Evening journal., 1896-12-21

I gets rumD Legislature on ltS nanuS,
things will likely be more lively in
Judge Waes' court than ever.-Seaford
News.
An appeal has been made to the gov
ernor to grant a respite of week or
two to Edward Wright. the colored
man who murdered his sweetheart, and
who is now under sentence to be
hanged on New Years Day. While
there is little, if any sympathy for
1 him, or any doubt as to the justice of
the sentence, there is a natural repug-
nance on all sides to beginning the
new year with an execution. 1t does
not seem just the thing that the season
which should be marked with peace and
goodwill should be opened with the
sacrifice of a human life, no matter
how Justly the sacrifice may be re-
quired. A few days respite could be
readily granted, and yet the ends OF
| justice fully ubserved.-Sunday Star
There will be a strong effort made to
keep Il. Irving Handy from taking his
seat in the House Mr.. Willis intends
to contest the seat, and as the Repub-
licans are in power it would be easy
to oust Mr.. Handy. We hope such will
not be the case, however. The cleo
ton of Mr. Handy fully entities him
to the office and every honest man
fully believes that there is no ground
whatever to contest.-Delawar Led
ger.
To make a contest in Sussex, the
Kent contest before the court being
yet unsettled, and the legislative seats
untitled, appears to us a sufficient no
tice by the Addicksites to the Demo-
Gratis that no quarter will be given or
received. The Addicksites are not
standing on their rights, but are at
tempting to profit by their own wrongs
Looked at as a matter of warfare, the
Addicksites seem to have courage
enough to die, but not wisdom enough
to win. Milford News and Advertiser
n There is not a man in thes tate out
side the realms Of idiocy, who does not
know that there were ten delegates to
the Constitutional Convention chosen
by the people of Kent county at the
late election, and that every one Of
these ten elected were Republicans
Milford Herald.
: William G. Spruance seems to be the
speechmaker of the Constitutional
Convention. He either says that which
is most important, or speaks oftener
! than anybody else, judging from the
! BuBllnAth ANHDlln VI li1 AOhNthAAblA
proceedings We notice, too, that he
, was anxious to have it understood
! that there must be no limit to speech
l making in the Committee of the
: Wholesale Sentinel.
Our state should have board of
pardons. This power should not be
vested in the hands of the governor
alone 1t has been shamefully abused
: by more than one governor of the State
of Delaware.-D Republican.
But the most remarkable fact in the
whole matter is that while the Demo-
Gratis in Kent and Sussex counties con-
tend that the great crime is bribery
J and while the attorney general has
twice offered, both before and since the
election rewards for proof of viola
I tions of the bribery laws and so far
! as we know not a single case has been
E brought to his notice. Bribery so open
u as has been stated, and sufficient tC
+ warrant the throwing out of the votes
Of two thousand citizens and yet mo-
G a case brought to the attention of tn,
}, officers of the law, and with all tn,
s state officials within the ranks of the
y offended party -Middletown Trans.
s cript.
y The judges should be appointive
! not elective. The people elect theil
u governor, and so they indirectly elect
J. their judges, whom he appoints.
+ good executive will give us goOC
e judges, while if the people elect a poo
a governor they are just as likely tC
Is eelct poor judges. To concede error
or chance of it, in the one election, il
: to admit its possibility in the other
It Let us have no political hucksterinl
| f,,I Ia ha Irre
d should be for a term, but a long one
y say ten or even fifteen years. Remem
n ber, we must offer good inducements
II to get good men.-Dover Index.
& The civil service has taken most o
, the offices from the statesmen's reach
/ and now some of the economists wan
3 to do away with the inaugural bal
! feature. Some folks are mighty har,
y to please.-Elkton Appeal.
y There can be only one Legislator
4 recognized by the governor. Addick
. may convene his rump Legislature il
y some deserted barn near Dover, but tn
people will not feel much uneasines
. thereat. About the only act they woul
y accomplish would be to elect MI
AddiclN to the United States Senate
The evident intention of all this rum
pus about nothing is to give impetus T.
y the contest of Mr.. Willis to the sea
i of Mr.. Handy in the lower house q
Congress.-Sussex journal.
Il The murder of Maceo by the soldier
n of Spain in Cuba, if true as reported
q should cause the most conservative G
a an men in Congress and out to con
"a denim the foul deed in the stronges
4 and most effective manner possible
Congress should hasten to know tn
os truth and If the killing was done unde
:, a flag of truce nothing less should i
oot done by this country than the deman
NJ upon Spain that her troops be remove
a. from the Island of Cuba within thirt
4 days, and that not a shot be fired dun
ing the time.-Milford Chronicle.
o. The Constitutional Convention
en- made up Of brainy, conservative, an
er we believe mostly conscientious mel
is whose aim, we believe. is to give tt
people the best Constitution possibl
ro Thus far they have moved slowly, an
- we believe wisely President Biggs
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