The sun., 1898-11-25
The Bourbon Dynasty Oyerthrown
in That County For the
First Time.
OLD DEMOCRACY BESMIRCHED
How the JefYersOnians Used TO Carry
the State by Overwhelmin & Ma
joritics-..Thc Famous Cam.
paign OF the Late James
l.. WOlcOtt.
Special to THE Sun.

Special to THE Sun.
GEORGETOWN, Nov. 24.-To say that old
Sussex has settled down into the calm
routine that was wont TO follow elections
of ye olden time would be to pervcrt
facts. Hs
Georgetown the old county seat is the
centre, around which revolve all that
moves and has being in Sussex county
affsirs and old Georgetown in all its his.
tory has never seen contest, the effect
of which could compare with the one
past closed, in interest.
Old time Democrats upon whose
political escutcheons, the moss is an inch
thick shake their heads ominOusly when.
ever the 9Th OF November is mentioned
all old time Republicans, who for the
past thirty odd years have struggled as
only hopeless but brave inen con struggle
seem to have taken new lease on life
and their eyes light up with renewed
brilliancy when the same memorable
date il mentioned.
No matter how the people in the upper
part of the State may view the result OF
the late contest, down here in Sussex
they are given an import that only the
men "whJ have been through it alp
can appreciate.
1t means, and its meaning is accepted,
is accepted, that for the first time in the
history Of Delaware has the Bourbon
dynesty been solidly oyerthrown in Sus-
SIX ana for the first time in the States
history can the Republicans truly con-
graduate themselves that il wise COUP
sells prevail, it will be many years ere
again the ring that ruled and dominated
tn political affairs of Sussex county
again comes into power.
To the old Republican-the man who
as endeavored to uphold the grand old
principles of the party that carved this
Republic anew-ttis means much. He
can look back to the days when the
Stockleys, the Martins, the Ponders, the
Saulsburys, the Rosses, ct al, ruled the
Political affairs of this county with rod
of iron; when Republican was COM
PEELED to almost kneel TO these potentates
to secure even the right OF franchise, and
when thousands OF voters even by kneel-
ing and cringiDg cou,d no: secure it. He
remembers the day when dozen men
could meet at the old Brick Hotel on the
green and name every man from every
hundred who should serve in either the
legislative halls or Levy Court room, on
jnries, rs road commissioners or, in fact,
in any position Of trust or emoIument in
State or county.
What would the Republicans have to
do with il? Why, nuthing. No trouble
to size up the Republican vote in each
hundred. All that was necessary was to
disfranchise enough to keep the vote
where these rulers wanted it
Oh, those were gay days. "BIack Re.
publcans," as every member OF the
party was called in those days, had no
show. Good old honest Democratic
days they were. What il hundreds of
dollars of the county's money did 60
estray through clerks OF the peace,
road oversee and tax collectors?
Who was to investigate? The RepubIi.
cans might kick; no cared? The rec
ords of this old county building, | ven
ture TO assert, could show that thousands
of dollars had been defauIted by tax col
lectors in The last thirty years. Thous-
tlllNiS VI NoNIS lIuu w Dt
marked paid" And the county paid
the bill. The Democratic papers keep
prating about "Honest Old Democracy"
That might have been its name else
where, bnt in Delaware it got to be sadly
b. smirched. How about that school
book defalcation, that Auditor Bnyce
Gather of the present Judge Bovce) and
Secretary of State John p. salisbury ex.
posed? Twelve thousand dollars in cold
cash dropped through hole Somewhere
there. and nonody has yet been able to
and the cavity.
Well, the old timers down here re-
member all this; they remember how
they had to grin and bear it all, they re-
memb,r how the grand old party would
occasionally y try to pull itself together, as
for instance in the county campaign, and
.Nanc :lu ,llJIt to throw u.. us s....C .es
that held them. But as in that campaign
what Democratic rascalitv and Demo.
cratic laws failed to do, Democratic
money always accomplished. and the
purchased vote OF Sussex always went
Democratic.
Give me $40. 600 and will carry Sus-
sex in spite of them" said Dick Har-
rington, when he was manag ng the cam
paign of Albert Curry, who ran for gov
ernor against Stockley. But he didn't
get it, while the Pennsylvania Railroad,
through its agents, poured $4,000 Of
Democratic money into Sussex and won
the day. Stockley, you know, had
pledged himself to reappoint every
county olliceholder in the State. and
these same Democratic county Office
holders at that day formed the most
powerful legislative lobby that the Penn
sylvania Railroad ever gathered at Dover
during Il session.
This was the famous campaign alro
where the late James l.. Wocutt struct;
his first effective blow at the reign of tie
salisbury dynasty in the two lower
counties and made it totter. Mr.. VOL
cott was attorney for the Pennsylvania
Railroad, and this identical campaign
laid the corner stone Of the structure
which resulted in George Gray, another
attorney Of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
being seated in the Senate. Was it won.
derlul, then, that in this campaign $40.
900 of Democratic money came to Sussex
county? And was iJ wonderful either
that in 1887 SIC, 900 more Of Democratic
Tor Pennsylvania Railroad) money went