Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-12-04

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read very carefully your editorial
on Thursday entitled, Political Fore
cast" and heartily agree with you in
the main issne. You call attention to
the fact of our being without Federal
to distract our party, and
many other good reasons for waging
an unrelenting warfare against the
sham Democracy Of the State, and es.
pecially OF New Castle County. Then I
read In to-day's paper Of q conference
held at Dover, on the 1st inst, com
posed.of q number of we'll known and
highly respected gentlemen of the Re-
publican party.
OF course they differed In their views
as to the best plan for the party In 1886,
but after some discussion adopted the
following resolution !;
=" AS the senae of this conference that
the State Central Committee be advised
that 1t is deemed unwise and impOlitic
60 inangurate an active campaign In
the year 1856, and that the COMMITTEES
should take only such steps as In their
Judgment are necessary to maintain the
Organization OF the Reprb]i,aa party
Later we are told that district aad
county committees are to be exempt
from this advice, and by an amend
ment the State committee 10 also ex'
cused from obeying its behests. Now,
the whole proceeding being interpreted
seems to me to mean that for the saks
of keeping up the party organization
the State, County and Hundred com
mittees will be expected to offer just %
much opposition to the Democratic
party as will insure their success anC
our defeat.
By all means, fellow-Republicans
let us go into the campaign acknowl
edging ourselves beaten. I" As mar
thinketh, 80 is he" We have not gon'
through campaign In this State fol
Yeas TO which we could not look bacl
upon some serious blunder made just a
the wrong time. 1t 10 not pleasant t.
think 80; It IL more unpleasant to refel
to 1t, but let us avoid q similar mistake
now, while opportunity offers. The
hundred men who met at Dover were
representative men-men of whos'
loyalty to the party we are all satisfied
but there are yet other five Thousand
men in the party who have not expires
sed an opinion In the matter of an in
active campaign, who should be heart
before deciding upon 80 important
plan.
There should be, and bslieve is
more upanimity of feeling among tn
tax payers and voters of the party thai
there has been for twenty years upol
local issue, and there IL surely NOR
political capital, in this county, at least
than there has been for the same period
With cur half million dollars of in
debtedness, with our increased tax rate
with our Trustees of the Poor standin
indicted by public opinion with inefH
cheney and negligence, IL nothing more
with our Levy Courtmen who have re
duced the actual working day OF thei
en- ployees to about six hours, wit
these facts staring us In the face, an
with Hundreds of honest tax pay
ing Democrats ready to vote for o
honest, business like Levy Court, an
1886 being the year In which msjorit
lof the court is to be elected, surely
this is not the time for US to lie quietl
tdown and allow the Democratic part,
ldespite all their shortcomings, to r
, iustafe theesel5As for four years.
!, icannot think the bone and sinew of I'll
party 10 ready for this action.
II The conference further took ground
lagainst the party assisting poor men
the payment of their taxes. This is
very pretty thing, and In theory we a
heartily agree with 1t, but PRACTICAL
It is not good policy. Soath of I'll
canal we have In this county say or
: thousand colored men, who rarely ha,
an opportunity to pay their taxes @
the off year. The collectors shun thel
as they would plague through Il
working season, when they have Il
money aud would pay their taxes
, asked to do 30. In the winter. whe
out of work and out of money, sligl
leffort is sometimes made to collect pc
. taxes for effect.
The assertion is sometimes made tn
after having assisted them in payir
their taxes they will vote the Dem
/. cratic ticket. Such cases are the e.
iception and not the rule. The color,
t men are true to the party which ma,
them politically what they are.
In conclusion, let US have q practical
$ unanimous opinion from the party.
Y Let us give up our party organization
= with all that is implied, or let us
t into the next campaign to win, as
, truly believe we can, if we are in ca
Q nest and begin now.
3 APPoQUINIMINK.
al December 2, 1885.