Middletown transcript., 1896-11-21

Of Delaware as every well-informed
man knows. It is just as true Of Ken
lucky, Tennessee, Virginia and {
| number Of other States. What does il
meanP How long can our government,
stand such strainp
AS between Delaware Republican.
it appears to US that the Union Repub-
lican papers have uncorked double bet.
| ties of their wrath since the election
and they are widening the party breach
every issue. Not satisfied with the
harm that papers within the State can
do, the politicians with Quay's aid
have prompted the Philadelphia SIN.
quirer. to attack all those who would
not enlist under the Union Republican
banner. The incentive was that Sena-
tor Higgins's name had been mentioned
by people without the State in connec-
tion with the Mckinley administration.
In line with the Union Republican pa
pers in this State which refuse to give
the public any but their side and then
In the most exaggerated form, the SIN
quirer" refused space to Edward G..
Bradford, Esqr., for brief article an
swering that papers attack. Not only
was the article refused but a second
attack was made. All this indicates
the warmth of the feeling of the poll
ticians in the State, and there are
those who say every second Delawar-
can is a politician.
But the feeling grows more bitter
over the Kent county situation. The
Union Republicans before the election,
said they did not want the aid of Re-
publicans in Kent and Sussex, ridicul-
ing their strength, and now they are
by the boycott and other semi civilized
methods trying to make life miserable
for the men who could not conscien-
tiously vote with them-in some COM
munities. We are glad 1t Is not true
everywhere. And then Democrats and
Democratic papers have come out
boldly as apologists for the action of
the Kent county Inspectors in their
efforts to steal the election there. They
justify the taking the law in their own
hands on the ground that votes we're
bought at the election, a crime of
which their party has been guilty for
nearly or quite half century. An ex-
Chancellor, an ex-Representative in
Congress and other men of position
and prominence take this view, merely
because the spoils are at stake. It can
be nothing else. A State official from
Sussex recently said to Middletown
gentleman, "We are going to have
war'' and with some of the papers COW
ertly advocating blood shed it looks as
though the Sussex gentleman may be
prophet on small scale. 1t Is all dis
graceful and q shame to our State.
The light ahead comes from our
courts. There is prospect that the at
tempt to count out Sheriff Finn will
be punished in this county. On Thurs
day the Superior Court at called
session in Dover. after hearing argu-
ments, ordered that the Returning
Board of Kent county shall assemble
on Monday next and canvas the re-
turns or that the Inspectors shall give
answer to the court on Tuesday next
showing cause why they have not done
SO. This is a heating process for the
offenders against the law but it is
right. And moreover it put them in
the position of deciding to do or not to
do their duty. The three weeks for re-
Election since the election may have
wrought a change of mind in the men
who would be the sufferers personally
though it appears to have made the
leaders, the seekers after the big loaves
and fishes, but the more determined.
Political matters are growing warmer
and since fire refnes it is to be hoped
they sha II get warmed up to the puri-
flying point.