The sun., 1898-06-14

| five men already named by THE Sun as
having directly or indirectly made this
robbery possible, are Democrats. The
owner of The Sun was not aware of this
fact.
If Mr.. Salisbury will furnish THE Sun
with such documents and other evidence
he may have, tending to prove that
other men, Republicans or otherwise,
also assisted William N. Boggs in looting
the First National Bank of Dover, the
owner OF this paper will bend every
energy to prove their guilt. Let it be
understood by Mr.. Salisbury and every
other man interested that THE Sun recog.
nizes neither creed nor color, politics OF
ancestry in this matter. A National
Bank has been plundered.-From THE
Sun Of February 5, 1898.
From December 6, 1897, up to the time
OF the return of Mr.. William N. Boggs
THE Sun printed a series OF articles re-
garding the looting OF the First National
Bank Of Dover. During all that time
our esteemed contemporary suppressed
the facts about the Boggs affair, content
ing itself by calling a truce on "inuendo
and insinuation." At this late day it
seems that The Sun overlooked certain
persons connected with this great steal
who are now known to both Every
Evening and The Evening Journal. THE
Sun named seven men. The Sun gave
days and dates-facts and figures. The
articles in THE Sun were complete and
accurate. At one time or another THE
Sun has named every man known to be
connected with the looting of the First
National Bank of Dover. Four of the
number besides Mr.. Boggs have been
held in bail pending trial. THE Sun has
''made good" Assuming that both the
Every Evening and Evening Journal are
sincere; that they can give names, days,
dates, facts and figures in support of
their "inuendos and insinuations" HE
Sun calls upon them to ''make good" T"
If for personal, political, religious or
fraternal reasons they prefer not to pub
lish the facts in the columns OF their
own papers the columns of The Sun are
open to them. Produce the facts, gentle
men, turn on the light. From TIE
Sun of March 6, 1898.
| We have no desire to try the case OF
Senator r. r. Kenney before it is given
to the jury but we think the statement
he gave out of the facts of the case, for
publication are damaging to him. He
says as Boggs' attorney that he, Boggs,
confessed to him that in November 1898
or 1894 that he was defaulter. That
the information was shock, so much SO
that he never asked him the extent Of
his trouble with the bank, neither did
he tell him. The interview then goes on
to state from that time until Boggs'
flight from the state, the subject was
never again mentioned to him by Boggs.
From reading the article the Senator
could not help but know that Boggs was
defaulter for at least three years and
possibly four. He then goes on to state
that he lost 81, ,50) in specializing in Bay
State Gas which Mr.. j. Edward Ad-
dicks advised him to purchase, as
well as j. Frank Alice and j. II.
Bateman. But in all sincerity what
become of the balance OF the
money the Senator is charged with
drawing from the First National Bank,
the difference being between S23, 900 and
$1,000. which he admits he lost in 1898,
dabbling in Bay State. The Senator
then goes on to state that he never know
ingly received one dollar from him that
had been abstracted from the bank. All
the Senator's dealings with Boggs had
been that of attorney to his client. As
we have stated in the beginning of the
article we have no desire to PREJUDICE the
Senator's trial and are willing to await
the evidence presented by District At
torney Lewis Vandegrift. The jury by
whom the accused will be tried will be
the proper ones to place all the facts in
the suit and not the public before the
trial takes place in the court. There are
no politics in the suit and the Senator
we'll knows that if he knows anything.
The whole case in the nutshell is that
the Dover bank was looted or robbed Of
its capital and all its surplus. The ques-
ton now for the jury t, decide is how
much money did the Senator receive
from the First National Bank over the
amount that he had in deposij in that
institution. The public have no interest
in the case only as it concerns them in
the evidence produced at the trial.-The
Daily Republican.
The charge made by John +. Sauls.
bury that Boggs looted the First National
Bank of Dover, for the purpose of aid
ing the Union Republicans to carry Kent
county last November is SO absurd that
no man with the least modicum of COM
mon sense will be missled by it, Boggs
did not borrow Saulsbury's checks for
any such purpose and it is worse than
folly for him TO say 50. 1t was through
dealing with brokers in New York that
Boggs was led to rob the bank and John
+. only stultities himself in assigning
other reasons for his defalcation. Men
lost largely III the stock market and
Boggs was among the victims. That his
Democratic friends aided him with the
loan of checks when they had not a dollar
in the bank, is generally admitted. If
they did not get portion of his p|under
it is rather singular. At any rate they
knew that he was engaged in crooked
work, and az honest men they should
have informed his employers. Had
there been the slightest suspicion that
the money was being used to influence
the election in Kent county, neither Mr..
Salisbury nor any other Democrat would