Evening journal., 1892-09-05
REGISTRATION BEGINS.
Republicans Start the Ball
Rolling by Fraud.
EVEN THE SUPERVISOR BLUsHEs.

Placed In the Hands Of Negro one
window Man Threatens to Have the
Registrar .'Put Away Before sunset.
A Morse Runs Away and Woman in
the Carriage Is Badly injured.
Special Correspondence Evening journal.
NEW CASTLE, Sept 5.--The FIRST Reg
istution Day in This city viii 60 down
into history as an occasion OF disorder
and strife mingled with petty abuses and
general sd feeling The day was marked
By an the heat and animation of a regular
election and many more such days Will
certainly stir up this little city TO a state
of excitement that is uncomfortable The
registrars 40 the various places assigned in
their districts were Robert r. Morrison.
north; Bonnet r. Lancaster. south;
George w. kcklcs, east Patrick Nc
Grory. west. An OF these are Democrats
A Republican u S. Supervisor was within
the window al each place of registration
II required about three minutes for each
candidate for registration to be entered
upon the books This was done after he
hfa replied TO score Of questions at
which several took oifense. One man
openly declared that 10 he had that ordeal
to eo through again, he'd be hanged if
he'd vote but when he found out
lhat greater men than himself went
through the same Ordeal he thought
lie matter over again a little more
wisely
Republican headquarters, which are
in the oid Delaware House, opposite the
court house. wore i'm full blast all day
Ih, trouble of the day, however began
when q fraudulent tax receipt was
caught by Registrar George w Eckles,
oi The Eastern district early in the after
noon This proved that some of the
Republican leaders were resorting TO
base means 10 obtain a victory this fall,
aEd that tAoy had either forged the name
ui cN Collector Israel Rulings or that he
had been a party TO the scheme. John
Russcll % we'll known cOlOred man, came
up 10 the window 20 have his name en-
tered Tie handed a receipt TO the regis
frar. who at once saw that the name.
-lsael Riding. bad been written long
time ago while the writing upon the re-
msinder of the receipt was yet fresh-
The rest of the Incident was told by Mr.
Ecsles In an interview with the
EvaNING JOURNAL man last night.
81 made no remark about the tax col
lector but mis- signature appeared on
the receipt 10 be perfectly accurate but
the writing upon the receipt outside of
the signature was fresh and would have
blotted had 10 been folded up The ink
rubbed off SO that the writing could have
been made wholly unintelligble. Even
the negro when he saw the ink rub OIL.
laughed heartily as he went away
Where did Russell come from -
'Ihe negro came directly from the
club room across the street. which. ] I'M
dersiand. is now used as Republican
headquarters with the tax receipt be-
tween his fingers as though it had been
handed To- him with instructions to hold
il chat way
did you hand the receipt to Mr.
Blackburn, the Republican supervi
sorf7
Eyes, ] showed him the receipt and
asked what do YOU think Of thatg He
said well maybe the receipt was writ.
ten with kind Of ink that does not dry
in. he finally said: Well. 1
don't know what to think of that.
/ don't know a Republican in this
city who would concoct such a scheme. 4"
0aughier) This story will be affirmed
by Henry Holschumaller. a citizen who
WAS standing In the window. and C.
Edwin Ecklos. the clerk
Sir. Eclsles further said; "And now
complain that a -than-thou business
man OF this city should be allowed TO
stand near the registration window and
try 20 influence q poor ignorant negro to
lie about the place where he got his tax
receipt. The negro. although ignorant.
proved himself TO be the more honorable
OF the two. and told the truth. The
business man M the window was Henry
A. Dennison, Bep). the negro who had
been handed the receipt was James
Moody, the man from whom he said he
procured the receipt was ok Representa-
tive ID w. Elkinton. (Rep) who by the
way Is great advocate of the tariff on
tln
This man D7nnison openly accused
me 90 ihe window of obstructine the
chances of men who wanted to register.
ihis was previous to the arrival upon the
scene of the man Moody He gave me to
understand that lac would have me put
away before sunset or words TO that
effect, nni in the incident cited above. he
proved 20 Da more dishonest In trying to
get men upon the registry than was in
placing on those legitimately entitled
/ propose 90 give n fair, honest registra
ton AS ! have given and will give but
certainly Will not be led aside by the
dictation of this man Dennison.
Registrars Lancaster and McGrorv got
along very well aud entered O great many
lcinos with but few disputes Registrar
Morrison had frequent disputes regis
tcrel only few. and these under "held
under advsement' and finally had
trouble with Horace Groves. the Re
publican L. S. supervisor
Another Disrsirous Runaway.
A two-seated carriage 20 which ON,
horse was attached, the team
having been hired from Livervmar
Brown, of Wilmington, for night.
pleasure, was wrecked here last night
Residents of the north end of town wer,
Mortified. early In the evening. to Sc,
this horse foaming aud steaming. rusl
into town with the speed of runawa,
locomotive. The animal ran s.
fast that the carriage swavee
from side to side sweeping tn,
street as IL went Fortunately Their,
were no children making mud pie
IN the street when this maddened anima
Numbered into town In the excitemen
Of trying TO catch the horse one fello,
swung himself into the carriage and AT