Evening journal., 1897-04-22

try that she Will send two men-Of-war
to represent her at the dedication of
the Grant monument. We incline to
the opinion that if Grant were alive, he
would return the courtesy by sending
eight or ten American cruisers to Cuba
and invite the Spaniards to conduct
their war upon the Cubans along hui
name lines.
LET THEM RISE AND EXPLAIN.
If Representative Mccullough, of
Christiana hundred, and Representa-
tive Donaldson, of White Clay Greek
hundred, do not get themselves straight
in short order they will be a disgrace
to their constituents and a reproach to
the Democratic party, and no one
knows it better than they themselves.
What New Castle county wants to
know is who is holding the check-rein
on them. The people have a right to
know, for these men were sent to Do
yer as public servants, and their course
is subject to public scrutiny, inquiry |
and criticism. They have not conduct |
ed themselves as public servants
should. They are acting as though |
some one holds them in leash, and pre-
vents them from doing their duty to
the people who elected them. They
have made themselves the subjects of
scandalous gossip and speculation, and
the indignation of the people has
reached that point when they must ex-
plain their conduct without evasion or
equivocation. II they have any excuse
for their attitude on the bill to amend
the charter of the Wilmington and New
Castle Electric Railway Company, now
is the time for them to make it public,
and to silence rumors which are not
only damaging to the character, but
calculated to bring the General Assem-
bly, and the Democratic party into dis
repute.
We honor a man who has conscien-
tious convictions and who adheres to
them, but we have only contempt for
public servants who permit themselves
to be converted into a mere creature to
further private ends at public expense.
II looks as though that is what Repre-
sentatives Mccullough and Donaldson
are doing. Have they become the crea-
lures of somebody and are they afraid
to vote the sentiments of the people
who vested in them the representative
right? Do they dare to say that the
people of Christiana and White Clay
Creek hundreds are opposed to the
amendments asked for?
We challenge them TO answer in the
affirmative, for we are prepared to
prove that they are falsifying if they
say so. The farmers in their constit-
uencies want trolley cars to traverse
their roads and market their produce.
They know that it is to their interest
and to the interest of every farmer in
New Castle county to have such roads.
Evidently the two representatives re-
ferred to have some deeper and more
sinister motive for their opposition, and
the people are determined to know
what they mean and what the influence
is that actuates them in their present
4 course of conflict 1t is already guess
ed at, and is so near the surface that il
I can be easily proved. 1t is not yet toe
, late FOR them to redeem themselves
from the stigma which now attaches tc
o their names, and to the names of sew
eral other members Of the House in
4 this respect.
a They know that they are being used
T. for private purposes. They know thai
= they are doing wrong, but they do moi
o appear to know how to throw off the
d snackles and to do their duty to th'
10 people as honest men should. They arr
r disgracing themselves, and discredit
r ing the General Assembly of the state
.e When they went to Dover they had
r splendid opportunity to make some
n thing of themselves-to make a recor,
4 upon which they could look back witt
m pride and satisfaction; but they hav
e. played into the hands of the lobby, an
ne now find themselves looked upon wit
at distrust and suspicion. If they ar
n lively about it they may regain the pc
w sition which they relinquished at tn
te behest of the lobby, and the remem
as brance of their legislative experienc
lg will not stare them in the face in futur
IN years, and be their own worst accuse
ne We venture prediction, which
IN that the first persons to throw a ston
e- at them after the session Of the Gel
eral Assembly is concluded will be tn
lie very men who are now using them
M accomplish their own selfish purpose
lis Now is the time for Messrs. Donald
ZIP son and Mccullough to show their col
ot stituents that they dare to do righ
no Will they do il?
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