The daily gazette., 1881-02-03
Enelleaelosla fur ,ro-aBmy.
Our Legislative Letter.
TIE DAYS porNas.

special TO the Gazette.
DOVER, Feb. Q.
1t is deemed expedient that your
correspondent should fully explain his
position in respect to the Delaware
Western bill. 30 the political parties of
our State. With all sensible and un..
biased people in the beginning he
thought, the question not one of poll
tics but one of public policy. But
after he espoused the cause of the
Delaware Western, when he found the
disinterested lobbyists of the P. w. s.
B. urging that should success crown
, the efforts of those gentlemen who ask
the renewal of an old charter with ex-
tensions, the Democracy of the State
of Delaware would surely fall as has
fallen the Democracy in those States
in which the Pennsylvania Railroad
has control of the various corporations
he thought it but just to his own con-
x victions and the people with whom he
resides that he retute those arguments
and endeavor to show the correct po-
lilical view, if any there is, shedding
light upon the question. Yet we do
deem it Democratic doctrine that mo-
nopolies should not be fostered With
undue care and that internal improve
ments should be received with com
mendation.
But now, all this in detail, though
the principles remains the same. Mr..
Davis one of the Vice of the B. Il o.
gave to the Senators and Representa-
tives a full discourse upon the inten-
,f hn a. ID
to the Delaware Western. Their
hand was shown, Mr.. Davis showed
conclusively that the B. & 0. were
compelled to build this route, that the
cash money was ready to be expended
for its construction; that there was au
almost certain probability of another
line running down the Peninsula; or
If not that the reductions in freight
and passenger fares must follow from
this competition of the two roads;
that our fruit growers would be reliev-
ed from this burden of heavy charges :;
that the +. w. u b. was now held by
the throat by some other corporation !;
and in fact he SO plainly stated the
whole case that one legislator who has
always expressed his autipathy to the
OOlaW aAo w EblVAh DlllY Ocu
him upon the business like and forci-
BILE manner in which he proved the
''right to be right" and the "wrong TO
be wrong"
1t is now merely question of time
rs to when the billwill pass. The narrow
and petty arguments of adverse lob
byists have been blown to the winds.
Time is required for our conservative
men TO realize the fact that for the
almighty Dollar" they have been
misled.
For two reasons we will not COM
ment further upon Mr.. Davis's re-
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/. The hour is growing late.
2, The members of the General
Assembly who heard, can better know
than can possibly write.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Speaker Williams has not returned
from his home. Report states that
he is recovering from his indlsposition.
Mr.. Robinson fills his place with ease
and dignity. 1t is with pleasure that
we look upon this soldier of many
tried battles upon this floor, now with
parliamentary ease moderate the hot
contests between fiery debators. This
is Mr.. Robinsons third term in the
Representative Hall, and to his ex-
perience he adds strong, hard-fisted
good sense and acute discernment in
detecting an opponents valuable
parts.
The City Council are working like
beavers tonight.
The P, w. q B. lobbyists received
an eternal quietus tonight.
Merris Taylor meets many of his
old friends of sessions gone BY.