Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-03-03

nothing to arbitrate. The question you
propose is one between you and Asses
SCR O'Hara; not between you and
EVERY EVENING. Ypu printed, in your
editorial columns OF Wednesday, Feb
ruary Gath list bf alleged fictitious
names which you charged appeared on
Mr.. O'Hara's list. Your own language
was: awe transcribed the names our
selvesfrom the assessment, last even
ing, and can therefore vouch for their
correctness" The Levy Court soruti-
nized this list carefully the following
day Thursday end found that the
alleged fictitious names as printed in
the Republican were not on the same
and manifestly could not have been
copied therefrom by Mr.. Hersey. After
this investigation Mr.. Hcrsey ex.
planned that he had not gotten these
names from the assessment list, but
from some unofficial copy thereof which
he had seen at some Republican head
quarters. If he had said this in the
first place the accusation would prob
ably have not been regarded by tho
Levy Court as entitled to cognizance by
that body. But what he did say was
I'VE transcribed the names ourselves
from the assessnsent"--language which
II 1t means anything means personal
transcription fr1m the assessors list
direct, not from nything purporting to
be copy of thu same. We never said
that Mr.. Hersey lid not find these names
on such copy; but it is manifest that
they are not on Pie official list, have not
been on it sincefit was delivered up by
the assessor, anil, we are informed, the
Levy Court exahiners found nothing to
warrant even a suspicion that the names
as printed and Houched for by the re.
publican ever hid been on that list.
The Levy Court injunction case be-
fore Chancellor Salisbury was ably
argued throughout, and, to the packed
audience that hung with eager ears on
every utterance of the learned counsel
the searching discussion of the ques.
tions raised was as instructive as it was
entertaining. 1t was rare educational
treat, historically as well as legally,
Many who had never given such mat.
tiers much thought before went away
from the United States court room las,
week with clearer, deeper and more
enduring insight into the origin of our
levy courts, heir duties and iuris.lic.
ton, the funt tons of Independent but
correlated officers and the safeguards
and. restrictions that have grown ur
around the elective franchise, than thcy
could possibly have acquired in months
of assiduous study. But the CLOSING
argument of Mr.. Bayard was the great
analytic, synthetic, erudite, mastery
treat of the occasion. It was from be.
ginning to end veritable forensic bat.
tering ram of hard facts, impregnable
logic and profound familiarity with and
application of the law in its bearings
upon every suggested phase, aspect and
sophistry Of the controversy and will
pass into local history as an argument
to be remembered, recalled, quoted from
and appealed to so long as member OF
the bar shall survive whose privilege il
was TO hear it.
As the young Emperor of Germany
stood at his palace window Thursday
afternoon, pale and looking like a mar
Just recovered from sickness" gazing
upon the turbulent mob of ten thousand
discontente d worSingmen massed abou,
the statue of the historic Frederick
shouting the Marsellaise and clamorine
for redress of grievances, it may have
occurred yto him that the " sic volo sic
jubeo" Of absolutism could in moment
be overcome by the vox populi Of q
thoroughly aroused democracy. The
cable says that the usually quiet Ger.
mans, not alone those gathered on the
Inter den Linden, but in all parts Of
the city, seemed "to be fired with the
spirit of 1913, when their fathers, on
that memorable March day, paraded
before the same palace with the people.
dead, while King Frederick William Nv
stood q bareheaded witness of The
CHASTITY review. Not since that briei
reign Of the people has Berlin witnessed
sach scene as to-day" Coming sc
close on the heels of the emperor's auto
cratic utterances at the Brandenhurrel
banquet, the uprising of yesterday
though hbortive and ill-advised, must b,
regarded as exceptionally ominous. Ii
Paris such mob might have set on foo
revolution. And in German reyolu
ton every able-bodied man would com,
, to the Struggle trained soldier.
Senator Henderson has introduced
three bills for the punishment of "greer
goods swindlers and the prevention O
pretended sales of alleged counterfeit
money. It is probably we'll enough t.
have such legislation, hut the fact re
mains that no one who is not himsel
dishonest at heart runs any risk o
being taken in by a green good
operator. The fool who bites at tn
bats offered by these swindlers docs s,
because he expects to buy for ten cent
on the dollar counterfeit money so wei
executed as to be indistinguishable iron
the genuine. OF course common sens
should teach him that the possessor 0
such money would not be hawking i
around at discount Of 30 per cent, Blu
the victims Of green goods men air
noted rather for cupidity than common
sense. After they have burned thei
fingers they know more and nobody ha
much pity TO waste on them. Il take