Smyrna times., 1886-07-28
Public Opinion and Expressions Of
the Press on Different Topics.
~ MILLENIrM coMING.

1t looks as though there was now
some sort of n millennium near at hand:
Two prize fighters and their hackers in
limbo, raids on the policy dens threat
ened, the Democrats giving family Sc
crets away with an eagerness that is
startling, and the temperance folk en-
tering the political field with a zest
that bodies revolution of opinion be-
fore lSSS.-MOrning Nelcs.
REPRESENTATION ACCORDING TO Pop
ULATION.
The Biggs-H Herbert combination un-
der the cry Of anti-ring" have made
up a delegate ticket for the eleven
wards of Wilmington, and now it is
trembling in its progress lest some of
the eleven delegates which the eleven
wards with their $1,000 inhabitants and
| 1000 Democrats, are magnanimOuslv
accorded by the Democratic State ma
chine, will misCarry and their cause 90
down for want of a Wilmington dele
gate. The Democrats of Wilmington
are to be pitied. They poll very
nearly One-third of all the Democratic
votes in the State, but they only have
eleven out of the one hundred and
eighty-one delegates in their State con-
vention, that is, 5000 Wilmington
Democrats have eleven delegates, while
II, 900 rural Democrats have one hun
dred and seventy delegates.-Sun. Star.
SENATOR GRAY AND THE OLEoMARGA-
RINE BILL.
1t seems to be taken for granted
that any piece of folly or buncombe
will command the support of farmers.
If only loud profession be made of its
being in their interest. A case in point
Is the oleomargarine bill, which pro-
vides for taxing all limitations of butter.
In the discussion of the bill bv the
Senate, Mr.. Gray opposed it with
sound reason and convincing areu-
ment. lie showed that the purpose
OF the bill, by the confession of its au-
thor, Mr.. Miller, who is New York
dairyman, was not the raising of rev
enue, but the suppression Of the
manufacture of all imitation butter
a purpose which, even if legitimate at
all, belongs entirely to the State Leg
islatures, and is no more within the
authority of congress than of the Lime
Kiln Club. The effort to compel the
makers of imitation butter to sell it
under Its real name met his sympathy:
but also was a matter for the States.
and not Congress, to deal with. He
urged, in short, the plain constitu-
tlOual and cOmmOn-sense view of the
matter; and as it is to be fairly pre-
sumed that farmers have some sense.
1t would seem that any comments on
Mr.. Gray's argument should properly
have been addressed to sense and rea-
son, and not to mere childish preiu-
dice or partisanship.-HOmc Uicektg.
EXPOSING DISHONEST OFFICIALS.
In the campaign of 1882, when the
present reform governor was elected
the Republican speakers of Kent
county repeatedly charged that the
county officers of the State and espec-
tally those in Office at Dover were svs-
tematically overcharging the people
who were forced to do business with
them. The charge was Indignantly
denied by the Democratic press and
speakers Of every degree of character
and opinion. On Saturday the Dover
DeLdCGreaR, the ablest Democratic au-
thority in the State, in speaking Of a
certain eX-cOunty oficeholder Of East
Dover hundred, who has lately taken
to abusing the Saulsburys, said:
" This fellow, while an officer. system
atically over-charged persons having
business in his Office, and when he
feared exposure and indictment he
prepared to 90 or said he would 20 to
Canada. 1t may be necessary for us to
give this mans record in our next
issue. We shall refrain from naming
him or exposing him at this time. and
our doing so in the future depends
solely on the wag of his tongue"
Paragraph by paragraph the Delaware
Democratic leaders are writing down
each others official shortcomings, mis-
demeanOrs and crimes, and are PROV
ing over and oyer again the worst
that the Republicans eyer charged
against them.-Morniag Ners.
A PAPER THAT DON'T FLOP.
Our persuasions have always been
Democratic, and we are none the less
Democrat to-day than we were the
hrst ballot we ever cast.
Now, we are only conservative on
the prohibition movement, believing a
spirit OF conservatism and we'll
grounded moderation are better in all
things than extreme radicalism. and
we are none the less a Democrat for
believing in such a measure. We can
not understand why any man is any
less true Democrat or Republican be-
cause of his afiiliatiOn with the Reform
party, whose object and aim is to bet
ter the condition of his fellow man.
But we do question the spirit and
motive of any party leader who is not
an advocate of Temperance and Re
form, be he Democrat or Republican.
and the general verdict of true, sensi-
bic, cool, calm, deliberate Judgment of
the masses will pronounce him only a
- party stickler," looking forward to
self aggrandizement, or the hone of n
prospective political reward of some of
the Official lOaves and fishes. -
Laurel Gazette.
DELAWARE JUSTICE FOR PRIZE
FIGHTERS.
The prize fighters are in for it. |
Esquire BertOlette has held them |
in bail in such amounts that some |
of them will have some difficulty |
in obtaining, but which in all proba- |
bility they will obtain. This. how |
ever is not the worst phase of the case
for them. They will either have TO
stand trial or forfeit their bail. and |
standing trial in a State like Delaware
where the people are inAexibly opposed
to such brutal exhibitions of eniov-
ment as prize fights, will be equivalent
to conviction. The punishment for
prize fighting, it is true, does not in
clude the pillOry and whipping post.
but it does include couple of wears
Imprisonment and a heavy fine, not
less we believe than thousand dol
lars. No matter whether the arrested
men stand trial and are convicted or
punished, or whether they Jump their
bail, Delaware will be about the last
place prize fighters will select in which
TO exhibit their brutal arts hereafter
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