Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-07-29
THE oFrios SEEK sR's LOT.
HEr. Dean Sees some Influential Com
asLtuenls and Ialks Of Hsratns.


like hunting popular Journal when you |
want to become known. While passing |
along the street man driving u team |
with load of hay (he must have he, a |
Granger, for he was covered with hay |
seeds, said, Hello, I'm going tovote for
you" Still another person aecosted me |
and said, "Mister, hnin't you the chap
what wants an Officer" He was answered |
in the affirmative. AAll right said he,
''you'll git my vote" l met m honest
sou of the Emerald Isle, who hailed me
with, "Faith, misther, an isn't it yourself
that's wantin' an offs ~ eyes" 'eThin,
be jabers, an it's meself that's afther
| wantin' to vote for nice, dacent man as
ye are; d yes no that there niver was
mothers son 80 terribly hard up as me-
self, an auful dhry / am culd yes be
afther the loaning me of dollar ~ The
appeal was promptly responded to, when
he said; Couldn't yes be afther helpin'
me to git me papers, for as sure as stand
forninst ye yes must know it's not three
| months since / left the ould conthry."
In my rambles / happened TO drop into o
ladies' aid society meeting, when they all
at the top Of their voices and with one
accord shouted, "Mr. Dean, we all would
vote for you; we have read your letter in
the GAZETTE and endorse il all; cnly
the anti-woman's rights men, tyrants that
they are, have refused us to exercise our
natural right of voting"
| You can see the effects of liberal adyer-
tising in widely circulated popular
journal by my successes. After hard
days work and worry, while resting and
taking it easy on the sharp edge OF the
topraii of the fence, was approached by
o gray haired colored brother, hat in
hand, with, 'Say, boss, amt you de man
wat wants an ofiis?" My answer, "Yes,
Salnbo, can't you give fellow little
nelp among your colored brethren ?"
Being badly in want of an Office it's no
usc putting on airs when the influential
voter il about this looked to be favor
able opportunity, one not to be lost.
5ambo says: "Look yer, boss, rs got
lots of power over desc yer niggers round
yer an can bring 'em all to vote for yes.
But dar's one ting certin suar, rs clean
gone an busted; can't yes len me haf
dollar ~ The coin was forthcoming no
time to argue the question under such
| circumstances, as his and his friends sup
port must be secured.
Now it's just possible that from my
standpoint the political horizon may ap-
pear more bright and transparent than
what others may see it, if SO / shall not
cross that bridge before get to it, but,
from what has already been learned, am
inclined to think mine will be one of the
most popular candidates. ever presented
to the people of our State. | do hope
that none of the other gentlemen who in
their own way are presenting themselves
to the American voters of Delaware will
be Jealous of this plan of mine of present
ing myself as candidate. II is neither
patented nor copyrighted and if they like
it better than their own methods of get
ting before the people they can have the
benefit of my invention free gratis. It is
stated in the papers that / am booked
for speech at the Grangers'
picnic at Rehoboth the coming week and
at that meeting expect to put in some big
! licks for my success as n candidate before
the people you may stake your lowest
, down dollar that when / am required to
blow my own horn ii will be filled TO its
! utmost capacity. II is my desire that
you have a reporter on the ground at
Rehoboth; il would be too bad that the
people of Delaware should fail to know
what will be said upon that occasion. If
: it once gets into your paper it will be SO
!, indelibly impressed upon their minds
5 that it never will be forgotten and will GO
down into history as one OF the great
a events of the age.
For fear your reporter should not be
4 present, l propose TO give you short
' outline of what may be expected and to
: more fully impress it on the minds of the
: Sussex Changers and others who may be
a there. | shall be attired in a homespul
0 linsey. woolsey cont of the butternut dye
. with tow linen trowsers, hickory striped
shirt, cowhide shoes and slouched hat
with long flowing gray haired wig so as
: to make look like true Granger and &
regular Delaware plow boy. When got
g up on the stand, after throwing dowu
l my broadbrim, shall with both hands
o stroke back my long, venerable locks and
: be so overcome with the surroundings
that ii will take me sometime to recover
my thoughts and my words before l shall
+ be able to proceed with my speech. You
c will see by this effort that am going in
8 to win and have ''sure pop" Having
y witnessed the results obtained by gray
q haired orators on Sussex audience
g don't propose to lraye anything
= undone that will produce the
desired result my getting an office.
:, 1t is proposed to tell my audience how
! much love the good, honest, open.
y hearted, hospitable citizens of good old
= Sussex as place TO live in it almost
breaks my heart to leave them, after pay
!, ing them visit, as am already located
and il is difficult to move mills and watel
powers, get think it very Likely | shnl
= buy enough of Sussex soil to reht my
bones in. If, after telling them all this
should they find me buying thousanC
!. or two of acres over the Maryland line
they must set it down as the result of I
bad memory or want of brains on my
part, as my former partner claimed when
h he left the firm he took all Of that com
h modify we had along with himself, and
am obliged now when left alone to ge
!. along as best can without the article.
a We never should despair in we'll doing
!. When the era of 1887 ushAls herself intt
a being the subscriber expects at the sam,
!. time to fill some one or more of Della
wares most lucrative offices. There i
< one thing which gives me much trouble
and that is why all parties must go Il
r the soil of st. Georges hundred to ge
! their candidates, just as if all the crud
!. material out of which candidates ar,
n made belonged to the soil of that hun
dred. Is it that that hundred has all tn,
o brains of the county and the others ar,
:: left without II so, like myself the othe
: hundreds will have to get along as bes
they can. 1t is well known that ii
q finances the people of St. George
= hundred are we'll booked up a
/ is seen by the county treasurer
reports, they generally are behind from
" 81, 900 TO $I5,0O0 in their taxes and re
n main 80 for period of one or two years
i In time the interest which the taxpayer
4 of that hundred are cheating the treasur.
e of New Castle county out of, will coun
10 we'll into thousands of dollars, and ye
il these fellows manage to get all the goo,
"a paying offices. How is it? We of Whit
Clay Greek hundred which is supposed b
be the hub of intelligence in Delaware
having the State Agricultural Colleg
under the presidency of the Rev. Di
d Caldwell the oldest institution of Learn
ing in the State, the Newark Academ
I'd under the management of DIR. Raub, VIII
n. has the reputation of being one of tn
at best teachers-it is plain that
to is not for want of book learnin
nj that we of White Clay Greek hundre
al are left. II must then be for want q
in brains and our market for that article
te wonderfully short. Individually kno'
d, my deficiency in that line, hut hope to b
h. able TO make it mp by putting in n
abundant supply of check. 1t is no IFS
;, of any fellow getting mad Mt any thin
" that may appear in any of these campaig
as letters, for nothing worse than mast
to truths" shall appear in them. If an
cd fellow feels aggrieved and thinks of goin