The sun., 1900-10-31

ballots. By this means a government
by a minority of the people has been
maintained in this State. This is no
secret. 1t is too well known for any
denial of it even by Democratic news
papers. The declared purpose of the
Democratic party has been to make
government by legal and political out
rage. The broad principles of Demo
cracy, that Of equality of all men before
the law, and of government based upon
the consent of the governed, that consent
ascertained under just laws fairly inter
preted and justly administered, have al
ways been ignored in this State. The
law, organic and statute, has been satu-
rated with the spirit of political outrage
have been made -ts suggest and legal
iae outrage.
1t is not strange, therefore, that the
whole tenor and purpose of Democratic
political management should be toward
and through unfair and indirect chan
lnels. We, of Delaware, have never
known a Democratic campaign directed
to bring about a right result, fair play
and justice being regarded as essential
elements of that result In this all
Democratic politics has been evil. Its
purposes and it's methods being necessary
for the attainment of evil purposes. We
are not saying that there are no just
and noble principles espoused by the
Democratic party; nor are we saying
that there are no good and patriotic
citizens among the Democrats. We are
saying, however, that the evil has out
grown the good and that these Demo-
Gratis who regard their party as the
vehicle for the carrying forward and APP
plying the good principles which they
recognize as the foundation principles
of their politics, are beiEg made the
dupes of evil-minded horde of greedy
office holders and office-seekers; that
these people hiding behind the accepted
noble principles of the Democratic party
are appealing TO passion, prejudice and
Ignorance. That having poisoned the
Ilaw-having made the law evil-they
seek by evil means to sustain both it and
themselves. Having made the law to
prevent the ascertainmant of the CON
Isent of all the governed, having made
the provisions of the law difficult to
comply with, they have provided penal
tated by spirit of intimidation, and are
now trying by threats of the law to
frighten registered voters away from the
polls. Republicans who have met the
requirements of the law, who have paid
the required fee and had their names
recorded among those of qualified regis
tered voters are now receiving threaten,
ing letters intended to scare them out
of their intention to vote against the
Democratic party. This is the new
manifestation Of the old Democrat,
spirit Of outrage-a new attempt to rot
Republicans out Of both their money AM
their votes. 1t is an attempt to plucl
and the old tax laws, from the new
constitution and the registry law-th,
outcropping Of that ingraincd idea ant
purpose Of political injustice that ha
madethc word Democrat synonym o
evil Of outrage, in Delaware politics
So thoroughly saturated with this idei
tack upon and destruction of the fund.-
mental principles of the Republic tha
a decent campaign for good purposes b
Delaware Democrats, is il very doubtful
possibility.
What we want to know in this case
is, where are all the broad minded, jus
the men in Delaware who call then
selves Democrats who believe that i
Delaware, as elsewhere, the consent q
the governed is essential to Just goverI
ment? Where arc the Democrats wh
believe that in Delaware, as elsewher,
the ballot is sacred, and that it is tn
inalicnale right of every man, howeve
humble he may be, to cast one ballot an
leave it counted? These are basic pri1
Z ciples in the Democracy of Jcfferso
and the early Democrats; but the moo
/ ern Democracy denies them. The Del;
II ware Democracy has denied them i
IS violent assaults upon the voter, the ba
Y lots and the ballot boxes, has drive
n the voters away from the polls by riotot
s. violence. have defaced ballots, have falls
II fled election returns, and have cast asid
4 as things Of evil, the ballot hoxes coi
st thinning the votes Of a majority of cit
d zens. These things have been done und,
the present management of the DIN
o. cratic party. This management is ever
in day proving its will and ability to r
in peat these outrages. The object it seel
a. in no way promotes the application
to true Democratic principles, but in rcal
x prevents that promotion and applicatio
is This is not RpDublicrn nolitical talk