Evening journal., 1897-12-20
THE PENINSULA PRESS
WHAT THE DELAWAREAN AND EAST
ERN SHORE EDITORS ARE
THINKING OF.


The Sun CT Wilmington deserves
credit for its Investigations and publi-
cations in the Boggs bank defalcation.
It's contemporaries pooh-Dooded the
idea that others and men Of high po-
litical position were involved in the
matter They are whistling very diff
ferent tune now. The claim is made it
is an Addioks scheme. If so, it is ap-
parents a good one, and the Transcript
seldom thinks this way on the Ad-
dicks lines.-Middletown Transcript
Our Lord came upon earth as a little
child to do His work and from that
fact little children have in all times
teen drawn closely to Him. The most
interesting period Of His life upon
earth was when He was still a child
with His parents and subject unto
them.-Delaware Democrat.
The Princeton seniors who wrecked
their gymnasium to show they regard
ed 1t as inadequate, fully deserve the
public rebuke (which the faculty gave
them. Every man of them should be
made to feel chat the vandal is not en-
t.tled to respect Wilmington Sun.
Ey all means collect the taxes. They
should be collected, and the Republican
collectors will return every cent due to
Jhe county Urging them on will not
be amiss; but to entail cost for failure
to get the taxes promptly would be a
hardship to collectors, and it would be
equitable should this be done to cause
the clerk Of the peace who withheld the
duplicates to pay all such expenses
Milford Chronicle.
We leave the Call to the congenial
society Of the Morning News in at
tempting to prove that the Democratic
party OF Delaware, judged by its plat
form of last year, is a free silver coin
age party They are welcome to all the
JOY they can derive from the hopeless
task.-Eyery Evening.
There have been hundreds and thou
sands of fatal explosions of coal gas
and there have been hundreds of men
killed by the electric current, but these
fatalities are not sufficient to warrant
a condemnation of the use of either
coal gas or electricity. Therefore the
acetylene gas should not be condemned
before the facts of the present case are
clearly known.-Morning News.
There are dozens Of good capable
men who have taken satisfactory civil
| service examinations in our city and
have been anxiously awaiting their ap-
pointment. Some of them have passed
as long as two years ago, but have not,
as yet, received their commissions. Is
not even the civil service a delusion
and a snare?-Daily Republican.
The Every Evening party polled at
the last election us votes in the state.
while the regular Democratic party
/ polled over 10000. Yet 1t claims to
| represent the sentiment of the Democ-
racy of Delaware. What fools these
mortais bel"-Dover Delawarean.
An uneasy conscience may cause
Roggs TO, return and make a full con-
fcssion. Such things have happened
before. If Others are implicated in the
steal, then it is but natural that they
should feel somewhat uncomfortable.
But Boggs may be ignorant Of all this
excitement after all.-Delaware Ledger.
\ The originators of the trading stamp
scheme must have been close students
Of human nature. They have baited
their hook with the most seductive bait
known, something for nothing. The
merchant who does not get into The
swim, and drift along with the tide. is
left in the lurch, with a stagnant busi-
ness (and plenty Of spare time) on his
hands. IL is of no practical benefit tC
either the merchant or consumer. It al
most amounts to blackmail.-New Cas-
tie News
Agreeable to the suggestion made by
J nnnnnnrnf n ..f q 10
instant, his honor Judge Stump. il
charging the grand jury at the openinl
of court, called their attention to tn,
unsafe condition of our county records
and advised them to examine the Of
fees and suggest a remedy The granC
jury did so and recommend the cree
tion of fire-prOOf vaults adjoining tn
clerks and registers offices. Tn
/ court has done its duty, the grand jur.
has discharged theirs. Ii now remain
for the County Commissioners to ner
form theirs by providing at once 10
the building of these vaults-Ceci
T Democrat.
Civil service does not seem so popu
lar nowadays as once il was Civil ser
vice In the ideal and civil service i
e practice are two different things. An
d how are you going to keep the thin
2 out of politics?-Sussex Journal
- With Mr. Addicks out of it there ca
l. be no difference in Republican rank
and his continuance therein as an im
possible candidate will only be as a di.
g turbing factor, and as such, an enem
IS to Republican success. No sensib
e, man will be willing to assume the pos
d tion Of a supporter of man, who I
n well knows, can never be successful
and thereby placing himself with II
enemies of the party by aiding and a
sisting in creating a disturbing ell
Is ment in party circles.-Sussex Republ
D. can.
le This week all the Chinese laundri
ID We're raided b. uniformed kidnapper
who finally succeeded in capturing A.
workngmen, all of whom were e
re gagged in the hellish work Of cleandI
b. other peoples linen. These heinOl
n malefactors were dragged to the CT
Hail and fhpnco ~ the New Noc4