Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-03-19

plorable affair as relapse into bar
barism. With their bayonet behind
every ballot policy they would have
overridden local self-government and
threatened the disruption of law and
order over the entire south, not to bring
murderers to justice, but to entrench a
political party in power.
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The report of the Sussex county levy
court committee to investigate the de-
falcation of the late Rufus Wheatley,
deputy for Clerk of the Peace Il. W.
Tunnel, has at last been made public,
and a very remarkable showing it pre-
sents. The amount of the defalcation
was $4,060,20, which Clerk Tunnel
promptly paid as soon as it was ascer-
tanned but the expenses were 81 ,336.15,
or very nearly 80 per cent of the amount
recovered. The first item of expense is
the sum Of $500 to that disinterested
Republican patriot, j. Frank Bacon,
for collection" very handsome com
pensation when it is remembered that
Mr.. Bacon's collection" simply con
sisted in receiving a check for the
amount from Mr.. Tunnel and handing
it to the county treasurer, Next fol-
lows an item of $25 for "expenses in
Cured and paid by Mr.. Bacon" The
expert accountant, Lawrence Brown,
who was hired to go over the county's
accounts for 30 years back, in futile
attempt to discover some Democratic
defalcations, was paid $302,0S,
all of which was practically
money thrown away, as there was no
need of his services. The three mem
beers of the committee were paid $223.20,
the clerk $3.50, witnesses $6796, the
janitor $3S and the sheriff for summon
ing witnesses $11.91, these five items,
amounting to $491.07, comprising all
the expense that in justice and with an
ordinary regard for honesty and econ
omy, should have been incurred. There
is further item Of $ll7.50 paid to
the Delaware Printing Company for
printing pamphlet copies of the COM
mittee's partisan and untruthful report,
which were scattered broadcast over the
county, in the vain hope of influencing
the voters at the last election. OF the
sum Of $406020, which Clerk Tunnel
so promptly paid the instant the amount
of his deputy's stealings was ascer-
tanned, only S2,724O5 found its way into
the county treasury. After such a bril-
liant specimen of Republican financier-
ing in Sussex it is no wonder the tax
payers of that county demand change
and expressed this demand by their
votes at the election in November last.
Now they ask the Legislature to grant
them what they then voted in favor of.
The country need not keep awake al
nights in trembling fear that fleet of
Italian iron-clads will be speedily dis
patched across the Atlantic to devastate
all the American seaboard cities in re-
yenge for the lynching of the Italian
miscreants in New Orleans. In the first
place, the prevailing belief, now that
the first flush of the excitement has
passed away, is that the question is NOT
so much one of international complica-
ton, as for the state of Louisiana to de.
termine; and in the second place, the
Italian government is not working itself
into fine frenzy over the summary
shooting of gang of Sicilian outlaws
whom it had driven out Of Sicily fol
the same murderous practices they were
following in New Orleans. Secretary
Blaine, it is stated, is already sorry fol
his rather too hot haste in chasing the
lynching as massacre" in his dis
patch to Governor Nichols, and is now
disposed to let matters take their COURSE
while he quietly awaits detailed ofIicia
information from the Louisiana authori
ties. a significant indication of the feeling
of the Italian government, outside d
the formal utterances that may be nee
essary TO preserve the outward sem
blance of national dignity, is the decla
ration of one of the leading newspaper
of Rome, yesterday, that sit is just alst
to recognize that similarincidents woulC
not occur if the towns on the Atlantic
littoral were not infested with the ex
galley slaves Of Europe" In this singh
sentence is a material admission, on tn
; part of the Italian press, of the chief in
centive of the tragedy, and it is prett
straight indication that Italy does no
e propose to waste any blood or treasur
/, in an attempt to aYenge the slaughter @
c her own discarded criminals Of course
. even if Italy should show a dispositio
y to fight it would cause no fear in Til
y country, but war is undesirable at a
9 times, and it is, therefore, matter c
a congratulGtion that the New Orlean
! lynching is not likely to result in a san
+ culinary international conflict.
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That President Harrison has been
S pretty busy man during the past tw
v years is attested by the records of tn
/, post-office department. which show this
G he appointed 2,754 postmasters frol
d March It'll, 1891, to March 4th, 1893.
o this number 77S We're made upon til
ii summary removal Of the Democrat
5 incumbcnts and the others upon death
l. designations and expiration Of oficii
b terms. There are 800 Presidential pos
II Offices in which no changes have bee
+ made, The average thus far has bee
@ about four appointments for each worl
a ing day since Mr.. Harrison BEGAN
r President, not a slow record by an