Evening journal., 1912-10-15
WRITER DENOUNCEs OLD DEMOCRATIC PRACTICES

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ating machine, all under the person
al touch and control OF their highest
official representatives and leaders.
who wero thought outside this state
to be men Of highest integrity and
spotless honesty and largest abilities.
Il was a very low-lived. dishonora-
BILE and contemplate scheme and
legal administration OF party control,
although ver3 simple and easy OF
manipulation, while the people might
he Nvpnofized or stupefied from ac-
tual revolution against its injustice.
lss working was very simple II
provided that a county tax receipt
paid within two years to be the quail
hcation for voting and Il the voter
did not pay his county tax. he should
be returned a. a delinquent and could
not be put on the assessment list for
two years and thereafter
The assessors and collectors we're
selected as the most unscrupulous
and dishonest tools Of the machine
that could be put in the Office.
The administration OF the law was
for the assessor TO put on the as
sessment list, which was not publish
ed, All the known Democrats and 10
leave off the Assessment list prac-
tically all the known Republicans
and the doubtful and Independent
voters.
Then the Republicans and doubt
ful and Independent voters would
have to go TO the assessors Office to
fta fftf, !.
he were assessed, and II not. then fur
nteh a voucher that he was entitled TO
be asesessed
The assessor might put him on, or
be might stick a wrong middle letter
In his name. or mis-spell his name
or he might neglect to put him on al
together
No Democratic assessor was ever
punished by our courts for disfran-
chising a Republican or Independent
voter, the judges on the Delaware
bench being practically all and all
the time Democrats.
Republican and doubtful and inde-
pendent voters sometimes had to lose
several days from the business to
stand In line to get assessed, only
when nearing their turn TO see the Of
fee doors closed in their faces. The
assessor had 70 go to lunch, or Office
hours were over, and the Office closed,
etc. etc.
The second outrage was the farce,
the criminal outrage upon the public
treasury of the tax collector.
-- II was an openly acknowledged fact
that any Democrat. solid for Null
hooly," could get his tax receipt with
out payment OF money.
Il was often proven that the tax
receipts we're signed and sealed for
Democrats and passed TO Democratic
wol kers TO pass TO Democratic voters
hv hundreds and hv thnnsands To an
able the Democrats to vote, and the
county treasury never saw nor re-
ceived tho money for these taxes
] The FAX receipts were often signed
and sealed In blank and passed TO
Democratic workers In blank, to fill
4 IN as they might need
Right there was the beginning and
, origin and birth OF debauchery OF our
elections in the present generation
and Of the fathers Of the present day
political managers dating from the
enactment OF this law OF 1878. and
the parentage and responsibility for
what there has been OF debauchery
Of elections and corruption Of voters
in this State since the passage of this
law OF 1873 rests and abides with
and forever condemns the Democratic
party of Delaware in beginning this
system OF paying the taxes for its
own members, and the height of hy-
pocrisy and criminality In robbine
the county treasury 10 do so.
From that it was but a step for
their venal voters to demand cash in
hand payment for voting their own
party ticket. and again the Democrat
ic party turned them in on the public
treasury and appointed hordcs OF
deputy sheriffs. special constables
and other gratis on public treasures
OF the State at various and many sue
ceeding elections to keep their owr
workers and voters In line.
Their leaders said they had to pa,
their voters or the boys wouldn't vote
their ticket
N.Y. But Mr. Addicks was wick
ed corruptlng mani
Yet ali these many years the Demo
Gratis were carrying election aftel
election and maintaining their con
troll OF the State by corruption funds
that we're rohbing regularly the hon
est taxpayers Of this State.
Compared with these paragons o
infamy and dishonesty and hypocricy
Mr. Addicks wasn't in II, who wa,
never accused OF using any but hil
own money, and was being buncoet
out Of that Mr. Addicks was Whit
and his wings already sprouting II
comparison with the black depths o
infamy OF the Democratic leaders
and the writer always condemned Mr.
Addicks alleged views Of the use o