Middletown transcript., 1896-01-04
PAYING TAXES.


dicks man this morning, ssthat before
Mr.. Addicks was called upon to supply
the money necessary to pay the taxes
of Republican delinquents in Kent and
Sussex counties Colonel Henry A. du
Pont, ex-senator Higgins and other
prominent Republicans were called
upon, asked to subscribe, and refused.
The Addicks check for Sc, 200 has been
drawn and forwarded. o-Ex.
The above is one of the stories so in
dustriousIy set afloat by Addicks and
his followers through the subsidized
Democratic press. 1t contains one
falsehood and possibly two but that
only heightens the pleasure with which
it is circulated by the political pirates.
They know the value of their stock in
trade-lying. The "prominent'Repub
licans" named were not called upon to
subscribe TO a fund for the payment of
taxes, hence they did not refuse to sub
scribe. No one can name the man or
men WHO called upon them, as thev
have not an existence, but the lie is
given out, it has done its work, and its
authors are ready for the next. Who
can put their trust in such people?
The possible falsehood is that Mr..
Addicks has not forwarded" any
check for the payment oftaxes, or if
be has it was forwarded" not TO he
used as no one has heard of the use OF
any of the money for the payment OF
taxes. 1t is one of Addicks cheap ad-
vertising schemes, and cost him Eoth-
ing, or SO it appears at the present. and
sucE is his character. He established
a bureau for the payment of taxes in
the city of Wilmington, which was
seven days wonder and then vanished.
The Addicks men are paying no taxes
in Wilmington now and many of his
Iieutenants are feeling sore at his ap
parent desertion of them haying en-.
listed them as followers. Every
man who has inclinations TO Ad-
dicksism had best count well the cost
before he casts in his lot with political
traitors.
But of the payment of taxes by party
Workersl The Democratic press raises
howl of Indignation that Republican
committeeman should interest them
selves in the payment of taxes of fellow
Republicans, while they know that the
Democratic officials of the State and |
unity beginning will. the assessors ard |
going through the several channels to |
the collectors, attend to this work for
their party, submitting their lists to
party leaders and workers, where they |
do not ''carry" the men to the loss of |
the county treasury and furnish them |
tax receipts on which to vote for which |
the county receives nothing. This is |
done for the Democratic Party by men |
who are paid out of the public funds. 1t |
Is not because the hypocritical Demo-
cratic press would guard the ballot box
but that its party may win victory by |
the tax receipt machinery. Every county |
in this State has lost thousands of dol
lars in taxes, not collected from Demo-
Gratis, since the abominable assessment
laws of 1873 went into effect. There
has been enough lost and covered up to
pay every cent of Indebtedness of the
State and counties and to relieve the
people Of present oppressive taxation,
But few days ago young man in
Middletown asserted in one of the ho-
tells that he had never paid cent of
tax in his life but that be had tax
receipt given him and he voted the
Democratic ticket. There are hun
dreds of such cases.
"But it is bribery to pay taxes of
party followers!' And it is robbery to
deprive men Of their votes by means Of
party machinery, and robbery is worse
than bribery. When "Zeke Cooper
took Tax Collector Powell to Philadel-
phia and hid him in hotel that pro-
fessor in the Conference Academy and
other Republicans might be deprived
of their votes, to prevent their paying
a tax to the county, he was guilty of
crime, If not legal crime, a moral
crime. for the equal of which better
citizens have suffered years of impris-
He hopes to be nominated
for Congress for such party service.
His is but one instance of hundreds.
We have no grievance against Mr..
Cooper but our assertions are true and
the truth needs to be told. The Re-
publicans have asked for fair assess
ment and collection laws, and have
them in the General Assembly,
n 1889 and again last winter, only to
have them defeated by the Democrats.
In fact when the Republicans came
into power in Sussex and shared the
power in Kent, the Democratic Lpgis-
lature of 1891 repealed the odious as
sessmena laws that they might not be
used against them, and in 1898, having
come into power, they re-enacted them.
In New Castle county, having lost the
Levy Court, they abolished it and SO
1istricted the county that though the
Republicans have a majority of over a
,housi nd the machinery rests with the
Democrats. No fair minded man, it
matters not what his politics, can
Justify such actions. No paper in the
State can justify it; no paper will at
tt npt il.
This is the period for the payment Of
axes to qualify for the election next