Daily Republican., 1884-11-12

NOVEMBER ~. 1854
" has Of tho Fusure?
What the past has been in Della ware
We ki,w what the present is We are
now experiencing, and what the future
will be is what cor c ,rns US most. If
we take the past twenty years of State
Cover M ent as a cfitei ion by which TO
Judge the future, In twenty years
more we will have but the hollow
sounding name Of liberty left US, and
political honesty will have entirely ia
ken it's flight. While other States of
the Union, after which Delaware
should follow, are going forward, she,
following the example of the Bourbon,
refuses 10 move forward. What has
twenty years Of Democratic rule left
us? Let The people Of this fast grow
ing city at Wilmington answers city
that grows populous and wealthy in
the face Of the tyrannical and stupid
rule Of something which bellies the
name Of Democracy. Then the people
enjoyed the blessing of free government
to q far greater extent than they now
do. Since then great changes have
taken place IN the general government
it Is true, but the Democrats of Della
ware, accepting them in the wrong
spirit, and they being in power in the
State, commenced system Of legisla-
ton that stands to the shame Of the
party in the eyes of an intelligent pub
lie. Then commenced system of leg
islation that took from the people the
liberties they had ever before enjoyed,
and consigned them to partisan slavery.
The most serious invasion of popular
rights was the tampering with the fran.
chise to cheat the colored people, who
had just been liberated from slavery
and endowed With manhood, out of the
franchise the government had con-
ferred upon them. Instead of taking
them by the hand encouraging them and
lifting them up to higher plane of use
fulness and citizenship, the State laid
its heavy hand upon them to crush
them still deeper into the miro Of igno-
rance and degradation. Instead of pro.
tecting them in their rights, the Demo.
cratic party couspired to cheat them GU,
Of their rights by the passage Of intri.
cate and difficult assessment laws
placed in the hands of its political
agents, who understand enforcing them
in the spirit in which they were enact.
ed, and who still are unrelenting in en-
forcing them in the same spirit How
10 decrease the Republican vote Of the
State. and how TO increase the Demo
cratic vo'e OF the State seems to have
been the great ono object Of the Demo
cratic party. Finance, agriculture
education and even morality have ali
become su coordinate to this one object.
What is the condition of affairs in
the State at the present time A? A grea
election has been held. A President Of
this great Republic has been chosen
but who that President Is will not b,
known until the vote of New York ha,
been counted honestly and reported
officially. Who that President woul,
have been had as honest elections beef
held in Delaware and other Souther
States as were held in any of the State
Of the North, there could be no doub,
II James G. Blaine fails of election I
the Presidency he will have bee
cheated out Of it by just such dishones
election laws as prevail in Delawar
and which make the South soil
unit for q candidate that would nj
have carried half dozen States in til
South on an honest vote.
But let rs return to our subjec
What has the Democratic party don
Tor Delaware ? Let the diminisht
vote of the fourth of November answe
All the Northern States with many {
the Southern States increased the
votes. Delaware diminishes hers. 81
is Eve thousand short Of polling tt
vote she should and would poll und,
an honest assessment and an hone
administration of the assessment la "
Five thousand citizens have BET
cheated out OF their votes that som
thing which Is but a shadow of d
mocracy may hold the State. To
this the State is cheated out of e
thousand dollars of taxes, and TO M
up THESE five thousand dollars she i
dustries and the mercantile bu,inc
of Wilmington, with..a few industri
outside Of the c.ty, are saddled with
direct tax.
To keep the Democracy in power n
only are five thousand citizens of {
State disfranC hi sed. but the city
Wilmington, which, as a general rul
withstood the onslaught of Democrat
tyranny, has been made the object
special parti IAN legislation. She hi
been hectored, browbeaten and torn d
but she is Republican still. She b
been depr we'd, by infamous redistri'
ing of the wards, of the privilege
controlling her own city legislation,
she is Republican still. She has be
saddled with foreign Munich
Court and Water Commission not
her choosing, but still she defiant
lifts her head and declares her fealty
the Republican party.
With hundreds of disfranchised +
publicans who could not vote, wi
what are left she grasps the Republic
banner and defantly waving it in t
face of her enemy dares the Democra
to do its worst.
Bat what of the future The r
publican party In our State is beate
but while right and justice are GU
side there should be no surrender. T
defeat that has overtaken the party al
which was fully expected, should on
nerve Republicans to greater vigor tn
ever before. There is nothing left
Republicans to do than to stand by t
Republican party. There may be tho
who will say it is of no use, but
them remember that in the end t