Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1891-05-06

eAAhh shc oenato VIII pass IL. lou see
our charter antedstes the charter of the
Wilmington Street and Sewer Depart
ment. We recognize the fact that when
the Street and Sewer Department was
created 1t got police rights to say how
pipes should be laid and where they
should be laid. That is to say. what side
OF the street, what distance from other
pipes, and what bonds we should give to
indemnify the city from damage suits
caused by improper work or insufficient
protection against accidents when our
trenches are open. But for Street and
Sewer Department to say that we shall
not lay pipes because II will compete with
right We have no obisction
whatever. to laying pipe under direction
Of the Street and Sewer Department. but
for the commissioners to say that they re
serve 10 themselves the power to say
that we shall or shall not lay pipes at ali.
is an assumption of power we do not
recognize. For instance, when we
wanted to lay pipes In shipIey street the
reason assigned by Mr. Carpenter for re-
fusing 70 grant permit was that the
street does not need 1t. He might lust
as well say that because Shipley street
has one grocery store upon II, a license
shall be refused another man
who wants to enter tho same business
because the people can get all the
groceries they need from the other man.
We came here In good faith We erected
: plant. We want to furnish gas for
lighting and heating purposes TO the
people Of Wilmington for Just compen-
sAtion | do not see how competition
could prove harmful to the interests Of
the people. We came into the state
willing to obey the laws Of the state and
also the laws Of the city In which we
located All we ask is fair play and
open competition In an open market
That ls all have to say about the bill
you speak Of"
l. is openly asserted here to night that
Senator Anthony Higgins, the Whining
ton Coal Gas Company and the Repuhli-
can Board Of Street and Sewer Com.
missioners are working hand Ia hand to
crush out the 0xy- hydrogen Company
and Mr.. Addicks's political power at the
same time. Mr. Higgins on the score OF
political competitions the Wilmington
Goal Gas Company on the score Of bust
ness competition, and the Street and
Sewer Department because It wishes to
take unto itself power that will make
Il larger than she General Assembly or
City Council
The Kent and Sussex BlIis.
BY an error made In transmitting To
days dispatches TO the EVENING JOURNAL
the public was given to understand thar
Five Commissioners bills for Kent and
Sussex counties passed the Senate To-
day Substitutes for the original bills
were passed. The Levy Courts Of the
two counties remain the same az thew
are at present. The county treasurer il
made elective and the Levy Courts of the
two counties are given increased iuris-
dictioh ever road overseers
DAcirey aud staats the Men.
The EVENING JOURNAL slate Of Dickay
and Staats for receiver and Comptroller
q New Castle county under the Five
Commissioners bill, will stand To
night At midnight they ara the men be.
yond doubt although the secretary of
state will not be Instructed TO make ont
theti commissions before late to morrow
afternoon.
All day long the State House has been
throngeh with prominent Democratic
who were anxious to pour into she ears
Of the governor the virtues aud peculiar
fitness their favorites possessed The
governor listened to the tales OF woe
with his characteristic patience and
genial smile Of non committal
Hanging around the corridors aud leg
islative halls You could see Fred s Stur.
geon, Levy Courtmen Kilgore and Hiok-
man, ex Levy Courtman Thomas Tow.
City Auditor John A. Mitchell. Patrick
Neary, James McGiraw, Dennis Shields
Thomas + Russell, John Dougherty'
Bernard Bonner, William Cooch, r. NJ
Cam, Jr., Edward f. Kane, John o. a rra,
Levy Courtman Andrew Eliason and
Henry X. Smith, full to overlooking with
John Y. Dickey sentiment Then Won
see John I Dickey himself, carrying
gripsack literally stuffed with letters OF
recommendation for the Office OF county
treasurer aud receiver Of taxes
Antagonizing this Dickey element
could be seen L. Irving Handy, Clerk Of
the Peace w Pierce Biggs, james T.
Shallcross and others. busy disseminating
General Theodore Armstrong senti-
ment for the place Dickey will FIJI.
Frank n Buck, R I Cochran. Colum
bus Watkins. A. ). Eliason, r.
Cam. Jr. NJ GrHbh. James T. Shall
cross, George F. Brady and Charles n.
McWhorter played parts or dual parts
for Thomas w Mcoracken for county
comptroller
George q. Rothwell John Wilson aud
others chaper0ned Abram Hayden OF
Blackbird hundred and put him through
his PAGES for the same Offices. assuring
every body that he was one OF the most
available men In New Castle county
Other delegations were here as we'll
and the governor had as much as he
could attend TO.
An unseen hand played the part for
John Stasts, and played it well Suffice
to say that the man who played it held a
winning hand
Speaker Donshoe and Senator r ,ss
made saort speeches In favor Of Mr..
Dickey for receiver
j. wilkins cooch for Register.
The question naturally arose: why
was McCracken turned downl There are
two reasons for IL. The first reason Is
that J wilkins Cooch Is slated to sue
coed Register Of Wills John X Bradford.
and be and McCracken both hail from
Pencader hundred 1t would not be good
politics for the governor 10 give two
prominent Offices to one hundred The
second reason is that the people Of Black
bird and Appoquinimink hundreds com
plain because they never receive any OF
the fat plums OF office. StaRts halls from
ppcquinimink and fills this long felt
hankering after the honor and emolu-
ments Of public Office
| la addition to these two reasons there
Is a more powerful one That Ia, In ad
ditlon to being good man, with power
full backing Of an unseen character, Mr.
Stats is a very warm personal friend Of