Smyrna times., 1896-12-02

During his Thanksgiving sermon in
st. Andrews Episcopal Church, Will
mington, Thanksgiving, Rev. Charles E.
Murray declared that the country
should be thankful that repudiaton
had been defeated. The remarks dis
pleased Judge David T. Marvel, Law
yer James w. Ponder and dozen other
prominent Democrats, and they walk
ed out of the church. Judge Marvel
said it was not in disapproval Of the
triumph of sound money that he left,
but he was opposed to violent political
denunciatiOns from the pulpit.
FEMALE SUFFRAGE.-Thefir first annual
convention of the Equal Suffrage As
sociatiOn of Delaware convened in the
New Century Club house on Friday
afternoon was we'll attended. The la
dies comprising this association, think
the people would be made better by
them having the right to vote as the
men, They suggest the necessity of
getting an equal suffrage clause inserted
in the new Constitution, which will be
framed in Dover in December. Mrs.
A. G. Quigley denied that women
would neglect their homes if given the
right of equal suffrage and voice in
government. Miss Margaret S. Hilles
brought greeting from the W. G. T. U.
and said that organization was closely
allied with the equal suffrage move
ment, and is teaching the women how
when they are granted that privilege.
Miss Ellen Price made an address on
Woman as a School Director.
WANT WOULD RESULT FROM JUDGE
GRUBB's ENDORSEMENT OF POLITICAL
THETA Wilmington cotemporary
has the following in reference to the
attempt to steal Kent county:
Hair splitting, which Judge Grubb
tried last week when he dissented from
the decision of the rest OF the court,
will not save it. The ten Democrats of
Kent, if seated, will dishOnor and de-
feat the whole project. 1t may be the
Democratic scheme to defeat reform
altogether. Judge Grubb and his pO-
litical associates did defeat it in 1888,
and again in 1887. They probably
hope to beat it again. Let them do it.
1t will come up again at the next cleo
tion, and the efforts at defeat will Op-
crate only like the damning up of a
mighty torrent. The higher the dam,
the bigger and mightier the rush when
the break comes, and breaks always
follow such bourbon efforts. Trickery
won't deprive the people of Delaware
of a new constitution, 1t merely
serves to put off the day of reckoning,
or lengthen the score, and to make the
settlement all the more sweeping.
A bought delegation is less degrad-
ing to the State than a stolen one.
There have been bought delegations
before. The members of the Demo
cratic delegation of Kent have among
them several notorious vote buyers. In
politics nearly everything is bought
and sold in Kent. To the vice of buy
ing votes the Kent Democrats have
added that of stealing votes. By that
theft they propose to control the Con-
stitutional Convention and the Legis-
lature 1t won't work. Both the con-
vention and the General Assembly
would thousand times better be brok-
en- up than allow either to go through
the farce of legislation by means OF
such Instruments. J. Frank Alice
will sit in the next Senate, or there
won't be a State Sanate. This is the
time to call a halt. No man with a
spark of patriotism in him can submit
to such condition of things. No man
who cares for his State can submit tC
it. Unless a halt is made there will be
no use for elections in the future.
Every election will be stolen.