Middletown transcript., 1893-08-19

to colored men may or may not sweeien
their dwindling dinners. They will have
the satisfaction, however, of remembering
their success last fall; and victory is sweet.
They elected Cleveland. They secured
Gray for six years more, and most OF
Grays relatives; and tariff reform is COM
ing. So promised the President is his mes
sage last Tuesday. These workers ex-
alted by the approaching success OF
tariff reform and happy that Bayard,
and Gray and Dickey are pro-
vided for, come what may, will no
doubt use their enforced idleness now
and next winter to boost the Democratic
party of Delaware in the true old way,
and will defend the appointments of Wiley
and Bird as having been necessary to save
their party. of course, there is no reference
herein to the 1900 special constables, the
men who. under an act of the Legislature,
were bribed at the rate of $l5 apiece to re-
main true to Cleveland and tariff reform.
| Those men are not in it. Senator Gray
said 50 himself He refers to that transac-
ton with disgust aud wrath. "0h, he was
special constable" is the contemptuous
wa real Democratic workers refer to one
of the 1900, and that dismisses him from
further consideration or regard. Not one OF.
that lot will ever get an office. They are
regarded precisely as are the voters from
sockum and other exclusive Democratic
communities, who never vote without get
ting paid for it. Senator Gray would no
doubt like to exchange this sort OF cattle
for honest colored voters.
1t will be curious however, to watch
the gastronomic antics Of those blue-nosed
Wings who rushed into the Democratic
stalls twenty years ago when the coiored
man was given his right to vote. To es-
cape "nigger' contamination they wal
lowed in all the political filth known to
modern Democracy. Here and there one
of them, like "Tom" Holcomb, got to the
trough. Then the waIlowing could be
tolerated. But the others, when their
nausea at their new surroundings became
painful, following the advice Of Willard
Salisbury. the Great, would shout niger,
.nigeer,'' ssniggerl" Straightway their
stomachs we're settled. Now. when they
wallow-and the Democratic filth is deep-
ening-what remedy will they seek?
VIII Senator Gaay also remember Andrew
Horsey, Isaac Carly, Jack Parker. Ike An
derson and the rest OF the colored gamblers
who worked SO hard for Dickey last fall? Or
must these men be content with their inn
nunity from arrest for gambling, or IL they
get caught and are sent to New Castle
through the watchfuIness Of Republican
City Solicitor, will the usual pardon BY
Governor Reynolds be sufficient equiva-
lent for their votes and their work? Here
we have the true touch stone ef-a colored
Democracy. Stansbury J. Murray goes
into the saloon business and straightway
true to his trade he begins to turn out
Democrats. Take away black mans
integrity. make gambler, drunkard or a
thief of him, and he is more than ready to
vote for Democracy. 1t is the criminal
class, the men who have been bailed by
Dickey and pardoned by Reynolds, who are
the constituency Of Wiley and Bird, and
for whose votes Gray is playing.
Frank Temple is Senator Gray's messen-
ger at Washington. The other white Demo-
crat who holds place at the Capitol is Bob
Rosenbaum from Georgetown. Both used
to be tavern keepers. II there is any
"busted'' saloon keeper in this city or New
Castle, now is his time The man who can
make cocktail, but is without job, can
have one by applying to the gray & Causey
Intelligence Bureau, Washington, D. G.
Prohibitionists, especially those who en-
abled the Democrats to carry this state last
fall by means of small plurality need not
apply.