The sun., 1898-10-06

of what has been going on for years in
Kent and Sussex counties And still
this fraud is winked at by the leaders of
the Democratic party.
No man is fit to 60 to the Legislature
that goes there pledged. He should be
open to conviction and what would be
for the best interest OF the Republican
party and his constituents. The people
elect the men they have reason to believe
will help pass laws that will be for the
good of the many. The report that men
who have been nominated for the Legis-
lature have been approached and asked
to pledge themselves, is an insult that
should be rebuked and the names Of the
men made public so that we should
know who they are. If the men nomi-
mated are not intelligent and capable
men. they should never have been nomi-
mated by the Republican party. But
some men imagine that they should do
everything in their power to help to de-
feat the ticket, when the men they were
supporting were unsuccessful at the pri-
mary election. But the people will have
something to say about this on the 7th
day OF November and they will say it in
no uncertain way by the large majority
that will be polled. The time has gone
by when one or more men can say who
shall and who shall not be elected, after
the candidates have been nominated. By
a full registration and every Republican
voting there is no doubt of the result of
the election on November 7th. The sue
cess of the Republican party can only be
brought about by full vote and the op-
portunity is offered at the coming cleo
tion.-Doily Republican.
''The Superior Court, which met in
Dover on Monday, ordered the Board OF
Canvass of Kent county to convene at
noon on the llth instant, for the purpose
OF tabulating the votes of the election
held in 1896 and decided to receive their
return at 1876 a. M, on the 18th inst,
The refusal of the Democrats of Kent
county to count the returns in 1896, con-
stitutes one ofthe blacklist crimes against
the sovereignty Of the people, that was
ever perpetrated in any state in our
country and yet the men and their at
torneys who made it possible, call them
selves honorable and look to the
people to condone their iniquitous pro-
ceedings. Instead Of occupying places
of honor and profit the guilty crew
should be sent to Jail. The cry raised
about Addicksism can hardly divert the
attention of the voters from such
usurpation of offices in defiance of the
will of the people. The sheriff and
coroner elected in Kent county we're by
the nefarious usurpation kept out of
their office, and if justice were done,
the guilty parties should be made to pay
them sum equivalent to the loss they
have sustained. By this fraud the
Democrats controlled the Legislature,
and also the Constitutional Convention.
Shame on the men who perpetrated such
an outrage. They should hide their heads
in shame and their defenders deserve
the scorn and contempt of every honest
voter. To compare such villany with
Addicksism is like comparing Satyr to
Hyperion. The Democratic party in
this state has been as corrupt as it could
possibly be for over fifty years and for
any one to attribute their lawless acts to
any modern introduction of evil prac-
tices betrays an ignorance or lack of
sincerity that indicates the knave or fool.
Duly Republ;cun.
"What red. hot stuff this would have
been two years ago. Better late than
never
The average citizen would like to know
why the newspapers and the courts per-
mitted this "blackest" crime to go so
long untried and unpuni,hed. When
the courts delay action it is competent
for new papers to try the guilty at the
great bar of public opinion, which is
second only to the bar OF Almighty
God. Courts the world over have made
mistakes, but public opinion never"
COMMUNICATED.
Those who fight against true tax re
form should, to be consistent, be the last
at lodging taxes on wealth; but because
they have always been able to dodge
taxes they are apt, from very force of
habit, to dodge new systems Of doing the
old thing, and they do 1t in so bungling
a manner and SO hastily as to be caught
in the act.
In New York the people have Just been
treated to glaring object lesson of how
taxes are evaded and of what liars the
system makes even men of honor (?)
Theodore Roosevelt has received the
Republican nomination for governor at
the dctation of Boss Platt and in spite of
the opposition Of Governor Black and
his followers. In the fight made against
him it was shown that to escape taxation
he had denied being a citizen of the
state and there is law preventing any
but citizens holding office. Not only do
New Workers try to get out of paying
taxes, but in Delaware the men who sad
die the paying of dollar.upon the voter
before he shall exercise his right and
then hold him up before his fellows for
his meanness, ignorance, want OF pat
riotism and his attempt to escape even