Evening journal., 1892-04-11
TO-MORROW'S ELECTION.
The Result of the City Contest is Now
Difficult Enigma.

Each Candidate Hopes to win-rhe
Exact Drift OF the Vote Is Not known.
An open Letter TO the NIayoraIty Candi-
date Tears In the Mayors Omce-One
Gang suppresses a blackburn Negro.
Revsrses for shAd Fishermen.
Special Correspondence EVENING JOURNAL.
NEW CASTLE, April 1.-THE great
suspense that the city has been held In
for the past few weeks will be over to-
morrow, although many hours Of excite
ment will elapse before the official result
Is announced. The polls for the election
Of a mayor, (three yearsl, two members Of
City Council, 1.-TWO years), treasurer,
(cne year,, and an assessor. Zone year,
will open az the mayors Office between
the hours Of II and 70 o'clock tomorrow
morning, and close at o'clock in the
evening. City Clerk James o. Jemison
has been appointed by Mayor Wilmer
Hanson to act as inspector. He will
select two judges.
Interest In the election is still at
fever heat and It is now acknowledged
that the result Of the election is under a
big cloud. All the candidates worked like
beavers on Saturday night. The city tax
collector was kept busy all the evening.
Toward the morning hours a gang that
had imbibed In too much free rum
tackled" William Sterling, known as
"Jobee, colored, who was cheering for
Blackburn. "Jobee" took several traps"
without Offering much resistance, but after
that he rushed into his house and pro-
cured a long and dangerous-lookiug
knife, which had the desired effect and
the crowd soon scattered. Until an early
hour the policemen were kept busy try
ing to suppress the noise aud excitement
on the streets. 1t is thought that some
of the candidates lost many votes by
their free. distribution Of campaign
whiskey.
Harold sudell, prominent citizen, who
is a strong advocate OF the equalization
Of taxes, has addressed an open letter TO
each Of the three candidates for mayor,
Frank e. Herbert (Democrat), Wilmer
Hanson( (Citizen's)snd Benjamin F. Black
burn (Republlcanl The letter is as
follows:
Il write to ask You whether or not
yon will pledge yourself, In the event OF
your election to the mayoralty at the
coming election, 10 use all the means
within your power towards equalizlDe
the assessments on improved and unim-
proved land within the city limits.
'At present It is customary to assess
unimprovsd land at q very much lower
| figure than land Of the same
value which is improved. AS II 1.
the improvements around It which
give value to land, it is manifestly
unjust, unpolitic and highly absurd e
allow owners of unimproved land. made
valuable by the improvements Of others.
to escape their just share OF taxation,
thus causing improvers to bear more
than their fair share.
"If any discrimination is made Il woul'
surely be wiser TO make It In favor o
the improvers for they are the ones whit
ought, In the interests of the city, to b.
encouraged.
"The system Of lightly taxing unim
proved land tends TO increase the selling
price Of it and the high price which Il
put upon land here Is one Of the princi
pal reasons why we do not have NOR
building In our city.
"Thue the present system work.
egainst improvers In two ways, first. b
making him pay more than his share o
taxes, and. secondly, by preventing othe
improvements which would, by increas
ing the revenue, reduce the tax rate.
yours respectfully, n. s."