The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-08-09
POLITICAL
GOSSIP.
There Should be a Head to
the Committee on Fire.
CIVIL SERVICE AS The sun
Man Sees It. A Light Reg
istratiOn Means a Fall.
ing Off of Votes. ,,.
GET REGISTERED AND VOTE,

Evidently tho Sun man knows some
thlng of civil service, but we did not sup
pose that 1t was In force at the Sun office.
Weare only sorry that the civil service was
not, put In force in the term oil Pres.
Cleveland. 1t helped to defeat him the sec.
ond time. dedicated BENZ. Harrison and
will defeat any other man who tries to be
elected President with that as part OF his
policy. Ii 1T is good enough to keep in Fed.
eral employees for life why not apply it to
State officers
Then instead Of Republican form OF
government wo will have q monarchy. We
then will be enabled to have a large navy
ana standing army, where tho sons of
Senators and Congressman and other fay.
orites can be given good lucrative posi-
tions
Senator Gray wonld not allow his son
who by the way is ''is only too willing' to
accept the position offered him by General
James II. Wilson, on his staff. Thus from
beng colonel he would have had q
chance to advance as General Wilson's
Military Governor of the city of Ponce in
Porto Rico. 1t is not always that such
young men have greatness thrust upon
them and then refuse 1t, without utterinp
| assign. The new registration law, II We
mistake not is going to have tht greatest
effect upon the valuable influence" of the
dirty dozen and pot house politicians here.
after. Their work Is done, they have lost
their grip and the office seekers will un-
doubtedly be happy as they will net be re-
quired to 60 down in their pockets for the
stuff.
This is one Of the best features Of the
registration laws, it will do away with the
FOUNDERS and repeaters. Their work is over.
Even the party will not have to look after
this unknown quantity. There vocation Is
gone. The question Is now what will be.
come Of them. They will even lose their
hold on nomination elections without they
can be utilized to hand out the tickets of
the men whose candidacy they espouse.
VIM. s. Hilles would make first class
Congressman to succeed L. Irving Hardy
in the House. There could be no objec-
tion 10 him by any Republican. Ho has
kept out OF all faclional fights and was one
OF the main men instrumental In adjnst-
ing the differences Of the two Republican
factions.
he could could fill the position accept.
able ard would be an honor and credit to
Delaware. His abilities none can oues-
tion. The greatest hustle is now going on
amongst the candidates for Sheriff on the
Republican ticket. The candidates ore
Emmit E. Stidham, Samuel A. Mcdaniel, |
John K. Taylor and James Mogillegan.
For Coooner, Samuel Mccormick, John T.
Spring, Alexander Guthrie. A. D. Vande-
yer. ]. H. Galloway and Levi T. Mann.
They are all good men and the Republi-
cans can take their choice.
+ The new registration law will be a biz
help to these candidates The will not be
required to see the boys as In days of yore
when they cut such figure on the day of
nomination. Without having registered
they will be unable to vote.
The candidates can by little work find
out whether these ward workers have been
qualified and can vote for them. The cam
paign of doodle has yearly passed awav
and il nothing else the new law ia a bless.
Ing for this one fact.
Congressman L. Irving Handy will with.
out doubt be the candidate on the Demo-
cratic ticket to succeed himself in the
House. He should not be sent back az he
IS an obstructionist and a fomentor of
trouble and Glibustoring tactics. His
election was blunder and wo hope the
Republican party will not be guilty of a
epetition of it.
At Smyrna the Democrats challenped
he most prominent Republicans insult
ng them by making them take the oath
hat they were paying the registration fec
With their own money. Such insults are
lot calculated to help the cause of Democ.
acy in Delaware. 1t Is like a drowning
nan grasping at straw to save himself.
There is one thing certain and that ia
nat the Republican party should hold
Is convention on tho same day at Dover
nd by this means elect only one set of
late officers. There should be but one
hartman of the State Central Committee,
The officers should be apportioned
mongst the two factions but Now Castle
ounty can not surely be expected to sell
8 birthright to the Kent and Sus-
Il pot hunters
With the old mode Of procuring tax re. G
'ipts the Democrats did not have to pay .
le taxes Of their 1oaters as they were
willing to vote, but had conscientious 4
ruples against paying for the tax receips. 2
But with the Republican party it was q
ltirely different they had to raise money :, =
pay tho taxes Of voters who were too v
'or to- pay them and often when thew 6
ndered the money for the same were in. n
rmed that they had not been placed g,
ION the duplicate +,
Republican glasses in the Sunday star b
Us: There are not more than five So ~
llcd Republicans in this county who do Ia Ia
t want to get chance to vote for a Ell
lgle Republican ticket. These Eve, II II
are be so many. have been very success. a. a.
In staving off the arrangements; but dc
~ are beaten at Inst and the party as n LII
lole Will once more swing in line and H.
ry the county. There will be lots of lo
rk to do and the committee of six M
been agreed upon, is not In the bcst
m to 10 good work. An executive com.
ttee Is never as effective as single head 81
the agreement ought to be modified SO w.
10 enable this proposed executive CON- st,
tee to elect a chairman with full yot gr
power. so that all business may be H,, ,,'
ught to head and disposed of one way GU
another. at
1e sincerely endorse the above para r,aa
ph. oes 90,
rdinary household accidents have no ~
ors when there's bottle of Dr., ia
'mas' Eclectric Oil in the medicine Oh.
20. Heals burns, cuts, bruises. spralns. a.
.ant relief. so1 i