Smyrna times., 1894-11-14
The State of Delaware Redeemed
Correspondence to Smyrna Times

correspondence to Smyrna Times.
FOR about thirty years the Demooroo,
0i delaware have controlled the Stotc
1hey have elected during that ti,oo c.
governors DIR. Cove SauIshnrv Ioo .ol
Fonder, Charles Stocklev. Jobn %
Cochran, John W. Hall Ranionoiu N
GG.ks9 ana robert J. Reynolds. The
VrsE usI. republican governor elected was
WIlham Cannon, who had been q
prominent Democrat up to the firinS
on Fort Sumter, when like manv otbos
lVyal democrats, seeing the dislovoI
~ elenent OF their party drifting into
reoelllon and secession renounced oil
connection with that party and Ioinad
WIN the Republicans to battIa 81
Vnem Tor the preservation of the CON-
stitutlon and union of the States
!, Ane representatives of the State -
Tue congress of the United States go -
since the close of the rebelIion b'I,o
uniformly been Democrats. with Sau
exceptions, as we'll also the LagisIo.,'u"e
ana s all the county officers have 49,
.u uIleu Oy Democrats, and bv reason of
.io leaueTs and managers of the nart,,
AZ: a: eVeFy election working up the nrain.
uices OF the ignorant white votars H..
suOutlng negro equality and negro chjI
uTeh TO be admitted to the Distriot
schools and other clap-trap dod0es ~
ReIner with the free use of boodIa IT,,
nave succeeded in holding the DoliticaI |
control of Delaware.
Ou can fool all the DeOnle a nor.
OF the time, and you can fool a part of
the people all the time, but Won can't
TOOL all the people all the timem wos
wise remark made by the lamento5
President Abraham Lincoln. which -
not only true, but which has he's
tio sny verified by the last elec-
t,on' me people of Delaware have
ooeh 0adly fooled during the last tbirtv
p eaIs Oy the ringsters and leaders of the
party, whose only princinles
auu oDJect was Office and the control.
meht thereof, and it may be truthfnIIv
sIaCeu that an honest election and fair
count has not been held in the STAT
lurlng that period of time. Some tricE
,r scheme has been practised bv the
assessors, the Levy Courts Of the
'TunSies' or the Tax Collector bv
Nnlcn suhcient number of qualified I
,oCers were disfranchised by them m
laVe ~, Che election to the Democratic G
ne last election which 1t was thougbt
vas yS sufficiently guarded by requiring 4
VI legal voters to be registered, theree
" protecting them in their right of
ranchise. was by some Of the rin0ster
awyers dastardlY violated by directino
he Registrars, in several hundreds ~ :,
Cent county to remove from the Rsoj y
trar's books about 100 legal voters s.; a n
rder to secure the election m IN - %
democrats which was done AS 'ns
Ihen a mandamus was applied for n9 a9
bly, argued by lawyers Beni. NieIds aIu
Tathanlel Smithers and Antbonv 9I.'
ins, the decision of the court woa
srse to ordering the names that ts au,
een illegally and wrongfulIv str;oiu nau n
ON the Registrars books restoraJ en- ~ n.
was by all fair-minded men haI;o as 'u
Iould have been done. But uuevea ou yea
ldges declined to grant a man5a.he .he
hich would have compeIIed .n,
egistrars to restore the names =, me
'teFs, which, bad it been done vo I1e
we given the county to the Rauia
an electors. The writer Ia nft fpuo- tiol