Evening journal., 1899-09-06
THE PENINSULA PRESS

IL 10 welcome the strangers expect
ed next week Free trolley rloes W ~,
,,isstors. free access to all the many
,nints of interest in and about the clty,
free and generous hospitality VIII
make a delightful time for those VINO
t5sIt the city.-Dover State sentinel
We cannot think the people OF TINS
conntv will fail to rebuke party
whose administration has been SO
nrostituted to the selfish purposes ana
vgoes of its leaders as has the present
one-Seaford News.
senator wellington and other Mary
1ond Renublican leaders have agreed
mon the personnel of the state ticket
to he nominated at the state conven-
tion this month Governor LLOYD
fowndes will be renominated by ac-
ciomation. and State Comptroller Phil
1ine lee Goldsborough will also be re-
named Both of these men are
nersonally popular and each had a
large following among the Independ-
ent Democrats. But party lines VIII De
closely drawn in November ana Tue
Democratic party will make q clean
sweep throughout the state.-Sussex
Countian.
Every Evening advises the working |
man to take advantage OF the present
prosperity and lay up something for a
"rainy day." Now is the time con-
tinues our e. c., "for worlSingmen TO |
pay up arrears Of rentinterestor taxes
and to lay by something for the fu-
ture." But rent ana taxes 90 on for
ever, and by the time they are paid
and arreah paid, and the bills at tnel
corner grocery paid, we fear thel
boom" will be over, and the hard
times come again before the working
man has accumulated many savings
from his 81 a day.-Justice.
Through the efforts of some interest
ed parties who have gone to the trou-
/ bic to give facts and figures showing
/ that the Elk river is rapidly filling up,
/ and that in consequence vessels OF any
/ considerable size cannot now reach the
wharves at Elkton and business inter
ests depending upon water traffie are
materially crippled, an order has been
II issued for a survey OF the Elk river
with view to dredging the channel.
This survey will shortly be made aRd
then the necessary appropriation by
4 Congress for the dredging will be In
J order.-Cecil Democrat.
In the face Of four more years Of an
I administration that refuses torecognize
this mushroom organization as Re
publican party and with the prospect
. OF no vacancy in the senatorship for
Y four years, do you wonder that even
, Addicks hesitates to continue the fight
and his leaders are filled with conster-
nation and dismay at the prospect OF
g an interruption Of that unceasing
stream OF shekels that has flowed into
this state and into the pockets Of the
a elect for the past few years.-Sussex
Republican.
The Sussex Republican, Of George
e town. where the writer spent over ten
Iel years of his earlier manhood, paid us
o. the compliment last week to publish
upon its editorial page our answer tC
ehe contemplate charge Of the Wi.
mington Sun, namely, that for a vote
for Senator Higgins in the General AS.
l. sombly of 1889 the writer was rewarde,
NJ with an Office In Washington, a bar
gain and sale having been made @,
@ that effect before the election. Tn,
20 editor of the Republican viii accep
ls our sincere and earnest thanks for hi
,- appreciation of what one would q,
We're you ia his place" An audienc
- with so many old friends. readers o
lu the Republican. lis just TO our tast
he under the circumstances.-Mi Middletowi
e- Transcript
n, COl0red camp meetings as a rule ar
not to be commended or encouraged
and the account published in anothe
column of the conduct at Wye cam
he recently. proves that that particula
do gathering should either be prohlbite
,tv or forced TO change its title Orgle
OF this sort should not be allowed {
7m exist under a religious cloak.-Doye
re- Delawarean.
srs 1t Is an of year in elections in thi
state, but there are no off-years in IN
political columns Of the two great pal
~, ties.-Delaware Ledger.
" Now that Addicks owns enough Ian
'n' In Arizona large enough 10 make
ar. state as big as Delaware. why doesn
us. he go there and try his hand at maxim
lon himself a United States senator.-Su
sex Journal.
Governor Tunnel has issued a pro
lamation calling upon the people
Delaware to aid the people OF Por
one Rico, whose desolatioN and sufferin
nm because Of the terrible hurricane viii,
'or- raadv been descrihed -rbot ~
Iich sponse to the governors appeals W
oil be prompt and liberal is assured. d
ipe- cause sunerine never appealed In va
~ to Delawareans.-Milf Democrat
The contest In Ohio is not bes
anu made upon state, but upon national
! II sues, and the same will doubtless
pie the case in other states that elect Il
the Fall They are but preliminary SIX
mishes to the great battle that will
"Ja' fought next year. We believe that /
ON conflicting elements Of the Democra
ems party win be assimilated before II
and time ana tnat they viii go into
u iei Delaware Democrat.