Evening journal., 1902-02-01
A DISHONEST Plea


Wilmington is getting quite metro
politan in these things; and, with this
fact as a warning, the people of rural
Delaware should never permit the
State 10 come under its blghting inilu
ence, by giving representation accord
ling to population. The Republican
party OF Delaware may well repent in
sack cloth and ashes. over the mistake
made several years ago, when they
gave New Castle county almost ma
jority in their State convention. The
rotten borough politics has contami-
mated even the rural districts about
Il, and IL is necessary that Kent and
Sussex, with their conservative and
honest people should hold the balance
OF power in Delaware.
Thus speaks the Milford Chronicle, the
first paper I'm Delaware which was per-
suaded to advocate the election of Ad-
dicks. Any fair-minded man must rec
lognize the sophistry, If not the dishon-
esty of the above There is no more
vice or crime in the city Of Wilmington
THAN in any Peninsular town, in proper
ltion to population. The city of Will
mington has nearly 10000 inhabitants,
Milford $500 the proportion being
about one to thirty-two; is there more
than thirty two times the vice in VIII
mington than in Milford. In the intro
ductory part OF the editorial we are
told of our recent raid, and the vice
chat was thereby disclosed. Is It any
worse here. proporionately, than in
Milford? We have made raids and ar
rests, and in that respect we have THE
advantage; Milford never has. We use
that town, not because it is worse than
others. for it is not, but it may be taken
as an average when making COM
parison.
The Chronicle speaks, too of the dis
missal of our chief Of police, because
t is alleged that he allowed gambling
TO continue in Wilmington. Now the
chief of police Of Milford has one assist
Has not gambling
gone on for years in that town, even
on Sundays? And has There been any
disposition to break il up? Does not the
editor of the Chronicle know this to be
a fact? There IL is draw-pOker; here
IL is policy. But is it amy worse here
in proportion to population than there?
And the Chronicle has the effrontery
to intimate that Kent and Sussex
should continue to hold the balance Of
power in order to be a correcting force
for the evils of New Castle, and par
ticuarly OF Wilmington, because OF
the virtue which they possess, and
which we do not? Was anything any
narrower ever written? This endeavor
to draw sectional or countylines in such
q manner is disgusting. Wilmington
takes pride in rural Delaware, and Of
fors the open hand OF friendship. We
are not alien races but brothers OF the
blood. We regret our shortcomings
but there is no reason why they should
be unduly magnifed, while others arc
towering their vice and Haunting theil
virtue
There have been elements at times il
control here that have not covered III
with honor We are trying to correc
the evils. There Is as bad a condition
in the town Of Milford, proportionately
% This has been explained from time t,
time in the local press, and our down
p State critic is in a position TO know
something about it. Then regarding 20
, litical conduct; has political crime eve
aourished in any part of the Unite
: States as it has in Kent county-bou
Z under Democratic and Republica
: lrule? "Lcok to your hearth, my lord.