The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-06-01
POLITICAL NOTES.

POLITICAL NOTES.
Mr.. colen Ferguson Re-Appoint-
ed Clerk Of the Orphans Court
Senator John Plye Played a
Smart Trick on the Members
Of the House The Every Even
ing and the Evening Journal do
not Speak in Glowing Terms in
ofIthe Legislature.
The re- appointment Of Colen Ferguson
to the Office Of clerk of the Orphans Court
for another term of five years by Governor
Tunnel on Saturday came as q thunder
bolt out Of a clear sky on November day.
The appointments Of Col. A, D. Chaytor
or Thomas Weldin was looked for while
the chances were in favor OF Col. Chaytor.
But then Mr.. Ferguson was making still
countrymen and his pull won. Mr.. Fer
guson made good county official having
been polite andcourteous to everybody who
had business to transact in his office as
was also his deputy, his son. The only
persons who feel badly over the appoint.
ment are the gentlemen who thought
they would receive 1t. But then nothing
is so uncertain as politics and especially in
Delaware, as Senator John Pyle can
tell you If you see fit to ask him.
PLAYED SMART TRICK EX-SENATOR pLYE.
The House played Senator John Pyle a
smart trick on Saturday. The bill ap-
pointing the County tax collectors had
been passed by the House naming the col
lectors. 1t was In that shape passed by the
Senate, but when 1t came back to the
House again i6 was amended and the
names of the Collectors stricken out and
in that shape passed, giving the members
of the Levy Court the right TO name the
men. 1t was q sharp piece of legislation
and done for the purpose OF fooling the
Senator from Wilmington. The men who
engineered the deed are now laughing at
the Senator for the neat manner in which
they completely hoodwinked him. He was
taken In and done for and the Salisbury
men now hold the winning cards the
very thing Senator Pyle did not in.
tend them TO Go. The Senator at first
positively refused to vote for the bill ap-
pointing these tax collectors, but came
around when he was given to understand
that he should have the naming of several
Of them, which he promptly did inserting
the names of two or three collectors in the
bill, and it was in that manner passed by
the Senate. Our readers now know how
a law, with the names Of those friends of
the Senator very carefully omitted. Here
is only one of, several pieces of partisan
legislation where tho bitter was bitten.
FOUR MORE DAYS.
The city election is now only four days
off and up to the present, writing it has
been the dulest campaign that has ever
taken place in our city. 1t lacks snap and
ginger Both parties have let things drift
along and are quietly working, with no
fire works OR brass bands to get out the
votes. 1t looks still hunt for the voters.
From the present outlook the appointing
of the county tax collectors will be worth
five hundred additional votes to the Re-
publican party. Honest loving Democrats
will most surely rebuke their party at the
polls III Saturday next. Decent men will
not swallow everything their party may
do, that is not considered honest or just.
Here we have a tax receiver receiving
$4,000 year with only his duties def ned
Of receiving properly tax and nothing else
when his predecessor received 81, O0O year
and ten per cent. for collecting all delin-
Quent taxes.
The Democrats did not want to let go of
the greatest piece Of machinery for CON
trolling their party votes in New Castle
county, the county tax office, and that
was tho sole reason why the Legislature
was asked to pass this partisan piece of
legislation. twas grave blunder as the
democratic party will find ont to its sor-
row when election shall have come and
gone
Never has Legislature been SO lam.
pooned by the press in its own State as
has the present one. Its odium has even
been condemned by outside papers az note
the following sarcasm from the Phi ladel
phia Evening Bulletin of Mondays issue:
Tho quiet little divorce mill in the Della
ware Legislature, which until recently has
been kept under cover in its operations,
has turned out gOodlv sized product for
the session. The list of divorces just pub
lished at Dover shows that not fewer than
lOl couples were disunlted, and not more
than two or three of them attracted any
particular attention while the unyoking
process was going on.
Even The Every Evening could not swaI.
low the d0ings of this remarkable body Of
men. 1t says:
TIE LEGISLATURE HAS DEPARTED.
The General Assembly, after holding
on AS long a. even its sense OF decenCy per.
nittcd. finally reached, on Saturday tho
point Of adJUurning until January next.
1t would be II great relief to the people had
The adjournment been without day, for, to
a moral certainty it would not have been
called in extra session by any extremity,
no matter how dire
As sGon as the work Of careful collection
can be performed, which Will require q