Daily Republican., 1879-02-13

We would not refer again to the grea
defalcations of Kent and Sussex coun
ties were it not that there has been II
effort made to make good to the Stat
1.-THE amount defaulted, not only no Fl
fort made to pay II, but everything
done by the party in power to excus
the default, and even to prevent an.
investigation to see why it is not pal
or who has the money. Of the part
papers in the State, not one OF ther
has made any allusion whatever to it
They are too busily occupied in shrek
ing fraud" against the Republican
to pay any attention to the frauds o
their own party. 1t is one week to-da,
since the Auditors report exposing tn
d.falcations was laid upon the desks o
the members of the Legislature, anC
though resolution of inquiry was in
troduced the following morning, til,
Gazette and the Morning Herald,
both Democratic daily papers, each
with paid correspondents at Dover, anc
having every facility for knowing al
about it, yet neither paper has wore
to say in reference to it. Issue attel
issue goes daily before the public, bu
80 far as those papers are concerned tn,
public does not know that NeS CAST,
county has paid every cent of her in
debtedn-ss to the State, and the tw,
lower counties have tailed to pay, anC
have defaulted to the amount of s26,
600.
The Every Evening" a so called in
dependent organ, when the deialcatiol
was first made known, also commenced
the studied silence game, but yielding
to the continued badgering of the RE
PUBLICAN, it turned, and after. first
roundly abusing the latter paper toi
forcing it to the sticking point, it frank.
ly acknowledged the defalcations, and
gratuitously adds that it is fortunate tor
those :wo lower counties, that tn. State
does not stand in great and immediate
need of the money.
The worst looking feature of the
whole affair is the refusal OF the Legis.
lature, by an almost unanimous vote
in the House of Representatives, to al
low any investigation. We cannot look
upon this action as being Influenced by
any other than partizan feeling, and
not desire to cover anything crooked
or dishonest, for, so far as We know,
every member Of the Legislature is an
honest man, and would scorn to be a
party to a dishonest action, but it is
unfortunate that partizanship too evil
IDENTIFY controls their actions.
Suppose, for instance, that the col.
lectors and county treasurers of Kent
and Sussex had been Republicans, and
this deialcation occurred on their h ands,
does anybody suppose for one instant
that this unanimously Democratic Leg.
islature wonld not have immediately
ordered an investigation So far a
We are CONCERNED We have exposed the
defalcations, and We should have don.
the same thing had they occurred under
Repu blcan rule, and now that the peo,
pie all know Of it through the RRpuB.
LICAN, We have no more special refer
ence to make to the case only as fur.
ther developments may require. The
summing of the whole matter is this:
The Auditors report shows that while
New Castle has paid all Ler State taxes
for 1876, Kent still owes $l2,0 and
Sussex sl4 ,OoO that the reports of the
county Treasurers Of those two c0un-
ties show that the money is not in
those Treasures, and consequently
could not have been collected, or if col.
lected it has not been paid into the
county Treasures. We have called
this defalcation as We knew Of no
other name more applicable. This may
sound somewhat harsh but if we were
to call it failure to pay, that would
be but the definition OF defalcation. At
any rate Kent and Sussex have failed
to pay into the State Treasury SO, 0oc
of State taxes three years due, and the
reports of the county Treasures OF
these counties show that it is not there
to pay, and there We leave the subject
for the present.
PRESIDENT HAYES Yesterday nomin a.
ted Judge William Butler to be T.. s..
District Judge of the Eastern District
OF Pennsylvania, to succeed Judge Cad
walader deceased. Judge Butler is now
President Judge Of the Chester County
Court of Common pleas and i, one of the
ablest and mos: upright Judges that ever
graced judicial bench. Judge Butler
has been a strong candidate for the Su-