Daily Republican., 1879-04-26
A Desperate Editor.

ENcTy EFchinB ioi tWo VI thioo uay
past, and why it should have made q
specially yesterday of attacking by
name the proprietor and editor, and
another person connected with the RE-
PUBLICAN, calling the first fool and
the other disreputable. We do not
mind its insane rawlings, however, for
all the people in Wilmington who take
the trouble to pay a,y attention to the
matter know that he who froclaims
himself as the editor Of that paper is
entirely irresponsible, and as bankrupt
in character as lie is in fortune. En-.
trsnched behind tottering concern
several thousand dollars worse off tLan
nothing if its debts were paid, this
slanderer can pour forth the vials OF
his abuse upon the head of any re-
spectacle citizen without the fear of be-
ing prosecuted. We do not intend to
be drawn into an unequal contest with
thing not worth a penny, in which
our adversary would have every ad-
vantage, however interesting it might
be, to give the history of this so called
editor from the time he played marbles
on Sunday and cursed his father in the
town Of Newport, up to the present.
That, however, was in the day of his
minority, and we only mention it to
show how wonderfully close the habits
formed in youth cling to us through
life.
1t must be said however that it is
not known, that our modern editor indul-
ges in playing marbles still, but there is
the strongest reason for believing that
the other habit Of cursing respectable
people has grown with him in his years,
and it has now become an incurable
disease, so affecting the weaker moral
organs of his nature that he has be-
Come entirel y irresponsible for his acts,
and is more entitled to pity and sym
pathy than to condemnation. All that
is left for respectable people to do is to
beware of him if they do not want to
be subjected to insult, and Islander ed
for performing plain duty. Happily
he is known and his poisoned arrows
fall harmless at our feet. To be SLAM
dered by him is to be honored, and for
a leading respectable pull lie man not to
have been denounced by his infamous
sheet is suspicion OF completely with
him. Therefore we feel honored in the
attack, and can only say, "alittle more
grape"
We started cut t. tell tie cause of
this i'll humor of the livery Even
ing" but our freings for the moment
drew US into little side show arrange
ment, but We will just say that the
main cause is tie waning influence of
the paper itself and these ebulitions of
ill temper are but the desperate strug-
giles of g drowning man catching at
straws, the expiring throes off vitu-
p'rative and brief editorial career, the
last chickering's of candle that re.
hected false light. This is enough to
make any man mad who has snch an
irrascible temper as editor of the "E.
f." possesses.
We all recollect how the paper start
cd only two years ago. 1t was to be
"THE" paper of the city and State; it
was par excellence, so far above the
other "nasty.little penny papers" that
it would not even deign to notice them
except occasionally in derison and
scorn; it had strong corporation at
its back that no other paper in the city
had its hireling editors were the best
paid men in the city, and thus it star
ted like a great ship into battle with
out rudder, and an irresponsible
idiot as captain. Its Loasted 1000
circulation soon began to fall off, and
some of its managers like rats left the
sinking ship. Change after change ensu
ed, some of the penny papers soon pass.
ed it in circulation hich is still main
tanned, and now that t s driven to the
ragged verge Cf des cratic II stands
shivering and shrieking OF the brink
before takrg the flal leap into the
vortex of OBJ ivion. Fralticaly it looks
across th4 chas II to the white house in
the dist tnCe and inlulges in the Gelu-
sive hope that two years hence Senator
Bayard may occupy the Presi L. ntial
chair, and hopes its fail ns fortunes
may be boIstered up until that time.
But if that paper is thrown into such
fearful paloxysms Of lunaey BY the de-
feat Of one of its stockholders for insur-
ance commissioner, how can it be ex-
pected to survive the defeat of Mr.. Bay
ard for the nomination of the Presiden-
cy, much less his sure defeat if nomi-
mated?
We Would call the special attention
OF our readers to the advertisements OF
c. Warner & Co., in to days REpUDLr-
CAN. Their freight line offers superior
advantages to business men, and they