Evening journal., 1890-03-27
A ulIepAu cAMpAIcN.


II is easy to condemn, easy to find
fault, easier to complain, easier still to
change
But 1t is a stupendous thing to change
the whole machinery of county gov
ernment Of 100, 600 people for the better
within the space OF few weeks II is a
stupendous undertaking to formulate q
just and equitable system by which
three men can do what has been done
well and accsptablY by eleven men for
over a century.
That is what these lightweight,
feather-headed reformers have pretended
to try to do. irresponsible men have
been going about complaining of the
Levy Court and saying that the members
Of that august body, elected by a full
popular vote. .are expanding too much
money. These Irresponsible carpers have
not specified how many public buildings,
how many bridges, how many highways,
New Castle county has which are not
needed. These light weight rsformers
have aforementioned any expenses which
are improper, any expenditures which
should not have been made or any eco
Monies which could have been practiced.
They are simply agin' the Levy Court
without any well formed idea why.
They have heard through Republican,
and other inimical sources, that the price
paid for prison fare was too high and
that the county might make an insignif-
cant saving Of So, 600 on an expenditure
Of from a quarter to half million dollars
by reducing the rate. That suggestion
has carried the unballasted minds Of these
sham reformers off in a gale Of nonsense,
They were beside themselves at the pos
sibility Of effecting such an economy.
1t is said that q dollar looks as big as q
cart wheel to a miser-a man without /
soul. This little reform looked like /
political revolution to a man without al
idea. IL was a hurrah movement insti
gated by malice and urged on by ignor
ance. II was a campaign in which sounC
was more acceptable than sense. Mel
of light calibre and Of no calibre at al
Joined in the hurrah movement ss natur
ally and as vociferously as a colored lady
"glts 'ligion" and as quickly as colore'
gentleman's feet shuttle to the plunb Of
favorite banjo.
But sober second thought has come
Several sensible men have arisen to sa,
that the county and the state are In goo
credit and that there are ample assets ;
save the one from the demnition bow
vows, while theIother is rich. A sobe
second thought has come to tell us tina
the Levy Courtmen are themselye
farmers, taxpayers, honest men and goo
Democrats. Sober second Thought ha
come to ask, after the Levy Court
what2
A change may not be reform. TIL
Republicans, Of course, want change
We see by thel flight Of the surplus /
the National Treasury what they mea
by a change.
1t is easy to change-it is difficult
reform. No reform has been propose
which is practicable. More than thai
no practical man has proposed any rc
form.
Only those persons who could not b
trusted to conduct the executive depart
msnt Of q peanut stand have made an
propositions whatever. These men Al
in spasmodic state of emotional in
sanity about the sheriff's feed bill
Such people need q little stime only f
rest and quiet when they win probabl
arrive at the conclusion that the So, OF
they have proposed to take from IL
sheriff would not bankrupt the count
even if it were thrown into the Brandy
wine and that IL would not benefit Il
county to bankrupt the sheriff.