The Morning herald., 1875-09-22
M WILMINGTON, DEL, WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 1875

/ obi THE QUAKER CITY. Iiw no
Pe.D sketches GE.phicaliy Drawn.
-Idnils Bi4 yJ ll-- lGt j,T srOIyMH
OF HIS HONOR MAYOR sToKBLY--soMB--.
! THING OF THE MUNICIPALITY, AND ITS
BossEs-cHARLEY KEATS LOVE CHANGED
INTO HATE - THE FAIR INAMoRATA
, BRANDED WITH RED HOT 1RoNs--rlTHY
POINTS UPON 1NTEREs11xa Forrcs! ~
N',',' Pn1LApEL.rp1nilAA, sept. so,' 1875 q
Entertaining nought save the kindliest'
feelings for mankind { in general, the
proper mood for one ,toa be- i'm, who
has just returned from the invigorating
breezes Of the Island of Smith, l take this
advantage of an odd moment to dilste upon
some Of the oceurrences Of the week, for
which the residents Of this, s'the City Of
Brotherly Love-" are in some degree ac-
countable. lido not mean to have it inferred
that I am about to proceed with diagnosis
Of the doings Of every living mortal man
within the confines Of consolidation; for
such would be task well calculated to in
spire mild form of lunacy, the entailments
of which, am as yet, unwilling to encoun-
ter, much less attempt, to superinduce.
What desire to do, is to call to the atten-
tion Of your numerous readers, some of the
peccidilloes of what might be termed the
forward or progressive class in our little
community up here, who, for many, many
months have labored sedulously to bring
themselves into public notice, as the great
moguls Of moral and mathematical advance
ment, and who, during the last past seven
days have proven, more than ever before'
the utility of penitentiaries, and insane asy-
lums' huG ,siu,U1 '9os .....' ,f..
! fear you will say emphatic--preface, let
us draw the curtain up and as the melod-
ious strains of an orchestra made up of the
sighs, and lamentation of an oppressed and
bedridden municipality, fill the air, we will
take peep at the performers, and mark
how they do their parts. A man of mighty
means and vast resources, for instance, is
our heavy tragedy man-Hls Honor Mayor
Stokley. Enveloped in the robes of city
office, he believes, and not without some
reason, that, like Frederick Wilhelm, his
right of administration is of Divine
origin, and must consequently be per-
perpetual. Surrounded by satellites who
fawn upon him, and are, alternately merry
and lachrymose, at his bidding. He has
conceived the ambition to thrust himself
once more upon the suffrages Of the people,
and to effect his purpose he has undertaken
the hitherto hapless task of reforming a
reckless, and drunken police, at whose mercy
the decent citizens of Philadelphia, have
for too long a time been held. And this is
his course of reformation believing that it
were better to tie milestone about his
neck and cast himself into the sea, than to
scandahne his bloated blue-buttoned and
brass-ccated children. He has taken upon
himself the assumption of duties which are
wont to belong to the guide who conducts
the errIng through the intricacies of mo-
rality's Wilderness, and celebrates the
Sabbath, as local stump speaker, has en-
Phaticalfy charged by visiting and revelling
among the drinking resorts along the out
skirts uf Fairmount Park. To be sure, his
Honor has denied the charge, adding to the
eontuaaely conveyed by his denial, the
assertion that Mr.. Stroud, his ac-
cusU, and ltdle son of the late Judge
ofnw District Court was, and continues to
be, IA anatural-bsrn prevarication or the truth,
Z znahgner of public officials and "dead
beat" of the.nost approved type. Think
ing, very probably, that Mr.. Stroud might
dcsire to'reply to the Mayor, called upon
him yesterday, and after brief interview,
was told that IN the opinion of every decent
man eenyersant with the facts, Mr.. Stokley
would forever stand convicted of as henious
an Ofense as.suggested the violent death of
Annanias and Sapphia. Whether the affair
will end in blood, or whether the Mayor
will take advantage of his seat of Office, and
seek refuge behind. the battlement of his of. |
fetal dignity, will very shortly transpire,
when l will take pleasure in conveying to
You the full aud esdulated pith of the en-
tire tragedy.
Within stones throw of Mayor Stokley's
Office are the grand jury rooms, where bills
of indictment against yiolators of the law
in this county are discussed and passed m
on by the representatives of the citizens
at large" who are more frequently, I am
ashamed to say, the representatives of their
own individual emolument. The truth of
this was sadly supported by an occurrence
a day or two ago, which should put to
shame the officers of this commonwealth.
and If repeated will tend more than could
any other power to destroy the purity of our
system of jurisprudence. These are the
facts which follow-digest them with your
morning meal and then nast q l.n,. oz.a