Evening journal., 1893-12-26
HOW The MIGHTY FELL.
Editor Dilworth, Formerly of Delaware
city. Dragged From His Bed ana
Locked Up In Jail.


Editor Dnworth, Formerly of Delaware
city. Dragged From His Bed ana
Locked Up In Jail.
Special Correspondence Evening Journal.
DELAWARE CITY, Dec. 2G.-Suspenslon
Of business, church services, Christmas
trees, home gatherings and turkey din
ners were the order of the day in this
community yesterday. and Christmas Of
93 passed into history remarkable not
only as green one, with delightful and
beautiful weather, but also the warmest
within the memory Of the Oldest inhabi-
tants.
At o'clock in the afternoon when the
sun shone brightly in on the front porch
OF the Delaware City Hotel, a thermome
ter on the outside registered the phenom
nal point of seventy degrees. While the
temperature was much higher elsewhere,
this joyous, festival season In main par
ticulars closely resembles the season OF
two yesrs ago, when ON the morning
after mas was found floating IN the
Chesapeake and Delaware canal near the
locks, the headless body OF colorec
man. The Identification and investiga
tion Of which developed the celebrated
Noah Benson murder trial
In those joyous and highly prosperous
days before panic and ruin swept DER
this broad land. Delaware City boasted of
weekly newspaper that appeared at
| irregular intervals. From an intellectual
standpoint this publication suffered many
serious defects The principal charac
teristics of its editor being his unnanly
desire TO cheat his devil and everyone
else out Of their just dues. However
his cunning manouvers enabled to him TO
| figure prominently In religious. political
social and financial matters.
| The columns Of this uncertain, thor
oughly despised and miserably edited
sheet ragged with unmistakable fury in
its wild efforts to raise the standard here.
OF denominational priesthood, another
great burden Of this mock reformer's life
was the sad and deplorable view he took
Of the sunken condition of New Castle
county Democracy. In his mad efforts at
reformation thereof a candidates 8 especial
fitness for office was measured by the
elasticity Of the candidates understand
ing and the extent TO which he would
stand his leg to be pulled by this ven.
turesome newspaper man Many were
the predictions, alas, by those who knew
him WELL rs to the hnal termination OF
| lho OaANtA VI pubAiohcAf luhtot anu pun
ticiau.
From pecuniary reasons the time bad
arrived that a change Of base wa:
necessary. New victims must be sought
new fields of adventure entered. Where
better could this be accomplished thar
at Chicsgo at the opening OF the World
Columbian Exposition2 When oncl
prominently located there, and the on,
great opportunity Of his life Of tortun'
and fame, seemed within his grasp, h
suddenly changed from a dispenser o
soft drinks TO handler Of the ardent
and when the question Of license or n
lisence presented itself, he uncom
promisiDgly arrayed himself on the sid
Of no license
Nor was he slow to enter the politica
: field. But western Indignation. unlik
that Of New Castle county, Delaware
> suffered not long from untold rebukes
, and the news of the hotly conteste
4 mayoralty fight OF Chicago. on Tuesday
brought the not unexpected announce
ment that James Hessey Dilwortl
formerly of Delaware City, was take
= from his bed at 3 o'clock in the morning
y placed under arrest and locked up in th
! county Jail The sad termination Of th
once prominent parsonage at illegal coll
: nization of voters in his newly adopte
: city brings forth the ancient quotation
"How have the mighty fallen and no
! are the great brought low. "