Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-07-10


The people are now just beginning to
understand some thing about the
" Ooney Island Deal" Heretofore 1t
Was vague term which might mean
nothing or much In whichever light 1t
was viewed. Mr.. Holcomb, the present
Recorder OF Deeds of New CASTLE
County, and by the way q very efficient
one, and who is said to have been one
favored by the deal, evidently tried
to impress the public that there was no
deal, that in fact the deal was all q
myth except that Governor Stockley
was at Ooney Island, and deponent WAS
not there, and that whoever said he was
and that he was one OF the favored
ones OF the deal was a-well, another,
and all such emphatic phrases calculA.
ted to carry tremendous force. Such q
statement coming from Mr.. Holcomb,
usually 80 reticent and affable, and
winding up with such o beautiful apps.
trophe to governor Charles O. Stookley
as the American eagle, hawked and
torn by vultures and yet proud and tri-
umphant, made powerful impression,
for anybody In this broad land Of ours
who would dare lift hand against our
great American bird has to 60, and that
Is about the long and the short Of 1t. So
Mr.. Holoomb clearly established, but
not to the minds Of every body that there
was NO "Coney Island Deal" and ,hst
the Court House row officers were all
reappointed In the good old fashioned
way upon merit, nothing more, nothing
less.
But As there generally are two sides
to most questions, this Coney Island
matter seems not 10 have been the ex-
ception. Indeed 1t has turned ont to
be anything else than one-sided con-
Germ. There are others In the happy
Democratic family who are o. emphatic
In the Idea that there was o "Coney
Island Deal" Notwithstanding Mr..
Holoomb, his little hasohet and his
torn and bleeding Americ an eagle. One
OF these Democrats, belonging evidently
TO the proletAriat order, though writing
for the Morning News, over the "Nom
de Plume" OF A" Veritas," Is no myth,
verify he Ia not. HIS kno VS. sonnet hing
about the "Coney Island Deal" He
points out lucidly and with crushi ng
effect the fact that everything forshad-
owed in the said deal has come 10 pass.
Mr.. Holcomb, who before WAS . one
term County office man got his reap.
pointment. Mr.. Max we'll was reap
pointed Prothonotary. Mr.. Cochran
WAS reappointed Clerk Of the Peace, and
1t is said that u gentleman now occupy
ing q highly honored position succeeded
to the Register OF Wills office How
much farther the deal is TO extend
"Ver;tas" saith not, but that the at
tempt Is now being made to make one
OF the beneaciaries Of the deal the sue
csssor OF the head dealer Is very evil
dent
We ailude to this matter as one Of
more than ordinary Importance, as q
Democratic fall ont. IL is more than a
wrangle, 1t Is more than a clique differ
ence Itinvolves the question OF wheth-
or offices are to be promised and farmed
out months and years in advance for
the sake OF forming a powerful Political
that shall crush out all
applicants for office not known nor in
cluded In deal. We are not surpris-
cd that there is trouble in the Demo
cratic camp. However well the two
wings of the party may agree together
in crushing out the Repu oIican party
by any means fair or foul, When for
want Of more enemies to conquer one
wing turns its guns upon the other, the
crushing out pro ,ess becomes quite q
different matter and 1t is not Surprising
that there are Democrats who refuse to
be thus inundated. The disfran chised
and those not disfrsnchis
ded will watch this fight OF the factions
with interest. They have nothing else
to do this campaign, and while one fac
ton of the Democratic party is trying
10 throttle and choke out OF existence
the other, they can remind them that they
know how It Is themselves now. Arts
tocrat and proletarist, let the war go on.
Republicans can enjoy the fight better
than II they were In 1t themselves.