Middletown transcript., 1894-11-24
PHARISAICAL PRATING,
by the Governor:
JOHN d. HAWKINS,
Secretary of State.


Ever since the Wilmington Every
Evening has been paper, it has been
an uncompromising supporter of the
Democratic party and its methods, no
matter what those methods were. That
paper has never in single instance,
been the one to criticize single one of
the numerous outrages upon the rights
of citizens, committed by the registra-
tion officers in the State of Delaware,
from time to time, and more particu-
larly the crowning infamy per-
petrated by Hardcastle and others,
in Kent county.
That paper has never been able to
discover any thing wrong in John
Dickey's administration of the tax
office, Notwithstanding the notorious
fact that that Office is in daily
use as means of carrying on system
of the most scandalous wrongs ever
perpetrated upon the rights of citi-
zens of New Castle county, and that,
too, with the consent and knowledge
of the leaders of his party. During
the recent campaign, it was an every
day occurrence that citizens went to
Dickey's office to pay their taxes, and
were met with the response that their
tax had been paid to persons unknown,
and when those citizens demanded
duplicate tax receipt, as the law pro-
yides, such receipt was invariably re-
fused them, and thus scores Of Re.,ub-
licans, simply because they were Re-
publicans, lost their right to vote, be-
cause this scoundrel, who is being
paid out of the pockets of those very
people, as public servant, betrayed
the trust reposed in him, and con-
spired with other such men as himself,
in authority in the Democratic party, to
defraud them, and to steal from them
the most sacred right of American citi-
zenship, in order that he and his pals
might, forsooth, still further plunder
them. And so high-handed did Dickey
act in these matters, that he was
waited on by William Hilles, Esq.,,
and Herbert H. Ward, Esq, in
company with the Chairman of |
the New Castle County Republican
Committee, for the purpose of learning
whether or not this officer was open
to an honest appeal to conscience. His
attention was directed to the require
ments of the law in the premises, land he
there and then promised those gentle
men that he would accede to their re.
quest. and when M. B. Burris handed |
him list of over 40 citizens, whom he
had refused to permit to pay their
taxes, and also refused to give them
duplicate receipts, he promised that
gentleman, there and then, on his
word of honor, that he would give
him duplicate receipt for each one of
the parties entitled to them in time for
the coming election. All effort on the
part Of Mr.. Burris to see Mr.. Dickey
after that was in vain; he was never in
his office, and those forty men, and
scores of others in like condition lost
their votes.
The outrage at Port Penn Of throw
ing out ninety-one ballots, meets with
no disapproval Of any leading Demo- {
crat or Democratic journal, so far as
to give open expression against the
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