Year: 1876







Mr. Samuel To,rnscHd rs. the Netc


Rules.


From the Morning Herald.


1t is damning insult to poor white
Democratic voters to be opposed to
this underhand manner by men who
seek to lead the Democratic party for
their selfish interests. Contrast the two
political PAL ties in this county The
white Republicans allow the negroes in
their full free right to nominate by an
equal vote by ballot, and we, the white
Democrats, who claim to be the descend
ants Of Jefferson and jackson, debar and
refuse even handed political rights and
Justice to the white Democratic masses.


Now, the poor men Of this county fee
deeply enough their position, without
being told of it in such language as that
Thousands of them are not inferior in
intelligence, honesty and truthfulness tc
Mr.. Townsend, or the Herald either
They know their intere It's; they know
that the rules secure to them the right
to have voice in the selection of the
whole county Legislature and Levy
Court ticket; whereas if each member
was nominated by ballot in the Hundred
he represented they would have no voice
in his selection or nomination at all, al.
though they would have to vote for his
election. The result would be this way
Christiana, which is nearly always Re-
publican, when her turn comes will have
the choice of her Representative, or her
Senator thus handful of Democrats
select the candidate the labor and votes
of the whole county have to elect. Now,
Christiana, under the rules, has the
right to elect her proportion of dele
gates, and to select her man for the can
didate, and if he is the right kind of a
man he is non mated by the whole
county, each hundred having voice in
the matter. 1t must be borne in mind
that the Representatives to the Legisla-
ture and the Senators, are representa-
tives Of the whole county and not of the
Hundreds Or districts from which they
come.


We have briefly stated the case, for
the sake Of fair play. We would not
have done this had not Mr. Townsend,
whom we have done so much for; so
patiently for, and spent SO much money
TO get his views before the public fairly :;
for the grain Of good that was in some
cf them we have left the chaff and a"





SO fairly and properly before his friends.
We liked his g-heartedness, and had
determined that this great soul should
not be worried with taunts from others,
and had 20 idea that the very first time
he caught us in corner battling with
the communists" he would so back on
US IN this way, and charge us with being
governed 10y ring. Why no man ever
intimated to US that we should not pub
lish his article. On the contrary the
only gentleman Of the committee that
spoke to US about the rules told US by
all means to publish it; and so We would
have done if We had not been required to
give place to articles that we thought
paramount in importance.


Now Mr.. Townsend knows well enough
that the Republicans dare not hold a
convention. 1t would be filed with
brawling negroes drunk and sober. And
it is beautiful spectacle as it is-it is A
scandalous shame that the drunken
negroes of Pencader and St. Georges
shall select the candidate that the white
Republicans Of Brandywine, Whining.
ton, New Castle and other hundreds have
to vote for and elect. The Radical ne.
groes Of the Seventh Ward made all the
nominations for the old Ring, and hence
the rebellion of the decent people in the
city and all over the State. The negroes
are communists" and are governed By
any party that will promise them share
OF the property or Office, here, Just az
tney are governed in the South. We
have just had taste Of communism,
and our people are sick Of it. We are
sorry that Mr.. T. had to go to their or
gan to get his article printed. 1t would
take Mr.. Us farm and sell it to paw for
work given to negroes. 1t wants the
city and the State to find work for ne.
groes and pay them for it. That is the
doctrine Of the Commune" in Paris
Now, Mr.. L. is not in favor of anything
OF this kind. He is good, sound Dem.
oerat, and if he will only practice pa.
thence he will see all his noble objects
accomplished in good time by that grand
old party he has helped to build up
without the aid Of the old Know Nothing
negro organ. Better adopt the New