Evening journal., 1892-11-07


Battle of Manhood Against Money-Tax
Collectors Bought and sold-state Elec-
tion Oncers Arrested I'm the Perform
ance of Their Duties-A Record Of Re-
publican Crimes.
The Republicans are making strenuous
efforts to carry New Castle county this
fall.
They have padded the assessment lists
in districts in which they had the
assessors.
They have attempted to strike from
the assessment the names of hundreds
of Democrats for the purposes of politi.
cal aggrandizement.
They have attempted to defy the pub
lie laws; slander the chancellor who pre-
vented them from so doing, and have
sought to attach disreputable motives to
the honored bench Of the state
They have bribed tax collectors and
betrayed the instruments Of their politi-
cal perfidy.
They have used the police force Of this
city for political purposes, and melted
negro officers to attack white working
men who were on their way home from
their daily labors.
They have evaded a law passed by a
Democratic general assembly for the
purpose Of creating a nOn-partisan police
force and doing away with evils long ep-
parent
They have brought from other states
hundreds of disreputable negroes, housed
them in this city and other parts Of the
state at the expense of the Republican
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decency
They have attempted to register sucl
negroes, and when Democratic registrar.
have denied to them the right of regis
tration. the Federal aid has been in
yoked, and such Democratic registrars
have been arrested.
They have arraigned men so arrested
before Federal commissioner who's,
sole idea of justice centers in the preser
vation of the Republican party.
They have melted irresponsible negroe
to riot at times of election, aud so prosti
tuted the jury box of the country tina
the law was prevented from reaching
either the principal or his accessory.
! They have corrupted public honor an
the state safety by making the electiv
q franchise a commodity for barter an
exchange.
, They have attempted to make the pun
! poses of the few the enforced will q
! the many, for this purpose procurin
: tax receipts by impersonation and misreI
resentation and holding them as securit
for the good intentions of those in who's
: names taxes were paid.
They have refused TO such persons th
}. rights of an electors or granted sue
. rights upon terms unbecoming the dil
nifty of American citizenship.
o They have outlawed negroes becaui
}. they evinced a spirit Of manly indepen
10 ence.
>. They have prostituted the public servi
and evaded the civil service laws by ma
" ing post Office officials, United States ma
B shals, deputy marshals and all others ell
ployed in the branches of the Federal Sc
vice in this city andstate, mere instrumen
for the furtherance of political power al
- patronage aud for the fermentation
y strife, instead of serving as conservato
- =, of the peace and the guardians Of pub
y justice.
u They have imposed upon the peoI
~ at large, taxes for the payment of {
10 salaries of their chairmen of commit
and ward workers.
'e They have so far forgotten the digni
which becomes the senate Of the Unit
States as to select man to that bo
who has no more regard for the sancti
to of the ballot box than to direct a vas
bond negro to place at which he COT
v cast an unlawful vote.