The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-02-22
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY "a. 1903.


VIM. N. Boggs Deserves No sympathy.
VIM. N. Boggs, the selt-cp6fessad thief
has an aversion 70 tho newspaper men.
He says he has greater terror of them
than anything else. He should havo
thought. ~ that when he stole the capital
Of the First National Bank at Dover and
seven thousand dollars of its surplus. He
~ getting twice as much sympathy as his
crime deserves while prisoner in New
Castle Jail. II 1t had been some poor dew
81, whose only crime was stealing pair OF
el shoes, he would get the worst cell in the
bum row and on bis trial taking place,
would, in all probability, receive sem
tence Of one year, one hour in the pillory
and twenty lashes. But here Is II man who
has stolen over hundred thousand dollars
and all he will get, in all probability, Will
DO five years in Kings county Jail, where
! no will have every hing his heart can wish
for except his liberty. There appears to
be disposition to worship men who have
proven themselves princes among thieves
and 1t is nearly time that such nonsense
was stopped. 1t is strange what weight
the word Of self.confessed thief has in
Causing the arrest of other men, who had
been his chosen and boon companions and
have them held under bail from $4,000
to 1850, charged with aiding and abetting
y VIM N. Boggs, the defaulting paying tell.
or. We should say his word should be
taken with grain Of allowance and as
much of 1T believed as the jury think fit,
II VIM. N. Boggs gave the men whom he
charges with receiving the funds of tho
looted bank. then he was the worst one in
the gang. He had charge of the money
IN the bank and with his own free viii, he
stole it and handed it to those who were
using it In outside speculation. and hs
was sharing the proceeds of the stolen
money with the men he was using rs stool
pigeons. Boggs is Republican, all the
men he accuses are Democrats. 1t is pass
ing strange that they should have been his
associates and companions and been 50
\ wicked as to urge him on 10 loot the bank
Of all its available funds We have no
sympathy with the defaulting paying tell
or and he deserves none from the public
and it is possible he will receive his just
Z deserts at the hands Of jury in the U. S.
Court There is no evidence but that of
I VIM. N. Boggs to convict the men he has
been instrumental in placing under arrest
\ charged with receiving the proceeds of his
i'll gotten gains. Sympathy, VIM. N.
Boggs does not deserve any.
The Tall Tries to Wag the Head
The fact that the tail cannot way the
head of the Democratic party was shown
yesterday by the vote the two Democratic
candidates received for State Senator Tine
overall element of the Democratic party
has shown that the swallowtail element
are not in it, and several Senatorial booms
were yesterday ruthlessly destroyed over
the result of the election which mate Dan
lei +. Stewart the chosen successor to the
late senator Robert J. Handy. The vote
turned out by the Republican party shows
that with united party what can be done.
The advice of the so-called Democratic
Every Evening, to defeat Daniel F. Stew.
art was not needed by its Republican
readers, whose support IL apparently al
WAYS has had But Its influence don't
Duanpunt to much nowadays, even in the
\ partE councils of the unterrlfied Dcmoc-
kacy.A The Republican party can carry the
next election in New Castle county and
we believe in the State, if the right men
are put np to be voted for On election day.
With united Republican party they can
= sweep everything before them and capture
every Office in the State from Congrcs
down. The Democrats see the handwrit-
Ing OH the wall and have become greatly
frightened at the opposition which has
sprung up in their ranks. The strength
Oe the silver movement in the Democratic
panty b IS caused n cold chill to pass over
The couutcnancc OF Pat Ncary, willard
salisbury and even Judge Flank Bali,
knd it is said council OF war will be call
4 I'd to try and head of tho opposition be-
fore they wreck the party But like oil
nnd water the silver mon and the gold
men will not mix together.
What War leans