Evening journal., 1896-12-14
THE PENINSULA PRESS.
WHAT THE DELAWARE AND
EASTERN SHORE EDITORS ARE
THINKING on

The people of Dover learn with
regret OF the intention of Hiram
Reedy to move away. During the
twenty years and more of his residence
here. Mr.. Reedy has made warm
friends and has won the respect and
confidence of the people. He has been
identified with almost every enterprise
for the prosperity and development OF
the town. The people of Dover would
be sorry to lose Mr. Reedy and would
be glad if he should decide to remain
in our midst-Doyer Delawarean.
Sometimes ideals must yield to ex-
pedience. If when the Constitutional
Convention is concluding its work the
adoption Of new Constitution by the
people should appear doubtful, simply
because of partisan political feeling
then IL were better that the convention
proclaim its work as a Constitution,
rather than submit it to a vote by the
people.-Milford News and Advertiser
No more important matter will come
before the Constitutional Convention
than the change to be made in the ju-
dicial system Of the state. It is a fact
of which Delawareans have always
been proud that the judiciary of Della
ware has always ranked with that of
any state of the Union. and that our
reports are cited as being of the high
est authority everywhere. Much can
be said in favor Of a system that has
uniformly produced such good results,
and of a judiciary that has numbered
among its members such a galaxy of
distinguished names. If any departure
at all is needed It should be of such a
character as is not Of a radical nature,
as is proposed by some.-Delaware
Democrat.
A telegram from Canton this week
stated that the name Of Colonel Henry
A. DUPONT is being considered for sec
retary of war in the Mckinley cabinet.
! Colonel DuPont's experience and fit
ness for the place are generally ac-
knowledged, and all Delawareans
would undoubtedly be glad to have the
state honored through him, but many
! Republicans, believing in the fairness
and honesty of his election to the SEN
ate, hope to see him seated as United
States senator, where he could serve
his country equally as well as in the cabi-
net and his state much better.-Middle-
town Transcript.
Maryland's county papers in ability
enterprise and appearance compare fa-
vorably with those of any state in the
Union, and nearly all Of them are in a
healthy, thriving condition. showing
that the people fully appreciate the
benefits to a live community of well
conducted local papers. Where you
see prosperous newspaper, as a rule
you will find entefprising, successful
business men.-Elkton Appeal.
The city of Wilmington has no more
right to collect taxes twice on the same
property, but from two different per-
sons, than has merchant to undertake
to collect bill twice from the same
person. City Council should refund all
such sums without subjecting the part
les to a long wait for their money. Law
Is a very handy thing, but the lawyers
thus far are the only persons who have
been benefited by litigation. If you
don't believe it, become engaged in a
law suit, and. well, then give us your
experience. The lawyers will get your
money You may get law and justice
but we even doubt the justice part of
it-Daily Republican.
BY leaving Kent county out of the
matter entirely or giving Willis all
} of the majority here he claims, still
Handy defeats him by over three thou
sand majority. Nevertheless. this
gresham has filed notice of a contest.
He knows he was not elected yet he is
claiming a seat which he knows be-
l.. longs to another. He and his friends
claim that the Democrats are about TO
steal the offices in Kent county, and
that they will retaliate. If Democrats
: steal, will this Christian minister
/ whose daily walk should be an example
to all people, steal too?-Dover Index.
Political revolution has marked the
: recent editorial course of the Smyrna
, Times. Although always recognized
as Republican paper. its political
tone was very moderate and never
partisan. Now il is a violent organ of
Addicks Repubicanism, fairly rival
: ing, in zeal and energy, Addicks' per-
sonal organ, the Dover Sentinel. All
its conservatism has been thrown tC
the winds. and it fights for the cause
! of the Union Republicans with the
vigor of a veteran campaigner.-Eve
- Evening
Wilmington can boast of her fine
= water, every drop of which is filtered
5 before il reaches the consumer. The
g filter was a costly one, yet If what is
said of it by prominent physicians Il
" true. il has proved a paying invest
s ment. II is estimated that during tn,
b past Summer and Fall, it has saved the
S people in doctors and undertakers
- bills alone more than its entire cost
q The value of the filter has been espe
cially noticeable in the case of sicl
+ babies. The little ones have been free
n from trouble arising from stomach
j. complaints than ever before, a fac
e which our physicians attribute to th
q use of filtered water.-Sunday Star
e We do not consider the variety shoy
n at the State House worthy the digni
fed name of a Constitutional Conven
tion. It's organization is fatally de
fective, in that it does not represen
the vote OF the people. That one fac
y vitiates its whole claim to popular re
e spect.-State Sentinel
The editor of the Wilmington Sun
n day Star walls his little weep of wo
:. concerning the New Caste Jail coolxinl
- which he denounces as simply misel
able. This is sad, sad, very sad. T
place badly cooked ,errapin, canvas