Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1888-08-17

We have g word to say about Every
Evenings thoroughly characteristic at
tack on Levy Court Commissioner
Hickman without permitting ourselves
to discuss the comparative merits
Of the two men. who are now
striving for the Democratic nomination
for Levy Court Commissioner in this city.
We have our own views respecting
Messrs. Hickman and Pyle and shall
express them in our own good time.
Every Evenings reporter made a desper-
ate but futile effort TO put a color Of dis
interestedness on its one sided review Of
the great political contest now being
waged he tried TO give out the impress
sion that he was holding the scales Of
Justice between the two. But the fact
that he succeeded in disclosing the names
Of all Of Mr. IIickman's workers, while
he did not name single supporter Of
Mr.. Pyle disclosed the whole purpose Of
his article Il was tina beginning Of u
systematic attack on Mr. Hickman
The Levy Court met on Tuesday Of this
week. II was big day for
business. Several important things were
considered But the claim made for
Every Evening Of 81 600, alleged TO have
been expended by that journal in ferret
ing out the gamblers last fall, was not
considered. This claim has been assd-
uously II not impudently pushed for a
long time Commissioner Hickman has
stood between the taxpayers and the beg
CARS, He stood there on last Tuesday.
Two days later Every Evening opened its
batteries on him.
The relation of all these facts is so
striking that the course Of our friends.
the enemy. looks bad We do not say
that they were inspired by the motive
which may be inferred from the relation
of facts, but its readers, the community,
we are afraid, will regard it in that light.
1t has an ugly look, and the whole affair
is calculated to cast a reflection upon VIII
mington journalism Men viii say is
Every Evening going TO punish Mr..
Hickman for doing his duty2' care we
to understand 10y the help it IS extending
to Mr. Pyle that il expects the latter, if
elected, to work for It's 1000 claim2'
Others win SAY and with truth. IF
Every Evening should be remunerated
for its outlay Of last fail what is To pre-
vent other newspapers or even persons
TO perform some quasi public service for
its own or personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT and
glorification and then turn about and use
this payment as a precedent for raid
upon the county treasury to pay the ox-
penses, alleged and real Of its or his
enterpriseY' Again men say IF Every
Evening chose TO invest this money for
the purposes of advertisement, let it
foot the bill If it bit of more than
it can masticate, that is its own look
out. Still others are unkind enough TO
say, what is a cold fact nevertheless,
namely, that Every Evenings work was
after all only newspaper squirt: that
the city was full of gamblers before
Mayor Rhoads's term had expired, and
that the City Solicitor could have done
the work of cleaning out the knaves and
thieves much more effectively than it
was done, provided he had been assisted
by the mayor and the chief Of police In
support of this last proposition one needs
to point only to the work that Messrs Ball
and Swiggett have done since the advent
of Mayor Harrington administration.
We are constrained to repeat. in con-
clusion, that Every Evenings course has
an ugly look and that il reflects no credit
upon Wilmington journalism. We are
ashamed Of our contemporary.