Evening journal., 1900-05-14
PENINSULA PRESS

We have always contended that the
people can be trusted to intelligently
decide all matters political. and we be-
lieye that the added responsibility of
naming all county and legislative can
didatos direct would lead to q more in
telligent and care-taking exercise Of
the elective franchise. Let the voter
select his candidates and do away with
the middleman feature. Dover Della
warean.
VIII Admiral Dewey pledge himself
not to turn over the White House to
his Wife?-PennsgrOve Record.
AS the Transcript predicted last
week, results have proved that j. Ed
ward Addicks sought cheap nctoriety
rather than an opportunity to aid the
Wilmington Board of Education by
/ loan OF $4,000 10 complete their High
School building. II was because we
were confident the offer was not gem
uine that the Transcript favored put
/ ting the great generosity CD to the
/ test How can sensible men not on
the Addicks payroll ally themselves
politically with such a man?-Middle-
town Transcript
Ii Is gratifying to note the interest
the Queen Anne Railroad Company Isl
taking I'm the development of this end
Of its route, and particularly in Reho-
both. We have just received a neat lit
1 tie booklet gotten up by that company,
which points out the advantage OF Re
! hOboth as pleasure resort, with sew
eral half-tone cuts of its hotels and
popular retreats. May the Queen Anne
company be successful in attracting
visitors to the lutte resort, for in its
upbuilding Lewes will derive a great
beneflt.-Delaware Pilot.
It is evident that the Addicks adhe-
rents want no political reform. either
within their own party or outside of IL.
Such reform would take from them the
great element OF their strength and
the distribution OF vast sums of money,
that now holds the Union Republican
party together, would be useless and
the party would have no reason for
further existence.-Delaware Demo
crat.
It would be we'll for the Every Even
ing to become a Democratic paper be-
fore attempting to dictate the party's
4 policy Democrat.
We suppose that when the John Ed
ward Addicks School" Is opened.
there will be a course in civil govern
ment. Students will be taught all
about the purity Of the ballot. the
duties OF legislators, the evils Of bri-
berry, and majority rule A chair
should be endowed called "the John
Edward Addicks course in pure poll
tics. s.'-Milford News and Advertiser.
The decision Of Judge LOchren in
of hn 4
by a military court, is the first judicial
opinion on the extension of the Con
! stitution over territory acquired in con-
sequence of the late war; Il Is in har-
mony with an unbroken line of deci-
sion by the United States Supreme
Court.-Justice.
The two prominent candidates for
! the governorship Of this state are J..
Wilkins Cooch and Peter j. Ford Mr..
Ford is a WilmingtOnian, and eX-
poets great strength from that city. Mr..
Cooch lives i'm Pencader hundred. He
is very popular with not only the
Democrats, but many Republicans.
, whom we believe will support him. He
5 would make a strong candidate. and
r. we do not see how he can be defeated
He is worthy the Office and would
make a governor that the state would
, be proud Of.-Delaware Ledger.
The Baltimore City School Board saw
nc tc &c all the way to Colorado to find
person suitable for the position ol
- superintendent of the city schools. The
/ city solicitor, Ex-Governor William
pinkney White, gives IL as his opinion
that the Loard had no right to go out.
o side the city in making its selection. In
81 sIT al 10
tl clings 10 its Western man, law ant
n prorriety to the contrary notwlth
standing-Cecil Democrat.
II seems that none OF the presen
members OF the New Castle Levy Cour
u are eligible to reelection. This IL
l. made so by statute. This is a gooS
y law It is a sorry thing to say, but 1
" fact, nevertheless, than the lOnge
bodies OF men who are dispensers o
the peoples money are In office, tn
= more careless and more extravagan
4 they become-Sussex Journal.
h That beautiful scheme Of harmon,
v which was advertised so eXtensivel
!, in the Philadelphia papers by the Ad
= dicks press bureau at Dover, an
Dl which, Il was said. was fathered b.
>. President Mckinley, seems to hav
lDI SUM AoAAnN "a lAONNQ " lAelht hNNAA oAA
IN Of those false reports, so commo
"a among Addicksites, circulated for
purpose.-Sussex Republican.
The Sussex Journal has had full OF
~ portunity tc lift its voice in the publ
he interests, against the administration {
st the clerk Of the peace Office, and tn
s. pocketknife control of the allOwanC
is committee, whereby thousands of do
lars are unjustly taken from the pull
ne lie treasury. Rut It has not done it. No
en- Mr. DOrman is the incumbent. and HI
ll- clerk the Democratic chairman OF Su.
lie sex county. 1t would be asking 10
=, much Of the Journal TO come out pui
> licly against a miserably corrupt an
dirty condition Of affairs which h
grown worse and worse for tweni
'u' years. Georgetown Republican.
ne Tho question OF tho reelection
or Levy Courtmen is being discussed I
N both parties in New Castle county. 4
lat a rebuke to a former Levy Court Il
manifest incompetency. and diregai
a. Of official obligation. a law was pass,
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