Middletown transcript., 1893-08-19

-,<xN-SyJ lowed them to the
kNE grave. Senator
u f!.s Gray officiated at
the last sad rites,
but the doctors who killed the patient are
willard Salisbury and John 7. Dickey.
On Tuesday last Senator Gray appointed
colored man Jacob Wiley, to a handsome
place at the United States Senate, and the
'.nigger" is no longer Democratic slogan
in Delaware. Wiley gets $3.50 year for
work which be can perform in less than
five hours day. And the work Is easy at
that There is not 1aborer or mechanic
in any of the shops in this city who does
not work harder every day, if be works at
all, than Wiley viii work, and none of
them In these times will earn as much
money. How did It come about2 Why
there Is another Big Four in town. They
are A. Worthington Brinckley, Willard
Salisbury. Stansbury ]. Murray and John
r Dickey They did it. They started q
year ago and organized the independent
Republican" party. The party polled thir-
teen votes last November In New Castle
County at cost Of nearly $l00 vote. But
that was starter. That Senator Gray has
faith in the scheme is proved by his action
last week. He Is desperate. He must
make up somehow for his waning forces.
The rank and file are leaving bis party.
His was plurality party last November.
Since then his forces have lost heavily,
especially in this county. Where can he
get recrnits2 He believes that the colored
vote Is venal, as much so as his poor white
followers in Kent and Sussex. Hence he
proposes to get recruits from the colored
vote which has hitherto. with few corrupt
exceptions been solid for the Republican
party.
The colored man is naturally Republi-
can. Whether he follows his conscience or
is influenced by his pride he votes the Re-
publican ticket This is rational, natural,
and is acknowledged by the Democrats. It
is only where he has lost his self-respect,
his integrity, his will power and his pride
that be can be bribed to vote against the
Republican party. AS long as the name
Lincoln is remembered SO long will the
great mass of the colored men vote for Lin
coins party. It is honorable to do so from
the race point of view. 1t is dishonorable
to do the contrary. So they reason and
they are right. The laborer is worthy Of his
hire, and for. colored man to get place of
trust and honor and profit from the Repub-
ican party is natural and proper. 1t causes
no comment It is reward for honorable,
open service. But not SO is it when he
takes Office from the Democrats. The ques-
ton is instantly asked, what particular
piece Of rascality did that man perpetrate at
the last election?" what did he do for
his bribe2" Therefore, when Senator Hig.
gins found a place for colored man the
whole race felt honored. When Senator
Gray bestows such favor the whole race
feels shocked and humiliated. Fair and
and square, above board, manly work de
serves manly reward in white or colored
but no colored man, at least not in Della
ware, ever did such work for the Demo-
cratic party. Wiley Is therefore marked
man. He is suspected and degraded among
his own people and every man who particle
pated in the 'dear' is suspected of being
dishonest.
Brinkley and Salisbury ran the indie
pendent party" last year, which polled
thirtceen votes In this county, and they
brought Syphax q Co. here from Washing
ton to do the work. What that pair did,
their ignominious failure and their flight
are recalled by ALL But that work was at
tempted in the dark. syppax and his part
ner always sneaked up the alley from Ship
ley street and entered Willard Saulsbury,r
office through the rear window. The two
agents were kept hidden, in an obscure
boarding house while the sun shone and
only ventured abroad in the night. The
Democratic papers yociferously denied that
their party had any thing to do with the
movement But now the mask has
been cast of. It had to be cast off. for
the men who tried to do the work
then and who have pledged their
"honor'' 10 do it hereafter demand
ed recognition They wanted their
pay in advance. Etansbury J. Murray
wanted a license to sell whiskey and beer.
Dickey, Salisbury, Neary and others inn
portuned the court and as none of the rsce
had public house in the city the Chief
Justice relented. Murray has his license
and now he is at work for Dickey and Gray.
Hewanted to secure place for Brinckley,
but as an ex-editor and handy waiter,
Brinckley would not condescend to take q
laborer's place, however easy the toll
thereof might be. Hence they looked
further. They found the man in Elijah H.
Bird. of the Twelfth ward, colored youth
who can read and write but who can do
very little else. He was delegate to
the Republican State convention in April,
1892, and made himself ridiculous by cast
ing solitary vote for man for delegate to
the National Convention who did not want
the place and who did not thank Bird for
his vote. For this inexperienced asinine
proceeding he has been selected by Murray,
Dickey, Brinckley and Salisbury to serve
his country in place at Washington next
September. for which he is to get $72o.
Another Bird has fownl
What the Democratic workers of Will
mington will think of this new policy re-
mains to be seen. More than half Of
the men who made the fight for Cleye-
Land. George Gray and tariff reform. in
this city last year, are now out Of EN-
ployment lounging on street corners and
in beer saloons, and wondering when work
is to resume They have been working for
$12 or sl5 per week, working hard, but to.
day they would go to work at most any
thing, ten or twelve hours day, for that
many dollars or fewer per week. To these