buildin
20 cheap as yet to be wonder st
cured the removal of the Courts t
this city by Legislative enactment
extended the water mains all over tn
city, and are now preparing the wa
for highway to the Delaware river
dssideratum that tho city has sough
for thirty-aye years, and which, if tb
Democrats are not defeated will b
completed in the course of a year q
two.
The people of New York who ma,
age the NeaoS solely for political effs,
are strangers to all this; they kno
nothing about our State politics, an
hence, in their dreams over Senator'S
visions they imagine the GAZETTE hi
not ventured, as they say, "for per
cd of thirty years or more to make
truthful, straightforward politic
statement of any kind" We 8,
plainly how difficult it is for such is
nOrant and unaccomplished peop
who lack the knowledge of the mil
cal history of Delaware to get alon,
It is not our purpose to aid them Offer
but as they have asked for informatlo
In the way men who are accustome
TO grope along in the dark, from da
to day, we have hastily thrown a fsl
facts togethsr in the above which W