Evening journal., 1898-02-05
The PENINSULA PRESS
WHAT THE DELAWARE AND EAST
BRN SHORE EDITORS ARE
THINKING OF

the matter their most careful consider
alton, and that they wish to be fair
and liberal to the judges, and at the
same time TO keep down the expenses
Of the state government. This is the
right view for members to take, and is
an assurance that their final decision
may be accepted as the result of their
best judgment after due deliberation.-
Dover Delawarean.
The purpose OF General Assembly
Is to make just laws, not to block legis-
lation that may be needed, and this
rule applies as forcibly to the present
session as it does to any other meeting
of the states lawmakers. Both houses
should work in harmony, and it ie
high time for the Senate to desist in its
apparently arbitrary tactics.-Sunday
Herald.
Gentlemen of the General Assembly,
It is a duty you owe to yourselves, the
state, and the Democratic party, which
is responsible for your actions, to take
a recess for at least three months.-Do-
yer Index.
The trustees Of the state hospital are
eminently qualified to manage the af-
fairs Of that institution. The State
Senate, therefore, did well to kill the
bill that proposed TO burden the trus-
tees with a man they did not need and
did not want.-Morning News.
Those recalcitrant Malster men OF
Baltimore, who took the bits in their
mouths, as 1t were, evidently with the
intention Of running the state, regard
less OF others wishes, made a mistake
II they thought for a moment, when
they Jumped back into the traces, that
the governor OF Maryland would re-
ward them with good fat offices. He is
not in that kind OF business.-Dlkton
Appeal.
Much OF the usefulness Of state
board of agriculture depends on the
men appointed to It. The salary at
tached is barely adequate to the ex-
penses attached TO discharging the du-
ties OF the Office, and necessary ne
glect Of personal interests! and the gov
ernor may find it difficult to get men
capable TO FIJI the offices among those
who will seek the place; but there are
scores OF practical farmers who are
men OF more than ordinary intelli-
yence, and who have the welfare OF
.heir chosen calling closely entwined
around their heart. and whose inter-
ests and experience make their services
| invaluable to the state.-Milford
Chronicle.
The 1903 new arc lights which the
| Street and Sewer Department has ar
ranged to put up will be vast improve
ments in those neighborhoods where
/ they will be erected. The department
should further increase the number oa
these lights wherever it is possible, as
they not only greatly aid the police in
conserving the peace, but they are alse
a large factor in the enhancing of the
value of property in every nelghDor'
hood in which they are placed. Houses
on streets where there are electric
lights are in great demand, and nc
sooner is there one for rent than then
are half dozen people ready to rent II
Sunday Star.
What has become OF Kittinger? We
have received a letter from Whining
on. which states: &C. II. Kittinge
placed between 10000 and $4,000 shares
| NJ Bay State stock with the people o
his state at a price averaging abou
Is1O. And since then he has been mad
| away with so completely that even hi
family do not know where he Is.
Where. oh where is Charley ?-Milfor
Herald.
It was very foolish on the part of tn
| Morning News to expect a fight on tn
money issue in the democratic count
convention yesterday. That cOnven
ton was called for the purpose o
amending the rules of the party, an
not to nominate candidates for Offic
lr make political deelarations.-Eyer
Evening.
The committee of public safety wa
J | considerably alarmed over the chec
| its anti-race track bill received in tn
Senate, and a meeting was held to II
| quire into the cause OF the delay. Upo
, examination it was found that Senate
r | Wostcott was right In his objection
1 | and that the nature of the bill atfecte
the state at large while purborting
o be a local measure. Elkton Democra
q Mr.. Salisbury takes occasion
abuse the owner of this paper Whe
: Mr. Saulsbury's anger has passed ava
Il and some reason has triumpht
g over stimulants Mr.. Salisbury WI
think better of his words and will jo
with The Sun in its efforts to briT
). 10 punishment the men who assist'
William n. Boggs in plundering q
First National Bank Of Dover, Del
n ware. The columns of The Sun a
n open to Mr. Salisbury when he shs
It produce his evidence.-Wilmingt
N Sun.
IL Our neighbor, the Democrat, is
hopes that the present session of I
Legislature will abolish the prese
- Levy Court and establish in the pla
~ thereof FIVE commissioners for II
so county. We heartily concur in this
D. sire for five commissioners because
OF believe Il, with some other changes
'it the system of administration, will
=. more economical and for the best
terest of the people who pay the ta1
~ and are interested in the mode of &C
d. Quoting the business affairs Of d
county. Sussex Republican.
The rents in Wilmington are as 4
.ts as elsewhere. No fancy prices are
o. quired and the supply of houses m'
iu than equal the demand. There is
&, necessity Of rents being raised exc
in a few cases where they have had
eii be reduced owing 10 the hard times q
* lack of demand for them.-Daily
ed publican.
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