The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-02-19
FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 10. 1899.


Inc SIX TO rive irlhGlfie.
The Every Evening is very much ex-
ercised over the six to tlven principle
OF ruling in tho Levy Court, and says
that to submit to such rule would
be to concede that might makes right
and that the tax payers represented by
+ the Levy Court minority have no
rights that the Levy Court majority Is
bound to respect What Is wrong
nbout this 'six to fiver principle, and
wherein is there a single instance in
which the majority Of the Levy Court
attempted TO do a wrong act2 Six is
majority OF eleven for practical pur-
3 poses as much as il the Levy Court
was composed OF seven Republicans
and four Democrats, and as long as
majorities are allowed to rule in this
country, we see no other way than to
nllow six to rule five.
Oh yes, there is another way we had
almost forgotten, but the Every Even
Ing knows TITO way, and for the second
time during the existence of the pres
ont Levy Court, its plan has been put
Into practice. That plan is, whenever
the Republicans will not permit five to
rule six, to trot or to Dover and get Il
mandate from the Court of Chancery
to compel the six to submit to the five.
z It succeeded in its application to the
court last June in preventing the Levy
Court from putting names on the as
sessment that had been illegally re-
burned as delinquents, and it expects
now to succeed preventing the Levy
Court from striking from the lists,
names Illegally assessed.
Six members OF tho Levy Court
found last June that thousands OF per-
sons had been returned delinquents
who had receipts to show that they
s. had paid their taxes, and this being as
they conceived clearly illegal, they by
J, vote of six to five decided to put the
Illegally returned names back on the
assessment. Was there any thing
wrong about this? Then the court OF
Ehancery decided that the month Of
March was the lawful time to get as
sessed, but it is said to this day that
no ediot was Issued by the court that
--bfevented the Levy Court from return
Ing to the assessments the names ille-
gably stricken from it.
To-day the Same court has been in
voied to annul the six by five deci.
sion OF the Levy Court, but this time
for another and just the opposite pur
pose for which it was invoked last
Pune. Then the court was importuned
10 keep names of the lists illegally
left oil, now It is importuned TO keel
on names illegally put on.
We cannot preiudgo how the Cour
OF Chancery will decide hut we believe
Il will do what ii thinks Is right, anl
whatever the decision is the lega
majority Of the Levy Court will sub
NIT to 1t, but no decision OF this o.
any court will remove from the mind
Of the people that the assessments Of
the First and Second districts are sell
evident frauds OF the boldest kind.
1t is unfortunate Tor our neighboi
tuhb ilAS why ttAANsa ~ AlttEs 'A3A5-NNAA4 A.
the six by five rule IN the Leyy Cour
were when tho six tried to Aayc hon
est assessments aud the live oppose
1t. Tho six" tried last June to elm
nate fraud from the assessment by rt
burning to the lists the names Of thoa
Illegally stricken from it, but the tive
opposed it. Now the "siA" want t
strike from the lists tho names Of thos
Illegally assessed hut the live oppo-
1t and the five" in both cases cailc
on the courts to Eustain their actor
The court technically sustained til
five last June, but will it do It in ii
present February
WHAT do the Democrats want an,
how Last June the Republicans I
the Levy Court waited to put sen