The Wilmingtonian., 1886-03-13
Good for Sussex-Uit Em' Again.


Sussex Journal.
"My regret is that you did not have the
"iacts before you wrote the editorial.
would have taken pleasure in furnishing
"them to you if you lad so desired"-
Extract from the recent letter of Hon.
Charles B. Lore to the editor of the Ecery
Egening.
The editorial referred to in this extract is
one that appeared in the E0ery Egeniag of
Tuesday, aud is about as follows: "We,"
that is, of course, the owners and editors of
that journal, shave always praised Mr.. Lore
for his course in Congress when we could.
but now we must censCre him, for he has
insulted the American wOrkmen, and has
voted to buy an engine for one of the new
cruisers in England" 1t is well-known that
the clique which controls the paper is not
friendly TO Mr.. Lore's election to the Senate
of the United States, and the old pol ticians
will smile at the haste in which they have
jumped at the chance of sticking pin in
him. But our excellent Representative
Charles B. Lore. the peoples favorte has
turned the tables upon them and in the
above extract has administered to them
most severe and well-merited rebuke
The incident has given occasion to several
thoughts in our own minds and we propose
now to give them slight airing.
First then, those editors who think that
the American workmen can be turned from
the man they like by appealing to their pre-
judices and that they do not by certain
sure judgment read the motives of such ap-
peals are moving towards disastrous confus-
ion. There is no shrewder reader of char
aeter in the world than these same Ameri-
can workmeu. Not only are they the best
judges of men, but they are to-day showing
wonderful power of organization, of COM
pretending their own real interests, and of
moving towards the accomplishment oftheir
purposes with a steady and resistless tread
Such men know their real friends. They
know 10 srperiors and are not pleased at
the condescension of any one, since they
feel that nc one is above them. The profess
sional politicians have come to recognize
that even in their own peculiar trade organ
lied labor is making itself a power above
them. The old timers and young sprouts
are both aghast at the idea that the laborer
in America has learned to think for himself
that he thoroughly understands the value of
intelligent organization, and that he per-
ceives that the ballot has replaced the mus
ket in the hands of the rank and file. to be
used as the musket was in bringing up the
one and lowering the other class until all
artificial distinctions are destroyed, aud
each individual has an equal opportunity iu
the struggle for existence for the improve
ment of his natural faculties.
Second, we find that the people OF our
own county of Sussex are at last rapidly
awaking to the fact that their own Constitu-
tion deprives them of all voice in the govern
ment of their State They perceive that the
keynote of their Constitution is eminently
HarniliAnian Fl and Wing that ii has about it
scarcely single Jeffersonian, Jacksonian
or popular feature. 1t is indeed an anach-
rouism in America. 1t was founded in ages
when the people were dlstrusted. Every
line of it says don't let the people elect dir
ectly, they can't be trusted, they will be
sure to elect unfit men. 1t IS trde they
ought to pay the taxes, and we canDot safe
ly deprive them of the right Of saying TO
what amount these taxes shall be levied, but
except the Governor, Sheriff and Coroner,
not a single other executive officer shall they
be allowed to elect. Why? asks the friend
of tue people, The answer comes because
the people cannot be trusted. Every office,
says the Constitution, both now existing
aYl hos rHnr h. H.,
appointment by the Governor. Why is
this again asks the friend of the people,
and the answer comes from the last century ::
because the Governor can be trusted to
appoint not his relatives, not his cronies, not
those who bargained with him before his
nomination and election, but those only who
are best ii ted for the several positions, and
God help the fool who believes the answer.
So the legislature aud not the people must
elect the Treasurer and the Auditor, and the
Levy Courts of the several counties, and not
the people directly must elect the county
officers such as Treasurer, Constable, &c,
| just as il the people of this hundred don't
know as well as the Levy Court who they
want and who would be most fitted for their
| hundred offices.
Now it is the object aud purpose of the
Susser journal to battle with this pernicious
system until the present Constitution is des-
troyed and new one established. 1t has
every reason to believe that nine-tenths OF
the voters of this county are anxious for a
change ; that they demand that they have
the right of electirg by direct vote all their
officers, and that they are beginning to or
ganize for its accomplishment