The Wilmingtonian., 1886-09-18
MIR. LOre's Retirement.

politics of this State.
What affects generous minds this moment
is not graduation at the advancement of
that polished, urbane gentleman, the Hon.
George Gray, but the indgnity, the crying
shame perpetrated upon one whose public
record as representative at Washington for
his native State is the most commendable,
brightest, clearest and most ineffably the
purest that the present generation of Della
wareans, or the business men of the metro
polls of the State have any personal recol-
lection of.
These words, in the midst of the present
political tension, are spoken calmly, deliber-
ately and with profound belief in their
truth.
The Hon. George Gray cannot afford to
be the beneficiary of the fraud perpetrated
in the city of Wilmington on Saturday last
nor could any other honorable man.
We do not assert that that gentleman's
success ~ is due to the aid of political funds
from the Golfers of the Pennsylvania Rail
road or the acknowledged interest in
New York. We do not assert that the Del
aware senatorship has been purchased by
foreign money directly poured into this
State, flooding the pothouses and saloons
of Wilmington, of New Castle, Kent, and
Sussex-we do not assert that the suffrages
of venal voters have been bought up by the
wholesale or that Delaware has been traf-
fcked clean off its feet-but it is asserted
that the man who is the beneficiary of such
methods, who is elected ~ by any such
means is defnitively an usurper 1t is clear
ly asserted that that man, should he take his
seat in the United States Senate, does so moi
by tie wishes of Delaware, he does not do
so by the means of money gotten from the
State, but by the means of money gotten
from outside the State to be applied to the
purpose of purchasing the suffrages of
those whose contemplate livelihood is main
tanned by those dark methods.
In uttering these words the sentiments,
the deliberate opinion of an overwhelming
majority of the citizens of Wilmington is
enunciated.
Two-thirds If the citizens of this city
would unhesitatingly, without the asking of
it, place their ballots at any legalized election
for the name of Charles B. Lore. How is it
that another has snatched that honor By
what outlandish sinuosity of polltico. mental
convolution has it been determined that this
robbery is deemed expedient, or that the
wishes of the democracy of Wilmington
must be contravened in the coming senator
ial election!
The EUery BUening in speaking of Mr..
LoIe's retirement says =
"'The story of how Mr.. Lore, in the inter
est of party unity and with self-abnegation,
which does great credit to him as man and
Delawarean, placed his foot upon the cher
ished and laudable ambition of his political
life when his duty to the State and his party
threatened to clash with his aspirations as
an individual, is told in our news columns.
1t was a deed worthy of the successor to a
line of honored representatives, whom Della
ware has sent to take part in the councils OF
the nation, and who have lifted up their lit
tie native State to an eminence very dispro-
portionate to her size deed in which priv
ate ambition was swallowed up in patriotism.
And Delaware is honored in having in SC
worthy and gifted son as Senator Gray the
beneficiary of the patriotic renunciation Of
Mr.. Lore"
The only comment we can make upon su3h
condoning of rascality, vinculum, which
in its every link of the Gray Senatorial cam.
paign since its initiation in the disfrauchise
ment of Brandywine and. the neighborine
nuuuIeuj uuMu W bue ueleotdulo reCOTu O
Saturday last, in this city, affords history
of political ruffianism unparalleled even il
Thos, F. Bayard's pocket borough of Della
ware,-our only comment is to repeat thu
biting monosyllabic sarcasm of th,
Morning Neaos-SLUsH!!
Such expressions as those of our esteemed
evening cotemporary in the midst of this un
democratic, un-American method of exiting
uishing the rights of the voters is not candid
on the part of that journal in making thos
assertions, it does not represent the over
whelming majority of Wilmington opinion
but of a certain minority section.
1t is disingenuous on the part of our es
teemed evening contemporary to say "Mr
Gray has reason to feel proud of the endorse
ment his county gave bin on Saturday."
Such expressions are simply rhetorica
pallium deftly thrown over the shoulders @
Mr.. Gray to hide the badge of outrage " hic
more properly besmirches his under garment
Attributed to Mr.. Gray the quoted word
are so much cant or "slush" for not onl
do they do not tIuthfully represent the ser