Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1889-11-13

EDiToR or THE PENINSULA METRO
DIST Dear Bro. An article appeared
from the pen Of Bro. @. w. Burke, 10 .
secular paper OF your city, recently, re-
specting your paper and Its relations to
the Wilmington Conference. Perhaps q
reply may be In order.
II seems to be unfortunate for us TO lie
divided by party lines In the support Of .
Methodist paper, published within the
bounds Of our Conference Why any
division? Bro. Burke tells us the "parti-
sans OF the paper" failed to do something
last year which they did the previous
year. And we arc informed as to their
motives Perhaps be is mistakenl
Then he gives us some reasons why he
and others are opposed to the Peninsula
Methodist He says the Conference has
no part In its management. What part
does the Conferences wanti As we may
Infer he 10 Informed MS TO what It wants,
1t Stems pity that he has not told the
publisher and editor OF the Peninsula
Methodist what II 10. A part In the man
agement; how? Does he think that the
Conference could elect q committee OF
one, two or three members, whose man
agement would give entire satisfaction4
Party lines are drawn now as Bro. Burke
assures us. Is there any management ~
the Conference which would unite usi II
there 10 we ought to know what II is.
| But another objection is that the editor
Is not member Of the w lmington Con.
ference. The editor, pour fellow! He is
q stranger and foreigner, not O fellow
citizen with the saintsi He was born In
Cecil County, Nd, of Methodist paren's.
He began his ministry In our territory.
His son, the publisher, is a member Of
the church within our bounds, and was
m mter OF our Lay Electoral Conference
Of 1888. He has Invested thousands of
dollars in Methodist book store In the
city Of Wilmington. 1t is fact that
until he opened his store our church,
though the leading denomination, had no
place In the city where its members could
find cur distinctive Methodist publica-
tons. The editor though member of
the Philadelphia Conference, resides in
Wilmington and Is at homo among us;
but alasi he Is foreigner.
What then is the next line to be drawn
In the Conferencei Shall we exclude all,
not born on tho PENINSULA We have
been receiving strangers, talented, pious
young men; but they were not born
among us. 1t 10 true they promised use-
fulness, but wouldn't they be better
adapted and more trustworthy II they
were not strangers? Had they grown up
In our cypress swanps, they would be
more contented and devoted 10 our work,
perhaps. But TO be serious, 10 this OBJ
lection to Rev. 7. snowden Thomas Q
real onel Can II be. that the members Of
our conference object to the Peninsula
Methodist, because its editor IS not one
of our members? Would the objection
cease, II he were transferred to usi Yes,
GER ainly, II this ls the real reason.
But II We had paper OF our own the
surplus earnings would make our confer
ence claimants rich. The Peninsula
Methodist offsrs us q share In Its profits,
1t is true; but II we had the whole, what q
fortune It would be to our needy breth-
renl Does Bro. Burke really imagine
that conference paper, owned and man.
aged by the conference, would give q
margin Of profits to help our funds by
the sum Of single dollar annually Does
he know conference paper which does
such service as that
Again, objection is made that the editor
does not admit anything to his columns
which antsgonizes his pet theories. Per-
hape Bro. Burke will conclude this Is q
mistake upon further consideration.
As 10 the politics of the editor. How
does Bro. Burke know that we party pro.
hibitioDists could elect one Of our number
editor II we had the choice In the confer
encel II the brethren have been polled,
aud 1t Is q sure thing, and the pay is big,
and guaranteed, 1t may be some brother,
to the manor born party prohibitionist,
who will promise under no circumstances
to leave the conference. oau be elected
editor OF our paper. But where is the
paper? VIII Bro. Burke inform usi The
one he 10 antagonizing has q capital un-
der It of zen or more thousand dollars. II
was proposed recently to raise subscrip-
ton TO the stock off conference paper.
II 1t has been success, and the paper
only needs an editor, surely It will be no
difficult thing to secure one.
II, however, the paper should run the
conference in debt, we might incur very
serious discredit; nor would It be at all
pleasant 10 find ourselves published In
some mercantile agency as an insolven,
debtor. john B. QUIeG.
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