Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-10-13
The salisbury Lnsh Applied.

| THE " DEI4AwAREAN" PERSONALLY ATTACHING THE
INDEPENDENT" LEADERS.
FROM tho DeldtrdrTan, of Saturday, We Gull
the following elegant extracts referring to the
gentlemen prominent in the Kent county holt
against the Salisbury Hing -
HON. JOHN A. NIcHoIsoN-wiY HE not;rs
MUCH HE SAVED IN CONGRESS.
| g Mr. Nicholson, while not wishing to abuse
anybody darkly limited that there had been great
| waste IN the management OF the State and
| county funds. He neglected to say anything
| about his vote III Congress to increase his own
| salary from $4,000 to $1,000 year, and refused
| to acknowledge the fact that he was indebted to
caucus for being taken from the seclusion of
his Office and placed in position to gain the
neat sum of 900, during his incumbency in
Congress, to say nothing of perqnisites. lie
did not tell his audience that lie owed all he was
or ever had been politically, even the title OF
| Honorable which lie now bears, to the Demo-
cratic party, or that Ills dissatisfaction with the
pafty was because lie was not nominated again
Tor Congress, or elected to the Senate in place
OF Mr.. Bayard, nor did lie allude to his desire
| to occupy the position of U. S. Senator. In place
| OF Hon. Willard Salisbury"
| lENiAn WATSON CATCHES THE GETS HIS ci.l.gK-
SHIP oS HIS FATHERS ACCOUNT.
'Ilic rostrrm, after three tunes ly tho band
was next occupied by Beniah Watson, ESD, who
was introducedby the President with the remark
was the son of respectable merchant of Mil
lord, (who now occupies prominent place on
the regular Democratic ticket.) This Young
man, the chairman might have added. occupied
the position of Clerk of the House of l,epreseu-
tatives during the session of 1869, given to lin
not because he had any claim for the position.
but solely on account of his father and for four.
teen weeks services received the very liberal
allowance of l,300 to say nothing of the 1912
paid to assistants for doug work that the clerk
ought to have done, and in addition 800 for
superintending the printing of his Journal We
mention these facts to show that he has no cause
to srumble at his treatment by the Democratic
party"
AND THEN MR.. RiDGLEY HE Is RESPONSIBLE
FOR THE CouNrYs EXTnAvAGANcEs.
" In regard to county finances Messrs. Ridge
ley and Watson both made some unaualitied
statements, but we would remind them of the
fact that they themselves are responsible in a
measure for some of the expenses they so freely
lay at the door of the Democratic party Az
counsel of tho Levy Court, MIR. lidgiey Iartici-
pated IN suit brought against the trustee of
INC Potter estate, by which the county and the
estate were thrown into bill of expense of near
$4,000, from which Mr.. Ridgey realized n fec Of
stoO, and Watson n fee of 5000 Mr. Ridpley
also advocated an enormous appropriation by
the Levy Court to pay for the job of marking
the letter IS" on the Judgment docket of the
superior Court, for which it is believed he renl-
lzeu handsome reward, though the Levy Court
failed to see the forcc of his argument Mr.
Hidgley has been the recipient of fees and en-
olulents from the State, within the last twelve
years, to the tune of at least $1,000 Does he
mean to include these crumbs among the ex-
travasant appropriations of the public moneys -