The Wilmington daily Republican., 1891-05-13
RerealIng tl,e rwin FrnutIa.


Repeating the Twin Frauds.
The House at Dover on Monday
passed the bills ropeallng the assess
ment and tho tax collection laws of
1878, and as the Senate will no doubt
concur III the action Of tho House,
these measures of iHiquity will pass
into the relic basket, to be viewed
! hereafter with feelings OF Shame by
the coming generations. Who would
have evor thought that laws that were
very skies, as fair and just and honor-
able by tho Honorable Thomas L. Bay
ard, and that were more easy to quail
ify to voto under than the laws OF
Pennsylvania, would 10 repealed by
the unanimous consent of a Democrat
ic House, none to spent word in IA
vor OF theIu, none to do thom honor
This is u most remarkable clruuu-
stance. These laws were passed spe-
ciAliy under the inspiration OF Mr..
Bayurds Democracy and by his special
guidance.
He was ono OF tho Council for Archl-
bald Given, q tax collectur before the
United States District Court in 1871.
and failing to prevent that gentloman's
conviction before tho court upon the
charge of discriminating against col.
Ored voters, he ilew to the Legislature
with these laws which the House Mt
lus, i,,a AZ l.AI -. frx
collectors to do the very thing for
which Mr.. Given was convicted. 1t is
an instance worthy OF noto that Mt
that trial AR, Rayard wie Uuited
States Senator, and the District Altor-
ney for the United States who con
rlcted Given, was Anthony Higgins
then In flush of youthful vlaur. MIR
Bayard is now out OF Office aud Mr
Higgins is a United States Senator
AIr. Bayard's own pot laws scam TO
have lost their potency after they lad
piled up boating debt OF F5j. coo in
New Castle County; after thev hld
cheated one fourth OF tho voters,
nearly all of theta Republicans out oI
1AA'iA NttO1 ~ hAEaANliR Asib ''uhAiN
OF the State out OF their taxos;
after Sussex County slipped the Demo
cratic shackles in 1883 uud New Castle
county in 1870.
That they should now lie repealed
without protest is but tho stronger
evidence that they couid not be de
Tended upon any grounds OF common
honesty on decency, They served il!eli
purpose we'll while thoy were Ia opera.
ton until they rotte,l through With
fraud AMI fell apart of their own
weight. Even now the Democratic
party Is not entitled tu any credit iui
their repeal. II is not unly because
they have treacherously aided the Re
pablicans that they came into disfayoi
and they arc now swept into tls gul
OF oblivion unhonurch and unsung
even by those who have been thei
beneilciaries. Those WHO lived al
through their operations from Arehl,
Given no collector TO their eNpirini
gasp under collectors Dougherty an,
Mckee cali viyidly-to mind collector
Joseph l. Carpenter Jr., Charles II. L
Bedford, George Ward so honest lli;l
he only got it one term. William Kyn
and the twins Neary und Dickey.
1hoy all fought the Democratic iigil
biHvely. and under these laws braush
successive victories to their party
When the two last, DoagAerty an
Mckee came into power, tho twi
relics OF fraud had become 50 rotte
and weak that no amount of nursin
could restore them to sound healtl
and TO those Eentlcmpn, falls the tas
OF wrapping them in their wlnlti
sheets and casting the fostering thing
overheard while tho i.rsiaiaturespea
not word as the funeral nassos by, I
the tune of the dead march in Saul
Not even is Mr. nayufd II moulner 1
the burial Of the twin friends that gay
him honor before tho nRLiun. SAD, 5a,
very sad!