Daily Republican., 1882-05-31
WEDNESDAY, MAYS1, 1852
Which Can d1dAfe ?

After the REPUBLICAN Will nave
reached the firesides and have been
read by its thousands of readers this
evening, only two days will elapse be-
fore the day will be ushered in that is
to decide who is to be our chief munici.
pal head during the next three years
of the existence of Wilmington as a
city. For this responsible position
there are two candidates, both promi-
nent and leading citizens. DR.. John
P. Waleslheads the Republican ticket.
None will doubt his integrity and char.
acter. If nothing else can be said il
favor of him, the fact that he has never
been a politician nor held an office,
should recommend him to all friends
of good government. 1t is all nonsense
for the Dem ocraJic papers to try to
prejudice his chances with the charge
that he is the creature of political
ring. No man stands higher as pure
and high minded citizen, untrameled
by partisan spirit and uninluenced by
rings than DR.. Wales. The only posi-
ticn he ever held as an officer was a
captaincy in the army that put down
the rebellion. Only the urgent call of
his country in the hour of danger,
moved him from his purpose voluntari-
ly to accept position, and that posi-
tion was the post of danger, where his
life was monentarily in danger. Since
the war, through which he cars safe
ly, ended, he has been engaged in the
practice Of his profession, in which he
has gained an eminence which should
be the ambition of practitioners i'll medi-
cine to reach. Day after day DR..
Wales has been going the rounds of the
city, visiting the homes of the poor as
well as the rich, sympathizing with
the victims Of atfliction and using the
means to restore health and gladness.
His charities have been scattered lite
the sunbeams, as the orphanages and
benevolent institutions of the city can
truthfully attest. He has never asked
for political preferment nor for an of
fee at the hands of his fellow citizens.
The position in which he is now placed
before the people, as a candidate for
Mayor, was never sought by him,
but when the nomination was offered
to him by his friends, irrespective of
clique or faction, he again like good
citizen responded to his fellow citizens
and accepted a position that makes
him the standard bearer of his party
for the mayoralty of his native city.
This is the man who the Gazette says1
was nominated by ring influences and
if elected will be under the control of
the same. Is there any man who
knows DR.. Wales who believes this ?
He does not belong to the genus homo
that rings are made Of We hold him
before the people as candidate who
reflects the highest honor upon the par
ty to which he belongs and will if elec
ted reflect the highest credit upon the
government of the city, Of which he is
. component and prominent part. We
have no hesitation In telling our read
ers that to vote for him will be an act Of
which theywill ever afterwards consider
a credit to themselves. The head of the
other ticket called Democratic, is rep.
resented by Joseph l.. Carpenter,
against whose personal character we
have naught to say. AS we have said
in other articles we know nothing
against Mr.. Carpenter as a gentleman
of respectability intimately and per-
sonally interested in all that conduces
to the prosperity of the city. But after
we have said this, and in making a i
0mparison between himself and DR..
Wales, the divergent lines are more
drawn. Mr.. Carpenter
has been an Office holder, but not like
DR.. Wales, where he could render eff
cient aid to his country when his flag
wanted defenders. He was never
averse to holding Office and the fatter
the office the more congenial it was to
his tastes. Hence he becomes county
tax collector which in Democratic
hands is synonymous with the dis
franchisement of Republican voters.
Every aspiration Of the Democratic
leaders led them from year to year to