Middletown transcript., 1896-09-12

ventions; but when it comes to electing
Stayton and Dickey to The General AS
sembly, even by the help of Addicks, it
can't be done. When the voters Of
New Castle county learn of the stupen-
dous job y contemplated in Stayton's 8
election, they win spew out the Whole
Democratic crowd, Dickey, Stayton,
| Addicks and the rest Of them.
While the managers here are COM
| pleting the arrangements by which
they hope to carry this county. the
Democratic leaders of Kent are giving
to the public, as too good to keep lon
ger, the contemplate plot to steal
Kent county again, just as they did in
1894. There, according to P. Neary's
figures, they have dfsfranchised $50
Democrats who sold themselves to Ad-
dicks two years ago for S25 head.
John F. Salisbury is credited with
Matching the scheme. It was John F.
and his friend James L. WOlcott who
debauched these $50 men and thou
sand more Of them, all of them fellow
Democrats, if not 'snoble, honest yeo-
men, during the twenty years through
which they worked and fought toget-
her and against each other in Kent
county; and now after they have taken
all the moral sentiment and sense of
shame out of these men, so that they
are ready to vote for anybody and any
thing for money, they put their heads
together and disfranchise them. This
is the logical outcome of political me-
thods in Kent, "Republicans Glas-
ses" prophesied years ago that the time
would come when the human chattel
of Kent would have to be disfranchised
in order to get rid of the vile incubus.
1t has come now but not through hon.
est and legal effort to purify the bal
lot, but through dishonest, illegal and
sneaking trickery in order that one set
of scoundrels may have greater advan-
tages, if less money, than another set
of scoundrels. The official figures fur
nished " Republican Glasses I" by the
agents who carried the cash there, place
the Kent county corruption fund for
1894 at the enormous sum of So, 900. Of |
this the Addicks party furnished $1,000 |
more than thew olcott party. This money |
was applied to the purchase of about |
1,700 so-called men. Addicks secured |
700 of them and Wolcott 1000. VOL
colt had the advantage, in that l, 500 |
of these men call themselves Demo-
Gratis, and preferred to vote that tick
ct. Wolcott's agent could secure a
so-called Democrat for S. less than Ad-
dicks agents could buy them. The
average price of woes reached nearly
$50, and as high as $50 was paid for
one vote. An average of $50 would
show that about $4,000 we're paid out
to the chattel voters, which leaves
S15, 900 unaccounted for, except upon
the well-known principle that butter
sticks to the knife. The workers"
$4,000. This year the
workers." regarding it as the last
chance, will undoubtedly embezzle
still more. Addicks talks of spending
BLOC, 900 in the two bwer counties; if
he does his workers will work no
mole thereafter. They will all be
Independent" and will be Put upon
he assessment books in the future as
gentlemen.
1t is the smell Of all this Kent county
'carrion'' that makes the vultures of
This city turn towards Addicksism.
The migration is not enough to cloud
he Republican sky, but the flock is
;hick enough to arouse the public con-
science. Men are beginning to ask:
lis New Castle county to be debaushed .
Is Kent is?" ''Are men to be bought
~ the hundreds and thousands here as
hey are in KeniS" Republicans and |
Democrats alike are asking these ques-
ions. Ministers of the Gospel, law
7ers, doctors, merchants, workingmen,
md all classes of men and women are
skiing about it. This is a healthy
ign. This is the beginning of the end.
rhe Democrats of Kent boastfully ex-
;laim: "We'K crush. .Addicks." Yes. |,
nd the honest, self-Iespecting and pa. {
riotic men and women of the State '
will crush both Addicks and the Kent
Democratic leaders. Vote buying has
cached its limit in Delaware. 1t will {
9 tried again this year, but it will be t
he last time. II the courts of justice i
re not strong enough to deal effective
with this crime, other courts will be
ut into their place. A new constitu- !,
ION is coming, aud the foremost OBJ
,ct of its creation is the roofing out !
yote-buying. The evil is doomed T
nd its apostles are doomed with it. A
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