The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-03-18

Fat Offices Who Want 10 Draw
Their Pay from the State Treas
ury--Don't Think His Hat
WouldFit Mayor Jeffe ris-Why
Not do Away with Future City
Electionsl 1t might be Tried
The act to create public printer fol
\ Delaware Is sleeping, but our readers may
expect to have 1t sprung on them at any
time, and another office crea.ed to help
/. loot the State Treasury.
The bill which had been fathered by
Gam Adams to place the primarils of the
two parties in the hands of three repre.
eentatives from the Democratic and Re
I publican party, has struck a snag and
Z powerful opposition has sprung IN
against Its passage by the Legislature.
The men who visited Dover on Tuesday
IN opposition to its becoming law are
opposed to having the men who shall con
brol the affairs of the primaries of their
Z respective parties, named in the bill
They say they are not opposed to the
A bill Itself but the bill should be so amend.
I'd that the men should be elected at The
next city election. 1t remains now to be
seen who have the biggest pull down nc
Dover, the projectors of the bill or these
who are opposed to it, There is no doubt
but that some law should be passed that
would protect the ballot boxes at the pri.
maries and put stop to the nomination
Of certain cliques who undertake to con-
tfol the primaries without regard to VIII at
y the people want and set their votes aside
at their will. Such bull DOING tactic,
have more than once brought defeat upon
the ra.ies which have INDUCED in them
In our city.
The best men or those receiving the
+ most votes have not always been the men
1 who have been put up on the election day
Y by the men who control the affairs of the
X different parties. Ballot boxes have been
\ stuffed and the result of the vote when
counted has been so juggled that tho low.
est man has been given the nomination be.
cause he could be handled by the party
managers. The game Of politics is u good
one but, like horse nowadays, the
4 best man don't always win-nether does
tho fastest nag
There is considerable opposition to the
bill which apparently nobody has yet had
the nerve to father, which ex Representa-
tive John 4. Dickey introduced In the
House almost as soon as he had taken his
seat in that body postponing the city
election eighteen months from June 9TH
next, thereby extending the time of all
the city officers and the term of the May
or Nearly every city officer has been
down to Dover and has used his best en-
deavors to have the bill passed. We
should think the Legislature would go
very slow with it, as it will have a tenden.
cy to do more harm than good.
The Legislature has tendency to do the
very thing they are 50 bitterly COndemning
the members Of the Constitutional Con.
vention for doing. They should give the
people chance to govern themselves But
! ibis would be doing something that Ger.
lain pot house politicians in this city
would call damnabe.
The bill to create several additional Of
Ices at the expense of the manufactures,
who already have as much on their
shoulders As they can bear, to be known
Rs boiler inspectors, has again made its
appearance in the Legislature This makes
ne second bill Of its kind, the first being
pigeonholed. Protests f:om all over the
State came by every mail against this pro-
posed bill. 1t should be killed
II the Legislature postpones the city
election until December 1898, the next
Legislature two years hence, can Just as
yell postpone 1t for two years more and
20 on Indefinitely thus saving the city
Beveral thousand dollars in holding any
future elections.
Last evening two well known gentle
pen met on certain street in our city,
and began banterng each other about
Sehelr chances for the Mayorality, when
enc of them Il doctor residing in the west
IN part OF the city, said on an alluson
leing made to his new Fedora hat: 'Oh,
bis hat would not fit Mayor ,Jefers; at
east he would not even try it on il he
knew who had worn it." He was not
baking through his hat either by good
ways.
We hope the Legislature will soon get
through passing divorce bills and laying
but certain roads in Sockum. changing
Che Christian names Of individuals and
other minor matters of no Importance to
che public, and get down to business and
adjourn. They have done nothing worth
drawing their salaries for and tho Stats
would be be- ter off if they met only once
every ten years.
The Senate sent back to the House the
bill cutting down the claims in. the
Cheairs-Dckey contest. one of the At.
n torneys having written to Senator Pyle
That he would rather take nothing for
his claim than rhe amount allowed in the
bill which the Senate was asked to con.
cur in Law generally comes high, but
Enc Dill OF the attorneys is said to be- un
reasonable.
Senator Tillman got n frigid reception
at the hands of the Democrats on II visit
TO our city to make one of his Silver
Speeches on Monday evening last. Not
single Democratic Representative was on
hand to give him the glad hand Josiah
\ Marvel and one or two others were con.
kspicuous at the small gathering at the
Auditorium.
1T must have sent a chill down the Sen.
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