Evening journal., 1890-04-30
THEY ARE ALL REPUBLICANS.
Pedigreos of the Three Men Convicted
and Whipped at Georgetown.

Pedtgreos of the Three Men Convicted
and Whipped Mt Georgetown.
Special Correspondence EVENING JOURNAL
GEORGETOWN, April 30.--The Morn
ing News through its staff correspondent
has endeavored to make sensation out
of the whipping Of three horse thieves
here on Saturday by Republican Sheriff
Ward, and some Of the Philadelphia
papers have been misled on the same
line. To read the sensational story in
the News, an outsider would be led to be.
lieve that all Sussex county was stirred
up over the affair, when the truth is
that the conviction and punishment of
these men would have passed almost
unheeded here, had not the false and
highly colored statement published
concerning the whipping caused
some of the people OF George
town to investigate, and the result Is
the deepest indignation that the charac-
ter and politics Of this trio of ordinary
thieves should have been so shamefully
distorted for partisan effect. The truth
of the matter is that the men were not
Democrats at all, not single one OF them,
although the Republicans here were
under the Impression that they were, as
one little item will show. While the trial
was in progress gentlemen was
standing In front Of the Court
House one afternoon and casually re-
marked, II don't believe they'll convict
those men" when Republican standing
near replied: "0h, yes, they will, they re
all Democrats, and we didn't fix the Jury
list this term for nothing" This Is but a
little straw, but it goes to prove the
| charges made that the jury list Of Sns-
sex this term was notoriously partisan.
But to return to the horse thieves and
their politics. The Republicans have
had their fling, and now the EVENING
| JOURNAL can let them into secret In
their blind partisan rage they have con
victed and slowed away three very i'm.
portant workers Of their own party
Hamilton, one of the convicts, never
voted Democratic ticket in his life, and
four years ago, in the presence Of mum
Der OF citizens here, when he was asked
to vote the ticket remarked I'D rather
lose my right arm than vote the id
rebel Democratic ticket" He Is now,
and always has been a Republican, and
as such was known.
Owens, another of the trio, il
Republican. He comes from Kent
county and all his relatives
reside mp in East and West Dover hun
dreds and they are all Republican. Tn,
EVENING JOURNAL correspondent, ia
order to verify this, took a run up I,
Dover yesterday and found scores OF mel
who knew Owens and all his relatives
aud they say they are all Republican
Owens has that peculiar shadi
of color which belongs TO
colony Of mulattoes who CLAIM
to be Moors, and who reside between
Creswold and Hartley. They claim to b
above the common negroes and do not
associate with them, but no whites asso.
ciate with them socially.
The third man, Owens Isaacs, 70 !
true, comes Of solid aud highly re
\ spected Democratic family, but whe
a quite young he left the parental roo
and with his family ties he also shook o
his politics--and has not for years bee
regarded as anything slse but a Republi
can. The deepest sympathy IS fe
here for MS aged father an
his brothers. who are all upriRL
; and respected men and Democrats, bu
for him himself his whole life, since b
cut loose from his family, has been on
series Of wrong doing. To spite hi
own relatives years ago, he changed hi
politics, and the natural result has fol
lowed. With his Democracy went h
manhood, and he drifted to the whippin
post
e have given here the facts which ca
be verified by scores Of men in both KeI
and Sussex, and they plainly give IL
n lie to unguarded sensational partisa
stories sent out from here.