Middletown transcript., 1896-02-15
THEIR FAIRNESS.

he has Ok ID his taxes and has the re-
ceipt and calls it a trick and is cross
about it. OF course under the head OF
Taxes he takes the prolific subject Of
the assessment laws which were made
to deprive the Republicans of their pc
litical rights" as he puts it, but Will ch
in reality were made to keep voters in
general from dodging their taxes every
other year thus depicting the County
| Treasures to that amount. Ii the edl-
tors party did the most doGging then
of course the law hit hard. 1t seems
Tat his party are artful dodgers as It
faauires some six or eight thousand
dollars in Kent and Sussex to keep
them from bumming the counties out
of their poll tax and from the delin'
ouent lists. The tender spot with the
/ brethern < that they have to pay tax
| TO vote. II .ile our worthy tax payer
is on the morality side of the question
won't he explain how so many coioreo
voters got on the assessment In tne
Republican Assessor district in Will
mington, and have him removed II
yuilty. as he had the grab salaries oi
the Wilmington Post Office employees
cut off. Action Is hardly to be expec'
ted as the Assessor is "hosS Of
another color. ."-Deldwdre Pilot.
The above is asample of the fairness
and honesty of the Democratic papers
ip Delaware. "a paper" refers to the
TRANSCRIPT, and our readers will re.
member that ths trick" consists in
the gross misspelling of the name. Nc
kindred Dounhan is not the name OF
the editor of this ,,aper. 1t is the name
written in bis tax receipt and with
such a receipt and tiie editor of the FL
lot as Registar he would not be allowed
to register and would thus be deprived
of his vote. 1t takes an ignorant man
combined with dishonest one to do
the business. They h.ys deprived
many Republican of his vote since
the passage Of the disfranch.sing as
sessment laws of 1873. We say the ed
jtor of the Pilot is politically dishonest
SO t.lat he would do the act we charge
because ht, Is dishonest enough to mis-
state the TACT as put by the TRAN
SCRIPT and to laugh at his ''smartness"
in SO doing. Is not that true?
Republicans do not object to the
poll tax, put they doobject to its use
by the party in power to disfranchise
them. If the payment of taxes is what
is wanted, the revenue, then allow a
man to pi y the taxes Of every other
year." along with tbs present year. Al
low man to pay for one, two or three
years as he may be delinquent and the
County Treasures would not be the
losers. As the law is now they are
the losers of the delinquent taxes and
the delinqIents are deprived of their
votes. That is the intention, and the
Pilot knows if, else the proposition
made by the Republicans to allow men
to pay delinquent taxes would have
been accepted by Democratic Legis-
lature. 1t is ridiculous to say it is the
money that is wanted when the law is
such that it refuses the taxes after a
brief period.
"Dodging" indesdl Were the four
teen Republicans of Dover "dodging"
when they followed Collector Powell
to Philadelphia and there rendered
him their taxes? He was lodging and
he kicked the money into the corridor
of the hotel and deprived the County
Treasury of the money rightly due it.
Does the Pilot justify the act? But
Powell did more-he robbed those
fourteen Republicans of their votes, as
he and his party friends intended. Does
the Pilot justify the ac;I 1t dare not
quote the TRANSCRIPT and answer. 1t
never dies quote mizquo tes.
Your "worthy tax payer" does not
know show so many colored votersgot
on the assessment in the Republican
Assessors district in Wilmington. 1t
seems that the assessor was but fol
lowing the example of his Democratic
predecessors and associates-a very
risky thing to do-and now according
to the law made expressly for Republi-
cans and interpreted against them by
a partisan court there is no way of
correcting the errors. We do not think
they are material since We now have
which we did not have
when the Democratic Assessors padded
the lists, still We think it is very un-
fortunate that the Levy Court has not
some discretion in the matter, but that
is the law and it is Democr tic, and
we suppose the people will have TO
stand it. The TRANSCRIPT cannot
rectify all the Democratic mistakes as
it did the Wilmington Post Office steal.
BY the way work is to begin on that
building soon and tie Democrats should
see that one only is appointed to sup
erintend the Job. Under Harrison one
man did It all but Senator Gray had
three men appointed to do the same
wolk. In the interest of economy the
Plot should here exert it's influence.
We have answered the Pilot candid
ly. Will it n W answer us? If the as
sessment law. are good, why were they
repealed in 1s9! to prevent their oper-
alton by Republicans and why re-an-
acted in 1893 yhea the Democrats came
into power agaii ? Is this "hoss of
another color?p
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