Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-09-22
G. 0. P.'S BAD RECORD.
A History Of Fraud in New
Castle County.
AN EPOCH OF CORRUPTION,

An Arraignment of Republication as
Interpreted by the Bosses OF Della
ware-Assessment Padding, Defiance Of
Law. Abuse OF Negro Acknowledgement,
and Prostitution of Public Service.
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 10 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; Islander the chancellor who pre-
vented them from SO doing, and have
sought 10 attach disreputable motives to
the honored bench of the state.
They have bribed tax collectors and
betrayed the instruments Of their polti-
cal perfdy.
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 law passed by a
Democratic general assembly for the
purpose Of creating a non partisan police
force and doing away with evils long APP
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
party, the people at large and common
decency.
They have attempted to register such
negroes, and when Democratic registrars
have denied 10 them the right of regis
tration. the Federal aid has been in
voled, and such Democratic registrars
have been arrested.
They have arraigned men so arrested
before a Federal commissioner whose
sole idea Of justice centers in the preser-
vation Of the Republican party.
They have melted irresponsible negroes
TO riot at times Of election, and so prosti-
tuted the jury box of the country that
the law was prevented from reaching
either the principal or his accessory
They have corrupted public honor and
the states safety by making the elective
franchise a commodity for barter and
exchange.
They have attempted to make the pur-
poses Of the few the enforced will Of
the many, for this purpose procuring
tax receipts by impersonation and msrep-
resentation and holding them as security
for the good intentions of those in whose
names taxes were paid.
They have refused TO such persons the
rights of an elector; or granted such
rights upon terms unbeeoming the dig
nifty Of American citizenship.
They have outlawed negroes because
they evnced a spirit Of manly independ-
ence
They have prostituted the public service
and evaded the civil service laws by max
ing post Office officials, United States mar.
shals, deputy marshals and all others en-
/ ployed in the branches of the Federal ser
] vice in this city andstate mere instruments
for the furtherance Of political power and
patronage and for the fermentation OF
strife, instead of serving as conservators
Of the peace and the guardians of public
justice.
They have imposed upon the people
at large, taxes for the payment of the
salaries Of their chairmen of committee
and ward workers.
They have so far forgotten the dignity
which becomes the senate of the United
States as TO select man to that body
who has no more regard for the sanctity
Of the ballot box than to direct a vaga.
bond negro TO a place at which he could
cast an unlawful vote.
From these and kindred evils, God
save the commonwealth