Daily Republican., 1879-02-01
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What q rumpus the REPUBLICAN has
Ii cked up in the Legislature! Only
lhr re weeks of the session have passed
and already proposition is considered
to expel our reporter from the floor OF
The House. The cause for such action
is the graphic report Of banquet given
on Tuesday night by the State Treas
urer r. J. Reynolds, as compliment te
t he Legislature for electing him to that
Office. In thar report our reporter is
ccused Of exaggeration, and by the
reporter of the Gazette, who from all
accounts saw through the bottom of his
glass darkly, with publishing "a tissue
Of lies" From all that We can hear
it about from outside parties not connect
cd with the Legislature nor with the
press, the report though graphic only
failed in telling all the truth, and this
indignation about what was published
IL mostly because the article was true.
There need be no dispute about
that, and if Legislators and
higher State officials are ashamed
OF having been found out and exposed,
they should not have been caught in
sucll place, or If unwit,ingly coaxed
into i, they should not have drank so
much mixed champaigrs. With char
ity for all men We do no. desire to make
a further exposure Of the disgraceful
affair, though We have the names Of all
who participated, and withhold them
from the public. In the article referred
to 10 names are mentioned except that
of Mr.. Dean who is said to have retired
at an early hour, and We will 60 a lit.
tie farther and say that Shepherd =.
II custom retired at the same time. We
know there are others wE.o wish they
had followed then. II cannot be char
acteriz-d as anything els. than a bach
analian revel, in which Republicans
and Democrats, Methodists, Preshy,-r-
ians, Episcopalians and Bap,ists were
all alike drunk, and to the shame of
professors Of christianity be il said
that the first man who retired without
drinking never protess.d TO be chris
tian. But as it is in contemplation to
expel our reporter from the floor OF the
House for his report of an affair entirely
outside of the Legislature We would
say a word in his behalf. He has al
ways been truthful, upright, moral and
conscientious, and any accusation
against his character for veracity at
Dover, will only be met with scowl of
indignation in Wilmington, by those
who know him hest. To remove him
from the floor of til. House would only
be to send him into the lobby, which
would only he jumping ont of the fry
ing pan into the fire. We do not sup
pose our advice will he needed, but we
sincerely suggest that the curtain here
drop over the past and let there be no
more carousals of the same kind in the
future. The following we clip from the
Deiarursan, of this morning, only to
show how far Democratic paper can
60 in making Misrepresentation for
the sake of shielding the disgrace of its
partilans. and also to deny the latter
paragraph in which it intinates that
the reporter Of the REPUBLICAN was not
in fit condition to know who was
drunk
The regular correspondent OF the
Wilmington DAILY REPUBLICAN seems
to think it his duty to Islander and
abus. the members of the Legislature.
In the issue of the Both inst, he drew
upon his drunken imagination for a
glowing description Of what he calls "the
periodical Legislative free blow" and
intimates, and by innuendo says that
the members were nearly all drunk.
The fact is that there were but few
persons present who were under the
influence OF liquor to any extent. Near
ly every one was sober except few
selt-invited guests like the reporter OF
the REprBLIcAS, whose condition was
such that he could not tell by ten
O'Clock who was drunk and who was
sober fine had the inclination to do so. "
We would Just add that the reporter
Of the REPUBLICAN is young man who
never drank liquor in his life, and was
neither invited regularly nor was he
self-invited, neither did he partake,
b t lie was not so blind that he could
not see what was going on. No report
like that in the Uclormeon will hurt
the reporter Of the REPrDLICAN.
Petition the Leg isIuture.
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