Evening journal., 1897-11-15
THE PENINSULA PRESS
WHAT THE DELAWARE AND EAST
BRN SHORE EDITORS ARE
THINKING OF.

followers that they VIII do two things.
First they will buy votes i'm the future
as they have done in the past; secondly,
they can carry enough districts under
the new system to control the General
Assembly Whether they will try the
first remains to be seen. but they can
not control the Legislature. IL may
take another election to prove this to
the masses Of the Republican party. IL
may be nobody" again or a man who
throws spittons at his political oppO-
nents," but IL can never be Addicks.-1
Midletown Transcript.
It's opponents have attempted to give
the Democratic party a good many flu
nerals, but it will not stay buried. A
year ago II was proclaimed dead, but
last week It proved very vigorous
corpse.-Dover Delawarean.
There have been no echoes Of the
Union Republican convention heard yet.
1t was entirely a one-sided affair and,
so far as apparent, was very harmon
ious because no opposition was in the
body The regulars will probably have
something TO say when the time of the
nominating conventions draws near,
but they will be more likely to ignore
the performance at Dover last week
than to submit to the rules laid down
for them by a body in which they had
no epresentation.-Dela Democrat.
Legislation can help or hinder the
| financial progress of a people in a great
measure, but II can never accomplish
the half OF what many people believe it
can do. The continuous Hopping from
one party to another only tends to
maintain an unsettled condition, the
logical consequences of which are seri-
GUS disturbances of business interests.
Milford News and Advertiser
An upstate exchange which contin-
uously harps on the financial issues
and which has killed off all silver or
any other sentiment, but it's own so
often that the slaughter has become
mOnotonous, this week claps its edi-
torial hands with glee because China
refuses to export gold When any
theory has to depend on China or Chi
nese methods for recommendation it
can't be very healthy.-Milford Herald.
The persistency with which the Every
Evening prates of the death of silver
sentiment, while other gold organs are
bemoaning the strength that sentiment
has developed and which was made evil
dent by the recent elections, causes one
to wonder if the gold craze has not un-
settled the weanling intellect OF its edi-
tor.-Delaware Record.
Mr.. Addicks was a good fellow as
long as he used money lavishily for po-
litical purposes, and asked no reward.
But the thing looked horrible the very
moment he asserted the right of being
Observation-Disclosures Ledger
Twelve hundred and eighteen is the
official majority for Chief Justice
Pearce! How is that for high?-Kent
News.
The condition Of the finances Of Sus-
sex county at this time makes it i'm
perative that the General Assembly. at
its session i'm January next, shall en-
act law ab0ishing the present Levy
Court system and establishing a sys-
tenn of county government by commits
sioners.-Seaford News.
Commissioner of Pensions Evans
not only fails to predict, as his predeces-
sors in that office did, an early decrease
in the pensions paid by this govern
ment, but calls attention to the failure
5 of such predictions. AT the close Of
the fiscal year, June 80, there were 976
! lNlt UNnolOlNlo Oll Ant lOllNs a. Mtl III
- crease in a year of 5,336.-SusseX Coun
tian.
/. Our esteemed contemporary the Sun
: day Herald gives us a mild rebuke il
our failure to push Penn Day" to
r consummation. But we still assert tha
r the idea was originated two months be
T fore the day by the News, and wa
q brought to the fore each recurring week
After our inception of the plan, Colone
I Rogers took it up, and with co-opera
. tion, essayed to bring it to a success
+ full termination, but without avail, a
II the public were not in mood to hel
e along a general entertainment.-Ne'
II Castle News.
n 1t may be that our extreme partisa
> bias obscures our vision, but we canno
see the justification for the action @
the opponents of German. Throug
- individual effort and honorable ambi
tion, from a page in the Senate he b
'e developed power over men and persona
~ popularity, became a memberand leade
Is In what we are proud to call the great
e est and most advanced dlaw-making bod
,r in the world.-Delaware Pilot.
10 Addicks' convention without AddicB
4 at Dover was quite a tame affair an
- what they did besides going to Dove
ri no sane man has as yet been able to ff
ure out, unless it Is to give emphasis
the fact that they are henceforth to
separate and distinct party.-Susse
Journal
~ When every player on a footba
Is team either breaks a shin. a neck,
a. nose, or a shoulder. or lcses an eye,
d. is wise for that team to disband Tn
re seems to be the unhappy alternatiN
- confronting the athletic department (
=, Delaware College. Herald.
be HIT WITH A STOOL.
es In an alterOagonsa.urday night in II
m, eating saloon adjoining the Merri
a House, on Front street between Xii
nd and French streets, John Murphy WI
- struck on the head by a stool, infictiT
a scalp wound.
pe Officers Shields and Maloney arresti