Milford chronicle., 1912-08-02

in an article appearing in The Morning
News part of which was published in
The Chronicle last week as it was clipp-
ed from the News, attributing to him
remarks rejecting upon the Judiciary
Of Delaware in regard to their decision
Up holing the constitutionality of the
boulevard corporations law.
Nor was this indignation confined to
General dupont, for well-known mer-
chants who attended the meeting de-
clared it an outrage that such misre-
presentation should have been made
Of General DUPONT 5 statements TO the
delegation of business men who called
on him to assure him Of their hearty
cooperation in the boulevard project
and to voice their hope that the bouie-
ward soon will be built.
While it has been recognized all d.
long that The Morning News has been
trying to throw every obstacle in the
path of the boulevard. the merchants
VINO attended the conference We're as
founded that General duPont's statment
should have been distorted 10 make it
appear that he had reflected upon the
judges of the Supreme Court as TO
their decision in the boulevard case,
and to make IL appear wrongly that
General DUPONT had said that three Of
the judges had reached their decision
because of their desire for reaupont-
ment to the bench.
Naturally, such a statement as er-
r0neously attributed to General du-
Pont caused a stir among those
who did not know that he had been
misrepresented. But the statements
placing General DUPONT In a false light
before the community. iniurying him
and harming the boulevard project are
vigorously denied by General DUPONT
himself and by merchants Of high stand
ing who heard his general statement
IN which he spoke of obstacles he had
encoutered and Of some lawyers making
it more difficult for a right of way for
2 boulevard to be acquired.
When he was asked if he had seen the
statement in the Morning News. Mr.
dupont replied If you will ask the
merchants, Of whom / think there were
twelve present. they will all say com
phmented the judiciary Of our State.
did say that in some places had known
Judges to bring a verdict in accordance
with what the people wanted rather
than what the law was, but that Della
ware was particularly fOtunate in not
having any of these kind of judges.
The Morning News has opposed ev-
erything in which have been interest
ed and has made absolutely false state
ments for many months past and know
ing the unfair attitude Of the Morning
News, had | known they had re-
preventative present, ! would have
asked him to leave the office before
made any statement TO anybody, be
cause ! known from past publications
that since the change Of ownership they
do not want facts or truth but are only
anxious for foundation to publish such
q story as best suits whoever owns the
paper.
MR.. WRIGHT'S STATEMENT.
James H. Wright well-known mer-
chant, officer of the Board Of Trade and |
active in the Mercantile Association I
who was one Of the men in the dele ,
cation that called on General dupont,
said
Il cannot understand how such a
piece could be written. 1t is absolutely
unfair and unjust to Mr.. dupont and
think the reporter must have misre-
presented facts. For instance MIR. du-
POnt said we We're fortunate in this
State to have good judges but that in
)ther places he felt that some Judges
ri
n their community rather than carry
ng out the letter or intent of the law.
If course we know The Morning News
s absolutely against Mr. dupont and as
lefOre stated the piece in The Morning
News is an entire misrepresentation of
What took place and absolutely unfair
o Mr.. dupont
MR.. ROSS ALSO DENIES TT.
Howard d. Ross. one Of the foremost
0en in the merchants movement, said
he remarks attributed to General du {
'ont in the Morning News were unfair /
nd misrepresented in many particulars }
What was said by General DUPONT
For instance. take the first state
nent attributed to him that there D
we're five judges in our State and three :
f them wanted to be reappointed and,
f course, took the right view of the
question Of the constitutiOnahty Of the 1
Boulevard law
Il was present during the entire con }
erence and heard no statement such as I
he foregoing made by General dupont. i
n fact. anybody familiar with the facts G
nows that our Judges have many
ears to sit on the bench. and would
ave no reason to be sWaVcd by any de-
ire for reappOlntment. e representa-
i've of the Morning News called me on
he telephone and read to me a portion
f the article ne had written about =
he conference and ! took exception 81
O the portion misquoting General 4
uPont with reference to the Judges. =.
the Morning News repre- !
entative to whom ! talked said this .
vas too good a news article to be left :,
ut and that likely other news papers 7
you'd print the same story.
General DUPONT did tel Of troubles =
f himself and representatives of the
corporation with some lawyers e
rith reference to acquiring rights Of y
,ay and increasing prices for land but -
did not reflect upon the Judici- y
ry of Delaware, which he said he had y
ound from his observation to construe Il
be law as written rather than to be in n
uenced by public clamor. (,
1T is unfair and unjust for a news y
aper to 90 out of its way to oppose a Il
ublic project which the merchants are y,
, unanimously advocating as a benefit -.
J city of Wilmington and to the entire -
tate alike and which would do more -
ian anything ! know Of to bring the -,
IL 4 II. L.