THE Outlook of April 1 makes this observation regarding what may be seen in the muddy pool of politics to-day in the State of Delaware:— A trustworthy correspondent informs us that it is estimated that nearly one half of all the votes in Delaware cast for the Republican ticket at the election last autumn were “coaxed into the ballot-box by cash,” and since there is pretty conclusive evidence showing that the Republicans alone spent at the polls at least one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, it will be seen that the estimate is not far out of the way. If the statements of reliable men may be accepted, at least ninety-five per cent of the negro voters demanded and got a money reward for their ballots. . . . Our correspondent assures us that specific instances have been given of fathers’ negotiating for their sons’ votes, and there is on record one case where a father drove his son from home because he would not sell the first vote he ever cast. . . . The buying and selling of votes has almost assumed the dignity of legitimate trade among certain classes of the State. “Mr. A’s money elected you,” exclaims one legislator to another. “No; it was the money of Mr. X,” is the reply. So that a man who constantly and loyally votes for the candidate who bought him attains almost the position of a high-toned moralist among his fellows. In such a State popular government does not exist in any true sense of the word.