The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-11-11

THE DAILY REPUBLICAN,
/. 4 E. COR. THIRD AND KING STREETS
The Republican Printing
and Publishing Co.
PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAYS
Entered at The Post OffiCe at Wilmington
Del. as secona.ciass mail matter.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER II. 1905
FRIDAY. NOVEMBER II. 1908.
An Infamous Ballot Law.

In the counting Of the vote by the judges
In every contest filed in this county,
have opened the ballot boxes and gone
over the vote and counted the ballots
thrown out by the Inspectors in several
instances The rascality ofone Of the
officers In the first election district of
che first Representative district, who de-
liberately gave some twelve mon the wrong
stamp to mark tLeir ballots with, should
be severely punished. The manshould by
all means be indctsdiand sent to jail. The
crime Is much greater than that Of the case
Of bribery which was weak from lack of
evidence, but which found the first victim
In the colored preacher, Rev. Mr.. Collins.
Of Dover. charged with dropping silver
dollar so that another colored man name
Henry could find 1t and thereby provide
the mems for getting registered. Another
thing that the REPUBLICAN has contended
against for several years and that Is tho
cumbersome Australian ballot, which Is
delusion fraud and a snare. calculated
TO make elections nothing more than a
farce. Every ballot deposited in the bal
lot box should be so simplifled tia. it
could be counted. There should not DO
even loop hole for any rascally inspectors
or clerk Of the election district to be able
to throw out the vote of any citizen that
they see Ut, where they think it will bene-
ut their party by SO doing. The vest
pocket ballot Is the kind the people want
where the law does not give the rsscally
election officers even chance to throw out
over mere technicality or any within Of
theirs. The voting should be made as
easy as possible and not difficult and the
Republican party of Delaware will now
have chance to show the people that they
are the friend Of the masses and not the
classes Do away with the present man
ner of voting and adopt the plan In use in
the State Of New Jersey. The Australian
ballot law has been given good trial and
found wanting, inasmuch as there has
been more cheating since Its adoption than
before under the old ballot law, consider.
Ing the safe guards that have been thrown
around the ballot box for the past eight
years in Delaware Before that time the
Democrats ran the elections az they pleas.
ed especially In the city OF Wilmington.
They stuffed the ballot boxes, prevented
Republicans from voting by causing their
arrest and had them hustled of to the
city hall ty deputy county constab,es. The
year that Professor Calvin c. Rhoads was
elected Mayor OF Wilmington by the Dem.
ocratio election officers stuf11ng the ballot
boxes In the Third, Fourth, Second and
Tenth wards, and as the reward for shis
election the gamblers and policy men were
allowed to run the police department IN
til near the end Of Mayor Rhoads term
OF office when thoy were driven out Of the
city. Tho elections as conducted under
the gang when William Lee and Harry
McIntyre were at tho head Iwere farce
aud digrace to Delaware The present
Australian ballot lie as much disgrace to
an enlightened community as was the day
when ballot box stufflng was winked at
by the leaders in tho Democratic party BY
such frauds the election Of Senator Gray
TO the Senate was made possible.