The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-11-12
An Incentive to Cleanliness

Tho throwing Of SO many ballots by the
Democratic Inspectors In the different dis
tricts In this State at the late election,
should serve rs an incentive to all citizens
to wash their hands when they leave their
work for any purpose, and mora partieu.
larly when they intend to place ticket In
the ballot box. Tho least DETACHMENT of
the paper, even a fly speck, was made u
pretext to discard ballots to such IN ex-
tent as to decide the contest In some in.
stances at the recent election. The dis.
carded ballots should be scrutinized close.
ly In order to discover whether the marks
were made by some other hand thun that
Of the voter. II the inspector should be
found guilty 10 any inetanos of marking
or blurring ballot In order to afford an
excuse 70 reject II, he should be sent to
JUL for Of least six months. Unless 1t can
b, shown that ballots were marked by the
Citizen Observation-Disclosures they should
be counted. No honest man should be
disfranchised on any slight pretext. The
same remark will apply with equal force
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sufficiently plain to indicate the voters
intention the. ballot should be counted. II
inspectors are allowed to discard tickets
on bit pretext they will use their pow.
or corruptly In some instances and thu.
defoat the will Of the citizens. There are
At the present time many contests in our
State in regard to the election, and tho
greater number may be attributed to the
TACT that the Inspectors exercised discre-
tion That tho law does not intend. Here
after mon in voting should SEQ that they
have clean hands and it is to be hoped that
the election off ,1rs will hlys clean hearts
The Every Evonlng has the affrontery
to say in Yesterdays issue hat.
ut is an established legal axiom that
ignorance Of the law excuses no one, and
that these eleven voters must blame them
selves ior'the loss of their vo es, the court
having decided that they were properly re.
Jsofed. IL ID also u fact that ninety Der
cent OF all The voters Of the city would
have lgnorantiv accepted and used this
cross stamp had 1t been offered them, 80
prevailing Is the lack OF Knowledge with
respect TO the minor detui of the voting
70 ,ulatlons.
But the substitution of this Illegal
cross stamp for the legal one bearing the
star hns all the ear,narks of 4 deliberate
fraud which should be brought to tho at
tentlon of the court. n it was due to an
accident, 1t ought to prove 1t to the salts
faction OF the court. II it was u purposel
ACE then y was crime against the ballot
that calls for stern punishment
III these fraudulent stamps had been
given out by the Republican election Off.
GERS there would not have boon any trou-
Bile Ia sotling the machinery of the county
IN motion and by this time causing their
ARES. There Is not one person In a hun.
drsd who upon being handed tn, s,amn
ny the election officers would have given
Iva thought upon marking their ballots
before handing 1t to the election officer
VINO placed the same in the ballot box.
Rascals and men without principle or a
spark Of manhood should not be selected
TO preside over an election. The time nas
come to cry n halt,
JUDGES Lore and Spruance would not
tolerate on side influence from any one
telling them what they could and should
not do In going over the election returns.
They were fair and impartial In the count
md allowed al disputed ballots to Le
examined and in some cases counted
WANTED -Auoths leader of the Delno-
craft party in Now Castle county. Con-
gr1ssman Handy was too big II load for the
party to carry. lhoy have dumped him,
hn Ia iS uti
free silver one at that.
AND to think ,hNt Robert T. Moody had
hugo | himself with the deusion thai ho
would be elected sheriff OF New CASH,
county
SURELY the backing down Of tho Rcpub.
licaus saved CORTLAND C. Montgomusys
friends that one thousand dollars which
wa fortunate for them.
DIR. l.. llcislcr Dall ran ahead Of his
tislset in tbs county His majority was
over Lsmuel II. Bishop for State Treas
urcr iS2.
NEW CASTLE hunhrad for She first 'iue
in IS history gave f. Republican majority
on Tuesday last. Surely the mill alum
ha, coma in Delaware
1ilE Official CuUaJ of the election re-
turns havo llen ucgUmpli shDa in Now Cas-.
tie county and IN, uife.eu, succa ST nj
candi lates will receive their cert Gcates OF
election TO-DAY.
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