Smyrna times., 1896-12-09
Sunday School Workers Organized.

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Union was formally organized on
Monday ut a meeting held i'll the
Methodist Church, and the following
officers elected: President, Mrs. John
FL. Hoffecker; Vice President, Mrs.
James w. Anthony, Secretary q. b.
Taylor; Treasurer, l.. NJ. Price.
Mrs. Lottie I. BrOcksOn, of Black
bird, was present and though not
knowing what was expected of her, and
consequently without special prepara-
tion, gave a Normal lesson on the Old
Testament and suggestive exposition
of the next Sunday School lesson in
the international series. Arrange
ments have been made whereby Mrs.
BrocksOn will continue to meet the
Union until further notice on each Fri
day evening, Christmas day excepted,
at 7.30, when she will give a thirty
minute Normal lesson on the New
Testament, thirty minutes study of
the next Sundays lesson, and thirty
minutes to Sunday School science.
There can be no question but that such
study from its practical character will
be very helpful to every teacher, and
the fee being merely nominal, not to
exceed ten cents per member each
opens wide the door of opportunity to
all who are willing. The meetings
are to be held alternately in the MethO-
dist and Presbyterian Churches, and
all interested in Bible study or Sunday
School work are welcome.
THE SITUATION IN DELAWARE The
| Daily RepubiicdH i'll noting the escape
of the Inspectors who altered the re-
turns i'll Wilmington and the action of
the Court in Kent County etc. says:
The Democratic party has been a
law unto itself in Delaware, and the
| leaders through the aid of rascally cleo
| tiOn officers, have carried things with a
| high hand. 1t is time a halt was called
or blood shed may yet result from the
| South Carolina methods of conducting
elections in our State. The people are
not going to tamely submit for all time
to come, to the rascally work of a few
| Democratic heelers and tOughs, who
undertake to make the returns suit
their notion and political preferences.
The course of the Republicans in the
Constitutional Convention is not meet
ing the approval of the Republicans
who voted for them. If they remained
true to their party and principle, theI
they would not sit i'll the Convention
as it has been organized
They were most desirOus of admit
ing five Republicans and five Demo
cratic delegates from Kent County
While John d. Hawkins, James L.
Wolcott and John F. Salisbury con
tended for all ten of the Kent Count,
delegates, the Convention though
other wise and through the advice Of
John Biggs, the Republicans were giveI
five delegates. We have cOntendeC
that if five Republicans were erected
that ten of them were. This is moth
ing more than cOmpOunding a felony
and the sooner men are punished fol
their political crimes in our State, tn
better it will be for its good name.
The Republicans in Kent County ar
worked up to a high pitch of excite
ment.
1t is no wonder that they should be
with faulty indictments drawn agains
the men who have debauched the ballo
box and run the election to suit them
selves.
There is evidently plenty of law, bu
not much justice in our State, as ad
Ininistered by our courts, when pOliti
cal crimes are committed. The who'll
affair is treated as huge joke by tn
men who were indicted charged wit
altering their tally sheets. They wer
promised immunity from punishment
Thus far they have been protecte,
from the result of their evil acts.
Woodward w. Chears, of Delawar
City, who was counted out by tn
, eleven Democratic Inspectors ha
filled notice with John T. Dickey tina
he will contest his seat i'll the Genera
Assembly.
There is something rotten to tn
> core with our present election system
! The Democratic papers are now cryin
out that new mode of conducting th
2 elections shall be tried. With reason
able hope of capturing both branche
4 of the Legislature such laws will b
passed, that it will be next to imposs
BILE for the Republicans to carry til
state in the next twenty years.
This is the unhappy muddle that
t now staring the Republicans of DELI
: ware in the face. How do our peOpl
a like it? Surely their must be som
r redress somewhere if not at the hand
t of our courts.
Laws we have in plenty but justiC
is at discount in our State.