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WILMINGTON, DEL., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1882.
rob. XI
PB1CE ONE CENT.
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MJÏI) OTEKA 11 tO*«M rue.
Lrday, October 21st, 1882,
T j[E CELEBRATED
UGGOLD band,
Railing, r».-2« PI«»*.
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JOHN M. STEPHEN.,
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K 'Jioii iiittleMiy aalv wltbrto» r**ervs
Rl. ihre« day* lu advance si Messrs.
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Lvn OPERA HOUSE.
[UMMJi MAEUNÏC TEMPI. B.
iJay Evc'g, Oct. 23, '82,
The Lnt« **l American Sucres«,
te-The Harrisons-Louis
LvMvrrftil Dmmstle Company, In l.con
HbrouWb brill taut literary effort,
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«A Sister's Sacrifice.
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C. F. Thomas ft
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Am ilay* liiiulvauce.
Lin Ol'KUA HOUSE,
MASC.XK' TEMPLE.
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to (irand Concert
COMPANY.
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OCTOBER 25 tii.
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Malki
fj- ANNIK E. BEERE,
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SItiNoH KKNE8TO BALDANZA,
«rerIler M.iBntv's Opera) I'rlmoTenor,
JllIUS BEREtHlY,
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MU. JOSEPH HAWUßON.
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A}«d«»r Deliuit,
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notices.
GRAND RALLY !
Retrenchment & Reform !
Fair Assessments, An Honest
Collection of State and County
Taxes, Representation Accord
ing to Population, A Free
Ballot and a Fair Count !
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of the REPUBLICAN'S and all
rltl/vn* *|in favor au bullest u.inihitetratliiii of
vïtïïsa ä .jÄftr 1 '
OPERA HOUSE,
On Tuesday Ev'g, Oct. 24th,
AT 8 O'CLOCK.
Richard Harrington, Esq.,
CHAIRMAN OF THE
Republican State Central Com.
Will address the meeting.
oct21-at-40
N otice.—new stock in the DIA
MOND KT ATE LOAN AHH4RIATION, ||r»t
payment now out; iiodfht nor |»rop«-rt) ; Inter«
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UKOifUK MARIS, He
XJOTIOK—RENTING AND COL&£cf
« . ...*?*<* MKNTH n M|Mvlnliy, by G KulUiK
MARIS, (101 Shipley hj.. Heul Eh tu te Agent. U,23-l|u
< iilng ut
OctU-Mt
•IhryJ
von HA I.v.
J?OR 8 A LE.
36 Desirable Dwellings,
1 3-ntnry blick, X
street.
1 t-ktory lirlck, «16 Kina
1 «-story brli-k, at! Wa»hliiflrt»n ot
I 3-ntory lirlck. 13 Market
1 S-Mtory lirlck, 01« l.hnleu
2 «-story brick, HUB &. ttU l.hnh
1 2-.story-brick, sms, Van Huron
-l «-«tor y brick, 'Jin, wih,u«ü,
I 2-story brick, 4U'> M
I 2-«lory brick «ton-, X. \V
lor ami I.in-iih! ntn
& 2-» tory brick, H«7, M2U.831, *», Kb
east strict.
1 «-story brick, N. \\
Harrison street.
:* 2-story brick, lixt ft li.'M fe.li
4 2-story brick, au, sua, :n
Vault mm street.
4 2-story hrifk, 7t«, 7W», 710, 712 Drowi
8 2-story brick, ' 707.' Voit »ml 71» Wright
fib7 Wiiabington
. 87 C00
. 6 oui
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Hue. containing 12 nc
bulliltngH. l'rlcc.
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good
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Tlui above dwelling-«
contain I'roni A to ir
tenu« to ault the pun iia
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mi«: will b<
JOS. !.. OAjiirtlvrWf,
84)7 WaHliIngtoti street.
rf.:
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P'OK
100 Acres of Standing Timber.
<Tiludy YELLOW l'INEmiil MA I'Ll;
mile of rail
SALE.
within o
«I Hirer mite* of
ml aill:u-eiit to other large ami line tra<
r laml ill«- growth i*f wliieh 1« llkrwter «
<>r tin!
the mark
I
part leu lara:
olo« atl«»n. price.
, adilr«'»«,
w&'-ir
M'pt«2
OA55KTTF. OFFICE.
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SALE.—ONE TWO-IIOR9E EN
IN K. AND boiter h
No. 105 Slilpl
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111
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be wohl cheap.
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KU1MK ft <31.,
•et. Wll., Del.
1 AOR BALE.—A NEW FJR8T-CLA8S 13
Itoonuil liouae, i'«»rn«*r Sixth and krfench; Imih
live bay wind«
Well
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Initiied
price I
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EXECUTORS,
Dwelling boil»«' late of Kll Wlteoit, deceased,
NO .mi WASHINGTON 8TRF.ET, Wlhnlofton.
easy. Apply to
li. MKI.DS, Attorney for Kxeentnr,
•liX24-*'"dtf-lu . ill Markcl strei't.
T«
HZiiilHTJSlt'H NUTIVJEH.
jßEGISTiir? ORDER.
1tr.mSTF.B*H OFFICE,
(Matte Co., Del., October 1/J, 1K82.
the apnlleatlon of Chari« •» Krcemi
•« ntor ol' .lohn Dow« b n, late of \Vllinlnyr
biiiKlreil, In «did I'ltiiutv, ili'«'ca.M'«l, It Ih «,r
«I <lire«'t('«l by the IfojrlMtcr that the A.l
tbri'«ul«i iflvti notlwi of KniiitluK<»<'
entory tipou the e
I, with the date of granting Ibereof, by
ailvertlHenifiit« to lx p.
iu tin* «lut«* of Hiieb Id I
Net
Up
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nilntetrat
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.taper i)iihll»he«l In WJlinliiKt«
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I and seal of ol.tao
bre«:iM, nt \VUniiiiKt«Mi.
unity, a fore .mi Ul, the day
(ilve
|^E(iI8rER'ri OKDEU.
I UKOISTER'S offick.
New Can D«'l., kkjiteintier 20th, 1832.
Upon the application or KMen Kelly, Aihniu
Isiratrlx oi Fraud» Kelly, lut«* of \VlliuliiKton
hundred. In *al<l county. «leceitiMMi, It I» «irderuü
(»iii«IHirectfn»> thcReuUtei thjUtheA«niilnistra
R :«»r »foresal«' glvollotte. «»r jri-antln* ot letter«
i*f Aduilitlsti atloii upon tlierntute of
with tliu «tuts «»f k'^'UIuk thereof,
advertUunie. Uto »««• po»t«)«l within
Ffoin the dat* of hiu'Ii tetter» In six of the
public place* of the eouiity «>f N«*w ( astle,
f«M|ulrliiT »11 persomi havliiK Uemainl» uK»iu»t
ihe estate to fuxsMstit the muiic, «
Of A««ei jbly .n mi'll ea»e mud
Did at»«*
written.
H. ('. HK.tSS, RegUtcr.
NOTICE.
AM person« having claim«, aK»Mi«t the e«tat«' of
pn »« lit the »unie «Itily Htte»te«l
Ou tôlier 2tith,
•the decea»«'«
to the Kx«
lv In
eh c
nt A
abide the
hied. CHARLES FREEMAN,
i »ml i
Aihtre»»: Thurlow, l*a.
oct
by eaiiHliifr
forty «lay«
r abide by
te »int provide«! ;
• u* •>«• ln»erUîd within tin
liAZEiTK, a
ctuiHU the *>
ttuiui' perloi ill the
m a w»p'ipcr nirhltelx*? Ill 'VVltlilUlKtou,.aud
cunt linn «1 th« Je in thee weck«, le. o.
i —. » U v«'ii ntioertlieliand uiul
< L. m >of .lie Ru» is ter aforesaid atWllinliiKton
(s»-vw)iu N«>w Cas.le «'ounly uforc»uld, the
^ *«»' " « Tt\ BIGGS, IU-gl.ter.
Daily
in
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ud-ofollt'se
NO. ICE.
All person« havin>r clt In
ic «leeeased mu»t or«'«ei t
»\h«! Admit tetra rtx.ou
.... 18s;t, or vbide the act
CUmu iuadu ami provided.
Address : VUm ngtou, l>cl.
acniiiht the estate of
lue «I ii 1 v Ht tested
or betöre 8* i»t. ffltli. A.
«»f AkmmiiIiiv III suuli
ULLKN KELLY.
Adminitotrutor.
the «
IV.
sep2Mnwf-3
VHOVMi W&Qft. U* VAJiJßS.
£)R. J. P. BU ft WELL
ft ft" WILL R 11(0 YE 1118 OFFICE*»
residence.
To ltiB net
NO. 712 WEST STREET,
NOVEMBER TIIE 1ST.
octSO-lm-MI
JOHN O. COLE,
M OTA BY PU BI.IC ; AND JUSTICE l)F THE
Marla Building, JNo. 101 Weil Hlxtll •trett. Tele
phone call, - -- »-1-1J- ,
jQANIEL H. FOSTEU,
ATTOKN KY-AT-LAW,
NO. W MARKET STREET,
WILMINGTON, DKL»
uiy2-lP
LOCAL ISSUE'S.
!
Mr. Bates Makes
Frank Speech.
a
FAIR AND PLAIN TALK.
Republican Subterfuges Ex
posed. ,
ABOUT REPRESENTATION I
Democrats Shown to Have Ileen In Favor
of It—The Matter of the Ai
Daw intelligently Handle«—The Free
Schools.
In last night's nipping aud eager air a
crowd of nearly 1,000 people stood around a
stand on Fourth street between Shipley and
Market streets, while George II. Bates,Esq.,
the Démocratie candidate for tho Legislature
from tills city discussed the local issues of
the campaigu aud candidly gave his opiuion
ujtfui them.
The
meeting wus called to order by
Thomas M. Ogle und tho following officers
were elected :
President—Andrew E. Crow.
Vice Presidents—Preston Ayers, William
Stilly, Thomas B. Eaton, John A. Mitchell,
John J. Toner, Archibald Given, William
A. Bleyer, Frank P. Lackey, George
Hepburn, George Barnhill, William Hauna,
William Forsyth.
Secretaries—W. J. Jefferls, F. R. 8. Davis,
James Grliilu. Nelson A. Bertolettc.
MU. DATES' SPEECH.
Mr. Bates was lutoduced and received
with applause. After a brief opening,
urging earnest consideration of party sub
ject», lie said :
There has never been in politics
impudent pretension than that put forward
by thepreseut managers of the Republican
party to be the originators of a comprehen
sive scheme of couetitutionui reform in
Delaware.
a more
NECESSITY OF RKPORMS.
Beyond a doubt we need such reform b
and there are features iu our fundamental
law, so radically wrong that I have been
w'atching and waiting ever since my major
ity to see wlien the long suffering people of
New Castle county would rouse themselves
from the lethargic sleep of 80 years, and
assert their rights. An editor not yet a res
ident ion-- enough to vote, lias recently as
sumed to enlighten the citizens of Delaware
public questions of State
which were yet old when
upon
policy
he was but a sehool boy aud to apply for a
patent upon views of public policy, which
was put forward by Democrats more than
than 80 years ago. He lias condescendingly
stated that in response to the repeated re
quests of hi$ po/itr I have (riven a half
hearted adherence to the demand for
ereused representation. Either he had
taken no pains to inform himself, or he cares
only to misrepresent any political opponent
who happens to stand between him and the
designs of his present co-laborers In the Re
publican party. There are not only scores
of Democrats but dozens of Republicans,
who eoitld have told him that for years past
I have not only believed t but IVeely expressed
tiie belief, that the citizens of New Castle
county should, if necessary, make common
cause and suit every issue in a State cam
paign to obtain Justice In this matter.
Indeed there is uot a constitutional reform
hinted at in the Republican platform which
was not suggested and fought for by the
Democrats of Delaware long before the guns
fired at Sumpter awakened the echoes which
for years filled the ears of the American
people and deafened those of a majority of
tlu* Republican party to every tale of politi
cal wrong whicli afflicted any but the negro
race.
Before the Republican party bad an ex
istence
of the government of this State ; when tiie
disparity of the representation of the three
counties was far less than now, the party hi
which I wus bom, iu which my father lived
and died, and of whieli my grandfather was
, though it is I who say it, an honored
hod sounded the uiarin and struek
1
the Democrats bad gained control
the
leader,
manly blows for the rights of New Castle
county.
And why should not Democracy then as
now be found the earnest advocate of just
representation !
TUB PRESENT CONSTITUTION.
Our present constitution was framed
just after the second great upheaval of the
Democracy of the Union but tho state of
held firmly in the grip of the
Whig party, and ils great leader.
It is not to iiiurh too say that at one period
of our history and certainly not «luring
Jackson's first administration would such a
constitution have been formed in this State
under Democratic control. The inequality
of represention was not so great
It was and Is notorious that John M. Clay
ton und his party hud absolutely their own
way, and it is worth while to remember that
N«*w Castle was Democratic, but Kent and
Sussex were Whig counties. Not the Demo
crats then but the Whigs of Delaware were
responsible for the beginning of tills great
political wrong. And if the Republican
party of to-day denies the responsibility
of descent for the acts of the Whig party,
then it must avow itself to be without
political ancestry. We are therefore clear
of responsibility for the first wrong step and
it is the first stcu width costa. Truly a
prophet was the'Whig leader when lie
boasted that he had "locked the door aud
thrown away the key."
In 1840, the disparity of population had
largely incteased, but in 1850, when New
Castle had reached 42,780, with 22,810 for
Kent, and 25,086 for 8usscx, the spirit ol'
Democracy could remain silent no longer.
The first step of preparation for a conflict
wliieh was to agitato Delawure for three
years was a call for a public meeting in
Wilmington, on January 11, 1850, signed by
James A. Bayard and twenty-nine others,
most of whom arc known to me to have been
there, und some of whom are reputed mcu>
bers of the Democratic party of our county.
The Whigs hod then held control of the
Among their
*ro ntauy who arc to-day
party. The
Delaware
I
State for twenty-five years,
leading men
prominent in tho Republic
wrong was scarcely less then than now. But
these men who so loudly cry out at the
neglect of tho Democratic party to remedy
this wrong In its past year« of power, not
only did not suggest relief then, but bitterly
antagonized the proposul of tiie Democrats.
Tho result of that meeting in Wilmington
Democratic State Convention held
February 22,1850, at Dover,
by no authority but that of the people
delegates spontaneously elected from all
over the State by meetings in each hundred.
No nominations were to bo made, but a
platform was adopted decluring the unanl
voieo of the •convention on Federal
questions und State us well—and I may
observe tliut In the preamble national was
8 pc]led with a little it aud State witii a big
8. [Laughter.]
The Democracy of Delaware in Conven
tion assenibl'Hl U cela red iu favor of a eon
was a
It was called
ami
niotM
.. W'—
ventlon to be called by the authority of the
I topic, that the method providing Ju,the
existing constiiutfon for its own amend
ment wag so impracticable a* to preclude
the hope of any future material reforms
through the législature aud they recom
mended to the Democrats in the various
counties to nominate as candidates to the
General Assembly at the next, election "men
fav jrable to a new constitution."
It is Muted in the issues of the Delaware
Gazette containing the report of this con
vention, editorially, that the district system
of electing Representatives and Senators was
much spoken of and very generally assented
to by the late convention, but as there
existed some differences on the subject, it
was resolved not to aak an expression of
opinlou on the subject at that time, but to
leave It for reflection and reference to the
so vend county meetings.
A resolution was passed for a committee
of live from each county to address the
ettzens on this subject, aud one of these was
Charles C. Stoekley. [Applaus«.] The
speaker here paid a high tribute to Mr.
Stockley for his position on this and kindred
Bubjeetfi, and said that the convention was
the culmination ol a movement for a con
stitutional convention. From this out the
Democrats favored it and tlu> Whigs op
posed it. The campaign of 1/tfjO resulted
in the election of Governor Ro.«« and a
Democratic majority lu the Legislature. It
was decided to hold an election for a con
vention on the lirst Tuest! ay in November,
185 J. The Democrats took an active part
while the Whigs were indifferent. The
«•ou ventlon, it was decided, bhould meet at
Dover on the first Tuesday of November.
1852.
Mr. Bates tl.en went on ut great length to
give the details of the convention when it
had again met in 1853. He told how James
A. Bayard and Martin W. Bates had favored
the right of the people to change their own
constitution. When It was decided to go
ahead and frame a hew constitution three
Whig members from New Castle couuty
withdrew. The discussions upon the sub
ject of the basis of the representation in the
General Assembly were the priuciple
features of that convention. The report of
the Committee on the Legislative Depart
ment, of which Mr. Bayard was chairman,
was made In his absence by Mr. Bates of
Kent couuty, and provided lor a House of
Representatives of 34 members, 10 from
New Castle, 7 from Kent and 7 from Sussex,
and authorized the Legislature to make pro
vision for increasing their number, and lor
tiie reapportionment of the counties. There
were to be four Senators from each county.
To this Mr. Bayard offered an amend
ment providing for 18 Senators and 80 Repre
sentatives, the State being divided into 18
districts of equal population. Mr. Bates
went on to speak of the manly stand of Mr.
Bayard, and said uo greater service could
be rendered at tiie prescut time than the
re-publication of that «patch. The speaker
then went ou to quote largely from the
speech which Mr. Bay aril made.
It Was finally decided to ameud Mr.
Bayard's proposition as it had at first stood
with the proviso that Wilmington should
never have more than two-fifths of the mem
bers from New Castle county. Finally the
convention refused to accept the district
system or to regard the basis of population
and Mr. Bayard retired. New Cootie county
while receiving no equal senatorial represen
tation did at last secure a provision for 12
representatives,while Kent got 8 and Sussex
9. Mr. Bates told how in the convention
James R. Loflaud declared that Kent and
Sussex would never submit to New Castle
having more representation than themselves.
This man aud other Whigs refused to sign
the constitution when formed and ready to
be sumbited to the people. The Whigs op
posed the new constitution before the people
and the Democrats gent-rally favored it,
noue op j toeing it except lor the reason that
Mr. Bayard hud retired H orn the convention.
Mr. Bates wcut on to speak of the sub
ject since 1550, show ing that the Democratic
attitude had not been ugaiust representation
according to pspulatiou, and then he pro
ceeded to give
THE nEPCDLICAK HECOXD
on tiie subject. Tiie Republican party in
claiming
specially to champion this
subject chullatigc.s inspcetlon- of its own
record. It« principles are not in favor of
tension of the suffrage, save in the single
ease of the enfranchisement of the negro
race, which was a political mameuvre to
obtain control of tha South, It careR
1 nothing for Uie right ol a colored man to
vote unless be votes the Republican ticket
It illustrates its cry for a free ballot by
threats and violcucc to any of that van who
wish to change their polities, and in Sussex
a black man who dared to vote the Demo
cratic ticket in the little election
he turned from the {mils with threats that
he should be killed. They muko no con
cealment of tills purpose, for one of their
leading men, a candidate, it is understood
for the United States Senate, said from the
platform lit our Opera House, that any
colored man who would vote with the
Democrats ought to be soli into slavery.
Whenever .tula party has control of States
or of Congressional Districts it tortures both
geophrophy and tho ceueus returns to make
the largest representation for Republican
localities and the smallest for Democratic
districts. In
taken ground iu favor of givlifg to Wilming
ton an equitable share oi tho county repre
sentation, aud even the arrangement that
Wilmington should always hare a repre
sentative in each house of tho legislature
adopted by the Democratic party it) its
rules and after.vards followed by the Re
publicans. We have heard a great deal
about county rigid« from the leaders of
section of that party, but the success attained
by those gentlemen in enforcing tiie right of
tlulr couuty lit their own party is uot such
as to encourage the jicoplu of this county at
large
right.
met as
own county it has never
to entrust to them any important
THE ASSESSMENT LAWS.
Just now we hear much about the assess
ment lav/s and thdir existence is one of the
maniiolU iniquities charged upon the Dem
ocrats. One ot the Republican orators, Mr.
Bird, the other night called them "a law for
the collection of taxes" and his objection,
when extricated from a mass of general
abuse, appeared to be that they failed iu
best accomplishing that end. I ottcc thought
so und argued before tho United States
Court to establish thjit view—unfortunately
the Court did not agree with me. Chief
Justice Churehwilliby remarked tlmt when
a lawyer lost it ease lie could do one of two
things—take un appeal or go down to the
tavern aud swear at the Court. 1 could not
take un up(H'ul lor there was none,and I did
not care to do t he other thing—so I had no
alternative bùt to accept tiie result, and
therefore wlten Mr. Bird says that these are
laws passed to raise taxes I refer him to the
United States Court wliieh decided that they
were a systc»i for the registration of voters.
Another omtor, Mr. lllggius, denounced
these laws as an infamous system and if the
account of them which lie gave the other
diîy were true, I should ccrtuiuiy agree witii
liim. So great Wus the clamor against these
laws raised by tiie Republicans that although
I had made no study of them I supposed
that where there was so much smoke there
must be some fire. Mr. Higgins,however,was
eoncrued on the other side in the argument
to which I alluded, upon the applicability
of the United States Supervisor law to a
tax system. By listening attentively to ills
arguments on that occasion, I learned to
appreciate what an admirable system of
laws this was. I bave, within a day or two,
and since frir* Higgins made the speech re
ported to have bceii delivered by 1dm at the
Opera House, twice cnrefblly re-read a re
port of his speech before Judge Bradford,
which I happen to know was revised in the
proof by Mr. Higgins himself. I confess
I hat 1 am nimble to understand how the
two speeches could have txn*n made by one
man. 1 beg you look upon this picture and
then on thai.
In reply to my argument that this
nota registration, Mr. Iflggins, the lawyer,
said : "Sir, I contend that the citizens ot
this State have a time and place where they
can come forward in person and demund
their rights, and when the government
come in and say we will scrutinize this thli
fair."
At the Opera House, Mr. Higgins, the
stump speaker called the act of 1878, "a
device to prevent a man of the opposite
party from voting," -'a device such as he
would describe us a crime against suffrage."
Before Judge Bradford, the lawyer, after
premising that prior to 1873,
•g
and see if it is
when nobody
was ever supposed to perpetrate a iraud,
the action of these laws wai to Impose taxes
and indirectly to provide a qualification of
voters, went on to say :
"But iu 1873 a system of laws was devised
wbieli very much more regulated and
guarded the action of the assessors and of
the collectors and of the Levy Court." And
after referring in detail to the first section
he eonti nues, "And thus you have, in the
very first line of the new act, the fact that
they meant to prevent a fraudulent assess
ment—not that too much .or too litile tux
might be collected, it was not with reference
to the collection of taxes^-but tiie fraud
wbieli they attempted to provide against
was a fraudulent qualifying to vote on the
[»art of persons not entitled to do 6o."
Here wo observe that Mr. Higgins knocks
the bottom out of Mr. Birds argument,
which must have distressed him. But now,
since the stump speaker objects to the law
as a device to prevent men of the opposite
party from qualifying to vote, and the
lawyer says the purpose of the law is upon
its laec plainly to prevent fraudulent quaJL
float Ions to vote of persons not qualified to do
so, it follows of necessity that when we find
the stump speaker and tiie lawyer to be the
same person, that "the men of the opposite
party" who aro "prevented from qualify
ing" mu6t bo "the persons not qualified" to
vote, who desired fraudulently to do so.
Now, I don't think Mr. Higgins means to
advocate or abet the fradulent qualification
of persons not entitled to vote, and yet to
such inevitable conclusion would we be
brought unless his utterance as a slump
speaker bo charitably considered "mere
sound and fury signifying nothing."
But the lawyer next refers to the provision
for hanging up the lists at "timesaud places
to be given to the people lor the remedying
of wrong, if wrong had been done to them;"
"but lest he (the assessor) might fail to
reach every one, the law gives to the citizen
the right to an affirmative thing, and gives
him his day in court-in which to do it." And
quoting the provisions for affidavits as to
identity, age and residence of the applicant,
the lawyer continues : "Ail these safe
guards art thrown around the assessment
lists, not for the remotest suggestion of a
purpose to protect the counties of the State
in respects to rights of revenue and collec
tion of taxes, but to protect the citizen of
tiie State in respect to his right to vote."
Proceeding in his argument I
tion 4, 7 and 8 and then says :
who]e scheme is a manifest recognition by
the Legislators of their duty under the con
stitution, to throw the shield of pemt) law
around what may be a ease of fraudulent
assessment—fraud with respect to the right
to vote."
Respecting the right to go before the Levy
Court, he says, "but there is one day longer
left iu court, for persons to be assessed."
The provision that no assessment shall be
made after the last day of March he truly
says is enacted, "simply because the consti
tution requires that tiie voter must pay a
tax which has been assessed at least six
months before the day of election."
Referring to ohapter xn, section 18, re
specting placing a fraudulent vote on a
tax receipt, he adds, "Now there is another
safe guard agaluët fraud." Passing then to
the act of April 10, 1873, providing that
collectors should sit at spcclflod times upon
public notices, and constituting those who
did not pay, delinquents, he says respecting
the whole system : "Thus the assessors, the
collectors and the levy court arc all charged
together with duties as to the creating or
making a qualification of voters, and that is
guarded by the laws of the State against
the mischief at which the act of Congress
is leveled, namely, the fraudulent uxereiee
of the power to qualify voters by tho pre
payment of a tax." The whole system,
says Mr. Higgins, the lawyer, Is arranged so
as to guard against the same mischiefs as
arc aimed at by tills much lauded Republi
can act of Congress to preserve the purity
of eleotions.
Mr. Bates proceeded to compare tills with
Mr. Higgins' violent attack on the laws in
his rcceut speech. When Mr. Higgins dis
agrees with himself, he asked, who shall de
cide ? There may be objections but mean
while, lie said, out upon this wholesale de
nunciation of a si stem of laws which one
lawyer says is a failure l>ccuusc It docs not
accomplish a purpose which a learned judge
of hip own party says was not its purpose,
and which another lawyer denounce» in
terms of abuse, which arc driven back down
his throat by tho very echoes of his own
legal arguments.
TIIE TWO OBJECTIONS MET.
There were two points of objection in the
law. One was that the collectors' adver
tisement was not a demand, and this had to
be to prevent the collector from partisan
Federal persecution. The other feature ob
jected to is tin- provision that if a man is
put upon the delinquent, list lie shall not go
back upon the assessment list, or, as Mr.
Higgins calls it, th« voting list, for 12
months. It was to require every man to vote
to pay a tax each year, because the Republi
cans couccivcd the brilliant idea of having
the negroes' taxes paid*every two years. If
there has beau any dtufranehlscncut of Re
publican Voters Republicans
1 soy boldly and without fear of successful
challenge, that under the assessment laws
of Delaware every voter has ample oppor
Iunity to be assessed and then lie has nine
months to pay hia tax.
Mr. Bates charged that 430 negro voters
were put on the assessment lists who had no
existence, being that number in excess of
the census of negro male adults.
Ol H LU ISSUES.
he read scc
"Thus the
are to blame.
On the matter of schools Mr. Bates said he
was In favor of a progressive course in this
line. Delaware did not want mixed schools.
If there had not been a suggestion of mixed
schools in Republican sentiment, why
should Mr. Conrad rush iuto print aud say
lie favored separate schools for the races i
Mr. Bates next paid his respecta to Mr.
Bird who at this place in the speech which
lie made but did'nt print, [Laughter] hud
seeu fit to charge that lie (Mr. Bates) had
been a Republican postmaster under
n ik>6t nllicc in n
[
Lincoln. It
lumber yard, and be was the clerk in the
yard and had taken charge. As soon as a
«alary was attached to tiie office a good Re
puliean was appointed. Mr. Bates gave an
amusiug account of the bard time he
bad there. He knew what it was
to do hard work aud had inspected 100,000
feet of lumber in a day aud had to turn over
50,000 boards to 4o it. He alluded to the
"Now Constitution
Robeson's navy.
Addresses were also made by Messrs
Whlteley anil Gray.
as tl.o remnant of
NEWS NOTES IN BUTER
VARIOUS ITEMS OF GENERAL
INTEREST.
AFFAIRS IS FOREIGN LANDS.
Hospitalities Extended to s Visiting Fire
man by tiie Uellsoce Company of This
City.
v
Yesterday morning C. M. AiK-teU, assist
ant burgess, ot Bethlehem,*Pa. v and a mem
ber of the Reliance Engine Company No. 8,
of that city, arrived in Wilmington, on bis
way to visit relatives in Maryland.
met at the station by a delegation
of the Reliance Engine Company, who, re
membering the generous treatment lie had
given them while while on their recent visit,
felt under obligations to make his brief stay
here as pleasant as possible.
He was escorte«! to the Clayton House for
dinner, iu the afternoon being taken a drive
through the city and along the Brandywine.
In the evening a number of members of
tho Reliance Company,
by the First Rcgini'-til
volunteered their services out of courtesy to
the visitor, at whose hands they bad fared
well, met at the. Clayton House and.escorted
Mr. Anstett to the engine house, where he
was tendered a banquet, at which speeches
wcie made by Harry Sharpley, Esq., and
others.
He
accompanied
Baud, who
There Are Mixed .Schools
in Chester county, Pa., under Republican
management, and mairy poor white ehild
reu, who are unable to stand the associa
tion, are compelled to stay at home, us their
parents art- not utile to scud them to private
schools. Read tho article ou "Mixed
Schools" on 'the third page of to day's
paper.
Two Mi
FullOd)
Police Officers Hennis aud White, and
John Postles aud Hugh Johnson were before
Justice Bertolettc last evening on the charge
oi making an illegal arrest. Charles Dicta,the
prosecutor, is a young man, and at the last
election lie voted iu the Eleventh word.
Shortly afterward lie w as arrested by the
officers, at the instance of Postles and Joliu
l, taken to tho City nail, given
a hearing and discharged. He claims
that at the time or his arrest he
was behaving iu a projicr manner and was
creating no breach of the peace. His arrest
was also made without a warrant. Austin
Harrington, Esq., appeared for the defend
ants, and at his request the hearing of the
ease was postponed tempo^ftBs
In Trouble.
Launch of » Schooner.
At 7.12 o'clock this morning a substan
tial three-masted schooner£was successfully
launched at the yards of the Jackson &
Sharp Company, But few persons wore
present on account of tho early hour. The
vessel was christened the "Job II. Jackson"
by Henry F. A. Jackson, a five-year-old
son of the gentleman after whom the boat
was uamed, The craft is of about 000 tons
burden, 140 feet in length of keel, 35 feet .8
inches In breadth ot beam, and 13 feet 0
indies the depth of her hold. She is the
third Rchooner built to the order of Captain
D. 8. Williams, of Cedar Creek, N. J.,
the general coasting trade, anti her home
port will be Perth Amboy.
Police Court Hearing».
Last evening at
MeGinley, Ambrose
Niehols were each fined $1 and costs for
getting drunk on Front street whisky.
This morning Dennis Daly,
about
by the Mayor $10 for continually being
drunk, abusing bis father and mother
and being very unruly. Ui6 father told the
story of the son's ingratitude aud worthless
ness, and said the latter had frequently
struck both Ills parents. George Brown,
from Baltimore, was fined §1 and costa lor
being very drunk aud disorderly.
Ill Centennial Trains.
On Tuesday morning next a special train
will leave Wilmington for Philadelphia at
5.80 o'clock, to accommodate persons de
siring to view the Bi-Centennial ceremonies
in the latter city. On the 24tli, 35th, 30th
and 27th insts. a special train will leave
Wilmington at H o'clock a, m., going north,
and a-speolal will leave Philadelphia at 10
p. m. on those dates, making no stop before
Wilmington is reached.
police court William
Callahan a d Vincent
young man
25 years of age, was fined
Slight Fire Yesterday.
About 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon an
old and deserted building on tho south side
of Market atreot bridge, east of New Castle
avenuo was damaged by a supposed incen
diary fire. The department turned out, but
the service of the engines was not rnuah
needed.
Mixed Scliools
for the children of the poor and private
schools for the children of the rich is tl«;
doct rlne of the Republican party. Read
article on "Mixed Schools" on the tl
page of to day's paper.
f
of Dali This Alter noon.
The reorganized Our Boys' club will play
the Ni ce tow n club of Philadelphia at the
Union street grounds this afternoon. The
Boys will have their strong battery of Baker
and Oldfield and a fine game is expected.
LOCAL LACONICS.
C,j
Don't forgot the Ringgold Band concert
tltis evening iu the Opera House.
Tho Daniel Moore fined at the City Hall
Thursday night is n«»t Daniel Moore, a mem
ber of the Reliance engine company.
The increase of travel
the Front street
passenger railway has necessitated the ad
dition of another ear in constant use. The
time of running will be 12 minutes apart.
Among those present nt the annual session
of the Synod of Baltimore, being held in
that city, are the following from New Castle
Presbytery : Rev. L. Marks, 1). I)., W. W.
i I cher ton, (J. L. Moore, J. 11. Johns, J. B.
8pottswood. D. D., A. C. Heaton, 1). D., 8.
A. Gayley, W. D. Mackey, W. V. Alexan
der, John Squires, G. J. Porter, Judgn I.. T.
II. li ving, George W. Bush, \V. II. Purnell,
LL. D., D. J. Murphy, Theodore F. Clark,
J. T. McCullough, Irving Spense, Samuel
Barr.
AMlI SKltl KNT8.
Bartholomew's Equine Paradox will be
in Wilmington on October 80, and remain
one week, performing every evening and
three afternoons. The lust visit of the
trained horses here gave much satisfaction
and pleasure and their coining performances
will do the same.
Concerning the Harrisons' new play a New
York dran atic fournnl says : "Viva"
Is certainly better in construction
and treatimnt than any of the imported
British luclo dram is, and we must frankly
avow that it is iu most respects superior to
any of the new productions seen lit this city
for some time.
An old bachelor leaving his boarding
house for a week's journey, after taking
leave of Itis landlady, «topped up to a salt
mackerel on the table, shook him by the
tail an«l said : "Good-by, old fellow ; I
"ill sc«* you when I return."
▲ lioimin DEATH.
How a Colortulo Miner Took a Terrible
, , Hide to Destruction.
[Denver ih-puMioan. j
At ihr: Running Lode, in Gilpin county«
Col., yesterday, Jobu Schifller pushed out
one of file ore-ears wîthoift orders from
the boss, and shoved it-along until the iii -,
dine was reached, where tic did not stop
to attach thp rope and signal the engineer
that all was ready. As a rule, throe mon
had been going out with the ear,' and
he wis doubtless under the impression that,
his imperative duty had been performed
by some one else. But no other attache of
the mine was with
clinc was reached
was just ready to start on its frightful run
lie jumped on to the, top o£ . the ore and
starved on thé ride to death. Tiie un
fortunate fnsn did'not lmfMIme to' hardly
realize the terrible mistake he had made.
There was no escape. To jump from the
ear was certain death. He rode on. Like a
Hash Vie car went on its way. The bottom
was reached, and poor John Sehlffler shot
through the dump like a bullet. The ear
went on over and landed jiOJcet u,way.
Fellow-laborers rushed to tiie bottom of
the dump. They lifted the mangled and
crushed man from amidst the ore und rockr.
Thoyibeot over l>iin. They called him bv
e. But it was no use. He was dead.
Life was gone before they reached him.
Every bone in his body probably was broken.
The remains were, covered with a blanket,
and on the shoulders of his friends he was
taken to those who had seen him leave a few
hours before the very picture of robust
manhood and the personification of health.
the ear. When tip; Bl
and tiie head of the ear
Obeying the Court*« Command.
[ Arkansaw Traveler. ]
"Do you know the naturo of an oath?"
ask(-«l a Judge Of a colored woman.
"Yes, sah ; I reckon I does." •
"You know, then what it is to swear?"
"Yes, sah ; I reckon I does."
"Hold up your Laud and, swear,
held up her hand and ripped out an oath
which almost took the Judgu'6 breath.
"I'll send you to jail for this, you mcscra
ble crektiirr."
"Fur what, Jedge?"
"For using profane language in this
court room."
"I doesn't know whatycr mean by 'fane*
language. Yer tolc me ter «war, an' I
swar'd. White folks gittin' so high up It
gius a nigger a crick in de naik fer to lot k
up at.'em. l'segwinc to leave dis town,
case 1 wa'n't horned In Àrkansaw
how."
Atlverliftlng for a Wife.
[New York Tribune.]
An advertiser in a recent ls6ueof a Vienna
newspaper revenlod liis truly desperate com
ditiou witii such engaging frankness that it
is quite possible that be received more ap
plicants than he cOuld answer in a week.
This is a itérai translation of the odvertiae
tuent; "My baptismal name is Frederick.
I am no less reduced In circumstances than
advanced in age and repulsive in person. Tf
my Inborn stupidity Is exceeded Iu intensity
by any of my other unpleasant character
istics, it can only be so by my ingrained
malignity of disposition. Nevertheless, I
am anxiou* to marry, and take this means
of offering myself as a candidate for piatH
inonaljoys. Answer to this advertisement,
under address, 'Who will venture i 021*5,*
will reach me at the office of the Sent»
Wiener Taycblatt ."
FOREIGN NEWS IN flRIEF.
Madame Patti will ßail from Liverpool
day on the steamer Scrvia for New York.
The Oak Bank cottou mill, situated near
Macclesfield, has been destroyed by fire.
Loss, £50,000.
The Horse Guards, who have returned
from Egypt, marched through London yes
terday and hail a remarkable ovation. " •
The Council of Egyptian Ministers ha*
adopted the preliminary scheme of Baker
Pasha for ths reorgauizaiion of the Egyptian
army.
The riotous miners at Monteeau-Lcs
Miues, France, made an unsuccessful at
tempt on Thursday to blow up a priest's
house with dynamite.
A Congrats is sitting at 8aragossa to con
sider the best me
i to
of arresting the ravages
of phylloxera. It is statenl that in Malaga
alone vines covering 00,000 hectares of laml
have been invaded.
Returns received by the Miners' Associa
tion at Barnsley, England, show that 20,000
miners in South uhd West Yorkshire havo
'given notice ol a strike if they foil to
ceive au increase of wages.
The steamer Victoria, wliieh arrived at
Liverpool on the 16th instant from Boston,
landed 761 bullocks, being thb largest eargo
of cattle i in lofted this season without ibss,
owing to the improved system of ventilât! 3n
adopted by the line.
re
A wire 6,0C0 feet long over the river Kist
nah in India is the longest in the world. It
is stretched between two hills each 1,206
feet high.
The Nature says that the work of building
a new central school for Ingenlcrs des Arts
et Mauufactu es was inaugurated in Paris a
short time ago iu the Carre 8t. Martin
square, behind the Conservatoire des Aids
and Metiers. The central school' and the
Conservatoire will form a <jronp ncholaire of
unexampled usefulness for high industrial
training.
At a meeting of the American Public
Health Association, to be held in Iinliaiiajip
lis in October, the expediency of having a
national medical and sanitary exhibition in
1883' w ill be c« nuidercd. A Very respectably
signed call lias been issued to Secretaries of
State Boards ol Health requesting the ap
pointments of commissioners to meet at
Indianapolis to discuss the matter.
Professor John AUflcld urges the pharma
cists to become more and more the -manu
facturers of the preparations they «sell. The
tendency nowadays was for the retail drug
gist to rely more and more
manufacturer. By so doing he wi
iug what ought to be a cherished art, ami
entering into competition with other traders
iu which he bad very little prosfeet of
tnectiug with success.
The iSanitary Engineer reports that a
smokc-consumlng engine, invented by Mr.
Kearney, master mechanic of the St. Louis
and San Francisco Railway, Is being experi
mented with in Uhieago'sattsfactorily. Tho
draft is downward, throwing the cindera
and smoke hack into tiie fire box to be con
sumed. In the experiments thus far made
there has been, it 1« skid, a saving of about
50 per cent.'of fuel.*
M. M. Sclmlhoflf und Bessert consider the
period of the comet of 1812 to b« 17v7 years,
year longer than that assigned by
Enekc, who lii>i proved the impossibility of
representing tnc data .of observations bv a
parabola. Taking into consideration the
effect of planetary pertuberathm since the
last appearance of this cotnot, tliev believe
It reasonable tp suppose that tiie summer of
1888 will see it at perihelion.
Captain Morris and Lieutenant Darwin
are the Englishmen selected by the Astron
omer Royal to observe the transit of Venus.
Four German expeditions ace to come to
this hemisphere for the same purp»*»c. Each
of them will consist of two,tried astronomers
und a student assistant, and the stations
selected kre in C 'oitnretlcut, Sotith Caroilun
Costa Hie«, anil a% the Straits of Magel
lan. The observers will remain at their
stfttlous scv)QfM mont hs.
the wholesale
negloet
or