Milford chronicle., 1895-04-26

The Every Evening objects to on.
daring to condem the bill now pend
ing in the Legislature ito proyid,
for the secrecy and purity of the
ballot" The voters assistants, at
the law now stands.are sworn not tc
divulge anything that may take place
in the booths,-not to tell anybody
how anybody else votes,-not to
think again, as it were, of what took
place behind the scenes on election
day If this law has been violated
by any assistant of whatever party
he should be prosecuted and con-
victed and punished. 1t would not
be much of task for any man to
find the evidence to convict, if there
were men with courage enough to
push the thing. OF course the law
has been violated, but the reason for
it is plain. Both parties haYe Sc
lected men as voters assistants who
have no other claim to the honor but
dishonor They almost invariably
select men who are supposed to be
not above letting their party work
ers know just how each man has
voted. The voters assistant is a
very valuable election officer, but the
party leaders who say who shall act
in this capacity deserve to be con-
demned for they are the ones
responsible, indirectly, for the viola
ton of the oaths taken by the voters
assistants. Ifhonest men,-men who
honor and respect Their oaths,-men
who are fair and square, and God |
fearing and God loving were Sc.
lected as voters assistants, there
would not be any complaint to make
on this score,--there would not be
any reason now for asking the Leg
islature for a new bill. For full
twenty years the dominant party in
this State was satisfied with the law
Of seventy-three. They could under
It's provisions, carry the State every
lime with whatever majority they
desired. The new law has not proved
o them what they anticipated, -
hey cannot manipulate things as of
they are correspondingly !
The illiterate of both par i
les need assistance in marking their c
'allots. II Republicans fail to mark
DIRECTLY and Democrats do likewise, :
re very much fear the Republicans
lould be the losers in the count. We
rant to see every man in the State :
f Delaware, who is a citizen over =
wenty-one years of age, vote once p
nd have that vote fairly counted. a
/ has not been so in this State al
-ays, and we very much doubt its =
eing so even at the last election to
nder the present law. Kent county st
emocrats are hard to catch in their in
1litical tricks, and we are not even =,
wv inclined to accept the Demo. til
attic victory in Kent last Fall. If til
ere was not fraud in Kent that Al
.pt the county from the Republi- w
ms, then we are very much de- W
ived indeed. There is less fraud TIL
w however than ever before. No da
after what laws may be passed
ere always has been, and always IA IA
Il be, way to evade the laws pro &c,
sions,-a way for the dominant
rty to win by fraud. If the Dem !
rats OF the State had even once ing
their history in this State, been no .
nsistent, the time might now be ing
len the Republicans could trust Dor
Fir honesty, but as they are invar- ans ans
,ly inconsistent.-saying one thing i
/ doing the opposite, crying for the
nest elections and then laboring ore
Int and day in devising means to cast
l by fraud are not inclined Of t
have any confidence in their pro- /
sions of reformation. The pro- fere
Ied bill will open the way to Dem r
ats whereby they can have the be
alliance of reason for casting out This
ldreds of votes as effectively feloi
mped. Or course any man of men men
intelligence can distinguish the n ~,
erence between a pillow, an eagle pure
a house, but it is not ploRs. cleo
les or houses that we are voting.
present law is defective only as
as the people make it defective NJ,
electing the wrong men as voters yalul
stants. We know that there is that
as much fraud under its proyis- WI WI
as formerly,-it is the best law ''era
people have voted under since as it
now obsolete constitution was pelie
oted, and we think in this case i'reis
discretion is the better part of uon {
r, and the law had much better aid a. a.
ain as it is secol
the present members of the rebel
ware Legislature, had, each of BY Or
i, the brains of Clay or Web me Ell
the political experience of a field
d B. Hill OF John T. Dickey. and {.
! apologies to DAVID and the iudgH
,st desire for pure elections)?) diers
resident Cleyeland, still they 5sl q
not be equal to the task. OF IN ii tbe
ing an election law that the av- cooler
crossroads Delaware Demo- month
politician could not and would mons mo q
anage to use for and in the in rades,
of his own party ohleee
repeat what we said last week, Elect Ssl sn y
he bill should be defeated bv stand /