Evening journal., 1896-12-07
THE PENINSULA PRESS.
WHAT THE DELAWARE AND
EASTERN SHORE EDITORS ARE
THINKING OF.

WHAT THE DELAWARE AND
EASTERN SHORE EDITORS ARE
THINKING OF.
1t is estimated that the cost of the
convention to amend and revise the
Constitution will not be less than five
thousand dollars. If the work is we'll
done the money will be well spent
Morning News
II was desirable, above all things
that. these election cases be tried at
the pending term of court, while the
evidence was new and forceful. and the
public interest keen. This was not
from any disire to secure conviction
through the force of public sentiment.
but that the prompt action of the law
might serve as public warning-as
an infallible pointer to law-breakers
that any tampering with the returns
OF an election by the freemen of Del
aware would be followed by swift ar
raignment and condign punishment
whenever the accused should be ad-
Judged guilty of the offences charged .-
Every Evening.
If five Republicans were elected TO
the Constitutional Convention in Kent
elected If not, then the ten Demo-
Gratis were There is no other solution
to the matter, and any man or set of
men who would agree to a compromise
are hardly the men to represent the
Republican party. The action of the
convention before the courts pass upon
the Kent county mandamus case is re-
markable in the extreme, but then the
lawyers are prone to do some very
funny things sometimes. They call it
a compromise. Yes, the Democrats are
always willing to compromise in Della
ware, especially when they are the
benetciaries of the deal-Daily Re-
publican.
Clergymen generally throughout the
country highly eulogized President
Clevelands Thanksgiving Day procla-
nation, speaking of it as one of the
finest papers of the kind ever emanat-
ing from the White House. 1t GER
tainly was comprehensive and model
proclamation.-Elkton Appeal.
1t is a snide affair. Kent county has
no representation in It. Nine so-called
Republicans are dancing attendance
upon sixteen Democrats, five of whom
are usurpers of places to which Repub-
licans we're elected by the people;
these five Democrats are there as the
result of theft. and have voluntarily
accepted the position of receivers of
stolen goods.-State Sentinel
Taking it all together it seems to us
that the very best results have been
reached in the matter of the supposed
contest. The Democrats have not
yielded one jot Of their claim as to the
principle of the late election, but have
simply refrained from a strict demand
for their rights. We certainly hope
that the good beginning will result in
like good ending of the work now
but commenced.-Dove Index.
The hobos have now marked long,
dark line across the name of Philadel-
/ phia on the map. The free-lunches in
/ that city will soon be a thing OF the
/ past.-New Castle News.
The dispatches from Washington on
! Tuesday announced that the Supreme
Court had unanimously affirmed the
/ judgment of the Court of Appeals of
/ the District of Columbia i'm the case
of Elverton r. Chapman, the stock
broker, who declined TO answer GER
tain questions propounded by the Sen
ate committee investigating the famous
sugar trust rumors in connection with
{ the tariff bill in 1894. The history oi
this case is familiar, and we only al
lude to il now to recall the fact thai
the position occupied by Senator George
Gray at the time, and which was vari
ously criticised, has thus been sus
tained in every point. Delaware ha,
reason to feel proud of this, for i
! must be remembered that the ables
minds of the country were at varianc,
as to the powers of the Senate on thi.
quostion.-Sussex Countian.
We think il particularly fortunat,
that the Constitutional Convention ex
isted al this particular Juncture o.