Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1888-10-31
cowARDLY CAMPAIGN METHODS.
A Newspaper Refuses 30 Print Mr..
Treats Answer as an Advertisements.

To the Editor Of EVENING JOURNAL.
You congratulated our local Democratic
press few days since in that they would
not give publicity 10 the false charges
brought against Dir. Treat You reck-
oned without your host They prefer to
attack second hand Saturday, October
22. the Newark Ledger pretended to re-
port Mr.. Treats speech in that town It
put words into his mouth which no sen
sible man would utter and contrary to all
that Mr.. Treat has said. Any well in
formed man knew they were false and
Mr.. Treat has contradicted them, but the
Delaware Democrat in its issue
Of Saturday, 27th instant, quotes and
comments. The editor knew it was q
lie; he knew that MIR. Treat has denied
the charge that he or any Of his clerks
ever discount his orders; he must have
known, IL lie tries to keep informed that
Mr.. Lyman, Mr. Treats bookkeeper and
an enthusiastic Democrat, had denied
that charge in the Philadelphia Record Of
October %, but still he publishes lie
when a five minutes walk would have
satisfied any honest man that the charge
is false Was he afraid TO inquire for the
truth Of Mr. Treats Democratic clerks?
Last week Mr. Treat sent the follow
ing communication in answer TO an edi-
torial Of October %:
The article was refused and the SUSSEX
Journal declined to give it place rs an
| advertisement Politicians call this fair
treatment and possibly IL is fair politics.
Republicans are not complaining, only
giving the facts, and through the chan
nel- that are open 20 them.
10 Editor Of the Delaware Democrat.
Permit me to make personal reply to
your editorial on Treats Orders as it
| deals OF personal matters not genuine to
a Political discussion. ! expect ns the
candidate Of the Republican party ID
stand the fire and shell Of Political con
flict, but see no fairness in attacking
my business when those persons who
transact business with me express their
cordial approval II you were a candi-
date would not attack you in any such
unjustihable manner.
II you are opposed to the building NJ
Of this town through factories say Sc
openly, but do not injure me in the pub.
lie confidence and show that Georgetown
is not good place for working men OF
women TO sell their labor IL is a fact
which our payroll will prove that we pay
our help from 10 TO 20 per centum NOR,
than is done in other manufacturing
establishments in this section, and MOI
only in Sussex county but in lower Mary
land | do not except even the mill O
Governor Jackson at Salisbury, Md.
If | am unfit for the high office fo
which am running as to capacity ans
integrity or manner Of living as compare,
with my opponent we'll and good; but
when you publish broadcast to the injury
OF my business that men are oppressed ant
unfairly dealt with and coerced in thei
political expression. it is not only untrue
bus il n serious blow to the growth o
this town for workmen will not com
here and families will not settle in on
town IL such fasehoods are credited |
is an attack that is damaging to thi
town
We have run our factory the yea
round and often we pile up goods 70
months every year to keep our employe
busy, and sometimes we take orders Il
dull season for little or no profit. As t
selling goods high in our store the none
expended in your advertising column
and the trade brought US is sufiicien
answer II the desire is to bring thi
factory into disrepute and cripple il
prosperity you have taken the course :
produce 1t. CHARLES II. TREAT.
OF course no decent newspaper woHl
, refuse to give space for reply to ger
tlemen who il had maliciously or otheI
wise assniled in its editorial columns.
Georgetown Del October 81 1883