The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-03-18
The Tax once DIsturbance.

permitted his clothing store to be con-
vcrted, were nothing more than what
Eaight have been expected as the re-
suits OF long continued series OF in
suits and indlgnities to the laborers
and mechanics OF this city who prefer
70 belong to the great Republican
party. The violence that was a mark
ed feature OF the closing Of the three
hours eraciously permitted for hun
tireds Of Republicans to pay their
taxes. while to be sincerely regretted,
is yet open to apologies when the
causes which led to 1t are taken nto
consideration.
To John T. Dickey's disreputable
course as q public county official,
charged with the reception of the PEG
pies taxes, is to be credited the cause
Of yesterdays disturbance. True.
George J. Finck was the collector OF
delinquent taxes yesterday, but though
he should have been more independent
be was but the deputy or rather the
automaton OF John L. DielIey and he
tDickey) is responsible for 1t all, Mr..
Nnok alone il left to his reflections
would not have acted rs he attempted
the masses Of the people himself. and
his sympathies are with them, but he
had boss and he had to obey him.
The whole course of John I. Dickey
hf5 int SNP
Taxes by Governor Reynolds has been
marked by the most fragrant acts of
partisanship and injustice to Republi
can poll taxpayers. In fact his very
appointment to the office he disgraces
was against the indignant protest of
the decent reform element OF his own
party.
He was appointed by Governor Rey.
nolds because 1t was supposed he had
the nerve to DO political dictator, q
tyrant who would trample upon the
rights of the Republican poll tax-pay,
or by preventing him from qualifying
10 exercise the elective franchise, while
he made it easy for Democratic poll
taxables to qualify. 1t is not wortt
while for us to partieulalize and tx
polut out how he has done this, his
tricks are well known to hundreds of
Republicans in rural New Castle as
well as in the city OF Wilmington. liz
made his clothing store the tax office
occupying both the lower and seconC
stories 1t was q most inconvenient
place for Taxpayers. but it suited Johr
i. Dlckey's purposes and he would re
move to-no other office though tn
levy Court had convenient one pre-
paleu and lifted up Tor MIN In tbs
court house. When his term ms re
eeiver of taxes expired, and he appoint
cd GeorgeJ. Finck as Delinquent Col.
lector of taxes, the latter still made
his headquarters In Dlckeys clothing
store. where he would be under the
immediate surveillance Of Liz boss.
Finck's next step was to appoint Il
hours only in which some twelve hun
dred Republican poll taxables alone
had chance TO pay their tnNes, to sa.
nothing OF the Democrats, who might
want to pay in those same hours. hi.
itself was a direct insult to poll tax
payers, an act which might,with grea
consistency. be construed into an In
yitatlon for them not to attempt Il
come and pay their taxes.
Three OF those twelve hours wer
doled out yesterday afternoon an
some three hundred or more Hepubl
cans called to pay their taxes. SeeIni
the crowd III waiting, scores OF Reput
licans looked inside and went ava
without making any farther pttelnI
TO pay their taxes. Cnier tie immi
Aiate eyes OF John T Diekey ana IL
City Auditor, John A. Mitchell, N
Finck commenced the reception
taxes at the rate OF about twenty n
ceipts an hour. Strict and rigid hoat
had to be kept and precisely at
O'Clock, when Finck closed his book
nearly ono hundred men were In linz
many Of them with dinner pals an
baskets on their arms, waiting to pa
their taxes.
Is 1t any wonder arrow ensued2 Tie.
men came to pay their taxes and tie
wanted to do. 1t. They did not car
whether it was O'clock, o'clock ,
eoclock, they lost half day fro
ahelr work and did not want to /
disappointed. Tie attempt OF ex-Git
Auditor Mitchell to eject the crowd L
violence, invited an attack upon hin
self which resulted in rough usag
the fleeing Of John T. Dle&ey out
the real French window and Collect
F,nek up the stairway to the seeaI
story. We sincerely regret ali III
but what more could be expected III.
what has happened The peorte {
mand their rights and they intend
have them. A reasonable dlsposiIf
to collect the taxes would have ayof,l
the disgrace of yesterday, a dispo
ton MOTTO collect them led TO It. 4
sistancs to tyranny and oppressit
follows as sure to day as 1t did In t
days OF the revolution and the res,
will be the same
The Ilme-honored Notre Dame, L
umore, Nd. VIC have had ample {
portunity to convince ourselves of I
efficacy of Salvation Oil. We chearf
ly submit our namcs to the public
reference. Respectfully, Sisters
Notre Dame Aisqulth and Eager 81
Baltimore, Md.