The daily gazette., 1883-12-05
WILMINGTON WEDNESDAY, DEC. :
a sn.ak-rhlaf N Jourpallsm.


Ever since the MornSaO Nsss OF this city
passed under the business control Of Edgar
M. Hoopes there has beea . well. grounded |
and growing suspicion in the minds oS
those who have been IN position |
to know something Of It's management
that It wAs being conducted with
an utter disregard for decency, but It was
hardly suspected even by those who knew
the most of Its usual policy Of low trickery
that Hopes had introduced into its count
ing room the methods Of sneak-thief,
planned and sustained by system OF
malicious lying. 1t is hard to believe that
man with the outward semblance of decency
could be guilty Of such baseness, but
we have indubitable proof in at
least two instances which prove
this man Hopes to be q low, malicious liar
and imbued with all the Characteristic in
stiucts Of sneak-thief. Many times during
the past year we have been made TO feel that
we we're being foully dealt with in surrep-
tltious manner by some one. Business men
who had been steady and profitable custo-
mers, would suddenly grow cold and finally
withdraw their business without giving any
adequate explanation, and so we were left
In the dark as to what was actually being
done to injure US or by whom
the injury was accomplished. But
all men are not alike and the smirking
hypocrite Of the Nscs attempted TO play his
game at last in the wrong quarter. The
facts are these:
On December the third, which was Mon.
day last, Edgar M. Hopes, as business man
Ager of the Morning NeWs, wrote letter tc
Mr.. c. &. Lord, General Passenger Agent o
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
in these terms: The GAZETTE OF this city
with which you have a contract for adver
log, has been closed by the sheriff ; WI
would like to consult you with reference t.
the same. The letter then went on to pui
the Ns,oS as an advertising medium and close
with the signature of edgar NJ. Hopes,
Business Manager News Publishing Com
pany, per H." Thus the very form of th
signature showed that Hopes himself full
recognized the dastardly character OF hi
lying letter. H knew that there was not {
particle OF truth In his statement for he wa
in the GAZETTE Office himself on the morn
ing he penned this lie, aud, so, he sigma 'pe
H" in order TO convey the impression tina
aclerk wrote the letter; but there is no on
else about the business office Of the Neu
whose name begins with that letter. But th
isnot all. On the same day Hopes addresse
postal card to Mr.. j. +. Morrison, dealt
in electric and telegraph supplies, of No.
South street, Baltimore, Maryland, who hi
an advertisement running in the GAzRTTI
in which he repeated the game he attempte
with Mr.. Lord. Mr.. Morrison sends us
letter ofinquiry and encloses the card, whic
is as follows:
TIE Daily Morning NesS,
The Only Merning Daily in the Stat
Dsld1Gre Weekly Morning Meas,
Only rs Cents Per Year in.Adyanee.
WILMINGTON, DBL, Dec. 3, 19sS.-Det
Sir We would be pleased to hear fro
you In reference to your adv. The GAzHT1
has been closed by Sheriff. Would like
hear from you, at an early date. Yours,
NEWS PUBLISHING Co.,
per II.
Now, the language which would proper
characterize = performance OF this XII
would not look wsll In print, and '
shall not, therefore, attempt In this artiC
to convey the full measure Of our oplni'
of a man who would descend to such dept
of debasement But we can family indies
what that opinion is when we say in pla
terms that he is a malicious liar and moi
whit better in any rense than the man W
sneaks into hallway and steals your &C
of the rack. We had almost said that
was 1T associate for Slim Jim, but we
not know that the latter has ever done an
thing to merit the eternal disgrace Of hs
ing his name associated in any way wi
that OF Edgar M, Hopes.