Daily Republican., 1884-10-07
How % ne rens the Ameuomen,


HOW % Def eaf the Amendment.
Every voter, whether he be Demo
Graf or y Republican, in New Castl,
County who votes the Democratic
Legislative ticket will vote that 80, OOC
people of the rural farming portion OF
the county entirely outside of Will
mington, shall have only two State
Senators in the Legislature, while Ken,
County, with d population of 80, 900,
shall have four Senators. The proposed
Bates-Grubb Constitutional Amend.
ment deli berately insults the farmers
OF New Castle County. In its vain
Attemp. to equalize representation in
New Castle County it makes two men
10 Kent County the equal of four in
New Castle, and the amendment fur
thermore is supplied with such a lock
OF ingenious construction that when
the Constita'i ion is amended il will be
next to impossible to unlock it again.
What Are these 80, 900 insulted people
OF the rural Huudreds of New Castle
County going to do about it, They
still have a chance to reject with the
utmost indignity and scorn the attempt
TO degrade them. The only time and
place when and where they can do
this will he at the polls on the 4th of
November. They have VT four weeks
In which they can think this matter
over and determine for themselves
whether they will vote to degrade
themselves by voting that $1,000 New
Castle farmers shall only have two
Senators while 5000 Kent County
farmers shall have four Senators. We
know that there il not a farmer in
Delaware that boas of being a Della
warean, whose cheek does not blanch
with shame when they think of this at
tempt to belitJle and enslave them.
VIII these farmers then vote for this
amendment ? Great indeed must be
their love for the mere hollow name of
an Gillette party that once may have been
worthy of their support, but which
now has become their oppressor
There is only one way by which this
amendment can be defeated. There
are but two Legislative tickets in the
field which have any possioility OF sue
cess. One of these is the Democra ic
ticket and the other the Republican
ticket. The Democratic ticket is in
favor of the amendment and the Repub-
hcan icket is opposed to it. Every
vote for the Democratic Legislative
ticket az much as say for the voter
who casts it, am perfectly satisfied
that Kent County with a popula
tion of 80, 900 shall have four Senators
while 81, 1000 Of us shall have only two. .
xsnt fnr 1.. ~
ticket is a vote in favor of equality il
representation. 1t as much as says
] am not willing to vote that am in
ferior in worth, in standing, in ability
in Intelligence and the leading artrl
hntes of manhood. u the best man il
Ksnt County.
L. is true that Democrat in votnI
against this scheme to enslave himseli
will be called upon to vote the Legisli
rive part Of the Republican ticket. TIL
may be something that will deter hun
',reds from voting against the amend
ment that would gladly and wiliiugl'
Vote for it 1t they had not this to do
This is misfortune. but it is one tia
"a partisan Democratic Legislature pr
yided. 1t seemed not to be their int.
ton 10 have fair and square vote upol
the merits of the amendment. Ii the.
had so intended they would have sim
ply provided yea" and may
vote. But this was not their intention
They did Eot intend that the pe0pl
should have one chance for voting in al
bipartisan manner at the polls.
was not intended that there should b
fair and tree ex preston of the people
unbiased by political feeling. 1t wa
intended that a Democrat who wante
10 vote against the amendment woul
have to sacrifice part of his ow
political party, and the Democrats i
The Legislature knowing the attach
ment of the Democrats to their part
thereby made an appeal to partisa
feeling and partisan realty to secure tt
adoption Of an Objectionable Constit,
Houal amendment.
But is this deception to be the caus
of the adoption of the amendment Al
party ties NO strong that Democrats wi
sacrifice their manhood before they wi
sacrifice "A part of their ticket W
wish the Legislature had left us otht
means by which we could appeal to h
people to defeat this slavish amendmeI
without asking a voter to make a ga
rifice OF his ticket?
But no her plan is left. The peop
must choose between voting the Il
publican Legislative ticket and votir
to make themselves inferior to the
fellow-men in Kent and Sussex cou
ties. Why should not man in Il
rural distric = outside OF Wilmingtt
have as much political power as OF
man in Kent and Sussex :? This is
question for the voters to answer at d
polls. BY voting the Republican LIE
iSlalive ticket the amendment will
defeated and the honor of the people
saved. by voting in favor of t
Democratic Legislative ticket t
amendment will be adopted, and 10
reign OF inju-t,ce and inequality in
presentation in the law making body
The State he the result Voters of NJ
Cis'le County what do you think abe
II, or If you are Democrats have y
thought at all about it? We do not q
peal TO Republicans because as q pal