Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-07-16

blank, or il filed up the names were taken
from lists furnished by ward workers and
not from the assessment lists. Messrs.
Mckee and Dougherty are honest and
honorable gentlemen compared to several
OF their predecessors in office. In the
course Of my duties last November | was
handed by well-known Democrat Of this
city nearly 400 receipts signed in blank.
The bulk of that lot came from the facile
pen of John t. Dickey, the present re-
ceiver OF taxes. The others were Mr.,
Neary's own. They had been intended for
Democratic consumption in 1888, but were
left over. They had issued more than were
needed to count in Donahoe and Hickman.
came to the conclusion last November
that there were more blank receipts in cir
culation from Neary and Dickey than
from Mckee and Dongherty.
mot So" SAYS MR.. NEARY.
A reporter of THE GAZETTE saw ex-
| Collector Neary on Tuesday and asked
him about Bach's charges.
"He never had any Of my receipts,
unless they were forgeries, but have q
strong suspicion that he had some re-
ceipts which were used at the last cleo
ton, to which my name was forged.
have reason to believe such forgeries
were executed, and ! have my suspicious
that q certain man In the Ninth ward
committed them, but l have not yet
been able to obtain the positive proof.
l have given receipts in bulk to Demo-
Gratis but never to Republicans"
BOUGHT BACH FOR $500.
"Why," continued Mr.. Neary, with an
expression of vigorous denunciation, 81
bought that man Bach while he was
editor Of the "Evening journal" and the
"Journai" was a Republican paper. L
paid him 5000 for his influence in favor
of fienry u. Hickman for the Levy Court"
May print that" inquired the re.
porter.
Yes, print it. and say that said it,
promptly replied Mr.. Neary
HOW 1T eRAvITATEs TO HICKMAN.
1t is surprising how the corrupt trans
actions that are now coming to the sur
face naturally gravitatc back to the
election of Henry D. Hickman To the
Levy Court in 1888. Said prominent
Republican, one who had leading part
in the famous deal with the collectors,
to GAZETTE reporter on Monday:
ut is question whether the Repub-
licans made anything by helping Hick-
man in 1888. If it had not been for Re-
publican assistance, in the count as well
as the vote, Hickman would not have
been elected! Without Hickman, Dough-
srty and Mex ei would not have been
made collectors. inWithout Dougherty
and Mckee there would have been no
Republican victories last fall and last
June, and no 81 500 tax receipt expos
ures. Do you think the ultimate result
will prove of any political benefit to our
party?"
The reporter declined to express an
opinion.
MUST THINK THEY WE'RE FOOLS.
A Democrat, abiding to the bowls of
virtuous indignation by the Republicans
over the action of the collectors and re.
turning as errors the names for which
the Republican committee claims to
have paid taxes, said:
why, they must think the collectors
were fools as we'll ca knaves. Do they
imagine these men would have sold out
their party and then turned the money
they received for their treachery ink
the treasury of the county?"
THEY WOULD, INDEED.
Said another: "What a pretty ,ass
things have come to, when the l. t.
office, which is maintained by the
money of all the people, is used as
| place for connecting and concentrating
schemes Of political villainy; while the
postmaster, who is paid by the public,
acts as chief manipulation of the ras-
cality. Suppose Colonel Taylor, while
he held the office, would have acted as
Postmaster Stewart had done. Wouldn't
the Republicans have given him hell
Why, the letters of remonstrance would
have poured into Washington as thick
as rain drops"
AN EXCUSE THAT WON'T STAND.
The claim made that the necessity of
waiting for the decision of the chan
cellor Is the reason for the delay in
delivering tax duplicates to County
Treasurer Dickey is merely subter-
fuge. The blame Is attributable en-
tirely to the Republican members of
the Levy Court They knew about those
names on the error list on the first Of
June, ana yet they never attempted TO
take action until June 30th, when it
was time to turn the books over to the
receiver.
MAY BE HAULED UP FOR CONTEMPT.
The attention of the members of the
bar has been attracted by the following,
which appeared in the political column
of last Sundays Star, under the head of
"Republicanl Glasses?el
AT this writing II Is not known what the
decision OF tie chancellor will be in rela-
ton to the placing of the 1900 deinquents
| upon the assessment lists and upon the tax
duplicates from which they have been
wrongfully and fraudulently left off. One
| thing certain, the Republicans do not ex-
pect favorable decision. The courts of
| Delaware are not constituted to give de-
cisions in favor of the Republican party,
no matter whether the party does wrong
| have been entered before the courts of
late years not one decision has been
| made In favor of the Republicans.
| The Democrats are always in the right.
| With Legislature to pass partisan laws
| and courts TO sustain them under all cir
cnmstances, the Democrats have had
| dead open-and-shut game of It, Since the
mandamus proceedings in 1889 to compel
| the collectors TO accept taxes at the hands
| of regularly constituted agent, armed
| with genuine power of attorney, in
which q decision was rendered that
actually meant nothing, all hope Of get
| ting justice from the courts has long ago
been abandoned. The only court
that is left where the Republicans
stand any show of getting Justice is
| the court Of the people. Even these
decisions are rendered nugatory and
void by legislatures and state courts.
The Republican party, however, instead
| of getting discouraged and giving up the
struggle, with the odds so largely against
them, intend to push the battle to the wall
and capture the legislature and the courts
A constitutional convention, which the
State will never have until the Republicans
come into power, will make short work of
legislatures whose chief business seems to
be to keep one political party in power by
DISTINGUISHING the other, and courts that