The evening Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1902-1902, 1902-08-16
PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY
SATUR ,Av. AUGUST 10 ,oos


TO-DAY is your last day to get
registered, SO you can vote at the
primaries. There never should have
been registration fee Of 81 exacted
from the voters for this privilege.
The whole election law is delusion
and a snare and conceived for the
purpose of cheating men out of their
right to vote. The Democratic Leg
islature passed the law to cheat the
Republicans out of their franchise.
But ever since the Australian ballot
has been used, the Republicans have
been steadily gaining year after
year. An honest ballot and a fair
count was what the Republicans
were contending for, but the pres
emit election laws are very deficient
IN that respect. What the majority
OF the voters object to, is the pay
ment of dollar~to entitle them TO
vote. Property owners who are al
ready taxed to death, are the ones
who complain the most. The only
way to do is to elect a Republican
Legislature that will do away with
the registration tax. Then no laws
would have to be enacted to punish
people who pay men the necessary
registration fee. 1t is a dead letter
to a certain extent and we'll do the
men who had it drawn up and pass
ed knew it. Still we suppose the
Republicans can stand it if the
Democrats can Don't fail to get
registered or you will regret it.
DELAWARE will remain in the
same spot no matter who is elected
U. s. Senator. Bosses and leaders
come and 60 in all political parties.
The men who posed as leaders 20
years ago are almost forgotten; new
men have taken their places and
new ideas and methods are now en-
ployed to get voters out On election
day. The excellent primary law
prevents the old time way Of making
nominations and also prevents stuff
fing the ballot boxes for this or
that particular candidate. 1t gives,
every candidate a show that wants
to run for Office. All this is differ
ent from the way the primaries were
conducted in the good Old days OF
QUIZ daddies. And still some people
insist that the world is growing
more wicked. We cannot see it
that way. There may be other
ways of cheating of which we do
not know, but they are small to
what they used to be when the bal
lot boxes were held back in certain
wards to find out how many votes
were required to elect the candidates
of the machine. If you kicked at
being cheated out of the uomiua
ton, you were asked what you were
going to do about it. And there
the matter ended, SO far as your
protest was concerned. But now
all this is changed and there is q
show of getting Il fair count.
ANOTHER case Of a good man gone
wrong is that of William O. CARR
son, of Bridgeton, n. j. He was
the Collector of Taxes from Cum
berland county for eight years and
succeeded in stealing S2j, coo and
then shipped out, leaving his fam-
lily in the lurch. He had always
been regarded us one Of the loren Ost
merchants in that city, and had the
confidence Of the entire community
He was engaged in several business
enterprises, which could not have
turned out successfully, or he would
not now be fugitive from justice,
with price on his head. He left
several bondslnen who greatly fear
they will be called upon to make up
his shortage He left several letters
to his wife, his sons and employees,
telling them about his chaotic affairs
and the amount Of his shortage.
He babe his wife and children good
bye telling them they would never
see him again. The authorities Of
Cumberland country will try to
bring him back and mak-him stand
trial for his miSdeeds He paid a
big penalty for his raShness and can
now reflect on the sorrow he caused
his wife and family.
THE staid old readers of the Phil
adelphia Ledger do pot take kindly
to that paper issuing a Sunday edi-
ton. They imagine it will lose
caste by coming out seven days in
the week. The management is try
ing to convert them to their way of
thinking. Nobody has to read a
Sunday paper that don't want to.
There is no compulsion in the mat
ter, but the Sunday paper las come
to stay. Even John Wanamakel's
paper is issued on Sunday. Think
of it.
UACLE SAM will erect a post Office
at Atlantic City and agents OF the
Government have been looking for
suitable site upon which to erect
it. The last Congress appropriated
$135, 900 to purchase the site and
erect the building. 1t looks as if it
would cost nearly two-thrdS of the
amount to purchase the site alone
and that much more for a building.
Atlantic City should have an upto-
date post office building as it II the
greatest watering place on the At.
lantic coast.
AUToMoBlLING may be exciting
and exhilerating sport, but people
are tempting providence when they
ride ut the rate Of so and ~ miles
an hour in these distance destroyers