The daily gazette., 1875-07-14
ApplyinD the Lash.

Implying the Lash.
Our neighbor of the Commercial scars
the bodies of the four Republicans who
voted for Mr.. Cummins without mercy.
Here is what he says:
The "SelI-Out" I'm Council.
Mr.. Walter Cummins is quite young
lawyer of energy, dignity. and moderate
experience, the pupil and associate Of the
Honorable Thomas f. Bayard. He is not
10 be preferred. certainly, SO far as the
public service is concerned, to either
Benjamin Nields, or William Corbit
Spruance. ip the Office Of City Solicitor.
Last night, however, as will he seen by
report elsewhere. four so-called Republi-
can members of Council, under cover of
q secret ballot, did what they would not
have dared to do openly or viva vocs--sold
out their party associates, land defeated
the older and more experienced lawyers
named for the place,) and elected Mr.
Cummins City Solicitor. They might have
continued to vote for MIR. Nields, in
which case, if the Democrats stnck to
Cummins, there would have been no
choice, or they might have gone for
8pruance, but rather than do either, they
deliberately preferred to elect Demo-
crat.
Mark the phraseology, ''so-cllled Re-
publican members -" would not have
dared to do openly "-"sold out THEN
party associates These are burning
words, and they are all put upon one
portion of the party. Now, mark the
logic. They might have continued TO vote
for Mr.. Nields or Mr.. Spruance. But
there is not word of censure against
the three Republicans who refused tc
vote for Mr.. Nields. The censure is al
heaped upon the eight Republicans ot
whom the four were part because they
did not allow the three Republicans t.
dict lte who should fill the offioo. Som,
o these three voted for Mr.. Coyle, al
Cd Ring man, for Street Commissioner
and in u party view, why should they mo-
be sensurable for refusing to vote for Nj
Nields as the four were for refusing TX
vote for Mr.. Spruance? Did not the Com
mre;0l attempt to control and direc'
the three and thus control the Council
There is where the " shoe pinches.' Oh
no other hypothesis can it explain tn,
logic Of its peculiar and outrageous arti
Gle. Democrats will ind the perusal c
the whole Of it refreshing, and we pre-
sent the remainder Of it as follows:
The four persons who took this e1traor
binary course We cannot name, since tn,
ballot was secret, but we presume tha
the Republicans Of WILMINGTON viii
search out their identity. 1t is matte
OF interest TO know who these men are
who, o,eected as Republicans, with two un
exceptional Republican candidates t.
Ire u, and a clear Republican majority
III tc 81 present in Council, deserte,
their associates and went over TO tn
company Of the Democratic minority, t,
give 1t success. Such an act can have n
excuse. 1t IS tredcherous. The ofic
sold is not itself very important, but th
act By which it was betrayed is of the sol
that would betray higher and more valua
bic trusts. If it was spite and factiona
bitterness that in spired the act, the an
swer to such explanation is that no on,
has right to sell the trust committed t,
him By his party TO gratify his persona
spleen any more than he should plundel
the public treasury to promote rrivat,
objects.
Now, to help to find out the names O
these four "treacherous" persons. tn,
Commercial continues,
'The three votes for Spruanoa wer,
veil known TO he those Of Wm Can bv
John II. Adams, and w. II. CauLy. d
those tho adhered to Nields Messrs Ma,
ris, Llchtenstein, and Febiger probabJ,
cast three out of his four votes. At len q
It Is fair to presume that Mr.. L .ehten
stein cast one, as he is about to be noni
mated to an honorable position by The
Republican party, and that Mr.. Febige,
did, as he put Mr.. Nields in nomination
Who the four were who sold OUT can.
not therefore remain very obscure
Now the Commercials aim is 10 fix TIL,
horrid, "treacherous" act Of voting for Q
democrat upon the Republicans present
whose names ito1lits. They were Messrs
IL +. Plckels, Thomas Johnson, q. p.
Underwood, Isaac Murray, and II. W.
Downing.
we do not espouse the course of either
hinT. But according to the Commercial, =