Daily Republican., 1882-09-19
M Largest circulation of
any paper in Delaware. We
court an investigation from
the public. III
TUESDAY, sEPTEMBKR 10. 1854.
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An attempt is made by the Bourbon
penny tar heel organ that poses itself
before the community as regulator
of morals, to blacken the character of
leading Republicans and it also insinu-
ates very broadly that some who are
upon the Republican ticket are also
lacking in character and morals. This
however may be expected from paper
without character itself. AS that i'm
maculate organ invites a comparison
between the tickets for tho legislature,
we cheerfully accord him one without
being personally offensive to any of the
candidates.
How much better is DIR. Swithin
Chandley, of Mill Creek Hundred, for
State Senator, than is Solomon Minot
Curtis, the Republican candidate for
the same from the same Hundred? DR..
Chandlnr is gentleman of in telligence,
nublemished character, and with un.
doubted ability to FIJI the position, but
is he more so than his opponent? The
Doctor may we'll feel proud tnat we go
80 far as to accord to him equa lity in
every respect to Mr.. Curtis, where the
odds might be against him upon close
scrutiny. The Democratic ticket then
has no personal strength over the Re.
publican ticket in Mill Creek Hun
dred.
Nor do we shrink from a comparison
of the two Senatorial candidates in
New Castle Hundred, Mr.. Cooper,
Democrat, and Mr.. Wise, Republican.
Mr.. Cooper being lawyer and Deputy
States Attorney, may have better
knowledge of Blackstone than Mr.
Wise, but whether lawyers as a rule
arc endowed with more good common
sense than other people, simply because
they are lawyers, will hardly be con-
tended for. Mr.. Cooper, personally, is
very much of gentleman and his
cha racter, if it is permissible to refer
o such a thing, is good, but to say that
he is more of a gentleman, or that he is
more than the equal of Mr.. Wise in
cha racter and as christian, wonld be
say ing more than is necessary to vim
dictate him. The odds, all things con-
sidered, are in favor Of the Republican
ticket in New Castle.
But Brandywine? Oh, the immacu-
late organ Of virtue and purity, turns
up its nose at the Republican nomina-
tion in Brandywine Hundred. We ac-
cept the issue gladly and willingly come
to the defence of Mr. Robert j. Handy
whom compared in every respect to his
Democratic opponent, Mr.. Barlow. We
defy the Bourbon whistler, that gloats
in SANDER and maliciOusness, to COM
pariSon of the two candidates for the
legislature from that Hundred. We
will not allow Mr.. Handy to be brought
down even to the level of mediocrity in
making that comparison. We know
nothing against the personal character
of Mr. Barlow, only we assert that his
nomination was the result of bargain
and sale to plaCate him for drawing off
as a candidate for sheriff, that Purnal
j. Lynch might have free course.
Qualifications and fitness to perform
ahe duties of a legislator were not taken
into consideration in his nomination.
AS 10 Mr.. Handy, we claim great odds
10: him in the comparison: He has had
experience in legislation, having been
a member of tho lower branch of the
City Council of Philadelphia for four
years, from the Twenty ninth ward.
He was no ringster either, but belonged
TO and acted with the reform wing Of
abe Republicans in that body, and was
steady supporter of the great reform
Republican, Joseph L. Caven, the re.
form President of the Council. In abili-
ty We claim great olds for Mr.. Hauby
He will not be a "mnm" member like
many of the Democratic representa-.
tives from Brandywine Hundred have
been In the past, but he will be found
an able and persistent advocate of every
reform measure laid down in the Re-
publican platform. Silence will not be
his forte. nor will he intrude himself {
before the house in meaningless, sense
less talk. We claim great odds for MI.
HAnby over Mr.. Barlow In Brandy wine
Hundred, and the future will show that