The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-07-06
TUESDAY. luLy ., 1907.
Sensational Politics.

Sensational Politics.
We clip the following from the Balti-
more Sun and commend IT to the attention
Of Prof Handy and bis followers:
1T 10 not enough that the Bryanite
leaders have shocked the moral sense Of
people BY their advocacy Of tlfty-oent dol.
lara but some Of them seem determined
70 offend the religious sense as well. The
couduot at the Ohio Stats convention con-
spicuoualy illustrated the point. Amidst
the political trumpery brought forward
tcamuse the mob. was cross Of sold and
crown Of thorns. the sacred emblems Of
Christianity, placed on table along with
. live rooster for the edifcation Of the
delegates. 1t does not appear from the
publ ished accounts Of the convention
that one single delegate in any manner
made protest against the sac.ilegs. 1t Is
also reported that while minister was
Offering prayer the delegates remained
seated and smoked and shouted to the
clerg lyman to talk louder.
The historic Democratic party has been
for a century the advocate Of the rights Of
tae plain people as against Capitalization
and the aggressions Of the classes In de.
nandlng special privileges. 1t has boon
The champion Of religious as well as Of
! civil liberty. 1t has numbered among its
leaders the purest and best men and the
Ahlsst statesmen. And this is how some
are trying to bring great and time hon.
pred organization down to the dust"
" The Glorious Fourth.
The day we celebrate once year, the
glorious Fourth Of July, has come and
gone and tons Of powder were burned In
our city alone. The day Of Independence
was celebrated with u greater vim than
I for several years past. The firing of the
dynamite shooting cracker and the squibs
kept up from early morn until midnight
yesterday. The display of fireworks which
were all Of a private nature, WIS good
one and showed to the best advantage, the
night being an ideal one. The accidents,
az well as alarms Of fire were few The
loss from the celebration OF the Fourth
I was Insignificant. Several boys were in
jured by the exploding Of dynamite fire
crackers. but we have not heard of any
z one being seriously injured Few drunk
On men made their appearance on our
streets although lager beer flowed by the
barrel. Tho parks were full from morn.
Ing until late at night and hundreds left
0hA ali ~, tatk H. \;
places, 1t Is estimated that $500, 900 worth
Of fireworks were put off and went up in
smoke in the United States yesterday, 1t
costs something to celebrate our Indcpen-
lean youth, in fact the fathec and grand
/. fathers still love to fire of salute every
year when the Fourth rolls around.
Adams s. Bro. reports that last years sale
of fire works was no comparison to this
years sales. The quantity sold in our
city was up to old time sales, when nearly
everybody had plenty of money.
5 The disobeyng Of the orders of Chief
Welde yesterday by tho driver of the
friendship hose carriage, whom, it is re.
ported, cursed the chief, should be reached
by the flning of the fireman. If the
Chiefs orders are not to be obcyed, what
Ii the use Of having head for the fire de-
\ partment3 The fire department of our
I city, being volunteer one. is one of tho
best In the country but it is only by obey.
ing the chiefs that the department has
been kept up to Its present high standard.
Wilmington is proud of her fire depart
msnt and every fireman should sec that
the chiefs orders are implicitly obcyel,
otherwise the volunteer department will
soon be thing of tho past in our city,
SOME men are born rich, while others are
born lucky. John T. Dickey is of lhe
latter class. After holding offices for the
past 10 or more years, and growing rich
from tho fees which his different Offices
have yielded, he is no sooner out Of tho
best paying position in New Castle county
with the exception Of sheriff, than he has
had another appointment conferred upon
him. He has been appointed II Nct.ry
Public, which. it Is said, will bc followed
by the appointment OF Justice Of the
Peace when Magistrate sasscs term ex-
pires inside Of IA month or six weeks. He
oan get nearly what he wants from Cover.
nor Tunnel. All he has to do is to ask.
ANeye for an eye and tooth for tooth,
Z Is the precept taught by the Bib'o that
shall be melted ont to those who commit
crime Henry Shower, residing at Easton,
Nd, on Monday morning killed his
! housekeeper. Mrs. Sarah Dolrndor!, with
4 Ratchet The plea is given tina, Shower
was temporarily insane The best treat
ment that could be given tO him would be
to suspend him from one end Of good
piece Of hemp. He should be given a
( speedy trial and If proven guilty should
suffer the penalty of his crimc without
b any delay. 1t is only by the swlftost kind
OF justice that lynch law will be broken
4 mp In the United States.
y The Pennsylvania Society of the war OF
1879 held q big celebration yesterday
A morning, in Philadelphia, in Indepcn.
1 aenoe Square. Tho exercises began at
D. 30 o'clock. The invocation was asked by
: Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden, chaplain Of
\ she Society, after which Mayor Warwick
made the opening address. The Hon 4,
y. Bayard. our distinguished citizen, dc.
liyered the Grafton He paid glowing
II tribute to the memory Of the father of our
{ s,untry, George Washington and the his
tory Of the Independence Of tho American
people which we celebrate every fourth Of
July by shooting off fro crackers and
4 pther methods of making a big noise.
H WM NEFF, formerly an obliglng night
slerk ut the Clayton House, who went off
with some s430 belonging to q newly mar
Rod couple who had placed the money in
the clerks hands for safe keeping is re-
ported to have committed suicide. Verify
a. - II. l.