Daily Republican., 1883-06-14


floating debt. The people seeing these
things decided that the City should be
put under the rule of a Republican
Mayor and Republican police. They
decided that the City Council should be
changed from Democratic rule to Re
publican rule, and they decided that
II. d. McIntire should no longer be
Chief Engineer of the Water Works
after his then present term had expired.
This is matter of official record and
cannot be disputed.
Hardly, however, had the excitement
of the election died away before Mr..
Mclntire-not the people-put on foot
plans by which he could be re-instated
in his old position in spite of the will of
the people expressed at the ballot box.
He knew that the State of Delaware,
with its Democratic Legislature, were
bigger men than the city of Whining
ton and its Republican City Council
Scarcely had the Democrats carried the
State and elected o Democratic Legisla
ture than Mr.. McIntire had his Water
Commission bill drafted, that was to
re-instate him in his old position. So
confident was he of success that he
boosted that by April he would again
be Chief of the Water Department.
His petition, signed by Democratic poll
ticians mostly, was presented. His
work was commenced He was even
surprised with the little opposition he
met with from Legislature so truck
ling that it was more than willing to do
his bidding. Politicians had more in
fluence than business men and citizens
Instead of men waiting upon the Legis-
lature and urging the passage OF the
bill, like Washington Jones, William
G. Gibbons, j. Taylor Cause, William
T. Porter, job H. jackson and James
Bradford, Democratic politicians, like
City Solicitor Turner, Auditor Ball
and William j. Maxwell, and men like
Johnny" McHugh, Robert Getting
ham, and William H, Lee were the
shining lights.
See how carefully the bill provided
for the Mayor to appoint the Commits
: sioners after a certain specified time
when it was expected that that office
would be Democrat, but until tina
time the Legislature derogated TO itsel
the power to appoint the three Waite
Commissioners. See how careful it wa
+ to appoint three men who would a
carefully re-appoint Mr.. Mclntire t.
his old position. See how carefully Mr.
McIItire watched over his pet schem
+ and personally superintendent all it
details. See how carefully the tire
men chosen Water Commissioners dit
! what the Legislature intended the,
, should do, and what Mr. McIntire ex
, pected them to do-that is to appoin
Z Mr.. Mclntire to the position the bill
j.. created for him. Yes, for him person
i ally. Anybody else, nonsense! 1t wa
q never thought OF seriously. So anxiOu
r was the Legislature to aid Mr.. Mclntil
~ that neither the Commissioners nor MI
0 MrTutiiu tslU ..Iullcu W si,o uonas FL
the faithful performance of their dutie:
}. though they would have the handlin
= of 81 900 Of water rents, besides $l2O
$ 900 more specially provided by til
n Legislature, and which the tax payer
e Of Wilmington would have to pay
4 This is the way the Water Commissio
= bill was saddIed upon the citizen tax
e payers Of Wilmington II way whic
Z We say is the wrong way. Now 10 al
:. insult to injury, we are told that this
+ a solemn law Of the State, and by NJ
:, conforming to it we are rebelling again'
l. good government. The people Of Wi
e mington are not rebels, but they al
i unwilling to submit to oppression an
- tyranny until the court says they mu!
; submit, and even then their virtue
e and the manly principles which 60
l.. erned our fathers in the reyolutio
would hccomproniS ed.