Middletown transcript., 1894-09-08
POLITICAL MATTERS.

PVLlTlGAL MATTEkN,
How Things Look Through the Reput
lican Glasses in the Sunday Star.
Republican Glasses in commenting upo
Mr.. Bancroft says among the other yer
interesting things:
He left the Republican partya quartz
ofa century ago because of wounded van
ity, and it was vanity which led him int
his present trap. His campaign thus far
which involved trip to Europe. has cos
more than he would receive as member o
Congress for a year, and before he get,
done with Pat Neary's campaign he viii
pay out more dollars than he would re
ceive in ten years of Congressional service
1t was Dickey who told John P. Donahoe
that Bancroft would, if elected, turn his
salary into the treasury Of the Democratic
County Committee. 1t was Bayard, spur.
red by an all consuming ambition to re-
turn to the Senate, that selected Bancroft
as the man who is to pay the piper for this
dance. Greater cupidity than Bayards
and greater folly than Bancroft's were
never seen in Delaware politics. 1t Is per-
haps the most preposterous nomination
ever made in this State. 1t will end in the
most corrupt campaign within the mem
ory Of the Delaware man, and that is say
ing great deal. Clubs of kickers are be-
ing organised. for they know that they
will all be bought off before November
next. 1t will not stop with the Tenth
Ward Tammany," but every ward and
even the hundreds in this county will see
its group ofgroups of Independent" DEM
ocrats who will all have to be '.seen" be.
fore election. Not only will Bancroft be
called upon for money with which to buy
the 1,5O0 Democrats Of Kent who never
vote without fee, but he will be bled to
keep his party solid in this county. Po-
litical bribery will run riot. Such is the
scheme concocted by Neary, Dickey and
Willard Salisbury, and Bancroft The pays
the freight"
The independent Colored Man" raises
his hired head in Kent county this time.
Willard Salisbury got his fill of him two
years ago; when in a conspiracy with
Messrs. Syphax and Howell, he organized
the Independent Colored Republican
Party" in this county. The Salisbury
Howell-Syphax ticket polled thirteen
votes, which cost the Sugar Trust exactly
s100 apiece, according to the statement of
3 Wilmington Democrat in high party
standing. The movement has been shifted
from the rear window of Willard Sauls-
ourY's law Office to the subceller of "Zeke"
Joopers 'speak-easy" at Dover. The
author of 1894 movement is not the gram
natical A. Worthington Brinckley, but
he is an imported statesman whose name
will be given later. This fellow is school
eacher in Kent, but few years ago he was
me Of Chairman Harrity's trusted agents
n Pennsylvania. As a reward for his SER
'ice in that state Harrity got him an ap-
in post Office. From there he
rent to a Pennsylvania penitentiary for
aking what belonged to others. After
erving his term he was directed to Della |
ware as man who could organize colored
Democratic Clubs. A Democratic County |
gave him a certificate and |
ther Democrats found him q school to |
each. He was not long in getting in with |
Zeke" Cooper, and now he is on easy terms
nth Chancellor Wolcott and Governor
reynolds. The Governor, who has fond
ess for convicts, finds this man especially
This man, by Cooper's
ssistance. got out an address last week to |
be colored people of Delawore, to which
'ere attached the names of four we'll
nown colored men, including three minis
ers Of the Christian religion. The owner
+ one of these names, who resides in this
ity. the Rev. Charles II. Jefferson, prompt
: denied that he had given either his name
r his consent to the address, and thus it is
1own that forgery has been resorted to by
,e Democrats who got it up aed published
!. No doubt, the other alleged signers
ave Slnlldr expose 10 make.
A petition to the Republican State Con-
sntion, which is the basis of this address
nd which is all entirely proper and rea-
'nable paper, barring the fact that it too
as gotten up in Dover's noted speak
lsy," asked for better educational facili-
es. That the Republican party will af-
rd these improved opportunities nobody
oubts. Every honest colored man in the
ate accepts that as naturally as he breaths
eats, or sleeps. The petition, however,
as not proper matter to be added to a
.rty platform, and therefore it was not
ided on August 21. Since the colored
hools have been taken out of the hands
the Actuary, they have been put into
'litics, as is everything in sight by the
fosters and heelers who now rule Della
are. They even tried to put the NJ. E.
1urch into politics and the Rev. "Jab"
'ilson conspired with Governor Reynolds
I'd "Zeke" Cooper to do that very thing. |
he schools for the colored children will
J taken out of politics. they will be fur
shed with better school houses and with
achers. The colored children will be
pplied all over the State with as good
Iucational facilities in separate buildings
the white children enjoy. This is what ,
% out of every 1000 colored men in the i
ate are asking; this is right and just and,
i'd this much and no mere will be done. I
It may be said in reference to the kick.
g of the Evening Journal against the
animation of Neary and Dickey that
hen thieves fall out and fight honest
en- stand some chance of getting their 9
vn. 1t
REPUBLICAN, PRIMARIES.
The Republican party will hold nomina- !,
IN election to-day throughout New 8
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