Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-10-14

of the State, We ask the people and We
ask the M in sincerity II Is not time
for change?
Attorney General Gray's Deoeo.
sacy.
Attorney General Gray 10 one Of the
most talented and eloquent campaign
orators that the Democrats have placed
upon the platform. Mr.. Gray 10 De-
mocrat, pure and unadulterated, and
when warmed up to his work, speaks
as IL inspired by the Delphic oracles OF
the real Jeffersonian Democracy of
oldeu times. Whatever Mr.. Gray's
practices may be his precepts In regard
to local self government as promulga-
ted In recent speech he made atFourth
and Market streets, must be accepted
as the true principles of government.
In that speech Mr.. Gray Is reported, by
the acknowledged Democratic organ, as
having given way to this delightful
flight of oratorv:
"Ih that palladium of liberty are
these words An the powers that are
not con erred on the general govern.
LuouV hTo ECocI Nou W tuo SosotCs- hhhotB
them are the right TO manage your local
concerns in your own way, a. you
yourselves choose, as self-respecting
men, equal in all respects TO those
whom you elect to govern you"
Can it be possible that Mr.. Gray had
any reference to Delaware in this beau
tiful tribute to local self. government to
the city OF Wilmington 1t is SO easy
for Mr.. Gray to talk. All he has TO do
is to open his mouth and words Of burn
ing elOquence come forth In o copious
flow.
In the face of the down trodden peo-
| pie ~ Wilmington we do not see how
Mr.. Gray can reconcile his words and
opinions with the actions Of the party
TO which he belongs and still call him
self a Democrat. If the principles set
forth by Mr.. Gray are the true princi-
Piles of Democracy, then there Is no
Democracy in Delaware. Tho Demo
cratic party must be party Of usurpa-
tiou and Mr.. Gray, by acting with it,
only does 30 for its emoluments, for
certainly he can never be in sympathy
with its actions.
| Let us see how Mr.. Gray's declara'
lions agree with the actions of his par
ty in interfering with the local govern.
that in spite of Democratic disfran
chi sement and manipulation of tn.
Republican vote the Republicans still
have a good majority Of the popular
vote of the city. Without Democrat,
fixing up" they would always he'll,
the City Council. In their love for loca
, self-governmen., what did the Demo
r Gratis do to make the City Council De
mocratic?
ii They made six Democratic wards ou
OF that portion Of the city south c
Sixth street, though it contained
thousand less voters, and less territor
than that part of the city north O
Sixth, which is divided into five Re
! publican wards. AS there are tw
8 members of Council To each ward, thi
gives the Democrats twelve member
, and the Republicans ten, and twelv
beats ten when it comes to voting al
he time. Is this what Mr.. Gray call
Al managing your local concerns in you
own aay 2"
el Last June two years ago the Rrpui
9 licans elected their Mayor for the fir.
l time in nine years and 8 months, bu
f what did we see when the Legislalul
met the following winter? A Nun
# cipal Court established to take iudici
J. place of the Mayor, with a Democrat
udge at the head Of it, and Dem
O lcratic clerk who, from present appea
10 lances, seems to look upon the fines an
II costs as his personal perquisites, thong
C he is required by law to pay them in
# the City Treasury.
The salary and perquisites whit
. these Democrati, Mayors enjoyed III
o interrupted for nine years and nil
II months, were taken by Democrat
d Legislature and divided between
10 Democratic judge and Democrat
it clerk p'th"rt any sanction at the pc
o. IL. l. 80, what Mr.. Gray e lis Il
,t right to manage your local concerns
Ia your own way"
oil The people also in June, 1882, elect,
Republican City Council, and ii
&c Council dared to choose a Republic
!, Chief Engineer of the Water Depa
It ment, only exercising the privilege
other City Councils had before ex,
m cised, but in ~ lite of all this we fiji
40 the defeated Chief Engineer goi
ID down to Dover and dem anding tho
IL Enlistment of Water Commission
~ the city Of Win ington, by which
.y was to be placed back in his old DO
1t ton. The Legislature promptly
~ sponded as it always does when it st
ss that 1t can make places for Democra
ID bosses and manipulators and as a co
H. sequence, we find Water Com missi
ut usurping the place of the Water Co
4l mittee of the City Council, com opposed
TO a majority of Democrats and the IN
,n the Republicans had defeated put ba
in in his old position. Is this what \
W. Gray calls " the right to manage yc
local concerns in your own way ?"
De We might go on multiplying
ID stances of these kind. but enough
lie lgiven 10 show thai either Mr.. Gray
Il. TERRIBLY mistaken in regard TO
ia principles of the Democratic party,
!. 1.-The Delnocratic partv IL no namocra