The daily gazette., 1882-03-17

could have secured correction"
So accustomed were these people to
submit to the dictation of Conkling
and the other "bosses" in New York
that they imagine the gentlemen who
are elected to the General Assembly
of Delaware are of the same maleabls
staff and may be made to do the bid
ding of party leaders here as readily
as the men who annually sell
themselves at Albany. Such, how
ever is not the fact. But this is of no
consequence. Everybody in Delaware
knows that our State is not "boss-
ridden" as New York aud PennsYlva-
mia have been for twenty years. In
Delaware such thing as legislator
selling himself for money is not
known, while it is charged upon New
York and Pennsylvania as if it were
a daily occurrence, by the papers
claiming and known to represent the
Republican party as we'll as those of
the Democratic party.
No one would doubt the influence
of Messrs. Bayard and Salisbury /;
but they do not control the power in
Delaware to make the representatives
of the people pass laws TO which they
are hostile, or that are not intended
to benefit the people without regard
to party.
How false, fimsy and ridiculous the
objections raised in the NslUs are may
be inferred from the following
'Mr. Bayard was one of the fathers
OF the original legal notion that you
can secure non-partisan Jury and the
enforcement Of justice by putting into
the jury-box Six red-hot pa.tisans
from one side Of the political fence
and six similarly infamed individuals
from the other side"
The estimate that paper places upon
the intelligence of its readers may be
set down as very low when it makes a
serious attempt to palm off such silly
nonsense as that upon them. 1t may
suppose that the people of Delaware
are 30 ignorant as not to know how q
jury of the United States Court il
selected and drawn. There can be nc
fairer way or less partisan plan adopt.
ed than the one now in existence
which Mr.. Bayard did suggest, and
the United States Congress adopted
Previously the juries of the United
States Courts, which were composed
of men selected by the Marshals, were
OF the very class the Nescs cites, red
hot pArtizans, all from one party, anc
that its own party with few negroes
thrown in, who knew nothing but t,
obey the voice of the District Attor.
ney, and indict or convict just as tha
functionary chose to dictate.
Delaware had taste of such iurie
they were disgust even TO thl
honest men of the Radical party, anC
they are glad to escape from the dis
grace which the action of such inrie
attached TO our country that hac
heretofore been held to be the land O
the free but alas, its boasted free
dom had been made to subject +
court.martials, bayonet law, an,
juries summoned wholly of one part
TO convict. This is all changed b
the law that secures juries compose,
OF an equal number of men from eacl
party, and assures the citizen O
q fair and impartial trial. This i
just what the Radical political bose
did not want. They pointed to the par
tisan jury and the negro witness a
the surest way to intimidate voter
and keep them from exercising th
rights of citizenship, and thus max
suffrage dread to hundreds Of hon
est voters in all parts of the Unite,
States.
In NO State in the Union north O
Mason and Dixon's line is suffrag
more free than in Delaware. Here
voter has been required by the const
tuition of the State adopted in 1882 t
pay tax as prerequisite to a vote
So long as the Democrats were ker
out of power that tax was a burde
TO the voter. 1t covered all of hi
property as well as his person. But th
Democrats in order to put suffrag
within the reach of all white citizen
reduced the tax by making suffrap
depend upon poll tax, and in 1871
we think, after the negro was added t
the list of voters, to the trifling sum q
30 cents. 80 all.that a voter has to d,
isto 90 to the Collectors Office and pa
his poll tax. To do this he has sevsra
months, and on that tax he can vot
at any election held within taoo years
And our present Collectors attender
at their Office at night for severs
months to enable voters to avail them