The daily gazette., 1882-05-11
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WILMINGTON. THURSDAY. MAY II.
why we are Proud,

Just why the Ne,Cs should find any COM
fort in the fact that the GAZETTE is not
ASHAMED of itself" nor ashamed of its
party it is hard to imagine, but we assure
that foundering journal 1t is welcome to all
the satisfaction it can extract from this
source. Indeed, we will still further add to
the Nes0s' complacent comfort by assuring it
that the GAZETTE is even proud of itself, and
proud of its party. We are proud of the
readable newspaper popular with the people
and rapidly increasing in circulation. And
we are proud of our party because of its ex-
cellent record, its strong candidates and its
splendid prospects of defeating the Ring
"ruled Republican party at the city cleo
ton.
We do not claim that the Democratic
party of Wilmington is immaculate, but we
do claim that during the past three years it
has given the people of this city the cleanest,
best, most economical and at the same time
most effective municipal government they
ever enjoyed. We do not maintain that
they effected marvels in the way of reducing
the city expenditures, but we do assert that
they spent the peoples money judiciously,
and did thier utmost to keep pace with the
marvellous Improvements of the past few
years. No rings or cliques were formed and
maintained by the public money for the pur-
pose of forcing the nomination of favored
candidates and their election against the ex-
pressed will of the people.
We are also proud of our party's local
record as compared with that of the Repub-
lican party. We have had no defaulting
postmasters or collectors of the port to feel
ashamed of. Our city treasurers have not
defaulted to the extent of several thousand
dollars and cost the city as much more to
find out how much they stole. Our Water
Department officials have conducted their
affairs in such a manner as to make investi-
cations OF alleged corruptions and defalca-
tons unnecessary, while our City Councils
have honestly expended every dollar of the
peoples money entrusted to their care and
not wasted large amounts for purely politi-
cal purposes. How much would the Ne,os
give to be able to truthtully say this much
for its party2
VIC are ALSO pTOuu Oh INC ldCI JnaJ Int
Democratic party goes into this city cam
paign with a strong, clean ticket, which il
can proudly sustain as the party's honest
choice and not the representative of any
faction or ring. 1t commands the supper
and admiration Of every member of tn
party and will draw largely from the grea
number of decent Republicans who are i'll
inclined to humbly submit to the yoke tina
little knot of INSCRIPTIONS country politi
clans at Dover SO insolentlv thrust upo
their necks.
And finally, we are proud because W
firmly believe the Democratic party, at til
June election, is going to give the old "Cit
Ring" Republicans the worst thrashing a
indignant people ever administered TO
corrupt, INSCRIPTIONS faction seeking {
obtain control Of their municipal affairs
The Democratic engine is now on a clea
track under full head of steam, and if I'll
Republican bull don't get out of the way
will surely get hurt.
All things considered, we think we hay
ample reason to be proud of the GAzETI
and its party.