The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-10-31
POLITICAL NOTES.

The Single Takers say they will Gerry
the Seventh and Eighth wards I'd Nell
'icket. Tho next thing they VIII bo
claiming, will be the State of DelGWoee,
and tho election of their Governed d,
Slaughter, Then maybe won't they retail
iate on tho Democrats who had the Single
Takers placed In jail. FREQ speech MiS
lhen have full swing in overy bown IN
Delaware. Did 1t ever occur to you shat
thcy will have q long wait before they
| elect u GOVERNOR
] The writer was told by one OF the
Police Commissioners that there would III
no special police officers appointed on elec4
ton day
Tho whole police force will be on dutrL
1t looks US II no deputy u s. Marshals
| would be needed to DO appointed by Mar
| shall Lannan.
While Washington Hastings was nah
] Ing his speech last evening Mt the Opera
House he read several aflidavts upo1
which he was interrupted by Chns Ewing
who asked tho speaker whose names wef9
slgneu to them. Mr.. Hastings stoned
reading and replied, none of your btst
moss" 1t Is said tho nllllavits were sigh,
oh by men named Laliey, Gibbons, and
Walls. Washington Hastings pitched
into Addicks, and for II wonder he did not
say much against Congressman Willis.
1t is a great secret ballot when 1t needs
u voters ASSISTANT 10 INSTRUCT q man now
to cast hi. ballot.
This Is the so.callcd Australian secret
ballot law. The law should be repealed at
the next session OF tho legislature. Tho
printing of the sample ballots in New Cas-.
tic County will cost the tax payers sonic
three thousand dollars. There never was
such an expensive pieco Of election ma
chlhery devised and put in execution as
tho present cumbersome and costly Aus.
traIlan ballot law. There Is nothing SO.
crot about It, except, perhaps the expenses
E: election commissioners, The old fash.
ion t5~i pocket ticket was the simplest
and moro u = secret ballot .hnn tho prcs!
ont hand bills a voter + caleb Upon to
handle 20 cast his vote.
Why all this scramble to have voters as.
s!stant by each party, If this Australian
ballot Is such a secret ono
The sound money party, the Single Tas
party and the Prohibltiunists have al
much right to have n voters assistant as
either Of the old parties.
Tho cry Is now that Alhirk5' has no
money, before IL has been charged that la
had corrupted the voters Of Delaware, with
the long green. What would Delaware
politics be without Aid.cks' and the
money he is s9il TO disbu"s2 d9ya THO
: ato Even Bob Houston coull toll sonis
thing of tho amount Of money that has.
beun sent into Sussex County, by the
Wilmington Republicans, where ii has
been used in years back, to do the most
good amongst the Democratic nuaters.
Thv Democrats have become virtuous
by necessity. They have no money to-
spend on their 1loatcr5 and the Democratic
papers led by the old woman at Fifth and
>hipley streets, have been raising reg
ular hallabaloo over tho fact that boodlert
and hiihcrs should DO arrested and placed
in jail. How many prominent Democrats
III Kent and Sussex Counties would have
been placed behind tho prison bars ifthd
virtuyus siasn Lad developed sooner2
They aic.hard.
The Auditorium WAS filled last evening
to hear Senator Bacon Of Georgia. speak
on free silver. Peter j. Ford acted as
chairman, The meeting was very on
lhusiastic ono and Mr.. Bacon cxpounded
the beauties Of living under silver laws.
Over five thousand paper flags will be
used in the business Mems parade this
evening.
Tho story has been going thu rounds
OF til" press Of Delaware, that while tho
Kent County Court was il scs sion at
Dover this week. Bcniah Watson sec urod
y mnnaamu' against the registrars OF
'itt!o Greek bundled to show cause why
tho names Of II Republicans should not
be restored to the liat Tho answers Of tho
registrars was that they had been restored
The story goes that the registrars could
not get any lawyers in Dover to represent
them In their mlnGamu5 prucae.lia IS and
that on that account an Indignant meot-
Ing WAS held at Lcipsic, Of Democrats and
that they decided that if n lawyer came he
would be thrown into Ducl; Creek
Howell ). Eng land win address a Demo.
cratic meeting at lloCkcaain, On Monday
evening.
T9,ni4ht L. Irving Handy will address
the Democrats at IIOckcssin.
Howell :, England spoke for free silver
at the rooms CT tho Manning Library, LASH
evening.