Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1879-01-28
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We do not like to be always finding
fault with the Erery Ere"i"g butt says
80 many tunny things and 50 many
things not funny but absurd, that We
cannot help but refer TO them in some
manner. One of the last discoveries it
has made is member OF the City
Council in one of the Wards who gets
drunk, beats his wife, it Is said, and
def-s the police. 1t is quite likely
that it is correct this time for it is good
authority on such subjects, and it is
no doubt true that the Councilman re-
fsrred 70 lives in one of the Wards. We
never knew one that didn't. Who the
man is the i. Z. does not tell us, but
We will bet an apple that it supported
b i'm in his election, and if the council
n IN be a Democrat it would support
him again in preference to a sober Re-
publican. But by all means bounce
that Councilman if he whips lis wife.
Such a man ought to DO dashed naked
through the land, but OF his drunken
ness, well there's where the funny part
comes in and We are reminded Of the
pot calling the kettle, black face. For
this crime, If it be crime, punish him
as W. Fisk Townsend was punished
by the Legislature, and let him that is
without sin cast the first stone. But,
OH! those wicked councilmen. One of
them has been so hard pressed by the
panicky times and the depreciation Of
property that he has been compelled
I, make an assignment, and the "E.
b. wants that member bounced out
OF Council right away, as if he couldn't
&C, independently aud vote intelligent
iy without having few lots of real es-
tate at his back to enable him to do so.
This spasm of virtuous indigna-
ton on the part of the great re-
former can easily be accounted for when
it is known the member who has been
so unfortunate as to be compelled to
make an assignment is Republican,
and it is wonderful to see how anxious
that paper is to reform the Republicans.
A banker who was of that party and
whe failed, resigned as member Of
Council, is held up as an example for
others to follow. This is very kind adj
vice for the retormer, but We would
like to know why he did not object to the
election of Councilmen in his own party
who never owred any real estate unless
technically 10 evade the law. If the
reform editor OF the reform paper will
take the trouble to examine he may
find more than one or two members OF
Council on his own side in politics who
we're made owners of lot or two, or
. few feet OF land in somebody's cellar,
and we recollect how earnest he was
in support of the election of those per-
sons. His objection then to a member
who when first elected to Council,
could have bought the every Evening"
ever and over, reckoning it at what it
was worth, but who has been unfortu-
nate and forced to make an assignment
comes with very bad grace from that
paper after having supported others
for election to Council who were worth
nothing when they were elected and
probably never will bs worth anything
in the near future. We only mention
these things to show the little, low,
petty, party animosities that rankles
in the breast Of the reform editor.