The Wilmington daily Republican., 1895-05-14
Rpnsns OF VIrtue.

Inc Every Evening appears to be greatly
grieved because the Legislature failed to
pass the bill to prevent fraud and corrup.
tlon practices at slectlons,p yet 1t has
not word to say against the assessors
and tax collectors, whose villalnous prac
ticss for the past thirty years. in conuec.
tion with fraud and bribery, made 1t pos.
sible for the Demo party to carry
the State, and monopolIze the olllcss and
make our laws. For several successive
sessions OF the Legislature there was not
Republican representative In that body
and scarcely Republican office holder in
the State, and consequently the Democrats
enacted such laws as suited them. but we
never heard ofsuy one to prevent bribery
and preserve tho purity OF our esc tlons
although the members were fully CON.
sclous that through the purchase of votes
both Kent and Sussex were made solid
for the Democrats. ....
Instead OF the. enactment Of laws to pre-.
serve the purity OF the ballot box, laws
were enacted to enable assessors and col
leotors to disfranchise hundreds and
thousands OF citizens and these latter day
deinn their Infamous conduct Assessors
refused to assess, collectors declined to
eollect and the members o. the Levy
Court threw every obstacle In the way of
men who wished to have their names
placed on the assessment lists. 1t re-
quired something like n battle royal to
lualify to vote, and yet the Every Even
Ing wac cumb as sheep before its shear.
srs' while the most OF the outrages were
being practiosd. If 1t uttered word in
condemnation 1t made no continued ap-
peal to awaken the Democratic consoI-
fnce in order to Insure full voto and
lair count and the Acknowledgement mill
IN con nection with The use oil money
continued In full blast. In order TO swell
the Democratic vote. and make the State
iold for the party.
As soon us the Republicans got control
sf the Levy Court, that body was legisla =.
ted out of existence and the County gerry.
wandered In such away as to render it al. g..
most impossible for tho Republicans to
get control of the new body created with.
Duta political revulslon llttls short of a
revolution.
such usgrpatIon is, lntolerable. and yet
The Republicans have peaceably submitted
fyen when 1t seemed almost as II further
submission was impossible. Our fathers
reVolted at the exactIens OF England, that
were but little more oppressive, and vet
our people were too busy with their mul.
titudlnous duties TO resent the out.
RACES being practlced. We think the time
has now come that these same Democrats
should have the gall and worm wo cd
pressed to their lips, End we trus that
Republicans Will vote Tor tho candidates
nominated by their party until these
ntne Democrats shall ackno wledge their
.rrots and YlIlalny, au1 do works mest
'or repentance.
we trust Republicans will rally under
lAeir own lag, support their own standard
bearers and let these latter day saints"
see that they understand their own rights
anu dars to defend th5m We do not
want four more years OF Grover any
more thaE We want victory by any por-
lion OF that party which helped him to
Introduce 4 policy that bighted our in.
hustrles and brought poverty TO millions
Of our people. .