Middletown transcript., 1906-05-19
REPUBLICAN, HARMONY COMMITTEES
FAILURE

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The following is taken from this week i
issue of The Smyrna Times, and will doubt.
less be of interest to many of THE TRAN
scRIPr's readers
"MR. EDITOR Much is being
said, and justly so, by Republi-
cans, about the failure of the
committees who were appointed
sometime ago to formulate plans
by which one and only one Re-
publican party shall exist in Del
aware, but as yet very little or
nothing has been done in that di.
rection. Democratic newspapers
and politicians are taking as
much interest in the officers as
though they are immaculate be-
tings, who had never committed
a single sin against the State or
OR their own party. The list
of Mr.. Houston, which has
grown over a hundred strong,
mostly Republicans, who can al
ways be depended upon to. do
right, is being held up by the
hypocritical Democratic papers
of the State as warning to evil
doers. While the amount of
money expended in debauchery
by the voters, is wonderfully ex-
aggerated by them, their mem
ory has entirely failed as to their
own acts of debauchery and
theft. Ever after the colored
man was given the right to vote,
beginning in 1870, all honest can
vases of both parties, showed
the Republican party to have a
majority from 1900 to 2500 in the
State, one thousand at least of
which would have been given at
anyelection in NewCastleC County,
with a full vote and a fair count.
I have already said that the can
vass of both parties showed that,
so that the Democratic party,
having all the machinery from
the courts down; had nothing TO
do after making their canvass
but to strike off the required
number, first by one means then
by another, having men for all
purposes needed. Learned men
to devise plans, and dupes to ex-
ecute them assessors who failed
to assess /; clerks of the peace,
who failed to copy; collectors
who failed to collect taxes, and
not only failed to collect but alb
solutely refused to receive taxes
when rendered to them, and lat
ter rascally inspectors, who be-
fore the returning board, would
leave off in the reading just
enough to make the majority a
minority and yet there was no
clamor for reform from that
party. All, saint and sinner, ac-
cepted the result as just and |
right and went on from year to /
year defraudiEg the ma ajority of |
their legitimate rights. 1t was
the Democratic party and their
unlawful acts that made an Ad-
dicks possible, while the great
of the grand old party
are the bone and sineW of the
Of the State, had become so much
aggrieved by the vices of the
Democratic party that they
;!osed their eyes to Objectionable
neaus as being the lesser evil of
he two, but after the enactment
If the new Constitution, which
~ the way, has several obiec-
ionable features, worst of all the
,lacing of the dollar across the
way of the American franchise,
which has invited men of both '
'arties to violate, it is and will +
re impossible for the Democratic
arty to win if we have united q
republican party, the evidence :
f which is that in all recent cleo
ons we have won, when we our d
elves are cut in twain. tc
"But [ have diverged. 1 :
Jarted to say that the selfish
uiblers in both factions will be :
eld to account if they fail to give
5 an opportunity to express our
oposition to the common enemy.
the present leaders cannotlead
t them vacate and let US press
,me such men as Judge Penne-
i'll, William Hilles or some other II
Iually versed in justice and
atesmanship. The great virtue
the Democratic party as ex-
'essed by themselves at this III
ncture would be laughable if it
ere not SO supremely ridicu-
US. Men who attempted to buy
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