The daily gazette., 1882-08-01
DEn1OORArrC COUNTY TICKET.
FOR sHERIFF,
PURNAL J. LYNCH.
The .eParty Of Principles. .

Regularly as election time rolls around,
the editorial writers of the machine Re
publican journals sharpen their pencils
and proceed to dilate upon the sentiment
that the Republican party Is the ''party Of
sspfsnciples," as well as of 'sgreat moral
"ideas." 1t matters not how much OH.
cial rottenness or corruption may be
proved against their party leaders and
oiilcs-holders, or how much the rights Of |
the people may be outraged by oppressive I
\ legislatIon, or how the taxpayers may be |
robbed by Star Route rascals or thievish |
grabs into the public treasury under the
guise Of Congressional appropriations,
everything must be forgotten and forgiven
because the Republican party is the "party |
" of principles" and of "great moral IDEAS"
The present campaign is no exception to
the rule. 1t matters not to the machine |
organs that the party is controlled by men
whose potent influence with the administra-
tlon at Washington would never have been
secured but for the bullet of the Stalwart
assassin that murdered President who had
no sympathy with their schemes, OF power
end plunder. 1t matters not that the
power thus acquired through the blood Of a
murdered President was used to accomplish
disreputable bargain by which the rights
Of q large and influential portion Of the
party were trampled in the dust, and an
honorable candidate deliberately sold out to
crafty the ambition Of his sworn friends
Il matters not that some of the men who
manipulated this disgraceful bargain
are tainted with criminal guilt, and that one
of them, at least, was charged with base
conspiracy and forced to seek the protection
of foreign government in order to escape
incarceration in a felon's cell. All this goes
for naught, because the Republican party is
the "party Of principles" and of "great
"moral IDEAS"
This being the case the Issue for the people
Of Delaware to decide, is whether such prn
ciples and such " ideas j" shall be per
mitted to prevail in our little State. For a
aquarter of century our local government
has been in Democratic hands, and during
this time our affairs have been carefully ad
ministered and every dollar of thu
peoples money honestly expended. Ever
just obligation has been prompt
met, the State debt gradually re
duced, yet withal our resources have bee
direct taxation has been entirely remove
from the people, without the slightest detr
ment to our public interests, while a.
needed public improvements have been az
eomplished, without the extravaganza an
Official jobbery that characterize the in
provement policy of so many States.
1t is almost unnecessary to state that tn
condition of affairs would no longt
prevail should the Republican party achieN
victory at the next election. With part
in power controlled and managed by Die
Harrington, George P. Fisher and the SUISSE
political renegade Lambden, how Ion
would we be able to boast of the hone
and economical government that
now the pride of our peoples How lor
would 1t be before our expenditures woul
be largely augmented and our State de
increased, under the guise ofpublic improy
ments, until the hand of the tax gather
would be laid upon the pockets of the pc
pie, that these worthless and their frien
might profit at the public expenses
This is no fancy picture. "By their fru
"shall ye know them," and if the Repub
can party Of Delaware chooses to not on
raise such crop of political renegades b
TO allow them to have full control Of t
party machinery and management 1t mi
expect the fact to be fully ventilated VIII
the candidates of these men COZ
before the people for their suffrag,
II will not do for the machi
organs to answer by declaring that iii
party is "party of principles ahds
'great moral IDEAS" that it suppressed {
rebellion and saved the union. These issI
were settled when the present generati
was in its swaddling clothes, and what I
people demand to know now is whether
Republican party can give them bet
government than they have enjo,
under Democratic rule, and if
character of the men now in supre
control Of the party is such as to guaran
the accomplishment of any promised refol
This is the whole principle involved in
contest, and it appeals directly to ev
citizen and taxpayer in the State. 81
we place our government and our prope
interests in the hands of renegades
corruptionists is the question that ev
voter must ask of himself before he ca