The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-08-15
The appointment of n Colored Federal
Omce-IIoider Creates Some Cone
uient.
From, tho Sunday



than Wiley will work, and none OF
them In these times will earn as much
money. How did 1t come about?
Why, there is another Big Four" in
town. They are A. Worthington
BrinJiley, Willard salisbury, Stuns.
bury j. Murray and John L. Dickey.
They did 1t. They started year ago
and organized the independent Re-
publican" party. The party peeled
thirteen votes last November i'll New
Castle County ut cost OF nearly Sl0O
a vote. But that was II starter. That
Senator Gray has faith In the scheme
lie proved by his action lust week. lie
is desperate. lie must make up some
how for his waning forces. Tho rank
and file are leaving his party. His
was plurality party last November.
Since then his forces have lost heavily,
especially in this county. Where can
he get recruitsY He believes that tie
colored vote Is venal. us much SO as
his poor white followers in Kent and
Sussex. Hence he proposes to get re.
crults from the colored vote which has
hitherto, with few corrupt excep-
tions been solid for the Republican
party.
The colored man lie naturally Re-
publican. Wherever he follows his
conscience OF Is influenced by his
pride he votes the Republican ticket.
This is rational, natural, and Is &C.
knowledged by the Democrats. 1t is
only where lie has lost his seif.respect.
his integrity, his will power and his
pride that he can be bribed to vote
against tine Republican party. As long
as the name Lincoln is remembered so
long will the great mass OF tho color
ed men vote for Lincoln's party. 1t Is
honorable to do SO from the race point
OF view.
It is dishonorable to do the contrary.
So they reason and they are right The
laDorer is worthy of his hire, and for I
culored man to get d place of trusI
and honor and profit from the Repub
iican party Is natural and proper. Il
causes no comment. IL is rewart
for honorable. open service. But mo-
so is II when he takes Office from the
democrats. The question is instantly
asked. what particular piece OF ras
cality did that man perpetrate at the
last electionY what did he do fol
this brihey'
Therefore, when Senator Higgins
found Il place for Il colored man the
whole race felt honored, When Sena'
tor Gray bestows such favor the
whole race feels shocked and huinili-
ated. Fair and square, aboYe-aboard,
manly work deserves manly reward in
white or colored; but no colored man,
at least not In Delaware, ever did such
work for the Democratic party. Wiley
is therefore a marked man. He is sus-
pected and degraded among his own
people and every man who partici-
pated IN the "deal' is suspected OF u
dishonest and ignoble transaction.
Brinckley and salisbury ran the"lB-
depenpent party last year, which poll
ed thirteen votes in this county, and
they brought Syphax * Company here
from Washington TO do tie work.
What that pair did their lgnominious
failure and their flight are recalled by
all. But that work was attempted in
the dark. Syphax and his partner al
ways sneaked up the alley from Ship
ley street and entered Willard Sauls-
bury's office through the rear window.
The two agents kept hidden were In
an obscure boarding house while the
sun shone, and only vontured abroad
in the night.
Democratic papers vociferously de-
MED that their party had anything to
do with the movement, But now the
mask has been cast of. 1t had to be
cast off, for he men who tried to dc
the work then and who have pledged
their honor" TO do it hereafter de
manded recognition. They wanted
their pay In advaace. Stansbury j.
Murray wanted license to sell wins
kew anu beer. Dickey, salisbury.
Seary and others importuned the
court, and as none OF the race had O
public house IN the city the Chief Jus
tice relented. Murray has his license
and now he Is at work for Diekey and
Gray. he wanted to secure n place
for BrlDekley, but as an ex-editor and
a handy writer Brinckley would moi
condescend to take Il jaborer's place
however easy the toll thereof might
be. Hence they looked further.
They found the man in Elijah II. Bird
OF the Twelfth ward, n colored you'll
who can read and write, but who Cal
do very little else. He was q delegate
to the Republican State convention in
April, 1892 and made himself lidicu
lous by casting solitary vote for Q
man for delegate to the National Con.
yention who did not want tho place
and who did not thank Bird for his
vote. For this inexperienced asinint
proceeding he has been selected by
Murray, hickey, Brinkley and Snuls
bury to serve his country in place a
Washington next September, FOL
which he Is to get $40. Another BirC
has flown,
What the Democratic workers o
Wilmington will think OF this ne7
policy remnlns to be seen. More thar
half of the men who made the figh
for Cleveland, George Gray and tariff
reform. in this city last year, are nov
out OF employment. lounging OF
street corners and in beer saloons, and
wondering when work is to resume
They have been working for $l2 OF
sis per week, working hard, but to-day
they would go to work at anything
ten or twelve hours a day, for thai
many dollars or fewer per week. T1
these political job would be u God.
send. 10 be set aside for four years
or more to give room to eolored meT
may or may not sweeten their dwin
ding dinners.
They will have the satisfaction, how
ever, OF remembering their success
last fall; and victory is sweet. They
elected Cleveland. They secured Ora
for SIX years more. and most OF Gray'i
relatives: and tariff reform is coming
So promised the President III his mes
sage of last Tuesday. These workers
exnlted by tho approaching success OF
tariff reform and happy that Bayard
and Gray and Dickey are provided for,
come what may, Will no doubt Use
their enforced idlenes5 now and next
winter to boost the democratic party
of Delaware in tho true old way. and
will defend tine appointments of Wiley
and Bird as having been necessary to
save their party.
OF course, there Is no reference here,
In to the 1900 special constables, the
men who. under an act OF tho Legisln
ture were brihed at tho rate OF 81
apiece to remain true to Cleveland aud
tariff reform. Those mon arc not IN
it. Senator Gray said SO himself. lie
refers to that transaction with disgust
and wrath. ''Oh, 10 was special con
stable" is the way real Democratic
workers refer to one OF the 1900, and
that dismisses him from further con
sideration or regard. Not one of that
lot will ever get an Office. They arc
regarded precisely as are the voters
from Sockum and other exclusive
Democratic communities. who never
vote without getting paid for IL. Sen
ator Gray would not like to exchange
this sort OF cattle Tor honest coloreG
voters.
1t will be curious, however. to watch
the gastronomic antics of those blue
nosed Wings who rushed into the
DemOcratlc stalls twenty years age
when the eoloted man WAS given his
right to vote. To escape "nlgger'
contamination they wailowed in al
the political filth known to modern
han Hare nuI lharh ana nj