Smyrna times., 1894-10-10

CO-Op6IdIOI III buO 1lMES.
EDITOR HANDY is very solicitious
about the morals entering into Della
ware politics, or seems to be so with
the TIMES. He holds us as worse
than derelict because we do not attack
the use of money in a single man of
whom we know nothing, when so
many Others are working on the same
line, men with whose movements he is
familiar, while he has not a word to
say of the man who besides having the
money power of Tammany at his back,
went further and stole state. If the
editor has not the facts on which he is
silent, printed on his mind, and is as
careful for his own responsibility as he
for the responsibility of others, we
give him the information herewith |
taken from a New York paper:
This is not the first occasion when
Senator Hill has displayed his activity |
and resources as a political manager. |
PreOccupied with intrigue and diplo-
macy as he is to-day, he was even
buster during the winter of 1891, when
he employed all his official functions as
Governor of the State and ali his
talents as a political manager in ac-
complishing the theft of Senate to
which the people had elected eighteen
Republicans and fourteen Democrats.
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the machinery in motion for reversing
in four districts majorities ranging from
SO for Deane to 1870 for Sherwood;
when Hinkley and Maynard instructed
the Democratic Board of Supervisors
of Dutchess County TO count out Deane
and to send the false Mylod return to
Albany; when conspirscies were
| formed in the three other districts for
| Juggling with the returns and electing
candidates who were Enthusiastically de-
feated when Republican county
clerks were removed by the Governor
for refusing to violate their oaths by
certifying to the correctness of returns
which they knew to be false; when
| their places were filled with creatures
who would take their orders from the
| Albany machine rather than the
Supreme Court; when an extraordinary
session of court was held in Syracuse
to prevent interference with the count
ing out of Peck, and political justics
who could be depended upon to issue
stays and to paralyze the action of up
right associates were bundled about
from district to district; when the true
returns from XVIII District, which
Justice Barnard had positively ordered
to be made out in accordance with
: the vote cast, and which Justice
Cullen had directed to be trans
mitted to Albany, were taken by Hink-
ley's creature Emans from the offices
of the Governor, the Secretary of State
and the Controller in defiance of law
and the authOrsty of the Supreme
Court; and when the State Board OF
Canvassers, as the final act in this cam
paign of outrage, deprived three Re-
/ publican Senators of their seats and
; declared fourth to be ineligible, thus
: enabling the Democracy to obtain
absolute control of the Legislature.
David B. Hill "bedevilled the whole
r conspiracy" as THE Brooklyn Eagle
! democratic, has tersely summed up the
case. AS Governor of the State be
employed his power of removal and
appointment of county clerks and his
r privilege of transferring justices from
a one district to another in order t.
= facilitate election fraud and the re-
versal of the will of the people.
Rev. J. A. B. Wilson, who is high
authority with some, and who figured
largely at the Inauguration of Gov
Reynolds, said Sunday in his chxrch
Eighteenth street, New York, il
y speaking of the work of the Lexoy
committee:
r In my hour at the investigation
u heard much evidence read upon which
If officers we're convicted, and l notice,
It that all the officers who were subject
n of inquiry during my stay denied
under oath the charges againss them
but upon trial in each case the eVi
y denee was sufficient to convict them O
f. the offences, which ran from clubbin,
To- to crimes unnamable. Yet the uni
form penalty seemed to be fines G
- three or more days pay, and the
D. these per, urers and scoundrels wer
t. again turned loose upon the commu
nifty as conservators of its peace an
&. quiet.
" And the Mayor of this city, with th
ie power Of appointment so outrageousl
O. abused, must have the power at leas
ct to protest against such malfeasance i
- Office. But has any one heard of
= protest from him concerning thes
" wrongs upon the city by the creature
be of his creation? If not, why notP
ic Look, my people, to these men
,b high places, who from poverty ant
- obscurity grow suddenly rich withor
al any visible means of support exceT
81, their salaries, and tell me is it not tim
y, to find out where they got it. w
of owe it to God, to the municipality, [
or the ambitious young people about u
VI to make this kind of thing odious. A
NJ the great work of DR.. Parkhurst an
all the investigation of the Lexo
tn Committee wilphe lost if it fails
-, awaken Indignation white hot agains
y these abuses and against the Gu
le' throats and robbers who fatten upo
e- perjury and blAckmail.
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