Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-11-04
Wilmington. Thursday, Noh a, 1886


erAi people IN DuihNbfe VINO urs ncholy
alad OF it. There are several others who :
are cory, because OF unavaiIing regrets
thai foresight is 80 much less Trustworthy
tban hindAight. The occasion was one
unprecedented, since the infamous mill
tary election OF 1858, for apathy. The
liRhtness of tho vote in some city pre-
cincts verged closely ON the ridiculous,
and, taking the city as whole, not more
than two-thifds of the legitimate Demo
cratic vote was cast, while the Repub-
licaus OF Wilmington evidently acted on
the assumption that ii was not their
funeral nor their business to help the
Temperance Reformers in any material
degree TO furnish the corpse.
Obviously the apathy of the Democrats
was attributable to two causes dissatis-
faction over the party management and
f. feeling that it wasn't much of fight any
way and that there would be no need of |
polling the full party vote. How far |
eacL OF thsse causes operated is a matter |
I Of conjecture, but there is salutary |
lesson in both of them that those with |
political aspirations cannot afford to
neglect to read. There are local questions
which must come up for REIMBURSEMENT in
the near future and IL would be
wise to take the victory of Tuesday as
an indication that the people look to the
Democratic party to grapple with these
questions through the medium Of n state
convention to be called to revise the state
constitution, The legislators-elect from
Sussex county arc explicitly and those
from this county implicitly pledged to
issue call for sueh o convention, while
Governor-elect Biggs stands publicly
committed to favor oil reasonable reform
legislation.
And now We cannot refrain from Gull
ing attention 10 the most agreeable and
the most memorable features OF Tues
days election. 1t is pleasant to remem.
Der that 1t passed of so quietly and
peaeeably. Hardly murmur was heard,
and there was very little drunkenness.
There was no cheating, NO ballot-box
stuAing, no repeating, so fur as heard
from, and the votes appear to have been
counted fairly and to the satisfaction Of
everybody.
But the election is memorable from its
having been the first congressional cleo.
ton in this city for generation past in
which there were no deputy marshals al
the polls. The voters were not subjected
to the indignity Of being compelled t.
pass through files Of federal guardsto
many of whom have in days gone b
better merited the title of BLACKBOARD
to deposit his ballot; God grant thu
they never again may be compelled TO sui
nit TO such an indignity in any city oyt
which the American flag floats. The me
presence of ehsupernumerariesh has BET
for many years past an insult to the ma
hood of every Prospecting voter Whit
will rankle in bis memory as long as
lives. The law that renders possib
such an insult should be wiped from Il
United States statute book without della
and stamped by American freemen
deep into the grave that even the ghost
its execrable corpse shall never aga
pollute the land which liberty enlighten
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