The daily gazette., 1882-09-28
HARRINGTON's HARANGUE.
How the Boss of the Republican Com.
mittee Didn't Enthuse the Georgetown
Ratification Meeting.


How the Boss of the Republican Com
mittee Didn't Enthuse the Georgetow,
Ratification Meeting.
To THE EDITOR OF THE GAZETTE -
hope you will consider no apology necessar
Tor few notes on the Republican mas
meeting In Georgetown yesterday. If on
Is necessary | will put it fairly for homes
| acceptance in the words of Edmund Burke
When bad men combine good men mus
unite that the State fall not merciless pre,
to corruption" The so-caIIed Republicai
meeting was itself a misnomer for tn,
simple reason that the discussion of puhli,
affairs had no place on the hotel plat.
form from which the speeches, abound
ing only in misstatements and
personal abuse, were made. And favorable
as The time was for turnout of Sussex
farmers in the county seat on public day,
by reason Of the misty weather that put !
stop to fodder saving and SO left them with.
out special demands at home, the meeting
was IN no sense en- masse.5 There was d
band in attendance, and what that lacked In
Grass was more than made up for in the
speakers themselves.
Ihe chief speaker was one whose name
In part and whose public record in larger
part is PARALLEL only In that of Dick
Turpin.
True tits pity; pity tits It's true,
that Dicks name is Harrington. The prodi-
gal son, still feeding upon the husks. and
in far country" from his fathers house,
furnished most of the eloquence of the
occasion. Right here it is d suggestive fact
that among the Greeks Mercury was not
only the God of eloquence but also of theft,
and furthermore 1t has come down to our
own time that the cry of "stop thief not
infrequeutly comes from one of the satellites
of the Internal Murcury himself. The burden
of Dick Harrington's TRADE was wholesale
arraignmeGt of the Court House officers.
With contempt only for his insolent offer to
bet $40 to 81 that the Prothonotary's fee
for entering Judgment is $4.1O, suffice 1t to
say that the customary charge for the same
Is but $1.10. For the uninitiated, however.
1t may be as well to state that the only ad-
ditional fee ever charges Ia 81 cents for writ
pie conloS, which reyives a judgment for 81
years. In case the name of an attorney is
used, his fee is S2.67, making all told $458,
as the utmost charge possible attaching to a
judgment, and of this the Prothonotary re-
ceiVes $l.91 only. Here all have
the statement of fact in full. and
If there can be made out a single case
to the contrary, let the aceuser come for
ward, and furnish proof. Until then the
author OF the misleading mistatements must
stand impilloried as public falsifer. That
this is his only standing with the honest
yeomanry of lower Delaware was evidenced
in the fact that while one and another of
the Republican part of the audience
dropped out of the crowd-"Folded
their tents like the Arabs, and silently
stole away'-when Harrington reached
his climax in this harrangue 1t required,
moreover, special effort on the part of the
more considerate of the Democrats in town
on court house business to keep down the
the s'safe burglary" alarm of which the
soto Ooce utterances of not few were
ominous.
Major Lofand wound up in windy way.
In brief, the writer cannot recall an after
quotation with which to describe the
scene at Georgetown, which ended
in fizzle as well as In
drizzle, than that from the Hooser Flat
boatman's ode to his scow In storm "on
the raging canal,o to wit:
She heaved and sot, and sot and heaved,
And high her rudder flung
And every time she sot and heayed
wusser leak she sprung.
GEORGETOWN, DEL, Sept 81. 1882,