Evening journal., 1888-11-01
THE FAREWELL RETURNED.
A Long Reply to the sfd wolcottite of
Tuesday.

By Letter to EVENING JOURNAL.
Dover. Oct, 31.-That Last Sac
Farewell of IAN Old Salisbury Demo
crat" in the JOURNAL last evening was
very pathetic, but it did not canse many
old gray boards here to weep if the tenor
of the sentiment expressed by couple
who were discussing it last evening may
be taken as a criterion. One of these
gentlemen is about the Oldest voter in
Kent county native born and he didn't
seem to see things in the same light a.
the writer of the Sad Farewell. .
Said he: There are several points il
that article that need qualifying. tn,
writer talks as though this was q bolt
and that it was caused by the Saulsburys
Why attended the county convention
and there was not member of the Sauls
burys who had voice or part in it, and yet
the delegates from Duck Creek, East
Dover and Milford hundreds to mar
said as they were leaving the hall, w,
will not support that ticket nor will The
voters who sent us here. They
said they did not want oui
support. nor the support Of our fol
lowers; that the ticket was theirs, anC
they could elect IL. Well. let them dc
it, These were the sentiments expressed
ON the floor Of the convention after il
adjourned. They were echoed on the
green, on the streets, in stores ant
offices that afternoon and evening, by
men from every hundred in the county
and yet not a member Of the Salisbury
party took part or parcel in that conyen
ton, nor did hear one of them express
an opinion that day.
fiIIpi1 on I'ra ltft1n tnn % ] SOLD
all the delegates from East Dover hun
bred joined in these sentiments. I'm
mistaken. There was one who did not
His name was Carton, and was he not
openly branded as traitor and man
without honor by every delegate from
the three hundreds | have named be
cause he did not join in these sentiments.
Were the men who branded this man as
"a traitor and man lost to all sense OF
honor named Salisbury? Why was he
branded thus in open conventions Be
cause as he was plainly told, that he
was false to the trust reposed in him by
the voters of East Dover hundred be.
cause he had sold himself as fool to a
set Of men who were determined to rol
East Dover Democrats of their rights
This was the language used openly in
open convention TO the only man from the
three hundreds named who did not agree
with the sentiments given above. And
again let me repeat not a member Of the
Salisbury family used this language.
What does this proven Does it not prove
the Democratic voters of those hundreds,
speaking through their delegates. knew
their rights and dared maintain them, ia
the very teeth Of the men who were rob
bling them of their votes?
No, our friend who is bidding his sad
farewell knows that this was a spontan
eous uprising Of the untrammeled Demo
Gratis of Kent county, against the arbi-
trary, unjust and outrageous usurpation
of a few would be dictators. If he wanted
to name all the honored Democrats he
was bidding farewell to, why did he stop
at Willard, Eli and John +. 2 Why did he
not 60 on and include by name the hun
dreds of time honored Demo.
Gratis Of this county. whom he well
knows df he's as old as he says he is. }
will not bow down their necks to the
yoke that Wlocott, Reynolds, and the
few others dare to undertake to make
them wear. Have not these men them
selves admitted that the action at that
convention was outrageous? It is in
famous is what Robert j. Reynolds said
on Dover Green, Were they not warned
by WILDER H. Burnite that the Demo
cratic voters Of Kent county won't stand
it, Have not these leaders been chal-
lenged to defend their action on the
stump, and dare they do it? No. this is
not stab at the Democratic party Of the
Saulsbury's for revenge, but it is an up
rising Of the Democratic voters of Kent
county, who will come at no mans beck
and call, to save that party in the future,
and they will save it by defeating
these men and their abortive ticket.
There is another point in that sad
farewell | went TO call your attention to,
the writer speaks of us anti-national men
voting with the 'nigger Who in the
name of heaven has been trucking TO
the niggers in this fight9 Did not DR..
Wilkinson of North Murderkill who is on
their county committee go out to Mary
dell and offer Alex Callahan and his son in
law Thompson, both colored men. $50 n
piece for their votes and influence and
$50 for each eolored vote they could get?
His own brother-in-law says he did, or
that Dover lawyer did it for him. And
did not DR.. Wilkinson say on the Easton
Fair Grounds that the Wolcottites would
poll one negro vote for every Democratic
vote they'd loser That old Salisbury
Democrat better examine his bearings
before he bids his final farewell.
A Good word for Mr.. AIvan Allen.
To the Editor OF EVENING JouRsA1.
/ wish to use some of your valuable
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