Evening journal., 1893-06-08
ANYBODY. Oh LORD I

One OF Ihe nrhJ lhlug5 bhe new OliY
Council should do Is TO scat Thomas W.
McNey in his seat in Council as the
legally elected representative of the
Second ward. -Hersey Daily.
According to the returns of the cleo
tion Of Saturday there are six Democrats
and six Republicans in the City Council
with the president, a Republican, en-
titled to the casting vote in case Of a
tie. Solomon Hersey, a superannuated
aud pestlferous farce, is the clerk of
the present Council and a candidate for
the next He is also the alleged editor
Of Republican newspaper variously
known as the Daily Hersey, the As
tonisher, the Patent Medicine Program
aud the Daily Republican. Any other
name would fit the thing just as well,
and no name would probably describe 10
better.
But however hat may be- the thing
suits the party it works for and the
party it works for supports it. We
have no quarrel with that If they suit
each other they may to each other be.
long. We are simply engaged in stat.
ing facts, fortunately we do not have to
exploit the apology for the existence Of
the newspaper anomaly, or explain why
It is the only paper that circulates to any
extent among the Republicans Of VIII
mington. It does exist and It is sup
ported by the Republicans Of Whining
ton It is to be dealt with on that
basis
As would naturally be the case, the
presiding genius over this prehistoric
phenomenon is fossiliferous fixture on
the Republican party-a spongy, para
sitic growth too inanimate to die, too
stolld to be removed without carrying
some Of the wood with It,
This oephalopodic crinoid Of ante
bellum politics expresses the sentiment
and molds the opinion for the variegated
department Of the party of great mora
ideas He is looked up to and worshipped
as an ancient god on tin wheels
He wishes to retain his place as clerk
He is doubtful about holding it OF
merit, since he got on age and other in
firmities. Hence he advocates the re
fusal of two seats to two Democrats, wh'
were elected, in order to bestow then
upon Republicans, who were not elected
BY that means be hopes TO be reelected
himself.
What a spectacle this isl The propo
sition is to unseat Democratic Council
man or two Democratic Councilmen, ii
order to secure the place of clerk for
fossiliferous old newspaper fake, whic
is supposed to have been washed dow
from the mountains Of Pennsylvani
with other composite boulders Of tn
silurian period. He is of no other in
portance than that Of marking a perioC
and designating class that is rapid
becoming extinct.
But, the party which Is dead at I'll
, top, cares little or nothing for tina
Hence, he knows what he is doing, whei
with the insensiblity OF apoiitical pach!
derm, he advocates in his own paper
fraud upon the people by which one {
( two men are to be cheated out of II
Offices to which they were elected,
order that he may be secure Of plaC
which he is doubtful Of getting by prop,
and ordinary means.
! Not TO make too fine point of it, Sol,
, mon Republican, of the Daily Hersey,
) afraid that the seven Republican men
5 bers elected to the City Council, con
prising majority of one, will not II
] elect him as clerk; so he coolly advocate
D cheating two Democratic members q
2 their seats, by fraud, in order to create
Republican majority of nine. Thus
expects to make himself secure
OF course the paper which Mr. Repu
4. lican runs is Of little consequence inte
r lectually, politically, or morally. Bi
! ! such as il is, it has a greater circulation
y and a greater influence, perhaps, tina
: any other three Republican papers
a Delaware Such as 1t is, and such as II
editor is they must be reckon,
{ as constituent and component parts
: Republicanism in Delaware.
e That The paper is libel upon new
u papers; that the man who stands spons
n for it is a ridiculous and harmless ant
y = bellum political crinoid is Of no cons
4 sequence to the party which. like d
anxious girl praying for a husband
d the forest, mistook an owls hoot, "Wh
who for the Lords voice and quick
answered: Anybody, oh LORD 80
is man
, But, such as they are they are propS
ing a fraud which the Republican par
d will perpetrate