Daily Republican., 1883-06-01
THIRD EDITION
David LemOn's Defense,

WovAW ACumO0'b Dc1SnNGs
For the Reput lican.
] see by Every Evenings issue OF
Thursday that the e.litor of that sheet
has made an uncall8d for attack on my
private and business character. This
is the second time he has done so with
ont the least prOvocation. l am not
personally acquainted with him never
had amy business with him only once,
and that was to ask him to retrao:
what he had said in injustice about me
in his paper when Jersey man traded
me good timothy hay for manure, and
he gave me timothy hay full of rubbish
and demanded the cash after taking
away part of the manure, which |, like
other business men, demurred FROM
and in place of retracting what he
said, continued to villify me in the esti-
nation of my fellow nen,-" he that
steals my purse steals trash, tits mine,
twas his, but he that robsme of my good
name taketh that which doeth him no
good, bat maketh me poor indeed"
l consider the paper curse to on r
city and county and State interests, and
especially when edited by an over
grown boy like him, whose hangman,
sQualid look is a worse indication of the
man /; his liver must be out of order or
he never would get so far deranged as
to attack not only the private charac-
ter of our best citizens, but also their
business character, like the ungratetul
dog who bites the hand that fed him.
If he would appl y the word lshInaeite
to himself and one of his relatives, who
was banished by Abraham Lincoln to
the British settlements for being worse
traitor than Benedict Arnold, he would
be more justified than applying it to an
old citizen who has been identified in
building up the interests of our city for
nearly forty years.
am not to be crushed out by such IA
dirty sheet or by a man like this over
grown fellow because | will not quietly
acquiesce in the gigantic frauds passed
by the late Legislature at Dover for the
benefit of few political bummers who
wish to live on the city pap all their
lives, whilst other good citizens have to
take back seat and pay for their in.
iquitOus extravaganza and blunders.
al1 born Democrat and intend to die
one. | learned in the school of Will
lard Salisbury, the present Chancellor,
Gov. Salisbury, the late Governor; the
elder and younger Bayards, who taught
NE State rights, home rule, representa-.
ton according to population, equality
and justice. Befo.e the law | know
these rights, and as a free man ! dare
maintain them, and will ever stand by
them under any and all circumstances
What kind of Democracy is it to
promise representation according to
population and give us a Water Com
mission and take the water plant out
of the peoples hands who had paid
for it, and give it into the hands of
these INSCRIPTIONS political trcksters
70 do as they please with the peoples
money, without bonds. q do not in
clude William Porter, Esq, he is
gentlemen, but he is in bad company.
l am not alone in this question. There
are three .fourths ofall the Demo rats of
the city against these rev offices
created by the Legislature, which
means increased taxation in place of
decreasing it. will venture to say the
party, of which am consistent mem
Der of, will be so badly beaten on Sat
urday that this Water Commission will
never be heard OF again.
Now, in conrluson ! say to his over
grown fellow Of the Every Evening,
you have taken up Tor these Cut-thruat
Italians to start stores on the corners of
streets to rob our own oppressed citizens,
who pay large rents and taxes to keep
the streets in repair for these non-citi- |
zens to get the benefit Of. would ask
you how many advertisements these
itinerant thieves have given you. | |
Will answer you. none. Now, sir, |
should you not retract the villainouS lies
You have published, J. will take the
opportunity to settle it with you on our
first meeting, DAVID LrMb,>