Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-02-27
A rW TUpTHRR FACTS.

AltuouBn OuE uelBnDOE tEueFy EutIa1t9 hhu
concluded on Monday that it had not enough in
terest in demonstration Of it's own untruthful-
ness, to examine the evidence, IL has since
thought better of that decision, and yesterday we
were informedt that it had glanced hastily over
the list Of items which we gave on Saturday, and
upon these ''hasty glanoes," 1t hangs in loose
fashion, longish article. Some Of the items.
We are told. ''were utterly himsy and unimpor-
tant." We confess thinking this odd. Why, then,
did EUey EUening print them2 Does it pub
lish utterly fimsy {" statements, and carefully
Gull from Its contemporaries items that are tut
terly uninportant ~ This seems to require e1-
plAnAtioal
But quite number Of them, says Z. E., were
not copied from the COMMERCIAL; n fact which
nobody questioned. The point raised, concern
ing which they were cited as evidence, was tho
assertion of EUs,y E0enins, on February 18th,
that 1t was a rare occurrence" for any news to
sppear in the CoanKRoIAL, in advance of publi-
cation in its own columns. That is the question,
and if Eue'y Evening has anything to say on it,
We shall be charmed TO hear the word.
The item which our neighbor considers "the
most important Of the lot" it says did not ap-
pear first in the COMMERCIAL, and so far as 1t
has observed" never did appear in it. Then
it's observation and calculation Of time are alike
At fault. The item was printed in the CONNER
cIAL Of January Sist, which is certainly an ear
her date than February 10th, when Eeery EUs-
ming printed it.
Again." says our neighbor-"the CONNER
CIAL vigorously denied the statement that We
frequently print items Of news ahead Of it.
Such denial is simply foolish in the face Of the
fact that EVERY EVENING, alone, has special cor
respondencs from the State Capital and the
County Seat Of this county"
Whe is "siinply foolish" or foolshly simple,
upon this head, might bear ex animation, there
being no such "fact," as that Eue,y Evening
"alone," has special correspondence from New
Castle and Dover. The COMMERCIAL has a spe-
ciAl correspondent resident at New CASTLE, and
has been regularly the first to announce and give
the details Of ths important improvements in
that town. Further we have had, since the first
day Of the session of the Legislature, special
correspondent ct Dover, except chat for the las
ten days, during which we have had special ar
rangements made,) the gentleman, on account
Of severe illness, has not been able to be on duty,
disability which similarly occurred fer some
days to Eoesy EUening's own correspondent
These are facts which that paper is perfectly well
aware Of, and its assertion that it "alone" had
special correspondence from Dover is an evasion
of the truth which certainly ought to be sold fol
q cent.
EUey Eueaing names three items which i,
says we did not publish. Two OF them did
appear in our paper-A synopsis of the Whining
ton 4 Reading report, and an item of the explo-
sion ct Riddles. Many more items we have print
ed, ofreAl public intersst-some OF decided i'm
portance-which Eoery Euening has entirely fail
ed notice. This we are ready to prove when the
present question is settled. One thing at a
time.
AS it has abandoned the original issue, which
it opened itself, by its assertion of February
18th, and continually apologies for appearing
in the field ct all, (Which is perhaps q called-for
apologyO we have only to ask Eoery Eoening's
attention to the facts that it wantonly and most
implicitly attacked the CoarzKRcrAI in its issue Of
February 10th, using epithets which would be
highly insulting II uttered with q cool oompre-
hension Of their import thus proving, CONTRARY
to ts assertion of yesterday that it has 'sought
this quarrel" For il 1t did not seek quarrel
why did it charge the COMMERCIAL with gross
impudonce," and " stealing 2" And IL it had .
good defence against our proof of its own un-
truthfulness why has it not brought It forward,
instead Of eyading the issue, and arguing ques-
tions which were not raised
1--WE deprecate needless controversies but We
do assure our rash neighbor that it must moi
expect to fling rough words ,csrelessly around
without being called to book, and held to &C
count.