The daily gazette., 1882-05-16
COUNTY NOMINATIONS.
AN AseyMEHE s Y, !, l5Ys sAINsT s4s%: The
SOME STATE CORRESPONDENCE.
Fresh New Castle Items-Ahhirs Of
Interest in Milford-Brief Notes From
Harrington.

To THE EDITOR OF THE GAZETTE
am one of 20 odd persons who petitioned
the county meeting about four years since
for change in the rules governing the
Democratic party nominations in New
Castle county. We were plainly told In
that meeting that our names should be pub
lished and we should be marked as not of
the genuine Democracy. These four years
have passed and from the disastrous results
to the party since that time am more fully
convinced that those persons who then petit
toned for change In the rules governing
the party were among the best friends OF the
cause of the Democratic party of our county
and that IL is now about time that we
again petitioned for a change which
think even those persons who
were four years since ready to
denOunce the 20 odd petitions will to-day
say they were right in petitiOning for the
change Under the present system any
person can set himself up as candidate for
Representative, Senator, or Levy Court
Commissioner, and If his only qualification
is brass and he has plenty of it in his com
position he can, by thorough canvass OF
the hundred or district, get majority Of
the voters who attend the nomination cleo
ton committed in his favor, while some
modest person, who will not run over the
hundred soliciting, begging and holding out
all sorts of inducements to get voters to vote
for him, although he may be hundred
times better qualified to fill the Office for
the best interests ofthe people never can get
nominated, and then the other person
who may not have the first qualification to
fill the office gets the nomination and the
party goes into the contest handicapped with
a load that they are not able to keep pace
with their opponents, and are thereby beaten.
Allow me to illustrate my own
position Four years since there were
no less than four candidates for
Representative in our hundred. got the
nomination by six votes, and my whole vote
was less than 80 out of a constituency of
Democratic voters of over 300 Docs such a
system give to the Democratic voters Of New
Castle county the proper kind of candidates
that all can give hearty support tot
claim to be a Democrat from principle, and
not for the reward of office, yet am free to
say since the present system of nominating
has been in force, ! have not voted aisingle
| full Democratic ticket. If the party will
not present a good ticket with the
names of honorable men having the qualif'
/ cations to fill the Office they are named for
Iclaim to have the privilege, and will in al
cases exercises it, of scratching from the
ticket all such names as in my judgment
have not the qualifications 10 FL
/ the office or for other good reason
that satisfies my own mind thai
the person named is not such a one a
should be elected to fiji the office. While w
nominated our ticket by county convention
we had tickets that were acceptable to tn
entire county, yet ander the present system
| one-fourth of the voters uniting in any hun
dred can put ON tho ticket a man who vii
create such an apathy In and throughout tn
county that it will defeat the whole ticket
| am for the success of the principle
of the Democratic party, with good
honest men placed on the ticket VIII
will carry them out, and this l claim ha
been shown by a sad experience the presen
system will not give us. Therefore tn
sooner we return to a system that VIII Civ
us the best men of the party as our cand
dates the better it will be for the party if W
want success. Our defeat at the last ele'
ton was not for want of Democratic voter
in the county, but was caused by the apath
created in the party for want of popula
ticket to bring out the voters, while tn
Republican party put forth their best me
and by this means we were defeated.
WILLIAM DEAN.