Middletown transcript., 1910-10-22
M1DDITFOwE, DEL, OCT, %. 1910
The COL. TOWNSEND MATTER

to encompass the defeat OF GER
tain persons on the Republican
ticket by attacking their charac'
ters, Mr.. G. L. Grier, of Milford,
in the absence of Col. Townsend
cunningly secured from his man
ager certain space in his paper,
the Milford Chronicle, and pub
lished therein the $4,000 re
ward for the conviction of bri'
bers, ETC., to which Col. Town
send warmly assented.
But on discovering later the
sharp practice sought to be
played upon him by Grier, whose
real purpose he himself does not
deny, was to attack in the next
article, not bribery but certain
candidates on the Republican
ticket-and that, too, in the in
terests of their Democratic op-
ponents-the Colonel very prop
erly cancelled the dishonest con-
tract and returned Grier his
check. 0ut Of his own throat
this sanctimonious 'treformer" is
convicted of dishonorable trick.
cry a-sample. perhaps, of the
sort he was won't to use when
attached to the fortunes of that
rascally arch. .briber Addicks
He writes to Col. Townsend:
II did not state 70 your agent that
my purpose was 10 defeat the Repub.
liCan ticket.
Certainly not! Such tricksters
never do inform their prospec'
tive victims of the intended swim
die. It will be noted that Grier
does not deny that his purpose
was to defeat these nominees OF
his own party. He dares not deny
II. On the contrary he adds:
"But will say frankly, that il is
my hope that the decent people, ETC.,
will defeat certain Republican candi-
dates, etc."
Mr.. Grier's "frankness" is Of
the compulsory sort which an
evil.doer usually exhibits when
caught with the goods on him.
And because the Colonel re-
fuses to be buncoed, this "re-
former" with transparent quib-
bling charges him with being an
advocate of bribery. Mr.. Grier
were best to save some of his
lofty. ''reform" morality for home
consumption, and learn that a
good cause is never advanced by
unfair and dishonest means.
Col. Townsend's letter to the
chairman of the Republican State
Committee, after showing how
Grier had tried to entrap him, de-
clares his entire sympathy with
the fight against election bribery
heretofore condemned by him
editorially and otherwise in his
paper, and says,
my reason for refusing the adver-
tisement was that it was the purpose
of DR.. Grier to make an attack on the
ticket nominated BY the Republican
party. This was the sole reason for
canceling the agreement"
But while the disingenuous
course Of Mr.. Grier is altogether
unworthy one pretending to play |
the high role of q reformer, the
characteristically unfair attempt
Of the EVery EVeping TO make po-
litical capital out Of the incident |
and especially its continuance in |
this attempt, after Grier's fraud |
had been clearly exposed and con.
fessed, is even more contempt.
ble.. EUerg Eveni'ag's persistent
and wilful perversion of the facts
herein, in the hope Of damaging |
the Republican party, end its
wanton vilifcation Of Col. Town.
send, is q disgrace to the journal.
ism Of our state. The ethics of |
such editorial work is not above
that Of piracy or assassination.
However, it is quite on a par
with that deliberate wholesale
SANDER Of the Republican Press
Of Delaware editorially perpe.
trated by the EUery EUeging in its
issue of July 18th last wherein
with mendacious impudence itac.
cused the whole Republican Press
of a willingness for political ends
10 prostitute the criminal in
stincts Of the negro.
THE TRAEscRIPT had the sat.
sfaction Of mailing that malicious
lie so hard to the EUery EVensng's
counter that its maker has never
'ince dared to peep in defence Of
lis own base coinage
The TRANSCRIPT needs not
Ieclare that It is always and
Everywhere against election bri.
,ery and corruption Of any sort,
whether done IS in the doubly
ihameful b ecause needless,
ashton Of the paImy days of
Democratic supremacy, wheni