The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-12-05
POLITICAL NOTES.


a Candidate and Then Elect
Him-The Reason Why the
County Taxes were Easy to Pay
The County Treasury Low
No Money to Pay Bills With
Punish All Guilty Persons
Caught Tampering With the
Election Returns-Othcr Po-
litical Notes.
The question has been asked us more
than u dozen times lately, who are you &C.
ing to advocute for Mayor of the City Of
Wilningtony We have answered that
we have no preference Any good Re
publican will suit us.
We have heard the name Of Charles
Baird suggested for the position.
We endorse the suggestion and would
say that Mr.. Baird would mako n first
class Mayor. He might not suit the poll
ticians, but we think he would the major
ity OF the voters oil the city OF Whining
ton.
We doa't believe the position will go a
begging but that candidates galore will
rise up, like mushrooms after II fall rain.
The woods arc full Of candidates who
would like to serve the city as Mayor for
Two years AZ IL yearly salary of sl)0D.
The Democrats have thought that tic
Hon. William Frederick Callsey, Of Mil
ford, Sussex county, would make an ey-
cellent u. S. Senator. We have no doubt
Of Mr. CauScy's Democracy and ability,
but we don't think he will take the seat in
the U. :. Senate made vacant by ex Senator
Anthony Higgins That is, not in 1897.
No Republican body will seat u Democrat
from Delaware who presents his creden-
tialS from Legislature hat was elected
by fraud. Such political crimes us steal.
ing Legislature will find no favor in the
eyes q thu Republicans in the coming
Congress
If j. Frank Alice, is seated in the Scr-
ate, he will In all probability be eletl d
speaker.
The physical condition of Governor
elect Ebe W Tunnel, i said to be worse
than his friends care for the public to
know anything about. That he Is sick
man is beyond question Notwithstanding
all reports to the contrary. He has been
ailing now for some time, and his conGi-
tiun At times has been very alarming.
Senator Robert Handy and John Pyle
met on the street yesterday and shook
hands. There was nothing significant in
the fact, bat said the genial Brandywne
Hundred Senator with II wink in his
right eve: They say Pyle and Handy Il o
two OF tho 'Ornrle'' ""aScS in the iSenats
But "tO the reporter)' don't you print that
in your paper" 1t is said that the two
Senators can't be led around by tho noses
as men would like to lead them. That
they are Of an uncertain quantity, they
can't be controlled by the wire pullcrs in
Wilmington or Kent county,
There is no excuse whatever for The
manner in which tie Democrats havo at
tempted to justify themselves before the
court in their attempted notification of
the Republican voters of Kent County.
If men We're bribod why not have those
men arrested, aud probably the courts
would deal differently with them, than
they have thus far with Democrats who
stuffed the ballot boxes and altered their
tally sheets, and thrown out ballots on
every triiling prGtcXt under the sun, in
New Castle County.
1t Is easy enough now to see why all
taxes were received this fall at the tax
Office.
Thn, county treasury was low, in fact
very low. The drain made on it to pay
quite Il snug sum, and left the treasury so
low that tho Levy Court refuses to pass
bills, because there Is no money in hand
to pay them.
The Legislature which meets in January
will be asked TO help tho Levy Court out
of their financial dilemma.
The cost Of holding the election in New
Castle county is something enormous,
The cost OF printing the official ballots in
the newspapers will run up in the hun
dreds. 1t was published in every paper in
the city with the exception Of the REpUB-
LICAN and Sunday Herald. 1t remains
now to be seen whether the Levy Court
will pay the bills. They have the right,
but will they do it?
Said a prominent young Republican
lawyer to the writer of this column, the
Republicans of Wilmington intend to
make u protest against the manner in
which the Kent county delegates were dis
posed of by the Constitutional COnven-
tion Said he it looks as if Messrs. Spru-
anCc and Bradford had not the success Of
the Republican party at heart in the man
ner in which they fell in and acquiesced
with every thing done by the Democrats.
1hey appear to be only Interested in per.
sonal success Of themselves and no one
else.
If the Kent County matter was disposed
OF a' these men COnUented for then the
Senate would be Democratic and the
Democrats would pass some of the most
obnoxious laws ever yet placed upon our
statute book.