Evening journal., 1896-10-05
THE PENINSULA PRESS.
WHAT THE DELAWARE AND EAST
ERN SHORE EDITORS ARE
THINKING OF


THINKING OF.
Iron Hill, New Castle county, is dis
graced by an outlawed race track sys-
TEN. And now they are applying to
our courts for a speak-easy under the
giise of some fiowery name. This
same system is the same that disgraced
Cecil county, Maryland. Our judges
should exercise their sense of inter-
state comfy and sense of justice for an
outraged community and refuse a Ii
cense to the Iron Hill speak-easy. Del
aware will not sanction such internal
nuisances, even under the guise of law.
Sussex Journal.
Johns. Rossell, who flew years ago was
one of the most active Democrats in
Cecil county, has Joined the Hanna
Gratis, and is becoming quite conspicu
GUS as a politician in his adopted city
Wilmington. In his capacity as
prominent assistant Republican he has
been challenged to a public debate on
the silver question, but with that as
tuteness for which he was noted in
Cecil. he declines to get too close to
the zz-saw.-Cecil Democrat.
In the minds Of reasonable men, the
sheriff will not be held to a very strict
accounting for such blemishes upon his
administration as may be justly
chargeable to a moderate and quite
natural leniency toward his subordi-
mates, but he should reflect that there
is a point in his habit Of forgiving and
forgetting delinquencies and misde-
meanors among his assistants, beyond
which he cannot go and retain the re-
spect and confidence of the people
whose servant he is. A case in point
is that Of Howard Reed, the night war
den at the Jail. His offense is one en-
! tirely too serious to be overlooked by
the sheriff. II was a deliberate, pre-
meditated violation OF the law. and
should have been sufficient to secure
his instant dismissal from the position
he has so grossly disgraced. Sunday
Star.
No doubt many Of those who were
present at last nights meeting will
take issue with Senator Gray in his
announced intention to support the
regular Democratic nominee for Con-
gress, in connection with the Palmer
and Bucknor electors. With due con-
sideration for the principle involved, 1t
is hard to recognize the consistency Of
| supporting, upon the same ticket, the
national representatives of the cause of
sound money, and a nominee for Con-
gress who, although nominated upon a
platform which declares specifically
in favor of the existing monetary
standard and against the free coin
age Of silver at any ratio" persists in
going upon the rostrum ana preaching
| the doctrine of free silver coinage with
all his power Aside from this, the
speech of Senator Gray was all that
could be desired.-Every Evening.
What Senator Gray had to say about
| the silver question, made a good Re
| publican argument and the gentlmans
| position is rather a peculiar one, and
| one in which he no doubt wishes he
was out Of long before this-Daily Re
/ publican.
The minister per Sc may hold any
| political opinions he desires, but the
pulpit is not the place to ventilate
them. The physician, called upon to
minister to the needs of his fever
stricken patient, does not preface his
| prescription with a disquisiton upon
the relative merits of gold and silver;
and it is hard to understand why ply
sician of the sOul-a teacher who is
expected to point out the beauties Of
the life led by Christ and expOund the
immortal doctrines enunciated by the
God-head-should feel called upon to
tell his auditors, many of whom are,
no doubt, better posted upon all polite
questions than he, how they should
vote.-New Castle News.
The regulars" to be consistent
should not adopt that which they have
spent months in condmning, but should
take the straightforward and manly
course; when they cannot fight with
assurance Of success they should at
least stand unfiinchingly by their prin-
ciples.-Seaford News.
Two brass bands in the same block
each playing a different tune, have the
effect of sadly lacerating the atmos-
phere. Morning News.
The completion of the new railroad
to connect lower Sussex county with
Baltimore and the opening of a new
market for the farm produce is of very
great importance. II should not be de-
p layed. The farmers Of Kent and Sus
r sex counties have more interest in thi,
new railroad than in any other publ,
. improvement. They cannot afford L
allow long delay in the matter.-Stat,
e ! Sentinel.
If the Addicksites are true to thei
4 electoral ticket, it will most probabl,
: be elected. On the other hand tn
a Democrats stand an excehent chance
of electing their state and count.
tickets.-Milford News and advertiser
The colored citizens, not only of thi
q state or Of the United States, but wher
II ever there lives or breathes one, wer
e insulted by the following expression
made by Attorney-General White to
! crowded court room the other day. Il
comes as natural for a negro to stea
q as it does for a duck to take to water.
y In other words the attorney-genera