The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-02-04


ocratic assessors OF this city and as
usual Democratic leaders are defend
zng the fraud and we regret to say
Democratic papers, making strong
y pretenslons to honesty,are disposed to
defend 1t.
There are we'll defined laws govern
Ing the assessment OF voters and these
laws should be regarded with some
degree of reverence and respect, but
they have been most UNANIMOUSLY VIC
lated, both In the letter and in the
epirlt. For instance, the city accord.
inG TO law has been laid out in three
assessment districts. with an assessor
elected in each. The duties OF these
assessors sre very closely defined. At
certain periods OF the year they are to
asCess all voters who have not been
assessed. In the three years when
thare Is no general assessment, the as
s SCISSOR is not compelled to go from
door to door hunting those who are
not assessed, but there Is no law pro-
hibiting him from doing so, but he is
compelled to assess all who call upon
who have the right to be assessed.
This last year has been one of those
on years with Interest enhanced blythe
\ passage OF the Five Commissioner act
which abolished the delinquent lists
and permitted the assessors to assess
all poll taxables not assessed, whether
Y on or off the delinquent lists. As I'M
der the new law, whatever names weat
upon the assessment this year could
not, hereafter, be left of as delinquents,
but had to be carried on from year to
year, 1t was quite necessary that there
s should havo been clean assessment,
an honest one, and II not full one it
s should be more the fault of the peo-
3 pie than OF the assessors as the latter
are not compelled to make any extra
cxertlons to make full assessment
until next year.
We have not yet had an opportunity
to look over the recent assessment 5
made In our city, but we are Very
credlbly informed that Assessor Whann
ms made what in these days would
be called fair and full assessment
That Is being a Republican assessor,
be was naturally expected to put or
the names OF all Republicans that he
was satisfied lived in the wards in his
districts. At the same time he put on
the names OF all Democrats he heard
OF who had never been assessed and
the names OF all Democrats who came
\ to him to get assessed. He put moth
ing In the way Of anybody getting as
eeseed, but he very properly refused
to put on the names Of some seven
hundred or moro persons brought to
him by Democratic ward workers.
He refused to do so not that they
were Democrats, not that some of
them were not entitled to be assess.
ed, but because they were gathered
together In an inronglomelate mass
without any place OF resideuee being
designated, with names spelled wrong,
with those who went by a fun nam,
: and a middle initial, with only ont
initial and most OF all because han.
dreds of them were known By nobod
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