Delaware gazette and state journal., 1897-06-24
An u.,u., Attac. Upon the Governor.

An Unjust Attack Upon the Governor.
The Sussex Republican of George
town makes bitter and unjustifiable
attack upon Governor Tunnel for his
Judiciary selections. Ii does not, how
ever, attempt to charge that the So
lections are not good ones, but it howls
its disappointment because Mr.. Charles
#. Richards Of Georgetown was turned
down. as it says, and some one else
appointed.
The Sussex Republican alsoNattempts
to argue that Mr.. Richards practically
had paramount claim to the appoint.
ment, and that it was rank Injustice
on the part OF the Governor not to
recognize it. This claim, according to
the Republicans reasoning, was his
'.manly and courageous stand for
honest politics and the defeat of
AddickBism" at the last election,
which ''resulted in Eha Tunnell's
election as Governor. Here is a line
( OF argument that is almost contempti
BILE. for surely, il Mr.. Richards friends
were urging his appointment to the
bench upon these grounds, they were
depriving him of all credit OF manly
and courageous stand for honest poll
= tican in the last election, and placing
him in the attitude OF political trim
mer whose course was actuated solely
by desire for his own reward and ad-
vancement. We do not believe that
l.. -. = I-f,
and we therefore protest against the
ill,advised course OF his newspaper ad-
votate in placing him in such false
and uncomplimentary position.
The Sussex Republican also allows
its animus 10 60 to the extent OF
slander when, in referring to the
selection Of MIR. Pennewill instead Of
Mr.. Richards rs ons Of the two Repub.
lican Judges, it says:
Pennewill's selection over him can
only be explained by the fact that
Pennewill was one of the attorneys oi
The Pennsylvania Railroad Co, ui
which the Governor is a director, and
his appointment requested by that cor
,poration. To us, this explains the
Governor's trip to Philadelphia or
Thursday night, which was probably
to consult with certain gentleman
formerly a Delawarean aud of supposed
Republican procliyities, now high il
the councils of the Pennsylvania Rail
road Co. Tho man who was veal
enough to accept nomination wher
he had given his word of honor b,
would not, was not strong enough II
Withstand the influence of the whiss,
men, the Pennsylvania Railroad Co
and his political and personal au
mostly, and betrayed the trust imposed
upon him by the people and the Consti
tutiona Convention.
The inference sought to be cdnveye,
by this malicious outburst is that Of
the Thursday night before the appoint
ments were announced, Governor Tun
nell went to Philadelphia aud beld
conference with Mr. George V. Massey
of counsel for tho Pennsylvania Rail
road Co., and that it was at Mi
Massey's dictation Mr.. rennewill wa
appointed. We are in a position I
deny this entire story most emphat
cally, and to say that Governor Hunne
did not 60 to Philadelphia on tht
night. He was not in that city nj
did he see Mr.. Massey. The charge
utterly untrue and is simply born
the imagination of tho paper thu
makes it, Mr.. Massey was not col
suited about tine judges and had |
more to do with tho appointments thu
bad Mr.. Richards irraseihIe frent
the editor of the Sussex Republican.
Our Sussex contemporary certain
owes an apology to both Governor Tu
nell and Mr.. Richards. 1t has bor
false witness against the former a;
\ placed the latter in an ancomp
mentary pusition. Its ebullition
spite will but reflect upon itself al
upon the man whose cause ii SO injudit
ouHly champions.