The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-03-10
| POLITICAL
GOSSIP.
Party Success Should Be
Before Self. The COM
ing Elections are
Important
Ones.

Dis Just as important that the next Leg.
islnture two years hence should have a
Republican majority as II Is that tho next
City Council should be Republican. The
next Legislature can If 1t secs fit undo
what the present Legislature has done.
The election in 1900 provides for the cleo
tion OF six state officers, Governor lieu
tenant governor. attorney general, auditor
and insurance commissioner besides a
Congressman and United States Senator
to succeed Richard r. kenney. The State
Offices to be filled will 60 far beJond that
of tho federal patronage to be dispensed In
Delaware.
In this city alone there will be Mayor
to elect In June, whose salary Is $500 an d
whose term Is for two years. He has the
appointing Of Street aud Sewer Commits
sioner to succeed William Simmons,
whose term expires In 1901 and Il Water
Commissioner in place of William 7. Por-
ter, whose term expires in July 1901, and
Board Of Health. A city treasurer will
be to elect. and also city solicitor, which
p0sltlon pays SlouO.
City Council has the appointing Of
city treasurer's clerk, city auditors clerk,
clerk Of Council, clerk Of, the market, meat
inspector, milk inspector, coal oil in spec
tor and building inspector, regulator OF
city clock, vaccine physicians, city regis.
trar and the city engineer officers A clerk
of the peace will be elected in 1900, who
will take possession of the Office January
1st, 1901.
1t would not do for the Republicans to
throw away all chances of securing these
offices for the Sako Of spite work which
would only rebound upon them in one
and even two years hence.
Those whom the gods wish to destroy
they first nuke mad. But there is no
method in their madness. only defeat for
the Republican party. Sensible or long
headed mon do not rush madly into politi-
cal traps that have beeA purposely set for
thom. Their awakening would be some
thing that they cannot now forsee The
policy mapped out would be suicidal to
Republican success for years to come In
this city and State.
The Republican voters have been strug.
Cling for years to throw off the Demo-
crutc yDke CT political oppression from
their neck5 and by their blunders have
place the State back on more than ono
occasion In tho hands of tho Democratic.
who by perniclous and offensive partisan
laws have made 1t almost an inpossibility
for Republicans to cast their ballots in this
state and then have them honestly count
ed after they had been deposited in the bal
lot box. Do the Republicans remember
tho several hundreds of county constables
appointed by Ex-Governor Reynolds, to
drag Republican voters away from the
polling places In this city and county,
Have they forgotten how hard it was for
years for Republicans to get assessed and
then pay their county taxes' How men
stood for hours day after day while the
Democratic tax collectors worked away as
slowly rs 1t was possible Tor them, so as
to prevent the men from receiving their
tax receipts In time for them to properly
qualify and vote ON the day Of election9
Have they forgotten how Republican
voters under one pretext or another were
dragged away from the polling places and
locked up In the city hall to keep them
from votingi II some Of these Republic
cans have forgotten the past history Of
how voting was made as difficult and as
hard as possible the writer has not nor
never will as long as he lives In Delaware.
II Republican success means chaos. then
we are having 1t, with all of Its disruptins
consequences. 1t is pity that the differ
ences in the two wings Of the party cannot
be amicably settled and instead ofindulg-
ing in fighting each other present solid
front and fight the Democratic party.
That only will lead to success In this or
any other state. The Republican party Is
a funny combination of contention and
blunders and the party always gets tho
worst of it when the chickering's take place
Turn in and put party SUCCESS before self
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