The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-11-17
POLITICAL :.
GOSSIP. !
Abridge The Civil Service
Rules. ROney Reads
The Street Commits !
sioners Quite a I
HOmily.

II the total Single Tax vots had b,en
polled against j. Henry Hoffecker for
Governor he would have had flfteen hun.
dred and seventy eight maj. Even with
the Prohibition vote Dolled for the Demo.
cratic ticket, Mr.. Hoffscker would still
have eleven hundred and twanty.four
votes to spare !
Assuming that the colored vote was not
CAST for tho Republican ticket. does the
Every Evening think for ono minute thau
tho Democratic party would be az strong
In Delaware as 1t Ia, with the men posing
a. leaders, whom q large part OF the party
repudiated at the polls on Tuesday. Nov.
9Th. The ooiored men orc loyal to the Re.
publican party and all of the persuasion
and ho1ied terms addressed to them by the
Democratic leader. have thus far failed to
get them In any numbsrstovcte the Dem
0cratic ticket. ~
The colored man 10 not treated in Deiar'
ware as In some Of the Southern cities. II
he has any ambitions he Is given chance
to rise and own property the same as his
is a Republican. The registration shows
q falling off Of from former years In the
colored men who properly qualified to
vote. The c0Ored vote was about one
thousand here In the city, which Is not one
half of the number that have right to
vote II they had been registered. The
Republican party has no kick coming to
make against their loyalty to the party Of
their choice. !
Joe Roney IN the Sunday Herald Is evil
IDENTIFY disguised aud ready to shake the
Democratic party. Judging from the.fol.
lowing quotations from ono Of his editor
iul,. He must have the blues when he
penned the article. Here 1t Is: -.
"Plansfo the defeat of the Democratic
party were cast and promulgated by Its
rtars VHJh mt IT mat Nul
mon who know more about good whiskey
than politics. voted the Republican ticket
or stayed at home. The younger element
Of Democracy is now playing an impor-
tant part IN elections, but the leaders OF
the party have not yet awakened to this
fact, and the reward given the party for Its
negligence y, the young voter allies him
preaching Its doctrines and principals.
The younger voters Of the Democratic par
ty have been sadly neglected, and like rats
on sinking ship, they are desorting the
cradle Of their belief for parties that live
not in oblivion. This growing element Of
tho Democratic partylare not as were their
fathers, staunch and true. They are more
every man thinks for himself, and the
young voters cannot be led by the halter
to the voting booth, as in tho days OF long
ago."
Tho Democratic board of the street and
sewer department and the ring controlling
the workings Of that body, Is another
cause for the party's defeat The board Is
II Democratic ono. but "Bill' Simmons.
the lone Republican momber, dictates
what shall be done aud his will is law.
High handed methods have been employed
by the board in giving out contracts.
There are hundreds of Democrats who
could have been given work by Mr.. Pratt
and Mr.. Webster, but "Bill' Simmons and
EastburD, tho street boss, said differently.
Both Pratt and Webster have higher poll.
teal aspirations but we advise them never
TO submit their names to the voters for =
consideration. The offices Of the several
clerks In the department could have been
handed over to capable Democrats. How
can Webster and Pratt expect to como be-
fore the men whom they denied work and
ask for that which thoy themselves deniedp
Tho Board has been Republican and run
on nearly the same lines as under Dsmo-
cratic control. Suppose Messrs. Pratt and
Webster had done what the Herald claims
they should have done. Tho Republic
can Commission which assumes control Of
the Department in March next would only
have tur ned out the men the present Com
mission had appointed. and appoint Re-
publicans In thoir places. What does the
Republican Commission has been running
the Water Department? Would not the
same treatment have been put in force In
this city Department. Some men oven now
that certain changes could and
should DO made in the mon who ore em-
poyed In the Water Department. There
Is always two who can play at almost any
game and especially politics.
Delaware Clark could go further and
not any better than by appointing Edwin
O, Clark, Chief Clork In the Office OF Re.
rorder of Deeds. Mr.. Clark has been an
active Republican and deserves some thing
at the hands of the party.
The all-nbsorblng question is now being
asked who will be the next Senator from
Delaware?
1t will be Republican and one that Is
to the greatest number of the
Republicans Of the State.
Public officials should be polite and
Courteoue in their treatment to thOse who
have business I'm theiri departments. loo,
many nen appear to forget that they are
tue public servants when they secure q
snug berth and imagine that they eau
snub whoever comes into their august
presence Here's where OWL servine Is at
fault. We believe In the old Republican
axiom that to the viotors belong tho spells
or that under q Republican ndministra-
lion Republicans should fill tho federal
1t Ia only by abridglng tho civil
service rules that President Mckinley can
hope to succeed himself In 1900.
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