Daily Republican., 1879-02-13
aae REPUBLICAN has the largest
circulation OF any paper In Della
ware. Advertisers take a note OF
this.
Forced to IL n Last =.

Our readers Will uot nave loiBoltel
that the Every Evening in its issue
Of Tuesday in an article sparkling with
invec.ives against the REPUBLICAN be-
cause the latter paper had exposed til.
defalcations of Kent and Sussex, made
use of the following language:
"That there is anything criminal OF
in the nature Of defalcation in tho or.
binary sense of that term in the fact Of
such Indebtedness as unconcealsdly ex
lists, is not for moment believed by
any man Of sense"
Then in the very same pap-. its Do
yer correspondent coming to its rescu,
said: "Thsre is no default Thi.
was all very good but the same CORES
poudent then went on to show now tn,
defalcatiOns occurred. All this W. ful
ly answered in yesterdays RErUBLIcA,
and much to our surprise the az. e.
has come to our aid and ndered US vail
able assistance in exposing the defal.
cations, We do not spurn its help and
call il wilful libeIler Of the STATE and
other hard names which it is useless
for ns to refer to, but would simply
say that "while the lamps holds out
to burn the vilest sinner may return. -
In order that our readers may know
how the Every Evening is assisting Us
in exposing the dsfalcations of the two
lower counties We are compelled to re-
publish its language, and put it where
the people can see it. The wretchedly
small circulation Of the Every Even
ing" makes it necessary for us to pub.
fish extracts from it, or else but q very
small number would know wha,
We were commencing or condeming in it.
But.here is sample Of the way that pa.
per showed up the defalcations referred
to in Yesterdays issue:
"The expenses ofthe State for the past
year are shown to have been moderate,
while the receipts which were more
than ample for all the purposes of their
creation, are fully and, we need scarce
ly say, satisfactorily accounted for. In
fact the business Of the State has been
conducted upon business basis and
the result is that the balance appears
upon the right sid Of the ledger. As
much, we are sorry to see. cannot be
said for all OF the counties. New Gas.
tie is the only one of the three against
which the State holds no claim. Kent
county is in arrears on account OF State
tax sl2, 900, and Sussex $4,000, and
and it is fortu nate both for them
and tn. STATE that the necessities
of the latter do not demand prom pt
settlement"
The az. f." does not say in so ma.
ny words that Kent and Sussex are de-
faulters, but it does say that it is for
tun tie both for them and the State
that the necessities of the latter do not
demand a prompt settlement. What
does all this mean
II those counties have done nothing
wrong why should they fear a prompt
settlement Why should they fear
any action of the State, if as the CORES
pOndent at Dover who the az. E."pays
10 lie for 1t, says there is no default
and if as he further says, the money is
in the county Treasures awaiting the
order Of the State We are glad to see
the ~. e. coming around on the
right side for once and admitting that
there is a defalcation. 1t might have
done so as far back as last Friday and
saved its credit, without waiting to be
forced to take that position after get
ting turiously angry at the REPUBLICAN,.
$780,
The DEMOCRATS and the Greenbackers
of the West are now making an at
tempt to splice teams for 1850, and