Year: 1879

were badly beaten at the late city cleo
tion every one will acknowledge. There
is no mystery about this. But why they
should have hoped or expected to elect
their candidates is a question that Is not
easily explained. We shall not attempt
it. But they knew and their organs
knew their party was in the minority
very largely, and they had this evidence
from the best authority-the e'ection re-
turns Of the previous year, both in Sep
tember, when Mayor Almond was
elected by a majority Of $40, aud nearly
all the election Judges and both assess
ing districts were also carried, and again
in November when the Democrats swept
the city by majority Of S4S votes on
the Sheriff.


These facts are not TO be overlooked.
They may be forgotten for the moment.
But when gentlemen go to law to make
political capital TO cover up their own
disgust for their own party, and its dirty





of all kinds of robbery, peculation and
shame for years, they must expect to be
reminded of their own want Of faith in
being able to achieve anything in its
name which was stencil in the nostrils
of nearly all honest men. Such shamely
dishonesty pervaded the Republican
party, from the Cabinet down through
the War Office and the Attorney General
to the lower Courts, that there was no
possibility of doing anything in the
name of the Republican party in Della
ware-and to this determination the
leaders of that party in Delaware had
arrived before the elec ION in September,
1878. This cannot be forgotten by lhe
legal gentlemen who are now attempt
ing to build up little political capita
for themselves and to put little life in
10 the corpse of their party again by
raising an excitement over alleged Illegal
voting. They know that the trumpeted
charges that there were 500 Illegal votes
cast by the Democrats by one of thel
powerful orgais and 800 by another.
their organ, is false. But this is assumed
to give the impression in the State that
there is still a probability of their party
carrying Delaware tor Blaine or Gran
in 1880; and to elevate themselves L
Office as the great champ OILS of part
that they had only a little more than
year ago abandoned as lifeless aud utter
ly unable to organize for effective an,
successful work anywhere in the State.
These gentlemen have not certainl.
forgotten that the Republican party wa
formally wound up and laid aside in it
winding sheet at Dover b.fore the cam
pagn of 1878 was fairly opened,and in it
stead they put forward their own men III
der color of the Greenback party. Non
know this better than Anthony Higgin
Esq, the late U. S. District Attorney fc
Delaware. He knows whether he vote
the Greenback ticket for John G...Jackso
for Congress in 1878 or not. 1t is usele.
for us to remind gentleman so detern
ined in his opposition to the Den
ocratic party, SO learned in all the il
tricacies of party watfare, standing


he does ith so much eminence at Il
bar, of these things. Why, we dou
whether he will d.ny that he voted f
the Greenback Congressman last yea
Mr.. Higgins values highly, as he shoul
party consistency, and most of all tn
consistency which puts him in OPPOSITE
TO the Democracy of his native Sta
Is he now a Greenbacker or is he
publican? He knows best. Since
result in Maine the Republican pa
has again assumed to lead the oppc
tion in Delaware, or rather the Gre,
back party has fallen out of sight, if
are to judge from its organ a year a
the Repubtican;and such party zealots
Mr.. Higgins embrace the opportuI
to put themselves f)rward ready to
taken up for the. best positions that n
arise to be bestowed in the future.


These sweeping charges made aga
the Democratic party of this city
wholly sensational. No one del
that there may have been few illt
votes cast by ignorant or bad II
Such things take place every year
such charges are made every year,
in almost all cities. But that there
either $500" or 1900" illegal votes


no well informed or considerate


can credit for moment. Had this
the case aud they been all Demec
votes, the Democratic majority W.
have been doubled.


The Democratic City Council


conducted the city government econ
cally and satisfactorily and reduced
rate of taxation five per cent; and
with the fact that the Democrats


carried the city last September by


and last November by about 900,


sufficient to make nearly every DE-


crat believe that however light the


might be this year from the lukew


ness OF both parties, these facts an,


uneXceptionable men nominated h,


Democrats would give that party q