Smyrna times., 1886-05-19
The Political Racket at Dover.

The under current 1--WE do not know
whether it may prove a gulf stream or
WHAT is setting in in such a manner in
! the political waters of Kent county as
to present quite an ebulitiOn on the
surface. Even the DeIalUarean, so
staid, so erect, so silent when it wants
to be at one time and reprOachful at
another, has been caught up in the cur
rent and has the ripple in its last issues
Ofthe babbling brook. But it does seem
like strange music to come from our
staid old friend to hear a complaint
come through its columns about others
fixing the ticket in advance, when if
any man who diverged in the least
from the ticket it presented to vote.
say for temperance man, lie would be
lashed as a mOngrel, hybrid, &c.
There is a decided spiciness in the
filings that are being made at each other
in the Dover papers. Thepaper bullets
flew thick and fast the past week. The
following from writer in the Dela-
l0dredn who is thoroughly endorsed bv
the editor, shows what the Family )"
think of the County Building crowd.
who, the writer says, are having the
andacity to set up ticket for the
county, which we give as part of the
current news of the day:
" 1t IS II well-knOwn fact, and has been so
stated fro n year to year, but was never so
torcibly brought home to the writer of this
article as 1t was the past week, that the
complexion of the Legislature and the
Levy Court depend very largely upon the
officers in the county building; not only
the complexion Of the Legislature. and
Levy COnrt, and the Sheriff of the county.
but also who shalt be their successors in
their respective Offices
"Shall such things be?
As n Democrat, say no!
" That as public officers, deriving their
spstenance, thriving and growing fat on the
pubic CRIB, they have no right to poke
their noses in the business Of the hundreds
outside of their own domicile-that as pub
lie officers, they are the servants and not
the masters of the people, and have no bus
mess to ntermeddle. Why. noticed the
past weeek great many well-known can
didates for public favor lettering around
the. county building and currying the
smiles and favors of certain public officers,
that they might be boosted into some Office
in the near future
20, shame, shame, where is thy blushl
But after all it is for the people to saw
whether they will be masters of the situa-
ton, or whether they. shall continue as
heretofore.
Let me tell you how it is done. One or
two persons wishing to control the action
OF the Legislature and Levy Court, canvass
the several hundreds of their county. nut
ting out ieelers in this and that direction.
and having once ascertained who will wear
the collar OF obedience for the sake of pref
orment, they then set their heelers as well
rs themselves to work to get up n health,
nIIbIIQ cnpfIpnanf IN thos. L
drop into any Of the public Offices and
try 1t for yourself, and this will be the re-
suit
" After few common-places of the day
the question Will be:
for the logislatureY
Don't know; heard no name men
toned
SO Well, how do you think Mr.. Smith
." Never heard his name mentioned; but
he is a good man.
The next man that steps in the same par |
rot questions are asked and answered. but |
with this slight additions
Jones was in here the other day and l |
heard him mention your neighbor Smith
Tor the legislature; what do you think of
him2"
why, he is a good man..
To the third man from the same hun
red, they will say that they heard several
of his neighbors speaking Of Smith for the
islature; and so it will go on till the
whole hundred is twisted around and Mr..
Smith is'the unanimous choice of the hun
ired for legislative honors-while in fact,
ne Is the representative Of the man only
whose name appears upon his collar.
The above is n correct representation Of
ne politics of Kent county rs practiced
Rithin the precincts of the county building
Turing the past week, and if such is to con-
inne l would say to my fellow-farmers
II Kent county that the sooner the people
AXE the matter into their own hands the
'etter it will be for them, for their children
md for the State. 1t was principle with
,ur fathers that there should be "no taxa
ION without representation, and for this
dea they waged a seven years war and
chleved their independence.
To-day, in Delaware, we have plenty
4 taxation, but in county and State our
representatives are the chosen servants Of a