Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-09-08
SINGLE rAxEHs.


conventions.
Ths Single Takers held State and
county conventions in the hall at the
northeast corner of Fourth and Shipley
streets ON Saturday afternoon. Frank
Brand of this city was chairman and
William Fl. Booze of Harrington secre-
tary Of the State conevntion, at which
Samusl Swayns Of Kent county was
nominated as the candidate for State
treasurer and Mr., Brand as tine candi-
date for auditor of accounts.
No nomination was mads for Repre-
sentative in Congress.
The following State COMMITTEES was
named: New Castle county-John Nc
Cullough, Daniel Buckley, Thomas
Cody and Henry Saring OF this city,
Harold Suddsll nf Nav Castle and
Harry Nichols of Newark; Kent county
-Estley M. Rust of Harrington, VIM.
Fl. Willis of Dover and VIM. II. Booze
of Harrington; Sussex county-To be
selected later.
The platform which was adopted con-
tanned the following declarations:
1--WE. the Single Taxera of Delaware,
in State convention assembled, do re.
affirm our faith in the doctrine OF equal
rights of all men to the bounties OF
nature, and huld that tho best way Of
establishing this right ia by the method
proposed by our late leader, Henry
| George, viz the taking OF the rental
value Of the bare land by taxation.
| 'tAs a step in this direction we
| pledge ourselves to use our utmost en-
deavora to abolish all other forms oi
| taxation iE this State and do therefore
seek to direct legislation toward the
wiping out of the many and Injurious
forms of taxation which now exist here,
and to replacing them by the one
simple and beneficent tax on land
values This by freeing labor and Its
| products from the crushing burden ol
taxarion and by destroying land specu.
lation will produce such an era OF pros
psrity in our State as it has never
before known, and the etfeuts of oui
example will he to make our sistei
| States follow in our footsteps.
We arraign at the bar OF public
opinion the leaders Of both the Demo
cratic and Republican parties for theil
shameful neglect of the interests OF thi
people FOR their abandonment OF tht
great principles upon which theHt
parties wsre founded for their in
satiable gresd for public office, for theil
oft repeated election frauds by thei
debauchery of the electors of our State
for their upholding for years of an un
democratic and corrupting poll tai
System and whom they were at las
forced by outraged public opinion tt
abandon this system for replacing it b.
nm almost equally bad and onerou
registration fes.
1--WE hold that it Ia the inalienabl
right OF every man to have voice a
TO how he shall be governed, that tn
ballot is right and not privilege
and we most strenuously protest agains
the slightest Limitation of this right.
1--WE emphatically denounce the un
derhand methods by which the ne'
Constitution was ioisted unon tn
people without their being permitte
to vote as TO whsther it was salts
factory or.not. but we congratulate th
people OF Delaware that the attemp
therein made to prevent the adoptio
of the Siugle Tax here by a constitu
tional prohibition ia an ahortive on
which will not prevent the Single Ia
from being adopted when the people 9
will.
Walter Willis presided and A. r
Saylor acted as secretary of the count
convention, which made this followIn
nominations: For sheriff, Edward Bank
of Stanton; for coroner, Harry Brow
OF Wilmington; for recorder OF deeds
Samuel Shoup OF Wilmington.
| Legislative uandiSates so far selected
For Senator, First district, Henr
Saring of Wilmington; Fifth district
|, Harold Sudell of New Castle; for Ee
, preventative, First district, Daniel K
Dallas; Second, Charles Began Third
Thomas Mullan, Sr. Fourth, Alfred II
Saylor Fifth, W. 7. Whitworth.
For assessor, First district, WIN
Anderson; sauond. Aaron Keraey Third
Thomas Cough; Fourth, Robert i
Wooley; Fifth, J.. J. Haggerty.