Year: 1879

The Future of Delaware Poihics


Through the chicanery and We might
saw the dishonesty of the Democratic
party, the Republican party OF peia'
ware from a majority has been reduced
to a minority OF the legally quai'teo
voters of the State, and with this re
duction went the last hope of the par
tvs sneoess until it would touch hard
bottom aud commence rebound up
wards, To those who take a reasonable
view of politics, the time has come al
last when the party can if it will come
forth strong as lion from its lair, and
asserting its power take hold OF the
reius of State Government. Admitting
that hard bottom is touched what Il
left now to raise the party into power
We simply say complete and thorough
organization, upon an honest basis, and
with a claim to have the rights torn





from the people by special and unjust
legislation, restored again. There can
bs no doubt that the conduct of the
Democracy has so shamed the decent
and respectable part of the party that
there is now an entire absence of that
intense bitterness of feeling against the
Republicans that formerly y character
lied it, and this alone must have an
influence in favor of the restora-
tion of the party to power
which has so wisely ruled the most
of the Northern States since and
before the rebellion broke out
The people have but to turn their
eyes northward to see the great
success of Republican rule, while at
the same time they have but to turn
their eyes southwark to see the utter
failure OF dishonest Democratic rule. No
ptdtS WIN tuC paiC SAtOptioh
of Minnesota has repudiated her State
debt, while in the South honesty in
finances is the rare exception. Thus
far Delaware has not repudiated her
State debt, simply because the Demo
cratic party which has been in power
since before the war created Delaware's 5
debt more to aid the South than the
North in the nations struggle for exis
tence. Not a dollar of debt did Della
ware owe before the war commenced,
but under Democratic rule a debt Of a
million and a half of dollars was Great
ed under which the people have been
groaning from year to year, and about
half the debt remains yet unpaid.
Looking at it fIcm the proper staLd
point, the people of Delaware are at
last wondering how il is that the De-
mocracy of Delaware which pretends to
condemn the Indebtedness of States has
itself created debt larger in proper
tion to the size and population of the
State than any other State of the
Union.


The debt created to aid the side Of
the rebellion and in the mean time the
right of franchise being conferred upon
the negroes the Democracy set to work
to disfranchise them by unjust and dis
eliminating laws. The assessors and
collectors were clothed with the
privilege of saying who should vote
and who should not vote and were
the willing tools in the hands
of the rebel sympathizing Democracy of
binding the State hand and foot and
putting it as completely under the con-
troll of rebel brigadier legislation, as
was any State that had taken up arms
and fought against the national flag.
1t is not necessary for US to enter into
a detail of the manner in which this
was done. Suffice it to say that it was
done effectually even to the reduction
of the vote of Delaware by one half.
In 1878 when at the State election
there should have been 10000 votes
polled there were but $1,000. Dis
franchishd and deirauded, the wrecks
of the Republican party lay strewn
down the SLate from Claymont to Del
mar. The latest outrage upon decency
law and order was the farce called an
election in Wilmington on the first
Tuesday in September, at which the
Republicans evel with one third of
their forces disfranchissd would have
been victorious had they not been
swamped by hordes of Democratic re-
peaters organized and paid for voting
by the leading Democrats and City Of
fcials, and protected in their voting by
Democratic police, and the most shame
less act ofthat shameless conspiracy was
when the Democrats in the City Coun-
Gil turned down the lights upon an
honest investigation Of the monstrous
frauds that were committed. Refusing
to enter into an intelligent investiga-
tion, Of the frauds with which their
party stands charged, they become a
partner in guilt.


Leaving much that comes up in our
nwn mind n CIV at this mint for a sul