Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-02-08
THOSE LOO Losr NAMES.

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| scssmont Lists Several Hundred More
Names Than Voted Last Election.
| All tie city and county assessors ere
prcsenlGt the Levy Court meeting Tuesday
| morning.
Their business was to hand in tho add
| tionnl names added to the city l;sts during
| the past week, and ON Appeal DAY" BY
the hundred assessors. The assessors prea-
ont were Charles Whann, Michael Conway
and john !. y Haru, for the city; W. FrehS
taylor, Sill Greek; Albert j. Swan, Red
Lion. John W. Dayett, Peneader; James Il.
David, B!gekbird; John ID. Stradlcy. Appo.
| quinminE; Alexander Molten, ST. Gcufges;
| Howard +. Lodge, Brandywine; james
Smyth, Christiaaa; Charles II. Cannon,
White Clay Creek; w. ]. Hunter New
Castle.
Tuesday is the commencement of the re.
vision OF the assessment of 1894 by the
Levy Court. The commissioners Will sit
for the remainder of the MONTH All citi-
gems have the right to appear and have
their property assessments corrected,
Next month. at the March sitting names
Will be added on application ON account of
poll taXables.
1t is understood that the city assessors
hgures. which are not footed up as yet will
show approximately the following add.
tlonal names: Third district, AS; Second
5Qi First, 80; total, COS.
Inc following bills were passed: Coroner
dogs, SG3.
A resolution was passed making pay
ments to the Delaware Construction Com
pany as follows For Taylor's bridge,
$500; for Fennimore's bridge $50;
magistrates and constables' account,
S546S4.
The shenffs account, Is, 757 days at 20
cents per day, S. 15l.40: less warrant 5000
already allowed; court charges, S3l0.79;
court officers, S2l0.42.
Court adjourned to Up. IN.
In the afternoon Mr.. Gallagher of
this hundred informed the court he had
in his hands u list df some 1000 nancs
OF persons alleged to have been loft of
the assessment lists of the First Will
mington district by Assessor O'Ilara.
MIR. Gallagher explained that the adj
ditions in that district made by MIR.
O'Hara during the appeal days of last
week would reduce the tota! Of 1000 to
about | 400. Mr.. Gallagher had received
the lists from the chairman of the First
district Republican committee who
claims to have made, through his agents,
the list from canvass OF the poll taxa
bles of the district and then compared
it with the lists hung up. Mr.. Gallagher
had no personal knowledge of the value
OF the list other than that the chairman
who presented it to him expressed his
own certainty that the additional LOO
names are bona fide residents of the dis
trict and that they are all left. off.
Mr.. Gallagher stated that in the First
ward there are about 100 colored poll
taxables, whereas but IS have been
assessed. He stated also that the Eighth
ward shows shortage OF 800. But he
added that the additional names put on
that ward by Mr. O'Hara during appeal
days will bring those figures down posi-
bly, 500.
WHAT THE OTHER SIDE SHOWS.
Mr.. O'Hara was seen by reporter
when the following was gathered: In
the First ward there are already over
200 more names than voted in the last
Presidential election, which means
natural increase of that number for
allowing for new men coming of age,
new residents, &c. The First ward
assessment of 1894 shows 900 in 1899
the registration was TIA and the vote
665.
In the Second ward the assessment of
this year was 1,400; in 1892 the regis
tration was 1887 and the vote 020, the
present assessment again allowing for
natural increase of 300 or 400.
In the Fourth ward the assessment
shows 1 400 for the present year. The
registration in 1899 was 995 and the
Presidential vote 0S4, again allowing
for generous natural increase OF 33@
per cent.
In the Eighth ward the assessment
this year was 1890, another big figure.
In the last Presidential election the reg
istration was 1871 and the vote 1897. |
And yet with all this addition, which is
in reality an extreme adding on of |
names, the First district Republican
committee want to load this district |
with 1000 additional names, less of |
course, those added during appeal days.
AS to the big assessments without ad- |
ditions in the Second and Third dis |
tricts, this is due to the fact that the |
assessors of those districts accepted the |
names submitted them by both party |
committees, placing such names on Re- |
publican and Democrats lists alike. |
Assessor O'Hara would accept neither |
Democratic nor Republican poll tax lists.
1t has been stated that the assessors in
Brandywine and Christiana left off
Democratic names by the wholesale
from the assessment of 1894. Two years
ago the Democraticparty leaders offered
to the Republican leaders to place
names from the Republican lists on the
First and Second districts if they in
turn would place the Democratic lists
on the Third district assessment But
the Republicans refused. Now, the
come and ask for mutual
as regards the First and
Second districts, an arrangement which
the Democrats did not decline.