Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-07-15
For the Ga7ettc.
AN OUTRAGE,

Seeing n scurrous attack on William Bright,
Esq in Eeery Erenin5, OF Saturday, allow one
who is not Influenced by party politics or men 10
reply to Its sapcnt editor. What meat has this
Caesar fed on that he should be the dictator 10
both parties. CTR why should he attempt TO ride
two horses at once? THIS editor is ia favor oi
the Governor coming fiom this county aud from
| Wilmington. He says I've have not had a Gov
crnor tor thiItytwo years" aud yet he Is against
Mr.. Bright, the only one that can be elected from
here, and wants the Democrats to take Mr.. Will
llams, of Kent, and the Republicans TO take Mr..
Thompson, OF Wilmington. Why is he for Mr..
Kent, and against Mr.. Blight, of Wilmington,
and tor Mr.. Thompson? He Is Tor Mr.. ThOmp-
son that he may get his spite, and be is against
| Mr.. Bright because II nominated lie will be elect
| ed and Mr.. Thompson be defeated, and the Ring
OF Erery Ercnin1 and the Commercial fail OF
their cribbings. 1 can respect an honest oppo-
nent and opposition made 10 fellow citizen iu
| sincerity but when such little screech owl
pure and unsullied Mr.. Bright and puts on
| sincerity for hypocrisy and self-conceit and iguo-
| rance, for knowledge and presumption and abuse
| for argument, madman Is 10 me the emblem OF
wisdom, and such fellows can be better corrected
by the lash OF ridiculc than by reason, and ten
sheep-skins shall not conceal from me the insidu-
Gus wolf SPoILs, sroILsl "Answer a fool ac-
cording to his folly" says the wise man. But to
be more serisus, for the sake of others, with one
breath this editor praises Mr.. Bright and then
with another defames him. Mr. Bright is man
for whose business capacity We have the utmost
respect. "he is not proper man to become the
Governor OF this State under any circumstances"
Tho persistent aud scandalous canvass made By
Mr.. Bright is reason why he should not be
nominated" "Goiug about, hat in hand, among
the people" I'VE say this with regret, for we
have strong personal liking for Mr.. Bright, and
depiore, as all judicious friends of his must, his
misdirected ambition. But it s time il was said,
and, as usual, the dsagreeable duty OF telling |
nnwelcome truths falls to us" Now, as to Mr., |
Bright soliciting the nomination, allow the writer
of this to testify, that though living in Whining |
ton for years, Mr. Bright never mentioned poll |
tics to him once. As TO going about with shat |
in hand, Mi. Bright II a warm hearted gentle |
man, and when lie meets q fellow citizen he nat |
urally takes off his hat and .honors all men:" |
W bat would this foolish editor have when q fe |
low w-citizsn is talked Of for Governorl Would he
have him put up at home and not mingle with
his friends or change his nature and become q
boor, lest he should be charged by some ignorant
or malicious editor with soliciting oficey Allow
Ing this were so does not this sapient editor push
his horn! Has he no word to say about Mr.
Thompson being busy politician. Or Is this
editor oil Ring faction OF Republicans to be 90
Fresumptuous as 10 dictate 10 Democrats that
they should take their candidate from Kent in
stead OF New Castle or abuse our standard bear
er as "unft in personal dignity" Why, as has
been well said, Mr.. Bright has forgotten more
than this hotspur ever knew. II this editor ever
expects to get as much practical sense as Mr..
Bright, in view of the theory Of Agassiz, that the
phosphorus furnlshed by fish diet is great as
sstant In enlalging and Strengthening the brain,
let me tell him he will have to eat q great many
more sharks and sheepshead; and as to personal
dignity. Mr.. Bright has more than this young
snipe ever will have il he lives the years Of Me-
and IL these were the days of chivalry
or knight errantry and not the light of Christian
lty, the application OF Mr.. Bright's cane or some
BORNE epidermus would bring this young man to
his sober senses he would then learn that Meth
er himself or Mr.. Thompson are par excellence
above theiF fellows. Viewed in this light, his
abuse OF Mr.. Bright, as has frequently been re-
marked since this slanderous attack, is Mr. |
Bright's honor; his impertinence in attempting to
dictate to the great Democratic party shall dive
them closer together, and his self-conceit in tax.
ing upon himself TO say, "as usual the disagreea
Die duty OF telling UNIV hole some truths falls upon
him." Democrats VII say for themselves who
shall be their n0miI-r aud Governor, and this
self interested coeka CON plains of the "ina |
bilty OF the party 10 sgree upon a candidate"
will learn Win rtget that there will be unity
when the time for unity shall come, and when
Ihe Democrsu" party shall agree upon their can
didate it will Dc live man, one who will not
'nly seek the otiicc INT work for il and find it
md It is such man we want
AN INDEPENDENT MAN