Smyrna times., 1906-05-16
REPUBLICAN HARMONY COMMITTEES
FAILURE.


Justly so, by Republicans, about the
failure of the committees who were APP
pointed some time ago to formulate
plans by which one and only one Re-
publican party shall exist in Delaware,
but as yet very little or nothing has
been done in that direction. Demo
cratic newspapers and politicians are
taking as much interest in the officers
as though they are immaculate beings,
who had never committed a single sin
against the State or their own party.
The list of Mr.. Houston, which has
grown over hundred strong, mostly
Republicans, who can always be de-
pended upon to do right, is being held
up by the hypocritical Democratic pa
pers ofthe State as a warning to evil
doers. While the amount of money
expended in debauchery by the voters,
is wonderfully exaggerated by them,
their memory 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 canvasses of both parties,
showed the Republican party to have
a majority from 1900 to $500 in the
State, one thousand at least of which
would have been given at any election
in New Castle County, with full vote
and fair count. have already said
that the canvass 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 execute
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 abso
lutely refused to receive taxes when
rendered to them, and latter rascally
inspectors, who before 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, accepted the result as .ust
and right and went on from year to
year defrauding the majority of their
Legitimate rights. 1t was the Demo
cratic party and their unlawful acts
that made an Addicks possible, while
the great majority of the grand old
party are the bone and sinew of
the State, had become so much ag-
grieved by the vices of the Democratic
party that they closed their eyes to OBJ
iectionable means as being the lesser
evil of the two, but after the enact
ment of the new Constitution, which
by the way, has several Objectionable
features, worst of all the placing of the
dollar across the way of the American
franchise, which has invited men of
both parties to violate, it is and will be
impossible for the Democratic party to
win if we have united Republican
party, the evidence of which is that in
all recent elections we have won, when
we ourselves are cut in twain.
But have diverged. started to
say that the selfish quiblers in both fac
tiOns will be held to account if they
fail to give us an opportunity to ex-
press our opposition to the common
enemy. If the present leaders cannot
lead let them vacate and let us press
some such men as Judge Pennewill,
William G. Hilles or some other
equally versed in justice and states
manship. The great virtue of the Dem
ocratic party as expressed by them
selves at this juncture would be laugh
able if it were not SO supremely ridic-
ulous. Men who attempted to buy
three Republican members of the Leg
lslature IN 1889 to leave the State, SO
that their fourteen members would be
a majority and thereby elect a Demo
cratic Senator in the place of Anthony
Higgins, the Republican nominee
and for which they offered $35, 900, but
be it said to the everlasting credit O.
the said three members that they wer,
above treason and their $35, 900 perish
with them. And this is the party W,
are going to put back in power if W,