Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-05-20
SINGLE TAX NOMINATIONS.


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The Single Takers met on Thursday
and adopted a platform and nominated
a city ticket. The ticket is as follows:
For Mayor-Charles Beadenkopf
For President OF City COUNCILMAN
drew F. Nelson.
For CITY Treasurer Mullin.
All the above live in the Fifth ward.
The nomination for city solicitor was
left open.
The following councilmapic nomi-
nations were reported:
First ward. Charles E. Smith !;
Second, Daniel r. Dallas: Seventh.
David McCloskey; Eighth, John II.
Coverdale; Ninth, Abel Hughes;
Tenth, Henry j. Carroll; Twelfth,
Patrick Haggerty. Other councllmanic
candidates will be named az ward meet
iDgs
The following platform was adopted !:
I'VE, the Single Takers OF Whining.
ton, in convention assembled, deeply
sympathizing with the thousands of
our fcllow-citizens suffering from in
voluntary idleness and uDdeserved
poverty, denounce land monopoly "a
tho fundamental cause of both these
evils aud proclaim the Single Tax as
the only adequate and practical remedy
| that is in harmony with democratic
| institutions.
I'VE denounce the Democratic aud
| Republican parties as at present
| organized aud managed in Delaware,
as friends Of monopoly and enemies OF
| the peoplr. To the robbed and I'M
| poverished worker they offer no relief.
| They are SO busily engaged in Consti-
tutional Convention, General Assembly
and City Council in seeking party ad.
vantage, raising salaries, increasing
offices, gerrymanderipg districts and
/ considering divorce bills, that they
have no time to devote to measures fol
the relief OF the miseries of the people.
I'VE call attention TO the fact thai
the Single Tax party is the only one il
the State that offers to its impoverished
workers and struggling merchants 1
means of permanently bettering thei
condition. Put the Democratic or Re
publican party in power and it will no
mean a penny's raise in wages or al
additional job except at the publ,
expense. Put the Single Tax il
operation and land monopoly in Della
ware will disappear. employment viii
increase, wsges will raise aud pros
perity will become the general ana per
naient condition Of the psuple.
"We. therefore, call on every homes
and patriotic voter to desert the part.
of Addicks and Higgins; of Saulsbur
ana Dickey, Gray and Bayard, an,
unite with the Single Tax party, tn
only one in Delaware that stand
squarely and Enthusiastically for th
masses and against the plutocratic an
predatory classes.
This name, The Single Tax Party.
was adopted, with 1.-The earth" as a
emblem.
Resolutions were adopted deuouncin
the issuance OF railroad passes to pub
lie officials, denoupcing government b
| commissioners, their creation havin
been fostered to secure party ad
vantages to the public detriment,
, denouncing the wholesale manipu
] lating of election returns, holding tina
free ballot and fair count as baiu
the corner stone on which Repuhlica
institu.ions are founded" and d.
5 clariue that the psrpetuation of sue
. outrages on the free sutfrages of tb
people can only lead to one end
5 government of plutocracy.
g The final denunciation was as 70
8 lows: &rat
{ I've denounce tho conduct OF tn
g committee of well-known politician
8 representing the legal fraternity I
2 Delaware in denying John S. Crost
Q an opportunity to practice his pr
8 fession in this State.''