Year: 1877




Relief-the Delaware Legislature has
at last adjourned and gone out of power,
unless an extraordinary occasion should
happen. Then the Governor could give
them new life, but it is to be hoped that
he will do no such thing. The people of
Delaware without respect to party, can
not help to see something about Delaware
Legislation is weak and humiliating and
should be remedied. We have about one
hundred and fifty thousand population.
and to make all necessary laws for this
number population it does not need
near three months legislation at tax pay
ers expense, and every new Legislature
for seeming excuse, to remain at Dover
for near three months, proceed to tear up
and remodel near the whole code of our
laws. They do not say in so many words
their late predecessors to the Legislature
two years previous, were a set of .jackasses,
but they leave the public to infer that
From the wholesale altering and amend
ing the laws, and to talk about Delaware
credit and State bonds being above par,
any fool knows how that comes about;the
honest producing mass of Delaware peo-
pie are overtaxed to make this above par
showing, and our Legislature set near
three months, and like the British Parlia-
ment, before the revolution, eating out
the substance of the people. The term
that Legislature should sit, and whether
theS Democratic party shall be run in
Kent and Sussex for the benefit of tenn
perance fanatics, shonld be settled in
the next Democratic State Convention,
for New Castle county democrats are
tired Of the policy that has of.late been
pursued in nominations in Kent and Sus-
sex, and inSussex as plausa BILE excuse
to elect some fanatics. A tale / never
heard until last.week, was told in Sussex
and no doubtby temperance fanatics, and
will give their words: The liquor men
CfNew Castle county were sending money
into Sussex to defend the temperance
men on the Democrat ticket. A lie coin
ed out of whole cloth, L am one of the
New Castle county democratic committee
and never heard this Munchausan lie
until last week. This was done 1 suppose
to get sympathy and votes for the man
who asked one. of the Sussex speakers to
assure. the voters that if he was elected
he would not take his ultra temperance
feelings. into the Legislature, but last
week this said speaker told several of us
that this old man had been more ultra al
Dover than at home. The party has been
stabbed enough by such men, and I want
hereafter clear understanding and fail
nominations, if we cannot agree break ut
and reorganize, We in this county nomi
nate hereafter by ballot, which is much
better way of selecting candidates. Ther
each hundred will have the power to Sc
lect man he will not be bound to any
county policy, but be a direct Represen
tatiye of the hundred, We raised money
in this county to pay. taxes and other ex.
penses of the campaign, and ] never saw
or heard Of but ten dollars from liquor
man, the Democratic party of New Cas-
tie county do not and never intend to be
long to any liquor party or temperance
party. The duty and object of the Demo
cratic party of this county is the genera
good and happiness of the whole. peopl,
without respect to business, creed or re
ligion; and if all the laws made, and tn
amended parts of others at the late ses
sion was thrown into the fire and burn
the public would be jusG as we'll off as a
present. But thank God relief has come a
last for they have adjourned.


SAMUEL TOWNSEND.
| Townsend, March Goth, 1877.