The sun., 1898-10-17

ApDITI
The Board of Canvass of Kent county,
who at the order of the Superior Court
met at Dover on Tuesday last and
counted the vote of the last general elec-
tion in 1896, will again meet at Dover to-
day.
This time, however, they will appear
before the court that ordered the recount
and hand in the report that designates
every one of the Democratic inspectors
who composed the Board of Canvass as
dishonest and unworthy of the trust that
was reposed in them in 1896.
1t then remains with the court as to
what will be done with these political
conspirators and whether justice shall be
meted out to the men who, through their
fraudulent returns, seated seven Demo
cratic representatives in the last Legisla-
ture: that one State Senator holds his
seat by this fraud and that Kent county's
lawfully elected Levy Courtmen, sheriff,
coroner and county treasurer were
counted out and Democrats fraudulently
placed in the respective Offices.
The political campaign from now on
will be an aggressive one. Both the
Democrats and Republicans are cognizant
of the fact that all now depends on the
registration of Saturday next.
Both political parties will therefore use
their utmost endeavors to persuade those
holding back to register but even if al
were willing to pay their 81 and retair
their citizenship, it would be impossible
for the registration officers to properl!
attend to their duty and register the
1000 unregistered Republicans and Dem
ocrats in this county.
The leaders will do their utmost fol
their respective parties and it is more
than probable that the registration viii
be heavier than any of the four preced
ing days. and it will be a case of frs
come, first served.
Mass meetings galore will be on th
tapis from now until the opening of TIN
polls on November8
The Democrats will hold from three t,
four meetings nightly in different part
of the state, and not to be outdone b.
their political opponents, the RepubIi
cans, through State Chairman Hugh c
Browne, Regular, and Walter H. Hayes
Unionist, will confer this week and de
eide dates and places for holding meet
ings throughout Delaware.
From this it can be seen that polite
from now on will be decidedly warm
and as both parties are hopeful of carry
ing the state, intense interest will follow
every move of the bosses OF the two grea
parties.
The Single Takers and Prohibitionist
are also conducting an aggressive cam
paign and will poll number of vote
from Republicans as well as jeff ,rsonians
On Tuesday last the Democratic Boar
of Canvass for Kent county, met a
Dover, under compulsion of the Stat
Supreme Court, and completed the tabu
lation of the votes cast in that count
at the general election nearly two year
ago.
This recount of the votes of Ken
county completely reverses the return c
the canvass OF the same vote made i
1896. 1t establishes the truth of tn
Union Republican claim to every Ken
county office for which an incumben
was elected at the last general election j
this state. 1t puts the brand of frau
upon the Constitutional Convention, tn
General Assembly, the Levy Court, O.
the incumbents of all the county office
who accepted office upon the authorit
of the return OF the election, and upo
the election of the United States Senator
1t does more than this. In connectio
with the recount Of the vote of SUISSE
county made under the United State
law governing congressional contests,
proves that the ''rump' Legislature {
1897, was the legally constituted an
rigbtful legislative assembly of the state
and proves also that Mr.. }. Edward At
dicks was legally elected United State
Senator from Delaware.
These facts of recent occurrence make
OF present interest the story OF the Del;
ware campaign of 1896. The detail {
the story, however, is too long for TIL
telling here, and the mere suggestion {
its many exciting incidents must suffice
That campaign was the elimination {
Democratic political effort following tt
most complete and apparently invulne
able scheme of political yillainy ever d
vised. 1t provided for the disfranchs'
ment of enough Republican voters to a
sure Democratic success at the polls, an
provided, also, for Democratic electio
funds out of the states revenues. TT
base of this scheme was the old sa,
code constitution making tax paying
prerequisite for voting, and the delil
quent tax law of 1873, reinforced by
new registration and ballot law CO.
ceived in the same spirit and for tt
same purpose. Behind these constit
tional and statutory provisions of IL
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