Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-06-09
What n TO be Done !?

1t ID evident that the people Of Will
mingtDn are more stirred up In regard
to the election outrages oflast Saturday
than they have been before upon any
similar event. 1t is high time that the
people were becoming aroused upon
this subject. When the fran chfse which
is entrusted TO us is 30 shamofully vio-
lated Is it was on Saturday, what as
surance have the people that our most
sacred rights will not be taken from us?
In another article we have shown how
an election WAS carried In . district Of
1.-THE Tenth Ward. Let all good citizens
read and ponder over 1t. If such VIC.
latious of the franchise are to be per-
mitted our government becomes but q
rope 81 sand.
! Right here in the city Of Wilmington,
a city Of churches and boosted intelli-
gence and virtue, we have the spscta-
Gle Of an election being carried by
, fraud and terror. Election inspectors
have been selected to hold elections who
sat armed in their rooms where the
al polls were opened, ready to shoot down
and assassinate any one who would
a dare to interfere with their assumed
a authority. Roughs have been selected
to hold elections simply because they
o were bullies and had regard for neither
: Idecency nor honesty. The greatly
"a iswelled majorities reported from the
4 First, Third, Tenth and Eleventh
Wards have been obtained by dishonest
n. inspectors, and by FOUNDERS, repeaters
m fraud and violence. That there arr
IN hon est Democratic majoriSies in thos'
N wards nobody doubts, but that homes
is elections were held nobody believes
pt The mere question of who shall b
ne Mayor is q matter Of little significant
he compared with the greater question O
tn selecting that Mayor in an honest man
lilo ner. Mr.. Rboads may possibly hav
ifI been elected by the honest vote Of til
ia people, that is a matter Of little cons,
un quence, but it is a matter of the creates
ute consequence to know whether OF
NO rulers are to be selected by the hone
On people Of Wilmington who are Statistic
me with voting but once, or by venal Il
ofl spectors who carry elections by Il
veil most open, bare-faced frauds upon Il
INT. franchise.
he. We are told that there has been
the much fraud on the Republican side
the Seventh and other Republic
lisb wards, but while we say frankly
mid do not believe any such assertion,
was desire that the matter shall be inves
not gated.
, tol Fraud is fraud every where, and
,icb whoever committed whether by j
but rublicans or by Democrats. In
few probability there have been some illel
, or votes taken in the Republican war,
inst but we will venture the assertion IL
roe there has been no organized effort
,r a loutrage the franchise as there eviden
n n has been in the Democratic wards.
Mr. any rate an Investigation is needed
lean The city Of Wilmington cannot l.
did stand these election farces. The t
tbe payers of the city must sooner or la
ia In break down under the strain of org
now lied fraud and robbery. Let a IL
,.ion meeting Of the people of Whining
onld irrespective Of party be called to pro
,ome in the anne of liberty, in the nam,
re-. common decency, in the name of
# In tice against this inroad upon their iii
II 70. land liberties.