Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1891-02-20
NOEL MISSIONARIES.

Franklin Benjamin Cotton is not ap-
pieoiated. He is a Pennsylvania, q
political STINT. a patriot
II all Of these capacities he is here for
the purpose Of promo ing aud engineer.
ing the political elevation Of this little
state from the moss grown ways Of hon
| estg and decency to the sweet and ad
mirable cnstoms which have marked the
rise Of Pennsylvania 60 that acme Of
political corruption and public disgrace
to which she has attained.
In wealth and in population Pennsyl.
vania is the second state in the Union.
But she sends Quay aud Cameron to the
Senate, and has not single distln-
guished man in her delegation to the
national House of Representatives. In
fact it is often said that Pennsylvania
never had but two great men. Franklin
and Biddle, and they came from New
Jersey and Massachusetts.
II is not a new thing, then, that he
unseldsh and impartial efforts Of Penn
sylvania to spread the benefits OF the
tariff thickly all over the South, East and
the West are not appreciated The efforts
of the citizens Of this great common.
wealth 10 spread the sweetness and light
Of civilization all over the country with.
out enjoying them herself Is fully ex-
emphfed in sending those grand, noble
and unsslfsh agents Of political enlighten
ment and virtue, Quay and Cameron to
the United States Senate.
Pennsylvania Is always doing some
charitable missionary work She sent
the Claytous to Arkansas not to hold
office or TO herd negro reporters but to
assist IN the material elevation OF the
black race, to instill them with virtue
and prompt them in education and to pro.
mote harmony between the whites and
the blacks. She has sent many other
holy and devoted missionaries into the
South, not to incite the ignorant negroes
Or TO excite strife between the two races.
not to hunt oaice or secure private pick
ings for themselves. but to assist those
benighted commonwealths at the South
to attain the higher state Of moral rot
tenness and sniveling hypocrisy which
prevails among Pennsylvania states
men.
In the general distribution Of these
recherche and unique emissaries OF
political pulchrltude those two apostles
Of holiness and unselish devotion to the
interests Of mankind, Franklin Benia.
min Cotton and Frederick Eden Bach
were assigned BY some divine instinct. or
by their own keen noses, to this state.
Their distinguished efforts in the cause
Of the elevation Of this section Of the
world have not been fully appreciated.
In fact, the extreme modesty Of Frsder
ick Eden has prevented his detection and
apprehension.
Franklin Benjamin equally modest, but
less astute, has been caught. He was en-
gagged I'M the work OF preventing qualified
voters from casting their ballots for
Democratic candidates and in assisting
imported repeating negroes 70 deposit
illegal ana fraudulent votes. He was
building up Higglnsism BY Quayic
methods and Pennsylvania practices ia
Delaware.
Colonel Benjamin Nields attorney for
the defence, IS now busily and completely
occupied in exposing and exploiting Col
ton's virtues and sanity statesmanship 70
jury Of twelve men and incidentally to
honorable court and to the expeetant
the world at large
It is pity that Guardian Angel Pierce
and Geological Bach are prevented the
one by his shrinking modesty and the
other by the uutimely and unwarranted
publication Of his hardness with other
peoples money from enjoying the same
sort Of exposition But Bach will not
come out Of his shell and Pierce is re
ported to be in London for the benefit Of
his health and the security Of his free
dom.