Middletown transcript., 1898-08-20

ministration, and the personal, ,poIitica
and property rights Of its people all de
mand that there shall be Republican
unity and Republican success. Tht
party in power is led on The one hanG
/ by q Senator in Congress who is trifiine
with his lifelong convictions on ths
money question, and who stands ready
apparently to embrace Organism with
all its baneful doctrines, for the sake
of securing his reelection, and on the
other hand by Senator in Congress.
who took most disgraceful and vic.
lent part in the fraud and ruffianism by
which the Democrats of Kent county
nuilifed the election Of 1896, and stole
the county offices to which Republicans
had been elected. That he is the fit
and proper representative of the men
who committed that crime no one can
dispute.
"Tke party in power in 1896 elected
a Legislature that for incompetency,
open dishonesty and servility to corpor-
ate and lobby influences and bribery
has fortunately no precedent in the his
tory of the State. It is to the great
credit of the press of the State that,
with a single exception, they united in
condemnipg the General Assembly of
1897.
1.-THE party in power has given the
people Of this county, through legisla-
tive interference, Levy Court that in
six years has borrowed $150,OOO and
added it to the county debt, notwith-
standing that it has also raised the tax
rate by one-third. from 48 to go cents
per 500. It elected tax receiver by
fraud, who did not collect the taxes,
and whose Observation-Disclosures in office
is still the subject of investigation by
the auditors Of county finances.
"The party in power attempted to
subvert the will of the people of this
county by the same violent methods
which proved so successful in Kent
county. Its leaders and representatives
in this city and county entered into
conspiracy to falsify the returns of
election and did falsify them, land when
caught red-handed in the crime, their
leaders, lawyers and officeholders pre-
cipitated riot within the sanctuary of
the Court Of Justice itself. 1t is not
forgotten that the perpetrators of this
fraud and violence were not punished
by imprisonment as an indignant public
opinion demanded. This failure to
uphold the honor Of the State and pro-
tect its good name, marked a long SER
les Of such failures by Democratic
judges, a condition that has happily
been made impossible for the future By
the provisions of the new constitution.
"For these and many other equally
weighty reasons the Republican Com
mittee of New Castle county feels inn
PEELED to appeal again, in conclusion, to
every patriotic man in the county to
devote one day, Saturday next, to the
sacred duty Of qualifying himself and
his neighbors for the exercise Of the
right of suffrage"
Upon the matter Of the charge
against David P. Hutchison of inter-
ference with the registration of voter
the committee says:
Whereas, David P. Hutchison, a
member of this committee from Ap-
poquinimink hundred, has been charged
with offering an inducement to an
elector of his hundred to register, in
violation of the provisions of the cons
titution and has been held for trial;
and whereas one Edwin r. Cochran,
Jr., alleged to be the secretary of the |
Democratic county committee, has
publicly stated that he "worked up'' |
the case against Committeeman Hut
Gibson; be it
Resolved, That we, the members of |
the Republican committee of New |
Castle county, hereby express our con-
tidence in the innocence of Mr.. Hut
Gibson, and our belief that the charge
brought against him is the result of
conspiracy Matched by the aforesaid
Cochran and another person or persons.
Resolved, That we call the attention
Of the court to the fact that this afore-
said Edwin r. Cochran, Jr., secretary
of the Democratic county committee,
was one of the leaders who precipiated
'he riot in the Court House on the
night of returns day, November 5th,
1896, which he and his associates in
'pired and brought about for the pur.
pose of preventing the exposure of the
'rime of falsifying the election re-
turns, then being committed by certain
Democratic inspectors of elections,
Who were residents of the city of Will
nington.
Resolved, That in view of the above
stated fact we respectfully suggest to
'he court and to the bar of New Castle
county, the propriety of their examin-
ng into these matters, and, if found
rue, as it surely will be, that the
'fOresaid Edwin R. Cochran, Jr., a
awyer and secretary of the Democrtic
county committee, be disbarred and
orbidden any longer to practice his
Profession before the courts of this
ounty.