The daily gazette., 1883-11-02
BaiIu G0zttte
WILMINGTON. FRIDAY. NOV. 2.
Only Four Dollars.

OuflDK tHc VI ONtoONtl
burglars were unusually bold aud numer-
Gus, the police made SO6 arrests lor various
petty ofiensea. From these arrests, had the
PARTIES been tried before the Municipal
Court, the city would have derived reve-
nue. of from $500 to $500, but as affairs are !
conducted by our "modep police ad'
minis.ration, In open defiance of law, all OF
this money went into the pockets OF Squire
O,Neill aud the members OF the force. Dur
ing all this tin g the Municipal Court was In
operation, at cost TO the people OF nearly
5000, but the only revenue the Clerk of the
Court was enabled to turn into the city
treasury was the miserable pittance Of fovr
dollars.
We do not wonder that the chairman OF
Ciry Councils Finance Committee WINGED
last night, under the significant glances
cast upon him by his Democratic colleagues,
when the report Ct the Municipal Court
Clerk was read. We know such practises
are not in accord with his Dotions OF what
ought to be done, and we are mistaken in
the man II he does not use his utmost en-
deavors to speedily put stop TO this out
rageous robbery of the people.
The city of Wilmington has need Of all
the money 1T can raise betw cen now and the
arst Of July next, and 1t will require the
greatest care aud econ Jmy to avoid de-
1cit. The officials In charge of the revenue
raising departments, recognize this fact,
and are using every endeavor to compel
dslinquents to pay up. Thus, while busi'
n, SIS men who have fallen behind In their
taxes and water rents are pinching them
selves to the utmost to square their IN.
debtedness to the city, the police depart
ment is allowed to deliberately pocket from
5000 to $500 month that honestly belongs
to tue city treasury.
This robbery has gone about far enough,
and il City Council does not stop it right
away, those in authority can be justly Leld
responsible for continuance of the oper
and shameless theft Of the peoples money
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As SOON as Eeery Eooniag found itsel
beaten by the GAZETTE in regard to tn
questionable transactions OF Thoma
Whann, Jr., OF Lardenberg, Pa, 1t at one
sent q telegram to the father Of the mai
whose acts were alluded to, stating that tn
GAZETTE had printed grossly llbelous'
article about him, and asking authority t.
deny 1t. The response sent b.
the elder Whann, as 1t ap
peared in the Erery E0eniHg, wa
decidedly ambiguous, and while It appar
entity authorized a denial, which was no
necessary as far as he was concerned, it di,
touch upon the transactions of his son.
looked very much as though the dispatc
had been garbled before It was printed in
the EVsry EUening, and from what partie
at Landenburg stated to a GAzETT
represent ative, yesterday, We ar
constrained TO believe that It simpl
authorized the statement that the fendt
had not left home, snd requested that IL
denial be made OF the charges against tn
con. However, our Shipley street ncighbo
only made Itself ridiculous By its silly a
tempt to accuse the GAZETTE of libel, al
rendered even more glaring the complet
manner in which it vas beaten In regard I
the best news item of the week.
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