The sun., 1898-10-03

There is to be no ecount: no contest.
On the face of things everything is
lovely In the New Castle county Repub-
lican camp and the Union Republican
lamb goes down to the slaughter with
the Regular lion and never puts in an
objection. l say con the face of things"
harmony prevails and every Republican
is going to turn in to the support OF the
ticket which the County Executive Com
mittee said was elected.
But don't you believe it. Never be-
fore, not even in the troublous days
when the maxim of "Addicks or NO.
body" was coined, has there been such
bitterness, such heart-burning and such
jealousy among New Castle county Re-
publicans as now.
know that most people will put this
down as the weightless statement OF
biased partisan. Nevertheless every ke-
publican in the county knows in his
heart that it is true. 1t is likely that
Sam Mcdaniel knowing full well that
notwithstanding to the votes cast
he should have been the nominee for
sheriff will feel constrained to hustle
around among his friends and get them
to vote for another man! 1t is likely that
Emmett F. Stidham, knowing that Nc
Daniel has been promised the nomna-
tion in 1900 feels jubilant oyer the fact
that Taylor gets nomination that
causes him to be an opponent OF McDan-
iel's if he wants to run in 1900? Or does
anyone believe that George w. Roberts
l., rp1D Lot hn 10 loI IN
James w. Robertson!
Another thing. The Republican man
ayers seems to take it for granted that
the people who voted for Mcdaniel and
nominated him will fall in and support
Taylor. Will they? William Michael
Bvrne, McDaniePs attorney, in a letter
to his client said that in one district,
election inspectors had refused to count
ballots on which Mcdaniel was voted for
because none of the candidates for other
offices were voted for, and that in an
other district, election officers refused to
count legitimate ballots for Mcdaniel
because the tickets were intended to
have been voted in another district.
These tickets in Mr.. Byrne's opinion
were legitimate votes for Mcdaniel and
it likely that the people who cast them
are going to help elect Taylor? | don't
believe it,
Another thing. The Union Republi-
cans went into this nomination believ-
ing that it was to be 'on the level" As
heard one of them say: ave thought
it was to be a fair shake and the best
man to win. Instead of that they used
every effort and all kinds of tricks to
defeat our candidates. | am told that
in one district one candidate was assured
in advance that he would be given a
stated number of votes, and that to dc
trict a vote from every man in it who
was registered, Republicans and Demo
Gratis alike, who did not vote at the
Democratic primaries. In another dis
trict the returns showed only nine votes
behind the total number of people regis
tered, excluding those who voted at the
Democratic primaries. - Democratic
Glasses, Sunday Star.
The Republicans OF New Castle count,
are just now writhing in smiles over thu
large and spurious vote made at tn
party's primary nomination on Saturda,
last. The result should not be taken a
acorrect compilation OF the Republican
partys strength in this county. Fa
from it. The party leaders and tn
machine bosses know that the nomina
tion was fraud from the time the votin
booths opened until they closed. In tn
words of the party's own workers, "w
were instructed to elect our man at what
ever cost" The close result of the nom
nation fully justified Mcdaniel an
Stidham CRYING fraud. 1t is also know
that the Republicans voted Republ
cans on the names of Democrats. VIII
were on the registration books. l
Mil! Creek hundred twenty-five Demo
Gratis are said to have voted for job
+. Taylor. In Wilmington alone it
given out that 250 Democrats voted o
Saturday for the Republican nominee
who did not vote at the Democrat
primaries. This, together with the or
Of fraud, would lessen the Republica
vote in this county by over 700. TT
friends of the defeated candidates opel
ly declare that at least 800 men wei
voted, when the law says that ma
to vote at the nominations must /
registered at a given time. 1t is su
prisingly funny that the great cry OF tt
Republican party in this state is purit
Of the ballot. 1t bitterly arraig tt
Democratic party for that which it Ou
rageously commits. Its appeals for
purer ballot must come from its ow
action. The large vote OF Saturday la
does not say that success is sure to con
to the Republican party. Take off IL
fraudulent votes and it will be an eve
break with the Democrats. The resu
Of Saturdays nomination, despite tt
satisfaction of Mcdaniel and Stidhan
will lose for the Republican party nun
Der of votes.
To further prove that fraud reigne
on Saturday, we only have to look
the returns for the coronership b
yond Third street bridge. In this ele
tion district Levi r. Mann, one of I'll
candidates, did not get a vote, and M
Mann says that he was counted out f
Fandever. He knows of several vot
he secured in this district, but the r
turn sheets failed to show any votes #
Mann. The county is where the b
game of fraud was played, and it W
where John Taylor was nominate
and John Taylor owes his nominate
TO rotten voting and steal. The nom