The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-01-26

Inc three republican Presidential cleo
tors from our State. Messrs Shaw, vii
son and Fooks, have presented petition
TO Congress asking for Federal invest,
CATION. They charge in their petition
that through illegal and fraudulent action
. majority Of about 500 Republican votes
IN Kent county had been changed into a
Democratic majority of about 200. A
paper was also presented by Mr. Burrows,
signed by the Speaker of the Senate"
and the Speaker of the House, " asserting
that Legislators chosen by the peol lie were
eyicted from the State capitol and the
powers of the State government usurped
by corrupt oligarchy. The memorial
was referred to the Committee on Priyi-
leges and Elections. 1t begins to look as
II the Senate would take especial pains to
make some official inquiry into the meth
DDS adopted in Delaware by the Democratic
party during the past thirty years. There
Is no doubt but such an inquiry Is needed
and it would be the means of ending the
disgraceful counting process used by the
Democratic party when they find they
have been defeated at the polls. The
counter charges they have been making
Of mems votes being purchased, is all
nonsense. That's an old chestnut down
In Kent and Sussex counties and the
de noorat party has been engaged in the
traffic in votes for SO many years, that they
have forgotten that they ever were the
party that started this disgraceful means
OF Keeping themselves in power by pur.
chasing the votes of men in their midst
who thought more of dollar than of their
manhood, All official investigation
should, by all means be ordered by Con.
gress and the whole vote in Delaware re.
counted. Then surely some men would
be put in jail. Let us have the count.
EVANGELIST @. Fenwck Reed of Terre
Hante, while holding revival services IN
the First Methodist Chucch, in Shelby.
vile, Ind, made use of such remarkable
language in trying to make converts to
Christ, that he was requested to make an
apology to the congregation. He made
use OF the following expressions, which,
If true, the shelbyvillo people did not like
to hear stranger tell them Of it:
"Shelbyvllle is bad town. Ono of the
worst towns outside of hell.
Its government is not in the hands of
men, but of automatons.
There must be in the 1900 who are mem.
-bers of this church some stinking car
casses.
There are churches in ShelbyvilIe which
are walking hand in hand with the devil
and encouraging or permitting their young
people to dance and play cards If they
don't face about, and that soon, they will
march hand in hand with Satan into hell
The residents Of this community are
blessed with the luxury Of natural gas for
tuel, but / would advise the gas company,
In digging new wells, not to go too deep,
as hell is less than fifty miles away and
she drill would only give Satan an 0ppor.
tunity to swallow them"
1t is needless to say that this evangelist
failed to do any good for the cause Of
Christ in that city. lie impaired his use
fnln"s1 by telling the people what was
ploba pIy the truth hut he told 1t in too
plain way to suit the Shebyvllle people
OH''A"o. II Is saiu' contains some ten
e'ou'ahu starving 'hhaolt"ht5 and Mayor
Swift has called upon those vino have been
blessed with superabmudancc Of this
word goods, to come forward and help
&c l ard Gothic the poor. lie also suggests
shat the churches all over the city should
be thrown open during the week to give
shelter TO those homeless and too poor to
buy fuel to keep them warm during this
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