Middletown transcript., 1910-10-29
M1DDEETOwE, DEL. OCT. 20. 1910
DeMOcpAcY's EVIL RECORD

1Mm6CulaC0 UhAtObs ChO GVO'
EVening, confessed that:
mo sane man would attempt to
deny that Democratic workers shame
lessly bought votes in the days be-
fore this crime was prohibited sin
our state constitution under the most
: drastic penalties"
Fear, notchange of heart moves
Democracy to suffrage purity
Continuing it further confessed
that such bribery had been prac,
ticed by its party "almost from
time immemorial." How disgust
ing, then, in view of this en-.
forced confession of its own
party g shameless ''venality, the
spectacle of the EUery EUening re-
peating with Pecksnifian sane
tity almost daily for weeks be.
fore the coming election its par
tisan TRADES against Republican
briberies, as though the befouled
skirts of Democracy we're as free
from soiling as whited angels
wing!
God forbid The TRANSCRIPT
should utter one word even in
seeming apology for the blister
ing shame of the Addicks ini-
guilty; but if anything could in
the least excuse those Republi-
cans, who with their Democratic
fellows, helped to m a k 9 his
career, it would be the cruel
wrongs done under Democratic
rule to hundreds of good citi.
zens who were disfranchised
year after year, till grown des.
perste under these intolerable
outrages, q few angry men
fought the Democratic devil with
fire from his own pit-in sheer
self f-defence against these whole
sale denials of their freemen's
rights, used that rich knave-fool
Addicks' filthy gold to drive out
of Office a horde of miscreants
unable longer 70 perpetuate their
evil course because his was the
larger "barrel'. Yes, we are
as heartily ashamed of the Ad.
dicks blotch on our States fair
escutcheon, as of the antecedent
briberies and tyrannies Of the De.
mocracy that made it possibil-
ity. But it does not need, we say
again, any confession of the
Eve9y Evening that
almost from time immemorisl
Democratic workers shamelessly
bought votes"
'Shamelessly"! 81 thank thee,
Jew, for teaching me that word.
That is history not yet ancient,
that should redden every school
boys ears to read, not a whit less
than the later Addicks villiany
for which this earlier sim.
memorial" Democratic bribery
had already well prepared the
soil to yield q fruitful crop Of
shame.
But to return to Democracyis
wholesale Acknowledgement Of
Republican voters. No nightrid.
ing Ku Klux Klan ever robbed
the blacks more ruthlessly than
these official Democrats despoil.
ed the citizens by their system
matte and long continued denial /
Of his right to qualify forsufrage.
And our Delaware freebooters |
had not even the poor excuse for !
their lawless acts that they were
excluding an unfit vote, since |
hundreds of their victims were
respectable and intelligent white |
men. In this regard they bet.
tered the violence of these South
ern marauders.
Let rs have q page from out |
the history Of those palmy days
Of Democratic misrule when q
Republican, white OF black, had
no political rights the Democratic
party was bound to respect. At
every election not less than q
thousand Republican voters in
New Castle County alone-fully
one.third Of them educated, repu.
table white citizens, mechanics,
business men Of every kind,
clergymen, ETC., were willfully
denied q chance to pay their taxes
Il
md so lost their votes-a double
robbery, the state Of its taxes and
the citizen of his vote. Small
the county in those times
vas chronically Ia the loan Office,
his political rascality helped
Eeep it poor. In one aspect the
of this 25 years Of Demo.
cratic misrule exceeds that Of
Addicks', for they not only
,ought votes but stole them also.
Here is a concrete example Of
bose knaveries; q certain tax
oilector ia his zeal to disfran.
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