Daily Republican., 1882-04-01
Entering the Campaign.

will be deprived of a vote during TINS
pear. Had all been assessed who were
entitled, an easy and sweeping Rspuot-
can victory would have been the re-
suit. We confidently expect the 1t
publicans to win any how, but the Nlc-
tory would be much easier If all keput-
icans had been assessed Now then
what is to be done next? II the he
publicans are going to win they must
throw life and vigor into the party In a
partisan point of view this is the most
important cam paign that ever faced the
two contending parties of the State
The Democrats have been in power Tor
twenty years and have become strongly
entrenched in every department. They
will not let 60 their hold of the govern
ment without a monstrous effort to re-
tain it. If they are defeated they will
owe their defeat to their tyranical acts
and their omission to legislate for the
good Of the whole people. What have
they done and what have they not
done? 1t is useless for us to go back
over the period of their continued power
to answer that question. Delaware
was one of the States that was clear OF
debt before the late civil war broke out.
The Democracy have plunged the STATE
into. debt from which she is slowly
emerging it is true, not for patriotic
purposes, but to hinder and cripple the
Union army that was throttling the
rebellion. The major part of the debt
of the State was created to pay men to
stay at home instead of enlisting to put
down the rebellion. While other States
were raising money by thousands and
equipping volunteers for the service
Delaware borrowed money TO pay each
drafted man 5000 Of the $500 he had to
pay for government Communication that
released him from service. But the
man who could not raise 500, and was
forced into the army by that draft was
not paid cent.
Later on in the war when a commu-
ta,ion would not keep man out OF the
army but substitute was accepted,
each drafted man was paid large pro-
portion Of the amount required to pur-
chase a substitute. 1t was then that
he State found that it had to fill its
quota of men and then small bounty
was offered for volunteers. But all
the money the State paid in bounties
ICY, volunteers would not pay the inter
est of kebt created in paying men Il
stay at me.
Democracy refused to raise the =!
National flag upon the State House dur
ing the war, but entertained the rebe
commissioners of Mississippi, VIII
waited upon the Legislature to Undue
the State to leave tn Union and join To
Cohfederacy, and resolution deemin&
1t inexpedient to comply With the WISH
of the rebel commissioners was not
passed unanimously. A resolution 10
assist the widows and orphans of the
soldiers, who fell in the battles of the
rebellion, was Indignantly rejected, but
one instead was passed, recommending
the widows, wives aud children of these
misguided soldiers to the charity of the
puolic. Cold comfort indeed, and still,
strange to say, thele are soldiers who
still vote with that party. When the
war was over, egislature after Legisla-
ture appointed commissioners to wal
upon the general government, asking
the United State Is to retund to Delaware
what she paid to keep volunteers out OF
the army. The fact that the govern
ment he's paid the honest war claims
of all the loyal States and has per-
sistently refused TO pay Delaware's
claim, is evidence that the claim is not
an honest one. Had the Confederacy
succeeded, it could with much more
show of reason, have reimbursed Della
wares war debt. These things mil It
have passed out of memory were it not
for the fact that we are confronted ev-
cry year with tie auditor S account of
the debt OF the state which brings it bt-
fore the public,
Democracy refused TO take step in
advance even after the var was ever,
peace established and justice and equal.S
ty be tore the law had become the stat
ute of the nation. The ingenuity Of
Democracy invented the present assess
ment and tax collection laws intended
to disfranchise back voters and poor
white voters. How we'll the scheme
has succeeded has been fully realized
We need not go over the assess nent
programme in detail 10 enough has been
said about it to keep it fresh il the
mind of every voter.
Suffice it to say that thOrugh Demo-
cratic partisan manlpulations Of the
assessment there are from 1000 to 5000
DISTINGUISHED Republicans in the State
today and still the state Is close polit.
ically. Democracy tor many years abb
solutely refused TO make any improve.
ment in the educational laws of the
State, and even now, though an advance
step has been taken there is not a
normal school in the State. Democracy
has persistently refused to make pro-
vision for the education of the colored
people until the last Legislature donated
81, 40Oto be divided amongst the colored
schools Of the State by the Delaware
Association.
This would give the enormous amount
Of twenty four cents to each colored
person of school AGE in the Stale. But