Daily Republican., 1883-09-26
Modern TYFAQ NY.

rump Legislature are becoming furious
in their advocacy of the Municipal
Court and the Water Commission. The
concern at Fifth and King streets now
openly advise violence against the po-
lice officers unless they take their cases
before the Municipal Court, and the
Fifth and Shipley street organ is not
whit behind it. Governor Stockley is
even advised to call out the military to
place in power the iniquitous partisan
machines made into semblance OF law
by the representatives of a minority Of
the people. We will not advise violence
to meet violence, but as the Municipal
Court has been declared legal by the
highest court in our State it is an in.
cumbent duty to submit unless the peo-
pie are prepared for a regular revolu-
tion, that will shake off the grasp of The
tyraDt, and that will assert itself in
Obeying higher law than the notorious
ly oppressive and partisan laws of a
more partisan Legislature. We do not
believe the people are ready for revo-
luton by force, though the provocation
for one in Delaware is greater and the
causes more abundant than existed
when the cOlonists flew to arms to re-
sist the entertainments of the British
Parliament. So far as the Municipal
Court is concerned there is nothing else
to he done than to submit The law is
very plain and explicit. So anxious
and determined were the trainers of the
law, that the court should be properly
supported, that the Justices of the peace
in the city have cen robbed of the
power they have held and exercised
ever since the adoption of the constitu-
tion, and that power has been conferred
upon the new king that has come to rule.
The strange anomaly now presents it.
self for the first time in the history OF
Delaware of two grades of justices of the
peace.
Those in the city have only the power
to act in civil cases, while those outside
of the city have the power to act both
in civil and criminal cases. Great in
deed must have been the emergency
that required such close cleaning to
make work for the Municipal Court.
But tyrannical as it is we must recog-
nize the fact that it has come to stay
until the people axe prepared to shake
off the partisan chains that bind them
until they are prepared to assert and
maintain the right of local self govern
ment. When the voters of Wilmington,
maddened by injustice and the partisan
exactions Of rump Legislature arise
to shake off the tyranny OF a king in
which they have no choice, the cords
that bind them will be but flax before
the fame.
The Water Commission completes a
pair of political usurpations. 1t has not
yet possession of the water works c~ing
to the stand taken by the City Council.
The people are informed by the Every
Evening that even should successful
resistance hold out until the next Legis.
lature meets, what is wanted now tc
make the usurpation complete will then
be supplied. Bow your ne"ks to tbt
yoke, freemen Of Delaware You have
no rights partisan Legislature is bound
to respect. We said freemen. We would
recall t word. We are freemen Nc
more. Our freedom ended at the last
Municipal election. We elected Re.
publican Mayor, and he appointed a
Republican police. There had beer
nine years and niue months Of Demo
cratic rule in the city. The freemel
of Wilmington said by their votes tha
Democratic rule should be followed by
Republican rule until that decision va
reversed. In those nine odd years tou
Democratic Legislatures met, but in al
that time no effort was made to Great,
Municipal Court or Water Commits
sion. IT was only when the trecmen 0
Wilmington said there should be a
change that these engines of partisan
!, "a.
will of the people. What have we seer
III less than one year after RepubIical
rule WAS inaugurated ? A Mnncipa
Court at the head of which sits tive
Democrats performing the duties Of til,
Mayor What else have we seen" A
Water Commission composed of TIVE
Democrat, and one Republican, aLt
with Democratic chief engineer seek
ing to obtain possession of the wate
works. The very man that the free W
ters of Wilmington said by their vo'e
should not be chief engineer of tn
water works is the very man that
parti ,an Legislature says shall be chic
engineer. Is there no shame left in tn
Democratic party? If there is the
should blush with it, We are not sui
prised that extreme measures have nc
been resor,ed to before now to get POI
session of the coveted water works Al
parently little shame a was left in th
party, there seemed to he sufficient
hold them in check.
A LITTLE TEARTNG Ur amongst IL
gambling dens of this city would be
healthy movement. These tony