The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-07-15
WEDNESDAY, JULY 10. 1891.



delinquent tax mudtle, even the Every
Evening has settled down to the belief
that the receipts given for the taxes of
$500 bonaiide, regularly assessed, Re-
publican voters, arc legal and genuine.
Then, what is wrong about the matter2
These same $3.50 poll taxables were Re-
pubiicans, and they owed the county
$1,000. l6 all told, in taxes. 1t was an
honest debt and they paid it by their
agents, as all honest men should pay
their debts. when they have the money,
and ii they have not the money, they
should make an effort to get it.
These men were scattered all over
the city in manufactures, in ware
houses on railroads and on streets.
The amount OF taxes each owed ranged
from eighty cents TO two dollars. To
hunt the collectors and pay those
small dribs OF taxes they would lose
more time than tho money they owed
In taxes was worth two Oh three times
over. Only the year before many of
than lost weeks work in trying to
pay dollar in taxes. They tried to
pay by power of attorney but oven
that was refused by the collectors. The
next year the case was different. The
collectors themselves inaugurated
new plan. They needed these taxes
that they had fought against receiving
the year before, and they came volun.
tarily to the Republican committee
and offered to accept in bulk the taxes
OF their poll taxables,
There was nothing wrong about
that. They asked for nothing that
was not due the county, and for
which they had given heavy bonds
to collect. They should have done
this the year before, but they saw
proper to pursue the same course
other Democrats had pursued before
them-the plan Of giving the Demo
cratic party every facility for paying
their taxes, and tho Republican party
no facilities but those they contended
for inch by inch.
or course the Republicans accepted
the offer Of the Democratic collectors,
There was nothing wrong about that,
was there? Had they refused to ac-
eept it they would have been charged
with Inconsistency in not paying their
taxes when they had chance to do
so. They raised the moneys $4,000. 49,
and paid all OF. The collectors full
filled their part of the contract by CIV
ing receipt for every tax paid off
The collectors fulfilled their part of
the contract by giving receipt for
every tax paid. Nothing could have
been done more snuarely nothing
more legitimately, nothing moro hon
estly.
That the collectors did do business
In Z uslness manner was not grim
Joke Us 1t was the year before. The
collectors got the money that was due
the county, and the poll taxables who
owed the money got their receipts.
That the collectors have not paid the
money given them over to the county,
and have gone farther and returned
these poll taxables whose taxes are
paid to tho Levy Court as delinquents
Is another and separate phase of the
question, not bearing upon tho valldi
ty Of the tax receipts given by tho col
lectors.
II the collectors have defrauded tht
county out of tho money paid FOL
these taxes, let the authorized agents
of the law proceed against them. II
the county can do without the taxei
these returned poll taxables wouIt
have paid this year, tho Republicans
can get along without paying them
They wanted TO he put back upon til,
tax duplicates, from which they hat
been unlawfully struck, but the Demo
Gratis said no, their names shall not q
there, and when the Republicans 0
the Levy Court determined to replace
the names the Democrats appealed t.
the courts of the State and got oat al
Injunction TO prevent 1t.
Nobody knows yet what the decislo
Of tho Chancellor will he, though W
are told by Democrats that it will b
adverse to the Republicans, but /
makes no matter what 1t will be. I'll
Republicans who paid their taxes hor
sstly to collectors Mckee and Dough
srty last winter and got their receipt
for the same will vote In 1892 unles
It be decided before then that the col
btitution Of the state can he annulle
by a state law, and nobody is insan
enough to believe that.
II HAVE given receipts In bulk /
Democrats but never to Republicans