Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-04-25
COUNTY comm rsslosERs.



The BIN for the Reduction OF the
Present Ouns bersOMs Levy Court.
kdit1. Gdsstts d Journal. At the County
Grange, and also at the Farmers Insti-
tute, at Newark, one prominent fact
that men of brains that have been quietly
attending to their own Affairs were COM
ing more to the front, and that barroom
nominations have had their time and that
their days are now numbered, and these
citizens OF higher intellect and more solid
Judgment are to select our officers Of
county and State In the future. They
are taking hold of county and State ques.
tions mot as bought and paid politicians,
but as men living under the laws have
right to do, irrespective of PARTY, MAX
ing common cause of their demands for
just legislation and the suppression Of
abuses. The time is near at hand when
the more steady and level-headed men
vi be named for office, not nominate
themselves, and when free beer will not
make man nominee for any
office nor freely treating elect him.
Then let us understand that the
men who sent the petition to
the Legislature ct Dover, asking that
body to reduce the number of the present
cumbersome levy court, were men OF both
parties, men irrespective OF party, from
different parts OF the county. There
were both observers and cRlculators
there, men of solid weight and solid
sense, some OF the heaviest taxpayers in
the county and the men who drive over
the roads and bridges their taxes pay for
willingly; but these men raised their
voice with one accord against paying
more officers than are necessary, and more
than do keep the roads and bridges of
other counties that are more broken by
hills and streams in rood repair. They
said give us three men for o levy court;
men, not mere political tools wiling to
vote for hickory stick. Three men are
enough to sit on one bridge at one time,
and the county is pretty well bridged
already with iron. Give us then three
men, remembering that one solid, sub
staptial, contrary man can hold his own
against eleven that serve to please only
their party friends and their purse. The
abuse Of one road commissioner riding
over the road an hour and getting pay for
q day, one supervisor talking, to those
who drive that way, eight hours out OF
ten getting paid for day, and one
man shoyeling earth into q cart to mend
some place on the road where there was
plenty of earth right at the side also get
ting paid for day, the poorest pay OF
any but doing all the work slowly, the
horse and cart also drawing pay, has
been done away with In come sections
and she road scraper, and better roads at
less expense, have taken their places Our
county farmers have spoken their mind
plainly about the old system, and it must
go. The solid representatives of the
county mind have spoken in regard to
the reduction of the present cumbersome,
expensive and unnecessary levy court.
Shall the bill pass In past days Of rings
and beer nomination, it might be costly
for man of either party to speak plainly
OF any public office or officer as an un-
necessary evil, but II is time for all who
have held their peace, to speak plainly Of
what all know to be facts, but some must
be careful what they say of facts lest
some party ring turn their back upon
them. But speak out Democrats for true
Democratic principles. and let us have
no loafing on the county.
A. E. RIrrEsHousE.
sTATE ROAD, DEL, April 10th.