Daily Republican., 1890-03-01

County will meet again next Tuesday,
and will probably be in session until
the middle OF Nay. The first thing
70 b done when they meet will be to
receive the delinquent lists Of poll tax
payers from the collectors, and those
lists will then be posted 81 the Court
room hve days for the inspection Of
poll tAxables. There will probably be
hour thousand names Of taxables re-
turned from Wilmington alone, and
thess tour thousand will represent at
last q. 900 In taxes
There are two classes Of these re-
tuRnA One class are Republican poll
tax payers, who will be returned and
dhiranchised Tor two years 10 come.
TIE other large class 10 composed Of
Democratic poll tax payers, who will
BE- returned, but who will not he dis
fanchised for single year. There
Gomez ia the difference between the
two. . very big difference, by the way,
~ Il strikes at the liberties and rights
Of the Republican poll tax payers,
while the Democratic delinquent is
continued on the extra assessments.
A cioss scrutiny Of the Democratic
names returned will reveal the fact
that nearly all OF them are carried
over on the extra assessment just made
by the aid Of little manipulation Of
the name that 10 claimed 10 be .
change, end yet 10 no change.
We do mot know who are the dis.
coverers Of this cunning mode Of re-
turning dellnquents without disiran-
chisinR them, but to Assessors Nc
Closkey and Higgins belong the credit
Of putting II in practical and success.
full operation. II the delinquent lists
are not stolen by Democrats as soon as
they are seen they will reveal some as
founding developments about these
Democratic assessment manipulations.
To comprehend the scheme it will be
nsesssafy TO have copy of the delin.
quent list and copy Of the extra as
seasment lying side by side 90 that one
can be compared with the other.
To illustrate We will take one name,
which will represent thousands OF
others, End that name shall lie John
Smith, who everybody knows, and we
shall take Assessor McCloskey as the
man. who assessed him Mir. Smith
may or may not have a middle name,
but for our purpose we will suppose
that bis middle name is Robert, then il
would stand John r Smith. But on
the assessment Of 1880 he is assessed
plain John Smith, with = poll rate o.
$500, the tax on which would be 81 so
Assessor McCloskey knows that job:
Smith don't care about paving tina
81 90 tax, and without tho payment o
which he would be returned as q de
linquent and be DISTINGUISHED. Blu
tho assessor is equal 10 the emergency
He saves Mr.. John Smith from pay.
Ing the tax Of $l5O he owes til,
county by assessing him on the ex,r,
assessment &C John r. Smith. An in
Eenious method, but one that plays 81
important part in the assessment o
Democrats. Now, on next Tuesday
Just compare the error list that will b.
handed In by Collector Mckee will
the extra assessment. ln the frs
will be found John Smith, in the sec
ond will be found John II. Smith
John Smith is disfranchised and Ia
county loses his taxes. but job
Smith Is not DISTINGUISHED after all he
y cause his name appears as John X
Smith on The extra assessment. Vice
versa it is just IS easy 10 return job
II. Smith il his name appears as sue
I'll Tie old assessment and ASSESS hill
OF the new rs John Smith.
We hope we have made oursels
fully understood. by the tactics
this middle initial letter, two thonsal
Democrats may be returned as deli
qtenis next Tuesday and the coun
viii lose al least two thousand dollt
on that account, but The same men
turn up smiling on the extra assc
ment. The two points prominent
The transaction is. that Democrt
never gel DISTINGUISHED, bnt the cour
always lo.es their taxes. With /
Iublicans it is different. The coun
not only loses the taxes they want
lay and are logging the collectors
take, but no initial letter saves thu
from Acknowledgement Tor Two yea
This is the disreputabie scheme Il
the Levy Court with solemn mt
dignity will endorse next Tuesd
when the delinquent lists will
landed in.