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


| Attention Of the Senate to Della.
| wares Methods-The Tax Rate
Should be Kept Down.. P. f.
Fuekel for City Treasurer
Other Political Notes.
The scramble for office under the new
administration will DO something awful.
Already there are several applicants for
Marshal Lannan's office. amongst the
foremost applicants being Ex- Marshal
Harry Fl. McMullen, Delaware Clark and
Senator Robert Handy. Each one Of these
gentlemen thinks he has the inside track
for the office. They have procured the
very best recommendations as to character
and ability, from the leading firms in our
city. Armed with these they expect to
capture the position.
The applicants for post office are already
| getting III their fine work, and have yisi5-
ed Washington With the end in view to
sign 7. NJ. after their name when Colonel
Enoch Moore's term expires. The fore
| most applicants for the position thus far
announced are Fred Eden Bach and Elk.
Post Master Daniel +. Stewart.
The black and tan are back of Fred and
| with such q pull he should get there with
both feet
The editor of the New York Tribune or
l.. Eli Quigg is giving us Delawareans
some excellent advice and reading us a
| homily on vote purchasing and corrupt
practices tt the polls. Things are con.
siderably different Eli since you attended
| No, school and shook the dust of Della
ware from your shoe latches He writes
rs a foreigner who Doesn't know what he is
writing about when he tackles politics in
Delaware. He should turn his attention
to keeping down the tax rate in New
York. 1t has been raised until now it is
Si.25 fer each inhabitant of the State. The
State Comptroller has advocated greater
economy. Here is where the grent In.
tluence OF the Tribune should be welded
for good 1t would have enough to do if
1t kept the bribers out of Jail in New York
city, without shouting mad dog at
Delawareans.
The people were warned when Pres
idcnt Cleveland was elected, that the free
trade platform upon which he was elected
would bring ruin to tho industries of the
United States. Cleveland has been the
crack fisherman and the industries all
over the country have been shut down one
after another, and men, women and chill
to walk the streets, looking day after day
IN vain for work to earn bread enough TO
keep them from starving. Better times
are coming but they are not coming with
the old time rush, when everybody who
wanted work could get it for the asking,
and good wages with 1t.
Senator George Gray once said in
speech made before the citizens of vii.
mlngton that there would be four Jobs for
hp ntpu nft
Cleveland shall have been eeced. That
was over four years ago. Cleveland was
elected, but Senator Gray being lawyer
could probably give IL reason why those
good times failed to matcrallze
Never have property owners in VIII
mington had such hard times to collect
their rents and pay their city and county
taxes. The taxes have not been reduced
by our city fathers but kept at the same
old rate, which is out of all proportion to
the rental value.
Then tho property owner can't always
collect his rent, from various reasons but
that makes no difference to the tax collec-
tors. You are down on their books for SO
much money and there is no appeal or re.
dress II has got to be paid, or your prop
erty will BIO sold to pay it.
From what can be learned at the present
writing there promises to be two Rcpubll.
can tickets in the field at the coming city
election in June.
This means II Dcmoc ATTIC Mayor. Who
will it be? There are already several
Democrats who would be willing TO take
the position if they did not think they
would have to spend too much money to
gctit.
}. Z. +. Fuckel, who ran for City Treas
urer on the Democratic ticket, against
Joseph X. Adams will run again at the
June election.
We hope tho Union Republicans will
be successful in their present mandnmus
case before the superior Court Of Kent
County. 1t is nearly time that the courts
were giving the Republicans in Delaware
at least half Of q show
If the Republicans of PENNSYLVANIA or
New York State had to submit to tho
same kind of treatment accorded TO tho
Republicans of Delaware on election day
their papers would create u revolution.
There is one good thing that Addicks and
the Union Republicans have done-they
have called the attention of Congress in
an official way to the manner in which the
elections have been conducted in our State
and the methods used in arriving at tho
result. Fer that much the Republicans
Of Delaware have to thank the Union
Republicans. They are fighters down in
Kent ami Sussex counties and never know
when they arc whipped.
to the United States Senate by the Legis-
lature seems like IN empty honor to tho
writer of this column. He has gone to
Washington and presented his crcdcn-
tials and asked for his seat. He has not
been sworn in as the other" Senator from
our Stale and from all accounts from the
Capital he W i'll not soon be accorded the
honor Of being addressed as Senator"
He is a fine looking fellow and lawyer
OF some ability and good address Being
Il free-silverte he fails to find much favor
in thCCOlumns Of the Every Evening, the
great Democratic organ. He is not their
kind and they have not been backward In
telling it. He with Il. Irving Handy have
no place in the columns of this rich mans
paper
The people as general thing do not
make the nominations for the different
offices to be fitted by them on election day
at the polls. A few chosen then get to.
gcther and say who shall and who shall
not he nominated and ii that is not enough
they SEQ to it that the ballot boxes arc
fixed up with required number to elect
the IN n they have slated for the positions.
Talk about the people making the nOmi-
nations is all nonscncc. They do voting
on election day, but arc not allowed any
say in the selection Of the candidates they
arctasked to support. 1t Is nearly timG
that the people where having some say
as 10 VINO should be nominated TO fire tho
offices.
This is the only popular kind of
government where the people are given
an opportunity to have a notice in their
reelection that is the reason why the
people are 50 down on Commissions that
govern oar city.
Economy should at the present time be
Cngrattcd in the minds of our Municipality /
and all appropriation for parks, police and |
other matters that may come up this |
year, be scanned closely before any money |
is given them. Ii is only by these methods |
that the present city tax rate can be kept |
down.
If the proposed local option clause Is
adopted by the Constitutional Convention |
ii Will be the means Of starring numerous |
speak castles in our State, that the officers
Of the law would be unable to cope with. !
Where good sized revenue is now paid
into the State Treasury it would only put
premium on speak-casics and open the
doors to innumerable obsl aCles for the Of
ilcers of the law to combat against. The
evils of intcmperanCc should be gotten at
in some Other less radical manner, but |
now we leave that to the reformrrs to !
work out. But never by local option.
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