Evening journal., 1897-04-05
THE PENINSULA PRESS.
WHAT THE DELAWARE AND
EASTERN SHORE EDITORS ARE
THINKING OF.

The Morning News is beginning TO /
learn the difference between confisca- |
tion ard theft.-Justice.
There are some people in New Cas-
tie who prefer COW bells TO electric car
bells On our streets. and while the /
croakers are few. they make twice as |
much noise as the cars with steam |
whistle or two thrown in.-New Castle |
News.
The recount was to ascertain the /
truth, and not to bolster up lie The |
appeal of the Union Republicans. IS. /
and has been, to the law and the truth.
This is the basis Of their appeal to the |
people of Delaware and the foundation
Of any hopes they may entertain. These |
facts. that are known to be beyond sue
cessful dispute, disprove the possibility |
of any fraud in the recount, even il
there was no other proof available
State Sentinel
Chief of Police Dolan has made such
an efficient officer that many Of our
citizens regret his proposed retirement
and not a few have expressed the hope
that he may withdraw mis- resignation
and the commissioners see their way
clear to continue him i'm his present po-
i sition A further effort on his part may
enable him to resist influences of a det-
rimental character and lead to his per-
! formance of duty without intermission
throughout the coming year. The po-
lice force, under his direction, has been
brought to a high degree of efficiency
and will favorably compare with those
in any other city.-Daily Republican.
The tariff rates in the Dingley bill
are said to be higher than have ever
been in force in this country. We have
no faith that this bill, if enacted into'
law, will bring on that floodtide of pros
perity which the Republican party has
promised or in any way relieve the
hard times. II is Quack medicine,
which will only make the patient worse.
IL can certainly be of no benefit to the
farmers and workingmen to have to
pay more for what they buy when they
can get no more money with which to
) pay.-Dover Delawarcan.
There is a bill before the Legislature
to vaCate Reed street, in Wilmington.
Some of these lazy, listless, legislative
days, some crank will turn up with a
bill to vacate that whole city and have
it fenced in. And in this progressive age
we should not be surprised either
Sussex Journal
The Morning News should be more
careful in its utterances. If that paper
is opposed to Addicks and Addicksism,
It should not endorse schemes invented
by that gentleman's paid attorneys for
the purposes best known to themselves.
5 No fraud has been proved in Sussex
, county, and the matter is almost for
gotten down here, and the very parties
who were so successful in unearthing
this peculiar transaction now have the
I least to say about it.-SusseX Republi-
> can.
e This is q bad time for workingmen TO
/ strike. The time lost in idleness can
= not be made up by an increase in
Morning News
The interests of the different parts of
the state are not the same and there
E should be a barrier TO prevent the most
4 populous portion from inflicting wrongs
f upon the other counties. The members
O from Kent and Sussex should attend TO
p, the wishes of the people from the lower
part of the state and not allow New
Castle to dominate in the Legislature
Self-defence. If nothing else, calls fol
J. this action on their part.-Delaware
a Democrat.
Il The lower counties have always haC
a dread of giving New Castle any ad
vantage in representation. We have
l. never been able to preceive any grea
# danger in such a proposition because
. we cannot understand why one sectiOr
of the state should wish to legislat'
y against the interests of another portion
II With all our state life, and social life
E. so closely interviewer, it seems hardl!
IA possible that a small increase according
i to population as proposed would b.
used TO the detriment of any section o
~ the state.-Delaware Pilot.
30 Governor Lowndes has announces
Il himself a candidate to succeed Senate
N German. why not move the Unitel
q States Senate to Cumberland at once
-, and be done with it?-Easton Ledger.
/ The Reed street bill was again de
layed in the House of Representative
le at Dover, yesterday, the lobby learnin
er that il could not commend votes SUM
he cient for it's passage. 1t would be muc
lie better If the House would dispose OF
Re finally. one way or the other, withou
a, further delay.-Every Evening.
~ The people of Delaware raise an
nv nually in taxes and spend It, too, mor
than 81 800 900. And yet the thirty sir
,cere. sensible and patriotic members {
elk the Constitutional Convention has
en- seriously agreed to perpetuate our az
cursed system for the sake of providin
for S25, 600 of that great amount. This
M surely swallowing a camel and strail
no ing n a gnat-Middletown Transcrip
~ There is but one way to bring abol
'N a union of these two Republican parti'
'r' in Delaware viz: To ignore -he shade
I'LL md embrace the substance. AS in ph
his lcsophy the relative attractive force
,er two bodies is in proportion TO Tie
- density and bulk. so in politics. t.
loi greatest power. the only saving powe
his must he expected to be eXerted by Il
ley greater, and not by the less.-Milfo
ent Chronicle.
adj This is the unique plea that O
of neighbor, the Chronicle, makes for G
leadership of bulk. According to
"o' reasoning a bulky and dense man vi
ort, weighs 300 pounds is at least twi
led greater as a political leader than
and who weighs lOJ pounds. The ChroI
non cle's philosophy is'rather vague, but
may even differentiate political abili
and moral character according to