The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-18
GOVERNOR.
He Is the Peer of His Predecessors,
and Has Been Grossly Slandered.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
1t is a matter of surprise and regret that
a Republican paper so carefully and ably
edited as is the Journal should fall into the
error editorially of accepting and promulgat-
ing the Democratic canard that Hon.
Joshua H. Marvil, the recently inargurated
Republican Governor of Delaware. "can
neither read nor write" The report is SEN
sational and false. but is in full accord with
the treatment by Bourbon Delaware Dem
ocracy of every Republican of any prom
inence in public life in the State. An indig-
nant Legislature has passed c-ondemnatory
resolutions, also providing for investigation
as to the authorship of the article. But
after you trap a skunk what can you do
with it?
1t is possibly true that no Governor of the
Diamond State since Governor Salisbury,
whose two brothers of acknowledged less
ability for thirty consecutive years repre-
scented the State in the United States Sem
ate, has written his own State papers. The
views and ideas of the Governor are framed
and shaped by the Secretary of State, a law
yer, or such is the popular belief. Of the
Hon. Nathaniel B. Smirhers. ex-Secretary
of State, ex-representative in Congress, and
Governor MarviPs Secretary of State, Sena-
Dover is last fall, that he was proud epeed to Be
introduced to SO large and intelligent an
audience by the best constitutional lawyer
HI lIIC OIulCo Z WeAG - 4AOllO1 ID
safe in the hands of such men.
Delaware's Governors are chosen, as a
rule, from among her retired business men
and farmers, men respected and honored
for their moral worth and business capacity,
though they may not have had the advan-
tages of a classical education. The ablest
Governor that Delaware has had for years,
the Governor who was more of a statesman
and less of a political trickster than any
other, was a Democrat, whose love of letter
writing and poor photography gave arnuse-
ment, occasionally, to such as dwell more
on form than substance. In Christian char
| acter, in moral worth, in business integrity.
in intellectual capacity, Joshua III. Marvil
is the peer of any Governor Delaware has
had for over thirty years, and in educa-
tional qualification he is the equal OF most
of them. 1t is certain he will never dis
grace the good name of his State, nor open
the prison doors to such criminals as pledge
support to his faction and his party"
For twelve years, If not for nearly twice
that time, Delaware has been Republican
| on a fair election, but ii has been held by
the Democrats through manipulation of
election machinery and unfair laws. With
a constitutional provision for the payment
of a poll tax as a voting qualification, DEM
ocrats have been given tax receipts, free,
gratis, for nothing" while Republicans
| collectors at the midnight hour and in
secret rooms in Philadelphia hotels, in DIS
trictS posted with false notices of small
pox, etc. Certainly. Republicans in Della
enough at the hands of the enemy and merit
words of encouragement rather than GEN.
sure from those who should be their friends.
If YOU will watch tire course Of Governor
his private life if you choose, you will find
cause for commencing Delaware Republic
ans in their choice of a candidate for Gov
ernor, Notwithstanding the false statements
+, and accusations of Democratic penny-a-
liners A BLUE HENS
! Indianapolis. Jan II.