The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-04-13

"A EAiihSy E-kctac.
Senator Williams Is represented as |
eaylng that he will vote for the Five |
Commissioner bill as partisan meas
ure as now amended. Well may the |
Senator say so. He can vote for it on !
no other grounds, neither can any 9th, /
er member of the legislature. Sifted |
down to fine points. there is no right |
nor justice in the bill, so interviewer
X Is 1t with wrong and injustice.
No odds how the matter ls looked at,
II Is an outright political theft of the
iights OF the people, and the agents
will not prosper by it.
Tho excuse made by the party organs
In favor Of the passage of the bill are
deceptive and misleading. They say,
and the politicians on the Democratic
side follow suit and say, that the bill
should pass because both parties in
the late campaign advocated county
commission, to take the place OF the
levy court, This is paradoxically true
and false in the same breath. The
Democratic organs and Democratic
speakers, IL they referred TO 1t at all,
1t was with guarded breath, and in such
faint whispers as not to be understood
II heard.
The State platform Of the party had
not single word from beginning to end
In favor OF county reform Or abolition
of the Levy Court unless the indistinct
utterance Of the little five limo para
graph tackled to the end OF the resolu-
tions, which says that tho people may
have constitutional convention with
in the constitution, can be tortured in
Co construction In favor of reform.
In the Middletown meetings that were
held under the auspices OF Nathaniel
Williams and a handful of other real
county rcforners, whatever was said
at them there was never Il word said In
favor Of forcible and immediate va
cation OF the Levy Court TO be substi-
tuted by coGnty commissioners. In
fact the few Democrats who favored
county reform mover thought of reform
In that manner until after the Repabli-
cans had carried New Castle County.
The case Was different with the Re-
publicans. The slogan OF their party
organs was ''down with the Levy
Court" The Republican took an ac-
tive part in this attack on the Levy
COURT and often expressed itself in ia
vor OF Knocking out the Levy Court ="
II has no desiro to apologize for its
words and actions, But what Levy
Court did ltwant knocked out?' What
one could 1t want knocked out" but
the one then in power2 1t never dream
: ed that the legislature which it then
had every reason to believe would be
Republican would violate solemn ex-
preston OF the will OF the people at
the polls and knock out" the Levy
Court Immediately or on the first OPP
portunity that offered. Knowing that
such an act would be "Ex-Post- Facto,p
legislation and direct violation of
the Constitution of the United States
there was no other thought on the
part OF the Republicans to make a
change except by constitut on1l Con.
vontion or by an action of the leglsla-
ture providing County Commissioners
10 succeed the Levy Court elected by
the people at the expiration OF the
term for which such Levy Court was
elected.
Let the strongest kind OF emphasis
be placed upon the fact that the Re
publirans pushed an aggressive cam
paign against County Government b,
Levy Courts. They did do it. Their,
10 no installing that fact. They do no
want TO he understood in any Othe
Hight. But they wanted it done in al
honest observation-disclosures withou
violation OF the sacred rights OF tn,
people, as expressed at the ballot box
That is exactly where the Republican
party stood during the last campaign
and that Is where 1t stands now. Al
Senator Williams intends to justif,
his vote for tho Five Commissioner bill
on the ground that all parties wanted
tho change by violation OF til
will OF the people, he is grasping a
ntraws and is standing on the pree
pice of false opinion.
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IT IS GENERALLY understood that a
Indignation meeting is to be called I'm
mediately after the passage OF tn
Five Commissioner act to protes
against the injustice and unconstitu
tionality Of 1t. When the time come
for holding tho meeting, let the peopl,
Jealous Of their liberties, turn out to
and speak In no uncertain sound. III
movement will be one which will hay