The daily gazette., 1882-09-09
PLAIN TALK.
Some HOInely and Pertinent Reflections
Relative to the Present Campaign,

To THE EDITOR OF THE GAzRTTE:-If
we were to believe all that the Republicans
claim that they are going to do, 1t would
be useless for our party to go Into the cam
paign. All the Republicans whom have
conversed with are confident of their
success throughout the State, but
more particularly so in regard to
publican papers Of Wilmington were to be
at all relied upon, or In other words, If they
were ever known to utter single syllable
OF truth when speaking In regard to any
thing in connection with the success of the
Democratic party then we might give up in
despair. They have been practicing ON
preyarication so long that they now almost
begin to believe the lies which they print
must be true. The leading loIiticinns of that
party are but little better In regard to
telling the truth than their papers
arc of printing It. What must respectable
Republicans think Of their party wien they
look at the figure head placed upon the
PROV OF the party In letters of fire Safe
Burglars 1t may be true that to rob
government safe is respectable In the eyes
of those who do 1t and their near friends,
but to respectable people such a person is
just as mean a sneak thief as that man
Phipps, who, in Philadelphia, has been
| stealing from the paupers. What is the
difference between either of the aforenamed
thieves and those Star Route thieves who
steal from the general Government? Is not
man who steals, thief? What difference
Is there between man who robs a safe or
steals from paupers and from the
General Government and the poor
negro who steals your chickens Yet the
respectable part of the Republican party
would throw up their hands in exclamation
of horror and disgust If the thief who stole
| from tho manner or the moan uanrn oh
thief were placed at their State Central
Committee to represent the character Of
their party as its chairman. But what
better is the safe burglar who now repre-
sents them than either ofthe two other class
of thieves named And yet the respectable
part Of the Republican party are working
under the lead of a man who can crack
safe and will try to make Democrats believe
that all the people of Delaware, or at least
a majority of them, believe that thieving is
right and that 1t is respectable, for they say
their party had all the morality and all the
respectability Chat there is In the State)
within the precincts of its party, and they
are going to carry the State at the coming
election, and are going to do it on
the thieving line. Have not the leading Re
publicans and their press told us that they
were going to carry all before them for the
last 20 years Did they do it? If they said
|
tell what was not trues And if they lied
heretofore are they not doing the same
thing now2 Would any respectable citizens
engage a sneak thief, a safe burglar, or a
chicken thief to represent them and their
business Is this not just what the Repub-
lican party Is doing at this times Messrs
Currey and Hastings may be all right them
selves, but are not people to be judged by the
company they keepa If policeman finds
any person in the company of thieves or
pickpOckets does he not at once
conclude that they are of the same
stripe, or are greenhorns being led
into a snares 30 as they can be fieeced
Is 1t possible that the persons who repre-
sent the Republican party as Its candidates
are being taken in to be done fors Is 1t
true as the old adage says That the birds
of feather have focked together ?" How
different with the Democratic party with the
names of c. c. Stockley, the conscientious
man who gave up a lucrative position as
representative of great railroad interest
rather than 1t should be said that he was
using It's FUNDS and its influence to secure
him the high and honorable position of Gov
ernor of the State of Delaware, an honor that
any man might be proud to possess, and
which never should be filled or disgraced by
companion of safe burglar. Our nominee for
Congress is too we'll known as an honorable
gentleman, a smart lawyer, anu one WhoWh
fill with credit the place which he is as sure
to be elected to as that he now resides In
Wilmington. How can it be otherwise
Can It be possible that the people of Della
ware have become so lost to self-respect that
they will go into the company of safe bur
glars and other thieves TO find suitable persons
to fill the high and honorable positions OF
+, Governor and Representative to Congress
have too much faith in the intelligence and
honor of Delawareans to think for single
moment that they would do it. Contrast
the Republican chairman with the chair
man of the Democratic State Central Com
] mittee, the honest farmer of Kent who has
handled the State finances for the last foul
!, years, and against whom, like his many
, predecessors, not breath of suspicion o
anything but right In all his official matters
dare be spoken-Robert ]. Reynolds, thu
honest, honorable State Treasurer q mar
whom every Democrat may be proud to TAXI
by the hand. With such men we are sure
D our efforts will be crowned with success, ,ant
+ that after the sun has gone down on tht
next election day in November Delaware
, will have been true to herself and have
) named for Governor and Representative IL
Congress Charles G. Stockley and Charlie
. b. Lore. a DEMOCRAT.