Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1888-12-04
A SUSSEX DEMOCRAT.
NOT CRYING OVER THE DE-
FEAT OF HIS PARTY.
He Fails In with a Wilmington NsWs-
pspoE Man and EoiIB WHAT He
Knows About now tho Ike
pubIIoAns carried sussex.


REPUBLICAN, Mr. Ross IL quite IN
lntsIilgent gentleman, and tnoush a
lifelong Democrat, is not Crying over
the deloat Of his pRrty IN Sussex
County. Mr Rose, in speaking Of per-
forming hia duty 10 = collector of taxes,
sAld he was appointed TO collect taE6s
aud not to cheat people out Of their
votes " thGy hRppeUsd TO offer with
him In pJtSos. The county, which
ussd ei the tsKes, would be the principal
sufferer did he not carry out his ooliEs-
tions in this respect.
Upon telling him that he would moi
suit for q collector In New Castle
county while entertaining those opin-
ions, he said II made no diff renee then,
for II he couldn't DO AlloWsd 70 o1tleot
axes from all alike he would NOT be Q
collector 81 would just like 70 be COL
eotor In Wilmington, 1 would show
them II wouldn'G ooilsot the tsxse
from all alike"
We told Mr. Rogs that We would like
10 zee him collector Of taxes In vii
minRt0n Bnd we would llEe to see him
attempt TO cATFy cut these ideas. II he
did be would bever be appointed aRatn.
Mr.. Ross could hardly nee Though 1t;
BIO thought oolleotors were Sppointed to
collect taxes.
Yes, We said, down in Sussex tbey are
bat NO 30 here. On the contrary they
are expected TO cheat All the Republi
| cans they can out Of their votes and
they generally measure up 10 thoso ex-
| peotRllOps
hr. Boss was hardly disposed to ac-
| oept this assertion "a right dOWu soil
truth, but intimaEed that whatever
party WAa defeated had some hard
things to say about the other party.
We then referred to the votOa cast o.
two Prudential eloositns In Whining
ton as proof Ot our assertion. We
showed him that in 1884, when the city
bad but 10000 population, 10 900 Vo,es
we're cast, out ~ this faiPs election,
when the population bad teAohed
80, GOO, the whole vote polled was only
| $500, and 1,6O0 Of thOse cast were
Illegal DsmocrAlic votes.
Mr. Russ seemed TO think too tbs I
there was something there that Was nCt
exactly right and said he made 10
dlffsieuos between Democrats and Il
pnblioAns, he made them both pas
their taxes and he fol owed them up
until he made them DO 30.
We again aEid that he would do very
we'll f5r Sussex County collector, bat
he would never ans wer for q modern
day collector In WilmiDgtOn. "By the
ssy, ME Ross, sou had 10 nip-Ano tuck
Ia LgWes and Rehoboth at the late elec
tion, had You Eo,?"
"Oa, yes, 70 bad, the Dsno ocratiO
elsotOFAl ticket bad sbout one majority
but the Republicans wiped US out in
everything else by about 10 ajlrIty
Our majority used 10 b. sbouf rs"
"lt was the s,ioEebt thing oo18 l eveI
/ a - Entn MF Ruun hnNa m lAurh
about It every time think OF II. About
O'clock in tha afternoon we bssRu u
realize that We were gone hook end
line. The R9publ.oaHn looked hilarious
and GLAD, and the Democrats looked
corIeBpondinsy gloomy aud sad. W,
had been out.KeLersted and the j!g wAl
up. Ny Bonin-laW, Charley Aauil
was \ OApdidAte on the Republican
ticket for the Legislature. He Is a god
follow, sharp, shTBWd and Intelligent
and although he NhB accused of sayiDl
that day tb at evsry Democrat ought Il
J be hnAR, though hardly think be sAiC
II, felt that ought 70 vote for him. 81
. vent to him and said, Charley yOl
tx th.s :,cs,, .,G-7, W rreeI.s--vu.uE on Demo
-, etaTs name and pettinR your name OF
aud Pil vote It with my eyes shut.
don't want to gofAleh my cwn tteke
nor l don't want 10 soc Is done, but
a sou DO 1t while turn my head avs,
I'm vots it.
4 de fxed my tiokst and 1 started 70
: ,hs Sisotion window, bat q though
su s,rncx Us Oh the way that 0hare
) msv hav. fooled ne aud slipped III
: ISols Rspp, Htcau ticket into my hand
5 Ard / Thought i. would be bs,ter to n
! vestigsts, SO 1 opeL 50 my uokes ,sit on
, found 1t all right, ~ bsn dlEees.. ~
and then shut my eyes N'Qtle FS'e
It. Little did think that Sas giyln
Chsrley moro than q oompli-Ssptar
. vote, and little did he think that b
Z was going to be elected 1t WAE aenuin
. surprise 10 all.
Q Me-. Ross, however, was glad thst th
, election knocked out the BAyRrds ant
!, the BAulBburys; thEy would be no NOR
i trusted by the Democrats he va
n very emphatic in his den unoiAt!ops OF
Q prominent eK DeRoorAtiO stRte offiola
not far from john NJ. O'AytOn's birth
alacs, rs the man who WAS aocustd 0
distributing large rart Of this Rarut
Q licRn "boonls" where IL would do tn
v most good. He wanted nothing NOR
10 10 do politically with thosa man, an
'' they had no place In the DsmoofAll
% party.
We suggested to Mr.. Ross that th
D.. berty o0uldn't win without tha-n, q
with combined VOTE, and with only
y moderately full Rspu6licau votl the
e could not muster more than 800 msjorlt
y In tho county.
O "Thas IL 80, bat we would rather b
g defeated without them thsn SucceshfJ
with them"
Then We asked, EhAt will you DEM
4 crats dO2 You oan gain no more viotI
y Tiea with suoh = split, that either sid
y would rather vote the Republican tiok'
~ than TO VOC for each olher.
'' Mr.. Rose fscsLiously replied that IL
Democrats would have TO lay ne
egg ~ d raise q new breed rather tia
q 10 become mix up with uorgTel
e that nobody could tell whsrs Ihey b
VI lonRed.
= Anyhow Mr.. Ross was satisfied thi
As the Republicans won q fsir and equa
riotory, and they were tn5itlS
10 the fruits Of Il. He wss anxiol
a now, thAiA Republican Unltsd Stat
~ Senator Was to be elected, that the II
W. rublicaus would elect their best msn,
rsal native DslAWAreAp, one with mo-
ability than Mr.. BayArd or any OF u
IN SAulseurys, and that man hs thoug
VI should be Anthony HigRlns. Hs thong
e The SusbeK delegation Hrutd give
solid vote for Mr. Higgins after giVil
he Mr. Treat . complimentary VOTE
e. Mr.. ResB is tru0 "B ne Her
Chicken" There were very good M
Who came into the State, bus tho ol
original, nAtlve-born DelaWAreapl
10 thought, nted never be ashamsd Of
ry nativity, aDd he didn't believe eth
that = Republican Legislature was 81
very great cAlAmity to the State Afi
lF- all, a. II will fall to lite lot TO DO son
10 thing for the 6tAte that the Democri