Smyrna times., 1896-08-19

A11EGED SPEAK-EAsY RAIDED.-De-
tectives Witsil and McVey went to
IRON Hill race track Thursday and
o,.rosted julius Pronhagen, Harry
whitehead, William Mullock and a
colored man named George Stevens,
on the charge of selling liquor without
a license. They were taken before
Magistrate Sasse, and each waived
hearing and was held in $500 bail to
answer at the upper court. The men
were arrested on the Delaware side of
the line, at place where beer was
kept on ice and dispensed to the peo-
pie at the races.
The Farmers Institute of New Cas-
tie county was held at Brandywine |
Springs on Thursday. The farmers
came in carriages from all directions
and by three o'clock some eight hun
dred persons were ON the grounds. |
They were a we'll dressed and we'll |
fed looking crowd, and appeared as if |
their particular farms had paid better |
than s per cent. on the investment. The |
gathering was a representative one OF
the farmers of New Castle county.
Speeches were made by John G. Hig-
gins, Mrs. Annie Comstock of New
York, and George T. Powell, of Ghent,
Ny
A letter has been presented by Frank
Stephens, head of the Democratic Cen
tral Association of Philadelphia, and
Col. H. Martin Williams, clerk of the
Missouri Legislature, who went on
from Dover, for that purpose, to Hon.
James X. Jones, chairman of the Dem
Ocratic National Committee. 1t gives
statement of the troubles of the Del
aware Single Tax Men and alleges that
their arrest and Imprisonment is an
effort of anti-Bryan Democrats to
punish them because they favor the
election of the Democratic nominee.
The letter urges Senator Jones to
favor the selection of true Bryan cleo
tors in Delaware, who will stand by
the Single Takers.
To THE SoUND-MONEY DEMOCRATS OF
DELAWARE. .-EUery Evening of Fri
day had the following call: Mr.. John
S. Rossell of this city has received
letter from Hon. W. D. Bynum of In
dianapolis, chairman of the executive
committee of the National Democratic
party, requesting him to take steps to-
wards organizing the sOund-mOney
Democrats of Delaware, with view to
securing their representation, through
accredited delegates, at the convention
of the National Democratic party, to
be held in indianapolis on Wednes-
day, September 2nd. All sOund-mOney
Democrats throughout the State are
requested to at once communicate with
Mr.. ROssell giving their names and
be made for an organization and the
holding of State convention for the
selection of national delegates. We
hope that the response to this nOtitica-
ton will be prompt and earnest. The
time has arrived for sound-money
Democrats to come out boldly for the
true Democratic faith that is in them.
Delaware Democrats should be well
represented at the Indianapolis conven-
ton.
MUST STAY IN JAIL.-In the United
States Circuit Court Judge Wales
handed down his decision in the case
of the Single Takers and Sheriff Shaw
of Dover. In the case of James j.
Haggerty of Wilmington, the court
said it was simply its duty to decide
the committing magistrate had the au'
thority to send the petitioner to jail
3 The court held that he had the power
, and dismissed the petition and commit
d ted the petitioner to the care of tht
sheriff. In the case of Stephenson thu
court said that inasmuch as the peti
: toner had been released from jai
u since the argument a decision woult
. be of no practical use.
One week previous they were give
=, decision by the chancellor of the Stat
of Delaware. That decision and tn
one given by Judge Wales in the Uni
ted States Court yesterday agree
u Chancellor Nicholson said: The judg
+ ment is regular on the face and in aC
cordance with the charter of the town
u Judge Wales in the concluding POI
IL ton of his decision, said: My duty
simply to decide whether the cOmmi
es ting magistrate had the authority
u the jurisdiction-to try the petitione
and my decision is that he hat
n Here we have in both these decision
is a declaration by eminent legal authO
w ity, that the action of the Dover iu
tice was in accordance with the cha
ter of the town of Dover. The Sing
Tax men have now had two answers
ID their claim that the arrest, ining al
u Imprisonment of their speakers VI
l. unconstitutional, upon which poi
ell Judge Wales further declared: 1 a
IL by no means convinced that sectiC
Oh seventeen of the Dover charter, in
eh operation, has deprived the petition
of his liberty without due process
th law"
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