Evening journal., 1896-11-30
THE PENINSULA PRESS.
WHAT THE DELAWARE AND
EASTERN SHORE EDITORS ARE
THINKING OF.


EASTERN SHORE EDITORS ARE
THINKING or.
The question Of ballot reform is agi-
tating the residents of Kent and Sus-
sex counties, and we may also add
New Castle county IT is admitted by
gold men that a change is needed, and
badly too. The present system was
intended to make our elections clean
as far as bribery and intimidation. but
it has failed. Note-buying is about on
the same footing, If not worse than
other years.-Delaware Ledger
The convention to frame n new Con-
stitutiOn for Delaware Will meet i'm
Dover next Tuesday and unfortunately
the election Of the delegation from
Kent county is still in dispute. 1t will
be misfortune If the delegates from
New Castle and Sussex have to pass
upon the eligibility of the Kent county
contestants, since the matter would
probably partake more or less of part
isanship. Such, however, is the situ-
alton, and such it will be unless the
courts settle the matter before Decem-
Der 1.-Middletown Transcript.
Illinois gave Mckinley a majority
but she counted nearly 250OO0 more
votes than She has male citizens above
p to do it.-Seaford News.
There is certainly good law in the
reasoning of Judge Crubb, and a de-
cision in accordance with it would have
put an end to the case. That it was
correct seems afterwards to have been
acknowledged by both the Republican
counsel and the majority Of the court
for consent was asked for and granted
TO amend the proceedings so as TO
make the sheriff one of the parties,
thus acknowledging that it was neces-
sary to be dOne.-Delaware Democrat.
by the use of money not only the
Democratic party was to be beaten.
but the real intelligence and manhood
of the Republican party was to be de-
feated. What was petit larceny in
1894 was intended to be the theft of a
state through wholesale bribery in
1896, and all for the benefit OF one man
through his money. While bribery is
wholly indefensible, and so recognized
by moral laws and legal statutes. there
are various degrees of the crime; Just
as there is between manslaughter and
deliberate murder; petit larceny and
grand arceny.-Milford News and Ad-
vertiser.
A proposed change in our Constim-
tion that should receive the serious
consideration of the Constitutional
| Convention that is to assemble in
/ Dover next week is with respect to
/ the character of the vote necessary to
/ carry bill or joint resolution through
/ either branch of the General Assembly
/ Under the prevailing system, a bare
majority of those present, (prOvidod
always, that a quorum is present anC
/ yoting) is sufficient to pass any bill on
joint resolution excepting acts of in.
corporation, for which, under the
! present Constitution, a two-thirds vote
in each house is required II snouIC
/ be provided that the votes of q ma.
Jority of the fun membership in eacl
branch shall be necessary TO the pas
sage of a bill or resolution and no
allow the votes of a majority of a mere
quorum to prove efective.-Eye
Evening.
Take the Constitution of Delawar,
and read il carefully. Note the chang
which should be made, and discuss IN,
points with neighbors and friends
and, when this has given a continuit,
Of thought on any point. give it to tn
public through the medium of th
local papers. Consider the advantages
or disadvantages, of an elective judi
ciary; of district representation; o
changes in the present method of levy
ing and collecting the taxes and TIA
great reforms necessary in our prisoi
system. All these subjects should b
intensely interesting to every citizel
with the best interests of Delawar
and himself at heart.-Milford Chroni
Gle.
The after election reports in regar
TO the wholesale selling of their fran
chise by the electors Of Sussex is Of S
stupendous a character as to almos
stagger belief If these reports were no
supported by reliable testimony an
statistics. The degradation of the pub
lie conscience and sapping Of the mora