The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-01-14
THE SHAME or DELAWARE.
Plain Talk About yoie-BuyinG from
D~:stiaEuished CITIZEN of the State.

not IN n manner tnht - hRteeapie 10 oEo Wno
value. his citizenship In the State As l do. but
still. Is to the front.
The impartial e1 position Of election frauds in
Delaware which was made tho other day by
The SuS has In several ways been fully con-
nrmed by the State itself. not merely through
practical Examples by Its election officers. but
through its courts, its General Assembly, and It's
Governor. The Constitutional Convention. too.
has not failed tn add its testimony: for side BY
side with Judge Grubb's admirable disquisition
Oh the practice of the law (which purported.
however. to be u decision In respect to election
fraud In Kent county. there appeared In the
Morning Ners Mr.. Edward Bradford's elaoo-
rate project of constitutional restriction on the
practice Of the electoral bribery.
This universal admission OF electoral fraud
OF one kind or another In Delaware shows
that no one there 10 ignorant Of IL. But the
General Assembly. as II II feared that the re-
cent inability OF the courts OF Delaware to ind
one little way TO US. their power against cleo
toral fraud would not efficiently impress the
public that Delaw are was given over to this
sort OF thing. has added an entirely novel lin
Delaware, object lesson that fraud 10 good
politics" by seating in the House of Represen-
tatives one member from New Castle county
and seven members from Kent county who
were defeated ut the polls. and by organizing
the Senate under n temporary Speaker who was
never elected to that ONCE.
IL must make some OF the poor devils who
sell their votes In Kent and Sussex counties
envious TO see the "ase with which q po-
litical party can steal a whole county. and
the clect!on officers in New Castle county
who pursued the simple method Of subtractipg
ten or twenty votes from the candidate whom
they wished to defeat and adding them to
sI.c, ms, ,,r.rd ,h.m..,,.. :. ,.,,....ss
.,oIi,tc,.n.. 10 .om....o. ID. a.. ,,I--
and .b.m.le..n... .hor, 90 .,..in. ,,.a-n.n
iza,ion ~ m. Sal. S.,.,. CO.. 49, -
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.o,. .,,s..." n'
who ,,,.ia.. ,h. r..r,,. -, - $500 ..."n
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iudicion.
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ground for ..I,..,.m,n.,,on IN 49,.
y.rv n..rlr
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In, IN n.,.r 600, =. -. N.'N
li,ical Marty. -.nend,,. all ,hsm,n.v,h..,
has un, /" and than ho,riir, .ho,, ...-.--
and br,b.,v n, IN. noII. h.o.n.. ,s.s.'N
had mor- MONEY ,h.r :, s.s ". 49,
cannot be s,oppcd an Ion. ,. ali ro,,,,osI ns,u
II do M, r.,cr .,,r 80, 49,. S..s-.N"
snend ali IN. money a, .I.c,to, go, -.
can rai.e ana ,h., .,,r... ri. -
enuss ,ho J,d,s h., -, or.o, ,.m....
mora money thar Nh, has n, y. 80. -.
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ca, fals,,v ,h. s,.,.o, ,h. -, - 80
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with m npnitr . noro.,,,. ~. $50. 80,
~law-nakin0 BODY nv m.n,f.s, ,l.e.Ii,r, len
,nnunI,v so ,onr iii, orrnn,s,..
fraud prevail in DcI.w.r.
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acr..,hI. I'm, h.c.u.. : h.us..
,rpe Evervhody noI,,,ca, 9, Oh. S,.,.-
form himself and ac,paiIv oni, H.. -,
nrac,,cs. nj .,.. =, ,o,, -. -
ability In nnni.h tho lnown wronr :. -
,b.v are accp..d - .,.. n-.-.S. ii -
I..ner and a..n., into ~. b..
IL h,. already fallen ."m, ~.
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reunited 70 bav. ono. w,,,;,v ..td =, Hu,a.sNs,
I ncrec with him" thsv A.. hrr.r "a -.
time. bI,pt.a hum.r" "a 40 a. g., .au.I
cIans esp.c,.IIv nm .i.,,ion A., Th.,s -,
alwavs po man re.dv IN INV vo,.. .. 49,
struct or ae,pa, IN. vo,.r .nd y, o.
sifv IN, count 70 ,h.v GA, a, 40 lei
ont nunishmant Ana wh, No, - III.
~ onr cour,s o-,ani,.a .n.,i.rr ,.., 49,.
Enforcement n, law ,or ~. ..,.,r
,or,h. nro,n., 'u.'e'''
by men whom we would nil he Glad ~ h.,J.v.
are .bove Inc ,rnnsi,orv n,r,i,or n,.s,o,. -
moment canno, he asnend.d mon ,n nn,h
these scoundreI. nrav WHY .honnd -. ssan"
drels cease THAR work n o,r c,r,,. -.
they have fp, onror,n,,,v ~ 49,. -"
make n ulea IN m, nnhl,c 4, ora.r a.. -
not Ia pun,sh the men who deol. .,I t.Is,,r |
reverse our elec,ions tim. cans. % b. $500 >"
y w ~ pro-
become part and parcel OF the general ro,ten.
ness, why ,hould not political fraud and Will
ical swindling be as reputable as pre.chinc ,
sermon or running a bank?
If our courts are utterly unable In pro,ec, th,s
State in the honest use OF its organized noliti.
cul rights. and there las been n number n, ,m-
pressive examples OF this inability Of late ,o,h
in Wilmington and Ia Dover, then wbIther can
we look for relief and safety? great ,n.nv MAJ
sons seem to think that we can secure hal,
from constitutional provisions and statute law.