Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-04-23
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taken from Mondays issue of the
New York Evening Post:
Mr.. Edward II. Van Ingen has con
tinued his pursuit of tho newspapers
which published his namo in copnec-
tion with the familiar Golden Club lie
IN the. campaign OF 1892 until be has
brought all OF tho chief offenders 10 the
point OF retracton. 1t will be remem-
bered that ON the evening before and
the morning OF the last Presidential
election the Republican press of this
country published under haring head
lines, a statement that Mr. Van Ingen,
as an American merchant, had brought
home a corruption fund Of half mil
lion dollars from the Cobden Club to
DO used in buying votee for Cleveland.
Mr.; Van Iugen brought suit against
DalzieFs news agency in London for
sending the story, and 1t was com.
promised by the payment by Dalziel Of
2oO guineas and costs, amounting 10
sa,SOO. He also sued the Mail and
Express and the Recorder of this city,
and obtained q verdict against the
former OF $1,000 an costs and one
against the latter of 81, 600 and costs.
Inc Press also printed the story. II
now publishes tho confession of Dalziel
that mo such fund ever existed, and
the report was entirely unfounded %"
ana adds that "as this completely OK
onerates Mr. Van Inren, ii only ro-
mains for us TO express our regret at
having published such false and un
founded charges. - The Press further
pays 81, 600 and tho costs rather than
have the case go to trial. 1t is a very
fortuna Q thing to have this final re-.
traction and apology for an atrocious
libel, uttered ut the end Of the last
Presidential campaign, come out Mt tho
opening OF another national canvnss.
We may now reasonably hope to escape
the Golden Club lie in all its forms this
year.
Mr.. Van Ingen deserves great credit
for his persistence in bringing these
campaign liars to the bar Of justice
and compelling them to retract and
make reparation. No doubt the result
was accomplished oaly by large sac
riiice OF time. money and personal com.
fort, but he has the satisfaction in the
end of complete vindication.
1t is probable that the managers of
all these offending papers knew at the
time that they were giving circulation
to campaign lie in printing the story
that Mr.. Van Ingen had brought over
a half million dollars of Cobdon Club
money with which to influence the
election in this country in favor Of the
Democratic party. But they did not
consider that the matter would he
taken up after the election and prose.
cuted as il has been by the person SO
atrociously maligned. Mr.. Van Insen
has given the campaign liar costly
and humiliating, but no doubt salu.
tory, lesson.
Maryland's famous Eastern Shore
law, which required one United States
Senator to be taken from that section
of tho State, but which the Republi.
can majority in the last Legislature
fatty ignored in electing the Senator,
has been accidentally repealed. All
attempts to repeal it openly were re-
sisted by the Democratic majority in
the Senate, but an examination Of tho
records since the adjournment of tho
Legislature, shows that it was repealed
after all. a new Election bill was
prepared, repeating all of the old bill
excepting sections lis and ll6 of article
81, which contained the so.called
Eastern Shore law. But in the hurry
Of the closing days, the new bill was
passed without excepting sections ll5
and ll6 from the general repeal of the
old law, and the Democratic Senators
did not discover the omission in time.
However, the law never served any
particularly good purpose, and there
will be few regrets at it's repeal, even
II it was the result of an accident.
The Colorado Democratic State con-
vention Wednesday declared for free sill
yer coinage, and the threat was made
TO bolt should the Chicago convention
stand up for tho single gold standard.
Threats of this kind should not prove
disturbing TO Democrats generally.
The Democratic party, standing upon
Il platform declaring for sound money,
would be in better condition to make
winning fight at the next election
than would the Republican party with
Mckinley as its candidate on a plat
form that gave encouragement 10 tho
advocates of free silver coinage.
The fact that free coinage of silver
would be good thing for the silver
mine owners is conceded by the Rich.
mond, Va, State, but it adds: "But
for the South, which has no silver
mines, which is entering upon new
era, which wants development and
capital, for the South to fly in the face
of sound business precedents, in the
face of the monetary policy of the
world, is folly that means a fixed dis
advantage to the entire section. "
Ex Sheriff Simmons is being read out
of the Republican pnrty and tahooed as
a candidate for Governor, because he
voted to place competent Democrat |
in purely non bipartisan municipal
office. Nothing could more completely
illustrate the utter lack of principle
in the present double headed manage
ment of the Republican party in this
State.
There will be general regret at the
death of Hon. James W. Ware, which
occurred on Sunday. He represented
this city acceptably in the lower branch
of the General Assembly at the sessions
of 1877 aud 1879, and was in all respects