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Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-08-05

Congress, numerous scandals and Raum
has passed the infamous Mckinley bill
and has nothing to offer to the people now
but the Force bill tits afraid Of that. and
as for fifteen years makes its campaign on
the prospective plumbers and alleged dis.
honest incompetency Of the Democratic
party. The Republican party stands like
criminal in the dock pleading his
own case by attempts TO i'm
plicate better men. It cannot
make any defense. Il simply pleads
that it is not as bad as il has been
painted and trusts and trembles while
it hopes that the prosecution will not be
able to obtain evidence sufficient to con
Wet. It appeals TO the manufacturers
to subscribe, lest like old Dimetrius, who
resisted Paul and raised a mob in
Athens, their profitable business Of max
ing idols, may be taken from them.
Working the tariff is more profitable to
the benefciaries than the manufacture
Of little brass idols of Diana was to Dim.
etrius. One resisted free saliva ton the
other ressts free trade, both because ''by
this craft we have our wealth.
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be MIL coNEIRM ooNrrMpr

HE WILL CONFIRM CONTEMPT.
After receiving a public insult from
President Harrison. sufficiently grave and
personal in its nature to cause him to
retire Immediately from the second off
eial position in the government; after
allowing his fool friends to pit him
against the man who insulted him, If
Mr., Blnne should come into the cam
paign and recommend Harrison to the
people he would demean and stultify
himself to a degree that is as unnecessary
as it is disastrous
His real sentiments as to the man
Harrison, have been acted 80 Thoroughly.
so passionately, that there is no posi-
bility that his words will be able deny
his acts, no matter what words he may
employ.
He cannot praise the Mckinley bill
with any more consistency than he can
fatter Harrison. His reciprocity
scheme was rejected and what was left
Of it's remains have not received even a
decent burial He cannot advocate a
more drastic Force bill than the one he
defeated in "a
What will Mr. Blaine do then in this
campaign What can he sayY
He cannot do otherwise than stultify
HIMSELF he cannot say anything that
will not make his notorious Inconsistency
contemplate. A correspondent for one
Of the New York papers says:
The montebanly who wrote the Multi.
gan letters, who was no "deadhead" in
dishonest enterprises, who cast his
anchor TO windward when honest gales
threatened shipwreck TO his money max
ing schemes, who was tainted with more
than the suspicion of corruption, who
used his official position TO give force to
buster that might bring war TO his
country IL only it would profit his specu-
lations, had been foisted into the position
Of representative and brilliant
American.
That is harsh, but true II serves to
show that Mr.. Blaine's reappear ance in
politics win revive forgotten history,
and restore to memory, sins which have
been condoned.
Mr.. Blaine's temperance, with his
record of opposing everything even its
candidate that the Republican party
advocates now, cannot have any other
influence on the campaign than to con.
firm the opinion Of the most bitter of
his detractors
He cannot win votes He cannot paint
Harrison in tempting colors. He cannot
apologize for the Mckinley bill, commend
the knocked-out reciprocity dodge, OF
soften the force of his opposition to the
present Force bill and his successful efforts
to defeat former bill He cannot do any
thing but demean and stultify himself
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-08-05
A MAN AND A

It is preposterous 10 pretend that the
Democrats could make any proposition TO-
or accept any proposition from, the Re
pubicans.
Who are the Republicans OF course
we all know many respectable, intelli-
gent, honest and honorable men who
follow in the wake-all the more shame
to them-of leaders and bosses who are
intolerable nuisances and public scandals.
But who are the men who come forward
to act and answer for the Republican
party2
The catalogue of their names alone is
ignominous and disgraceful
The chairman of the Democratic COM
mittee is Willard salisbury, Jr, a
lawyer of ability and a citizen Of the
highest standing. Back of that is a
family as old as Delaware, as honorable
as the record of this noble and gallant
little commonwealth, which that family
has had such an important part in MAX
ing nl.
Mr. Salisbury is entrusted with great
enterprises; he has the confidence of the
best citizens of all grades, of all parties
in the commonwealth.
1t was Mr.. Saulsbury's genius which
conceived the plan and obtained the CAPT
tai which gave the city those splendid
improvements-th Wilmington City
Electric Railway and the Equitable
Building. He is gentleman, a scholar
and man, in whose integrity any
man, woman or child in Delawar,
might place the utmost confidence. II,
would be as honest and honorable; his
uprightness would be as conspicuous in ,
small affair as it has been in grea'
affairs.
What does the Republican party op
pose 70 this man 1t is almost dis
grace to mention the name of the phe
nomenon who occupies the same rela
tive position in the Republican party a
Mr.. Salisbury occupies in the Democra
tic party
It is Fred E. Bach. Mr. Bach has beer
hopping from one thing to another eve
since he immigrated here from Pennsyl
vania. He has been nothing long am
nothing great. Compared by any mea
sure convenient, how does he appear b
the side Of man2
Any man may make this comparison 70
for himself we need not enter into tn
details Of financial, social and politica
standing to show that the Democrat
! cannot make any proposition through
Willard Salisbury, Jr., for the highes
official in the Republican party to exc
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-08-05
His Ambition Realized.

Dover Index.
Well, Editor Sperry has at last sue
ceeded in getting an office. President
Harrison has consented to send
him to Persia to fiji a consulship.
The President in his appointments seems
to have a hankering after newspaper
men. If Republican editor kicks over
the traces a little the President whips
him in and fixes the whole matter up
nicely by sending the unruly editor off to
fill some lucrative position in foreign
country. Mr.. Sperrys heart for some
time has been set upon obtaining an
Office and now he has got one, we pre-
sumo he is happy A few years ago
he wanted to 60 to Congress,
and in order TO secure the nomination he
placed his paper at the disposal of the
Sussex county gang, with full permits
sion, so far as he was concerned, TO use
it for the purpose of destroying, if pos
sible, hecharacter Of one of the leading
citizens of Sussex county. But his
scheme didn't pan out at all well. His
efforts in that campaign were exceed
ingly bungling He made miserable
failure of the whole thing. But he
didn't give up. The word fail wasn't in
his vocabulary. He intended TO get an
office If he had to accept it at the hands
of the man whom he hated and despised
So anxious was he for position that he
was ready and willing to perform the
Hynson act and wear the collar of the
Gar of Delaware, in order TO obtain the
height of his ambition.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-08-05
THAT ROMANCE FROM OHIO.

The story of that minister in Ohio,
who, assisted by his congregation, en-
gagged in a rough and tumble fight with a
lot Of toughs in church, and after a free
fight without any rules put the toughs
out and resumed his sermon. is fshy. II
reads like one of those tin-plate industry
stories, manufactured chiefly in Ohio and
Pennsylvania, which are the Pigments Of
an unsettled brain
This remarkable story comes from
Mahogany, said to be twenty miles from
West Union, both of which settlements
claim to be in Ohio. President Harrison
was born in Ohio and Fire-Alarm Foraker
and Happy Go-Lucky John Sherman
live there, but those facts do not give the
story any garnitures of truth.
II is said chat finally the pastor
gained the upper hand of the principal
disturber Of worship and thrashed him
soundly." But we believe that is an As
ISOLATED Press story sent on the clothes
line wire of that moss backed institution
much addicted TO special wires and
spurious news. The romance continues
After the rioters had been thrown out,
the fighting parson, bloody and battered
as he was mounted TO his pulpit again
and resumed his sermon.
If that were a special despatch to Min
lister Sperrys Persian organ from Sussex
county, IL might be elias sifed under the
simple three-lettered word which des-
cribes all of the news, Sin news
sense, the News gets from that sandy
and prolific county. But coming from
Ohio the classification is not so easily
accomplished.
Ohio is large state and some truths
are liable TO come from there. We do
not mean TO insinuate that the truth
cannot come from Sussex connty-in
fact we imagine a great deal Of truth
must have come from there-but we will
say that no truth ever leaks into the
News's hopper from that territory. We
had a fragrant, conhagrant even, ex-
ample Of that in the almshouse dis
aster, which was Herseyed from there
this week.
Now it is equally difficult to believe
that minister engaged in free fight
in a Methodist church and, after throw
ing the rioters out, entered the pulpit
'bloody and battered" TO resume his ser
mon as TO believe that Darius Artaxerxes
Sperry has not been struggling for three
years to go on mission somewhere, with
all the rest of the Harrisonian gang of
rewarded editors Of the not-too- proud to-
stultify-themselves class We shall not
believe the story till we see the preachers
bloody shirt or the thumb-marked hymn
book from which he "lined out" the dole
full stanzas for his faithful assistant
bruisers TO sing through their noses.
We could not believe a story of that
character and pedigree, even though it
be told in the presence Of our police com
missioners and vouched for by two vera
cious but innocent detectives. 1t is too
much of a strain upon plain mans ner-
vous system. It is too liable to condemn
a man to become an editor of tin-plate
paper and wriggle to be foreign mis-
sioner under the Republican administra-
ton Of the cool little man from Indianap.
oils We would MS lief be a Congressman
subsisting on beeftea.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-08-05
ABOUT AMERICAN SHIPPING
Captain Nelson VIII Build The First steel
Bark That Has Been Constructed Since
Tho " Iron Agev Was Built Here.

The American Shipbuilder, under the
headline Captain Nelson's Pioneer
American Steel Bark, says
"Some fifteen or twenty years ago there
was built by the Harlan and Holling-
worth Company, of Wilmington, Del,
an iron bark called the Iron Age Since
then no iron vessel of that rig has been
constructed in the United States True
il is that the lamented Commander
Henry r. Gorringe, of the U. 5. Navy,
constructed the iron ships Il. +. Cakes
and Clarence s. Bement, and the iron
schooner Red Wing, at the yards of the
American Shipbuildlng Co., in Phila-
delphia One iron sailing ship, the
Tillie Starbuck, was also built by John
Roach, at Chester, Penn. Since then no
iron merchant sailing vessel has been
built in an American shipyard.
1.-THE American seafaring public as well
as those in other walks of life, are inter
ested in the strides this country has
made in the last few years in the build
ing of large wooden ships like the Rap
pahannock, Shenandoah and Roanoke.
and other square-rigged craft, as well as
the large number of fore-and aft vessels
that have been turned out in Maine and
Massachusetts,.
Some of the largest ships in the world
are American, while the four masted
schooners are the largest of any country
in the world. Americans are proud of
the progress made by their shipyards
and would like to see the day when the
United States could compete with Eng
land by steam as well as sail.
There is one man in New England
Captain Charles II. Nelson, of 533 Co.
lumbus avenue, Boston, Mass, who
thinks that the United States can turn
out as good a specimen of steel square
rugged vessel as any country in the
world, and he has had plans drawn for
the construction Of a steel bark Of 1898
tons.
There is custom made compulsory
Z in the British merchant service of carry
ing in every well-equipped ship, as ap-
prentices, few boys from good families,
who, in this way, have a far better
chance Of learning navigation than
the men before the mast. Cap
tain Nelson intends to copy
this practice in his ship when
she is launched, and he thinks it would
be a good example for American ship
masters TO follow, as it would be the
means of driving the Objectionable for
eign element out of their vessels
The keel of the new bark will proba
bly, soon be laid in the Maryland Steel
company's yard at Sparrow point, Nd"
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-08-05

LBy Telegraph to the Evening journal.
New YORK, Aug 5.-Money easy, l1e02 per
cent. Exchange steady; 4.Sl@4.sIA for %
days; 4.sSl4dA6Si6 for demand. Governments
registered 100 bid; as coupon ll6A bid. Stocks
opened irregular but advanced throughout
the morning. The improvement ranged = %
per cent. At p. m. the market Is dull.
Sales l0i.5ll shares.
NEW YORK, Aug .5.-COtton dull, middlings
79s; futures steady; Aug. ~; sept. p;
Oct. 7.S2; Nov. .43.
Flour quiet and unchanged; city mill extras
4.35 for West Indies; superfine, $50; fine, 235
Wheat opened steady, but declined u on
realizing sales. due to the to the reports that
the statements of injury TO the wheat crop in
the Northwest were Overdrawn.k Receipts, lSl,
400. bnsh; shipments, $4,000 bush. No. red
winter, Si35 cash; $3.50. Aug: SIS, Sept.
Corn opened unchanged, but declined s6W1s
by noon on denials of the reports of hot
weather West. Receipts, $3.50 bush.; ship
ments. y, 500 bush. No. mixed, 81 cash; 81,
Aug; 56l4 Sept 20, Oct.
Oats duh, easier. Receipts 800; shipments
l5.4Os. firm, No.2 mixed 80 cash; ts94 Aug,
3S9S Sept.
Rye steady; 70075.
Barley neglected
Molasses duh, 80 test Cuba 10.
Sugar moderately active, steady. POw'd.
494al5-l6; graduated 47-l6@i3s.
Coffee. duh. Rio grades No z, l59s9l51s.
Rice, nominal.
Pork, active, old mess 125OalS 90.
Lard duh, Sept. Oct. 100
Butter stronger, Western extras 2302516.
Cheese firm. 009lS.
Eggs dull Western l704.
Turpentiue, dull ?sl6129.
Resin quiet l2Z6ll.21lb.
Tallow duh, 5-lt04ss.
Petroleum nominal.
Freights quiet and unchanged.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-08-05
wANAMAKER,s.

cheapness with the whole
Trade Sale movement.
An indicator for the day is a
lot of Antique Oak Dining
room Suits at SIS a suit, in
Guiding an 8-feet dining table,
g chairs, and a very tasteful
sideboard. Paragonic cheap
ness.
The Maple and Oak Side
boards at So, $40, ST. and SIS
well, no family need be with
out a Sideboard on account of
price.
The Furniture Trade Sale
is proceeding on the third floor.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
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Closed Saturdays at I p. m.

Our store was bright with
busy buyers all yesterday, and
"a cheerfuller place than the
broad Furniture expanse would
be hard to find. The Furni-
ture Trade Sale commands
universal attention.
Walnut Furniture-Furni-
ture men have long been dis
posed to ignore Walnut. They
have blundered-we, too. Wal
nut as a Furniture wood has
intrinsic beauty. Thousands
of homes furnished a few years
since are all in Walnut. Any
new Furniture needed must
either be omitted or incon-
gruous. Walnut doesnot lead
the fashion-.Oak, Maple, Ma
hogany are in the ascendant
but Walnut is here. Then
here's to Walnut
Walnut Sideboards, SCI,
SIS (three sorts), $2z $2S,
$50, $50, SIS, $3S, $40, $42,
$50 and upward.
Walnut Bedroom Suits, $50,
$40, SIS and upward separate
double bedstreds, two styles,
$I2.5o.
All these are sympathetic in
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-08-05
DIED.

BECK.-At Delaware City. on the I'd inst,
William Beck, aged 90 years.
BLEST.-At ClaymOnt, Del, on the 3D. inst,
William Q. Blest, Jr.. aged 30 years.
CARTRIDGE. Near Bellevue, Del, on July
81, 1892, Mary e., wife Of Harry b. Cartridge,
aged "A years.
CONNAWAY-In this city on Augugt 3d.
William e. Connaway. age is years.
Relatives and friends are invited TO attend
the funeral from his parents residence, No
1919 Lombard street, on saturday afternoon
August 9Th, at o'clock. Services at the
house. lnterment at Wilmington and
Brandywine Cemetery.
CLOUSER.-At Marshallton, on August l.
1892, William ID. Clouser, aged GA years.
DENNISON.-In this city. on the 3D. inst.
Robert DennisOn, aged 90 years.
ELLIOTT.-In this city, ON July 81, 1892
Jesse Elliott, aged So years.
METEER.-In this city, on July 81, Marga.
retta G. Meter.
O'CONNELL.--In this city, on the 3D. inst.
Hannah, daughter of John and Mary
O'COnnell, aged 10 years.
PIERCE.-On August l, 1892. Maria G
Pierce, aged II years.
SEWARD.-In this city, on August 3, Ella
daughter Of William T. and Ella Seward, aged
4mOnths and l4days.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-08-05
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Montauk Yacht club will go on a two
weeks cruise down the bay tomorrow.
Building Inspector DOLL condemned two
frame houses at Seventh and Railroad ave
nue. yesterday.
Mitchell Nerps is at the Homeopathic
Hospital suffering from a kick in the abdO-
men from a horse.
The Wilmington Prohibition League met
In the Y. NJ. G. A. rooms last night. Rev. j. ID.
G. Hanna made an address.
-Twenty-eght children were placed in
country homes by the Associated Charities
Fresh Air Fund yesterday.
-Gustave Roller and Katie Healey were
married by Rev. G.. j. Kelly at his parochial
residence yesterday afternoon.
Charles Lowe was struck by flying belt
at the works Of the jackson and Sharp Com
pany yesterday and was badly injured.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-08-05

TIE correspondence Of Archbishop Cor
rigan published in full proves that he
could not have intended any disrespect to
the Holy See. Every man has a right to
explain his own meaning to put his own
constitution on his own words and no oman
should refuse to accept that intrepreta.
tion as the charitable and proper one. He
should not deliberately prefer a hostile
Interpretation unless the acts Of the man
justify or demand another intrepre-
tation Of his words.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-08-05


is5S-Arrivalo of Niagara at Trinity bay, New
foundland, and cable communication COM
pleted across the Atlantic.
ls62-Battle Of Baton Rouge; General Thomas
Williams was killed in leading an Indiana
regiment whose officers had fallen; born Ia
New York 1915.
le0i-Admiral Farragut forced his way into
Mobile bay, but the monitor Tecumseh
struck torpedo and went down with all
on board.
ls15-Waterspout struck kim, in Prussia, and
drowned l3 persons.
lss0-Charles Fechter. actor. died
iSSS-Philip Henry Sheridan, general OF the
army, died at NonQuitt, Mass; born 1881.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-08-05

cute to the ear and to ignore and break
and prove false TO in fact.
This is not the only comparison which
may be made We shall make others.
Meanwhile If the Republican party
means well or intends to be honest with
the people Of this city, why does it not
choose men in whom the people can trust
even in small afTairs2
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-08-05

MINsTRELs are pretty fair indicators
of the public sentiment concerning any
public abuse. The minstrels here on
Wednesday night ridiculed the pensioner
numerically. That is an indication,
and doubtless lamentably correct one.
The old soldier, who should be held in the
.lsghest possible esteem, has become an
object Of contempt because Of the too
frequent frauds ON the pension laws.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-08-05
NEWSPAPER OPINION.


Philadelphia Times.
A careful analysis of the returns Of
the Alabama election clearly demon
strates that the colored vote decided the
contest in favor of the straight Democra-
tic ticket In all of the Industrial cities
and towns where there is large negro
vote, Governor Jones received over
whelming majorities, and only in the
more remote rural districts did the negro
vote exhibit anything approaching unity
in Talladega county, where there
is very large negro vote the
story was industriously circulated
amongst the Ignorant negroes that they
would be DISTINGUISHED If Jones was re-
elected, and many votes were thus Sc
cured against him; but in spite Of this
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-08-05

STEVENSON went down to Louisville
and among other things said 81, too, am
a Kentuckian" What occurred when
the Kentuelxians heard this can be i'm.
agined more easily than told. But they
did not keep still They will not keep
still hereafter either, aud it may be re
garded as settled that they will give
Stevenson, Grover, Frances, Ruth and
the entire family the biggest majority
the Democratic ticket ever had.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-08-05

THE first evidence Of dullness and Of
the lack Of appreciation of modern news
paper work the reader sees in our con
temporaries is the standing editorials
they save work, and the readers are an
ignorant lot, who have not skill enough
to clip an article that pleases them, or
sense enough TO remember proposition
OF a fact once read. AT least that is the
Justification for printing either more
than once.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-08-05

SOME Of the newspaper writer's are at
tempting to decide whether the girls
shall play golf or tennis. They are. Of
course. deciding the great question for
themselves only; the girls are sure TO do
as their own sweet wills dictate no mat
ter what the newspaper writer's decide.
One writer had a sort Of physiological
hysteiia for fear the 1.-the and gentle
creatures would abandon tennis abso-
lutely and cleave unto golf That
writer lacks either experience or
observation. If girl looks chic or
pretty in a tennis suit the game of
tennis win always be with us,
whether she plays the game herself OF
simply puts ON the betwitching toggery
because her forty second cousin intends
to play next week, if it doesn't rain.
That is what was the matter Will
croquet there were no clothes to play il
in That is. no special clothes; for, s,
far as our observation went, they never
appeared on the croquet lawn decollete S,
long as there are any special clothes thu
girls viii play the games adapted to tn
clothes from leap-frog in divided skirt
to mother in law with a broom stick an,
frown 1t is not the games the girl
care for so much as the intense Interest
they take in fixing and fussing to ge
ready merely to read how somebody els
who played them was attired.
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wars Irredeemable savngery.

From the Springfield Republican.
We read of great battles, atrocious
massacres and desperate riots with
scarcely shudder, yet the spectacle of a
fool boy strung up by the thumbs strikes
us as something beyond the pale of Chris
tian civilization. The Iams case was
needed, it seems, to impress us with the
essential and irredeemable savagery of all
war, however refined.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-08-05

City Councilman Thomas McVey, of the
Second ward, has in hand an ordinance
that, if passed, will impose fine on any
person not a fireman, who is found wear
ing fire company badge Under it the
plan of issuing the badges is revisited
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-08-05

THE HOMESTEAD worhingmen have
resorted TO the law to correct the abuses
which have sprung up under the Mckinley
law. OF course they stand no chance
there. The only remedy is the ballot.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-08-05

New York Commercial Advertiser.
The matrimonial balance sheet be-
tween America and Europe is beginning
to be adjusted. A real, live baroness has
married a st. LOUIS salesman. But
which of them was sold?