Middletown transcript., 1895-11-09

| democratic constituents" and tax
payer. None of these constituents
pays tax. They are political dead
heads. Many of them do not know
where. the tax Office is. They have
never seen the Receiver of Taxes.
They have seen Dickey, the receipt dis.
tributor and the receipt buyer, but
Dickey the Tax Receiver, is an un-
known, a stranger, to them. Many OF
them were Especial constables," and
they know Willard Salisbury and also
are familiar with Bob Reynolds sigma
ture; but with Dickey's signature they
have not become familiar. To them
tax receipts mean nothing except one
vote. Receipts are left with them a
night or two before resistration, and
they manage to hold on to them until
after election. If they lose the re-
ceipts, it doesn't matter, for Mealey
can get them another one the next
time she happens at the Court House. I"
They vote as they are told, and Mealey
is trying to pay them for voting for
him by making the public believe that
the Market street bridge needs repair
ing. 1t would be an interesting ac-
count to throw up the cost of Market
street bridge from the day that Henry
D. Hickman was elected to the Levy
Court until the present day. 1t would
be the price Of three such bridges.
They say that Frank McCloskey,
clerk of the Depar: ment of Elections,
aspires to be Receiver OF Taxes of New
Castle county. This is folly. He can
not be nominated if Dickey is seeking
a denomination, and he cannot be
elected if he shall be nominated. No
man of his religious faith can be
elected to Office by the Democrats of
New Castle county. They will knife
the man, who ever he is. But it is all
idle speculation and a waste of pur-
pose for McCloskey to aim at the re-
ceivership. Dickey wants a third
term, and he will be renominated. No
Democrat in the county can beat
Dickey. That Dickey is aiming at a
reelection is evident from his plans
for the next year. He is selling all
the tax receipts asked for now. Repub-
licans have no trouble to pay their
taxes, excepting those whose names
have been left off in the Office Of the
Clerk of Peace. Dickey proposes to be
sociable and obliging for the rest of
tn is year, or as far as the duplicate for
1895, is concerned. Next year, how
ever, he will sing different tune. Un-
der the abominable law be is required
to sit here only about folty-five days
prior to any election, that is, during
July and about Eve days during each
of August, September, October and
November. Next year the election
comes off November 8, and hence he
will sit only two days in November
1896. But he is not going to depend
upon the shortness of the time which
he is compelled TO devote to receiving
taxes. His scheme is to mark off hun
dreds Of Republican taxes as paid and
then refuse, of course, to issue re-
ceipt when the men call whose taxes
have been thus fraudulently marked
off. He proposes absolutely to refuse
to grant duplicate" receipts, just as
he did last fall. This trick he played
last year on group of Brandywine
hundred Democrats who for reasons
best known to themselves had declared
to vote against the Democratic candi-
date for State Senate IN that hundred.
When they called for their receipts,
Dickey quietly told them that their
taxes had been paid. They had no re-
course, except the partisan courts, for
Dickey refused to give them "dupli-
cate" receipts. This is the scope Of
Dickey's campaign for 1896. OF course
it will get him INTO trouble, and Dickey
is not the man to run any risk of life
Or limb unless he is on the ticket him
SELF Therefore Brother McCloskey
might as well content himself with
the clerkship of the Department of
Elections.-"Republican Glasses in
the Star"