Evening journal., 1896-02-03
THE PENINSULA PRESS.
What the Delaware and Eastern Shore
Editors Are Thinking or


Editors Are Thinking or.
The Oecll section OF the g. o. p, Is
said to be In state Of Generalization.
There are a hall dczsn applicants for
each Office aud when the governor emptiss
bis green bag there will be host Of dis
appointed people. Cecil Democrat
Democrats are not returned delinquent; /;
they do not have to pay their tax In
person, and they are sure somehow to
have tax receipt when registration day
rolls around Sussex Republican
The Legislative Committee TO settle
With the state treasurer aud auditor com
pleted It's labors this week and have given
TO Charles II Atkins-state treRsurer-a
certificate WHICH is highly priced by him.
Every penny was In bank aud every
voucher WAS approved. Each fund was
found TO be absolutely correct, aud bank
officials In Wilmington and Dover corrob
Grated the treasurers accounts. Mil
ford Chronicle
II the nuisance Of the chemical works
Is to be permitted much longer the people
Of Wilmington will become as "A Work
nan" says IN an afternoon paper,
walking gas holders" Every man will
be bis own light reservoir. He can touch
match to his mouth, light the gas which
he inhaled during tbs day. and then sit
down and enjoy himself Morning News.
OF course all the lower part OF the
state will be benefited BY the road, but
In no town will the material benefit DO so
great az TO the town OF Lewes A direct
line Of road from the bltumlnous coal
mines Of the Cumberland range 20 that
town, must give TO II untold Importance
as coallng station. and this will neces-
state larRe increase Of population and
large weekly pay roll for labor done -
Milford Herald
II Henry A Dupont possessed that
fms sense OF honor which has always
3upposed to Aavo characterized the
members Of HE family. he would not seek
and much less accept q position to which
be was not elected The SenRtorship is
an honorable position when attained by
honorable means When attained by
fraud, chicanery, stealing or by nigh
banded partisanship riding rough shod
over the constitution and the laws, it be-
come8 place Of dishonOr aud Is & stigma
upon him who 30 accepts it, Dover
Index.
The reports OF the massaores Of
Armenians by the Turkish troops aud
subjects, ss they have been received In
this country, are stories OF cruel outrages
and bloody atrocities Bat they have
not been subjected TO the test Of official
scrutiny, ana 10 Is impossible 20 say how
much Of the horror that seems to attend
them might be dlsslpsted by the search
light Of rigid and impartial investiga-
tion Every Evening.
Elected to make laws, the lawma kers
Of Maryland have overrldsn law; the
representations OF the people. ch osen
because Of their standing, fitness and
adaptsbility to frame statutes foi the
betterment. of the peoples intrrests
throughout the state havel thrust
beneath their feet an ancient and hereto
fore respected law OF the commonwealth
and elected flom the western shore a
United States Senator when It was
known by all that the Eastern Shore
WAS by an honored statute entitled TO
say who should represent thsmisfter the
expiration Of Senator Glbson's term -
klkton Appeal.
The Republican members OF the Legis.
lature sang the Doxology when Welline
ton was elected senator The Duke him
self calculated Thank God 70 when be
was informed Of the result. He and his
friends evidently thank the Lord as veil
a. Governor Lowndes snd Speaker Mudd
took hind In the Eight. -EAstou Ledger.
II al the sfadavits thus far fled in the
DUPONT contest case are tgus there m ust
bs some awful tall lying somewhere
Tne difference Of opinion about what took
place BY those who we're on hand do not
] NfII HuNIH HrN
the same object dife emily. - Daily
Republican
The question Of pensions should not be
a question Of politics but the Democratic
party has made It such by its condem-
nation OF the administration Of the
penoion laws by this Republicans There
have been two Democratic admins
trations.-Aiddletown Transcript.
The territory In dispute Is either
rightly Venezuelan or English The vote
Of the occupants OF Il could settle only
their preference. not the riebtfrl
boundary Milford News aud Advertiser.
Wellington hss been elected United
States Senator In Maryland and the
Etstern Shore Law has been trampled
uuder foot This Law, 1t is true enough,
does not invRlidate the election OF Well
iogion, but It was the expressed law and
/ VII Of the people Of the state. aud has
sacrsdiJ bsen observed as a solemn com
pact Tor about hundred years --Ssasord
News
The assumption that \ nuisancs 80
persiilent and hagr4nt, so unbearabio
and 80 frequently confessed AS that which
adheres 70 the operations Of the Llebig