Smyrna times., 1883-05-23
Geo. w. Cummins and William
Dean.

Billy" Dean, Esq, of Newark, 1--WE ,
do not use the name BILLY" offensive
ly but because he is so we'll known as
to generally received this appellative), j
went down to Dover last week to "boss"
the little Fruit Exchange that he and (
some other impracticables wanted to !
establish, and because a delegation of
our fruit growers headed by Col. George
w. Cummins knocked him and his
scheme for that day, so out of the water,
he rushes into print to vault himself be-
fore any audience which would have
only his side of the question. He locked
horns with Col Cummins who quickly
placed him hOrs de combat, and smart
ing under defeat, he endeavors to solace
himself by a "wormwood and gall"
letter in the EUery EUening which the
editor modestly places on the 4th page.
The letter is as spiteful as a splitting,
spluttering kitten crouchiRg in the
corner from the sight of a mastiff.
AS applied to our community and
the men who represented it in that
meeting, (for they were representative
OF our best citizenship, the letter was
ungenerous i'll implication, and false in
statement. He denominated them
"A clump of disorganizers who went
to the meeting for the express purpose
of creating a disturbance" and all |
because they would not let him, man
who knows nothing and has no direct |
interest in the peach culture, who, it is |
said, hardly knows the difference |
between a peach and u pear tree, direct |
and control a project or scheme that
might be serious to them in its results
The Exchange" with Mr.. Dean at
its head would most assuredly bring
every influence in railroad transporta-
ton for the benefit of that institution
as against those who didn't patroniZe
it, and they knew it. The !" Exchange
would stop every train at Wilmington:
our farmers who desire to market their
| fruit in their own way want the benefit
! of the fastest time the railroad can give
aud no stops. 1t is no stretch of the
imagination to see an outline of the
possibility of dynamite nature like
that possessed by Mr.. Dean taking
pleasure in delays that would throw
the trains that did not go under the
| direction of the Exchange" in the
city for late market. Aspeach grow
ers, in meeting held in the interest of
peach growers, they had more right
there than Mr.. Dean who is practical
in nothing but in weaving Yoollen
fabrics-a business he learlfWd in
England where the peach will not
grow.
In his column and quarter of spite
full diatribes directed at our citizens he
says: at was this self: same set of
Smyrna disorganizers who believed in
their day that Kent County bulls for
purposes Of locOmotion from place to
place were far superior to the great
: steam locomotive on q railroad and
thus drove the railroad to Clayton.
Mr.. Dean knows no more about Smyrna
and the location of the railroad than
he does about the peach which is moth
| ing at all. If he would really like to
, know why the railroad was not located
: near Smyrna, let him resurrect certain
persons from the Dover grave yard and
get the answer from them why the
; citizens of Smyrna were given week
) to raise by subscription $4,000 under
promise that it should come to the
town, and when they went down with
: the amount subscribed in fUe ddgs after
were told they were too late, the road
= had been located and could not be
4 changed. The people of Smyrna knew
then as they know now what is practi.
y cal business, and it was because of this
knowledge and fear of it in a fair con.
: test for trade, that fostered the DISPOSE
V ton to isolate the town.
But the shafts of Mr.. Dean were in
=, tended for Col. Cummins and the allu
|, sions to the town were only used to in
. tensify their force. The latter turned
= the tables on him so in debate as Il
q fire to an unusual degree his sanguin
i airy blood and cause him to pour GU
: his vials of caHstic wrath. But moth
% ing that he said or can say could or ha
- had the effect to produce anything bu
contempt for the man who for no othe
cause than for some pleasantries spokel
Ie in debate which he himself provoked
.e should descend to deal in personalities
d false insinuatiOns and detracting re
E. marks, and these too, several day
d after, and spread before persons in tn
1t daily press who could not know tn
le cause of this exhibition of bile. Tn
A. position Mr.. G. took was endorsed b.
in our entire delegation to that meetin
N and so far as we know, by every citize
d. in the community.
ID The best test of mans character
his standing at home. Will Mr.. Dea
suffer a comparison in this particular
u He made fling at Smyrna with tn
p false charge that she drove the railroa
~ away. How was it with him at tn
~ last session of the Legislature when
81 went to Dover, asked the privilege
aV the House Ian unusual thing for on
ey not member) to address them to d,
10 ] foot thn In0otinor Of fkn ID q n DosI
NJ at Newark because the company woul
y not pay him an exOrbitant price f
ls some land it would cross; how I'll
nc citizens of the town stood on one sic
ag of the question and his bristling self Q
VI VI the other, and how the Legislatul
10 unanimously "sat down" on him
,ct their vote? This should have learnt
IA him lesson but he learns nothing an
th forgets nothing, and thus goes on cor
he mitting the same egregiOus blunders.
& But as before said, the object in wri
les ing the letter was to get hit at Il
Messrs. Cummins, Geo. w. and DaV
,og j., but especially the first named, al
~ ~ goes into the private business of Il
% latter with charges in the newspap
,x ,0S that he would not make to his fac
''1 and in manner and style so manifest
a beneath the code of gentlemanly pr
20 priety that Mr.. G. cannot reply to wit
for out putting himself ON the same lev
1t may be proper, however, for us
n say that he characterized them as falls
"a - he never named to a tenant that as
III III condition on his taking his farm til
sIy he, Mr.. G. should "do the selling of t
I I'uS products of the same," and fqrth
'au that while he does sell the fruit il
.L with the entire concurrence of
VIC VIC tenants, the profits and expenses bel
III. equally divided between them. T
aoA a long and familiar business experieI
u ;n" his tenants knew gave him super
ans advantages, and while they were
Sen ee1 ceiving the same advantages as otl
III ~" farmers, they were relieved of the C,
shp of the accounts which Mr.. q. kept
ont on them with considerable labor. ]
.;n AM father, (than whom for tact and bu
hug ness enterprise scarcely has an equa
"u' any community taught him not oil
to let well enough alone," which ]
aey, Dean so fondly quotes in showing
,ing anti-pFogFessive, but also taught /
hal, not to put off till tomorrow what
, of be done to-day, and Mr.. G. has
Nice ! ahfpr,aufS Of oonl. 1axy g.. I,s.,.ole .