Evening journal., 1897-07-17
THE PENINSULA PRESS
WHAT THE DELAWARE AND
EASTERN SHORE EDITORS ARE
THINKING OF.

EASTERN SHORE EDITORS ARE
THINKING OF.
1t is amusing reading the Democratic
papers are serving up these days. Only
brief time in the past every Demo
cratic paper in Delaware damned An
thony Higgins and his followers as
corruptionists, and Anthony's political
methods particularly, as all the names
that dishonest principles stand for.
Now the same papers are lauding his
and their actions and proclaiming them
virtues, and part of their honest poll
tics The leper has embraced leprosy
and glorifies the loathsome disease
Milford Chronicle.
Wilmington is to build one Of the new
torpedo boats for the government, the
Harlan and HollingswOrth Company
having been notified of that fact yester-
day. This is good news for Wilmington
Notwithstanding News.
While some of the recent appoint
ments by the executive have not, in our
judgment, been such as to reflect the
greatest credit upon his administration
the selection of Mr.. Tammany as the
head OF our public school system we
think is an eminently wise one.-Sus-
sex journal.
Come right out and explain why the
Republican representatives in the last
Legislature failed to pass that anti-race
track bill. That is the question you
must answer before you have any right
to ask the people to vote for Republi-
cans again. They had the opportunity
and betrayed their friends. Now Jhe
people propose to give the Democrats a
turn.-Cecil Democrat
The fight is among the Democrats,
and to them alone is all the blame to
be attached. The appointing of the
committees should be in the hands of
the president of City Council, and then
all this unnecessary ballOting for
chairman OF the Finance Committee
which has thus far blocked all business
in this body would at once put a stop
to the meeting and adjourning of Coun-
Gil without transacting any business
whatever. IL is time the Democrats
were getting together and adjusting
their differences and allowing the busi-
ness of the city TO be transacted.-Daily
Republican.
This year the peach crop of the Pc
ninsula is again a failure. Thousands
Of acres Of land have been titled, the
cultivation of which will only be a
source of expense to the farmer already
ground down by unremunerative prices
of grain. 1t is fair to presume that
many orchards will be pulled out and
put 10 crop of some kind before the
Fall is over-Milford Herald.
Next week City Council will endeavoi
to elect some city officials. From pres
emit indications, the Kilkenny fight tina.
will then be precipitated will cast the
pending contest over Council commit
tees into the deepest shade.-Ever!
Evening.
The State Sentinel of last week sur
prised the public by it's apparent chang'
of base. The editor seems TO be look
ing at things political from a differen
standpoint and to recognize the fac
that his position in the past is n'
longer tenable, and he must look 70
some other place upon which to res
his weary bones.-Sussex Republican.
Sanguine souls used to claim that tn
new Constitution, because "prOmul
gated" would not stand before tn
courts But all the Judges" in Della
ware have accepted offices under tn
provisions OF this rascally instrument
Would they repudiate their own Jobs?
Does not the OK know his masters crib
Justice.