Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-11-25


there is hot contest for Federal
Offices, and it is like gall and worm
wood to the Union iactionisis TO reflect
that while they polIea nearly twice rs
many votes for tho Mckinley electors |
as the Regulars did, the latter are ro-
ceiying all the fayors in the shape Of |
office that the Mckinley administration |
has 10 bestow. One reason for this
iavoritism is thus slyly intimated
by the Milford Chronicle, the ardent
Union Republican organ Of Sussex
county:
The name they bear and the principles
they have espousad is the same as the
National Union Republican party which
was organized in 1856, and under which
the st. Louis Convention was called by
Chairman Thomas Carter: name
which is assumed and borne by the
best nen in the State, and for which
they have BEEN insnlteil and reviled,
subjected TO personal abuse and villl!i
cRtiun, because they believed the beet
interest of the masses and tho party in
Delaware were paramount to that OF a
few would-be leaders or Of yenal
press, owned, controlled or auhsidized
10y the boiling" faction, whose sole
claim for existence 10 based upon an
entrse to tho White House resulting
from an overweening boyhood friend
ship, existing between boiling leader
and the occupant OF the Presidential
chair, whose over confiding, trustful
nature has been imposed upon in order
that the aims, ambitions, aspirations
and greed for political spoils of fellnH
hoItarc m t-h a IA iutoA Pow hp0H frinnn.
ship is very admirable trait OF char
acter, its remembrance and recognition
very commendahle, but that ii should
be allowed TO sway the Federal patron
age of great marty in the State of
Delaware is both ridiculous and alb
5urd, or that it should in contraventIon
Of tho wishes OF the dominant majority
of a party thrust upon thom, fur their
recognition as leader, man totally
Invested of any and every prerequisite
as leader, is an insult not to he toll
Grated by the members of party, in a
State so famous for men Of greatness
and marked individuality.
1t takes a long breath to read through
this diatriba, but its meaning ID easily
discerned. 1t is also a wall for official
plums that are beyond reach. The
Union Republicans pretend to scorn the
offices, and to be actuated solely by
political principles. but "sour grapes"
il marked upon every declaration they
make upon tbs subject.
The struggle for Office bids fair to
split the Republican factions wider
apart than ever. Let the Democratic
party, therefore, go align and array its
forces for good as to be ready to accept
the full responsibility OF tho victory
that seems already assured to it in the
next political contest in this State.
The Morocco Interests OF Wilmington.
Tha morocco manufacturing interests
of the city of Wilmington form ono OF
the chief componenta OF the induatria
life OF this city. They we're famous in
the past. when Wilmington was slowly,
hut surely, building up reputation Il:
great manufacturing city, and they
have kept pace with the march 81
progress in every respect. To-day they
are the most complete in the world, ant
they do great work in spreading Thu
name and fame of Wilmington abroad
as we'll as in circulating large sums o
money weekly throughout this CON
munity in the way of wages to ON
pIoyes and for the purchase OF supplies
In tho morocco manufacturing in
dustry. as in all others, great changer
have been made by the introduction o
labor saving machinery and improved
methods of operation, and along al
these lines the morocco manufacturer
Of Wilmington have ever Kept to tn
front. Nothing was left undone tina
would promote the excellence Of thei
product and add to the volume of thei
business, for the accommodation o
which they made the most perfeu
arrangements. AS a result, the establish
mentR in this city are the most OK
tensive, the most complete, the mos
convenient, and the finest in every re
Bpect TO be found anywhere wher
leather is manufactured.
The men who have made this sHler
did advancement in industrial progress
are well Known to the people OF Wi
mington. They are, for the most part
hoh huo Ut III
business from bottom to top, and al
therefore possessed OF practical o.
psrience as we'll as business sagacitl
Their SUCCESS has bean complimer
TO the city as well as to themselves
and they are entitled to the flu
measure Of credit that attaches
success, and to the thorough appr
citation of community for whom the
efforts have done SC much good.
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The evident intention of the colectt
of internal revenue to file the subord
nate places in this State with Mar,
land Republicans not only alarm
Republicans but Affects Democrat
minds. The Sussex journal, far il
stance. is indignant over the intimatio
that Maryland Reput lican has bse
assigned to the bonded warehouse j
Georgetown. III the admini6tratio
OF which William Mckinley is th
head,n il protests "has appointed
man from without the bounds of SUI
sex county, to he the keeper of til
bonded warehouse at this place, th
act is an insult to the dignity Of th
State of Delaware. Delaware has alb
and competent men and 10 spare, to e
all her offices, without improvising
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