Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-01-21

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do anything, and therefore We will not
pay the taxes of the men now assessed,
but let them be returned as delinquents,
and the party and its principles go TO the
dogs. Well, all there IA init Is this ii
the men who in the days that tried
mems souls had had no more love of
liberty, and hatred of oppression. than
the leaders of the Republican party of
| Delaware, we never would have been the
greatest nation of the civilized world, as
| we are today.
II the men who "pledged their lives,
their fortunes, and their sacred honor"
bad had no more pluck and vim and stick
in them than our short sighted leaders of
the Republican party of Delaware, they
would have been caught and tried and
| gibbeted as rebels and traitors inside of a
twelve-month from the date of the Dec
laration of Independence.
Gentlemen, don't get along too fast.
Do not forget that the "Proletariats"
make up very large proportion Of your
party, and that they are reading, think
ing and intelligent men, men who reason,
and they naturallyhsk him, and why is
this? In 1880 we bent the Democrats,
and in 1885 we are advised to let the
Democrats have their own way, all on
account of this infamous assessment law
But they ask how much money will it
take, to pay the taxes in this city, and are
told three, 10 five thousand dollars, per-
haps less. Well, suppose it does, do you
not thereby gain the county2 Will you
not have the assessors, the levy court and
the tax collectors, and what is this sum
compared with the good results?
Under the old city charter in the Golden
times" both parties paid the city taxes of
men who were unable to do 30, and it
was not unusual to raise from three to
| five thousand dollars for this purpose, and
why not nowp
"0h it will never do, we want to shame
the Democrats into a change of these in
| famous laws. We want to hold them up
to the scorn and contempt of-not this
community-Oh,n no but of the educa-
| ted people of the country and show them
the kind of man Secretary Bayard is.
What stuff What nonsense Show the
kind of man Secretary Bayard is, man
who has lived in this community all his
life, excepting very brief period in his
younger days and has lived perfectly
moral and correct life, aye without re-
proach.
What kind of man is he? Well, as
n Republican, will say of him that
which you all know to be true, that in
every walk of life, his course has been
that of an upright, honest and honorable
man, and one whose noble example many
of his traducers md villifers might with
credit to themselves do wellto follow.
detest such men and strong as are my
party convictions and strong they have
ever been, l almost loathe the principles
which control and govern these abomina-
bic retailers of private venom, whose
sole reason for their scurrilous abuse of
one of the greatest men the State has
ever produced is simply envy, hatred and
malice. Please call halt, gentlemen, or
your party will be so decimated that you
will never again come to the surface. 1
say in conclusion that the reason the
State goes Democratic, is because you are
governed and controlled by men who
may be good lawyers, but in politics are
simply fossils or effete old gentlemen all
''of ye olden time"
Send out your tickets, draw your men
up in line of battle, see that they have
plenty Of ammunition, and encourage
them to fight valiantly, and when the day
of battle dawns, lead them ON to victory,
or else, for decency's sake, say we are
whipped by our own inertness, and do not
lay the blame on laws, which, while they
may seem unfair, are laws, and the only
way to get rid of them, is as you well
know, by winning victory, and repeal
ing them. ANOTHER RICHMOND.