Smyrna times., 1888-05-23

with the days work.
For the Smyrna Times.
He Tries it Again.
am pleased to note that the article
which you published last week receiv-
ed the attention due it from the Smyrna !
Record and l thank the editor of the |
Record for his courtesy and fairness in |
publishing in full what had said. In |
his interesting review of what he was |
pleased to term my fallacies," he |
manitestly misrepresents the plain Ian |
guage of my charge; for enumerating
my charges against the Record he says
"4.-Asking Senator Salisbury to
retire"
l based no complaint upon that
ground. 1t is the privilege of any
Democrat, expressing himself in
proper and courteous way, to ask Sen
ator Salisbury or any other aspirant
for public place to retire from the CON
test. My complaint was that he threat
ened disruption of the party and defeat
| of the party if the Senator failed to ac-
| cede to the request. Now the Record
should be too fair to attempt to evade
this plain charge based upon the
Records own plain language fully and
fairly quoted. There is one way for it
to purge itself in this matter: Let it
state boldly and unequivOcally that it
will support the nominees of the Dem
Ocratic party this fall whether they be
friends or foes of Sen. salisbury. Sucha
statement will be accepted as evidence
that it does not mean to lend itself to
boilers, if such there should be. If it
refuses thus to declare itself, the Ian
guage previously quoted justifies the
opinion that it proposes to divide aud
thus defeat the party if it can.
In reading last weeks Record | was
brought face to face with my old query:
Is the Record sincerely Democratic? Is
it not willing to declare the sun blue
one week and then swear it's black the
next, if the one or the other statement
will multiply discord and aggravate
bitterness in the Democratic party &?
In its issue Of May 18th, 1888, referring
: to Senator Salisbury, it said:
Remembering your past career of
usefulness, on behalf of the Democracy
OfDuck Creek, and, we believe, in CON
formity with the opinions of the Dem
Ocracy of the whole State, we do say,
You have served us long and we'll.
! With ability, with dignity aud with
! high moral tone you have advanced
the position of Delaware statesmen to
proud and lofty eminence. Your ad-
: vancing years have not spared you
many infrmities; the duties of public
life are exacting and exhausting, and,
remembering how the great Father OF
: his Country begged to be allowed to
: retire to private life there to spend the
v remainder of his days in the enjoyment
of his well-earned hOnors, we will not
longer press upon you the cares and
. burdens of Office. We tender you fol
y your brilliant and conspicuous service
many thanks, heartfelt and sincere
q and trust that your declining days may
v be peacefully spent amid those pleasant
: pastoral scenes from which you un
q willingly emerged to enter the Arena
+ of public life.
y Could words be found which would
Il more positively assert the high ability
- and character with which Senator
q Salisbury has represented Delaware
, And yet on May 18th, 18S8--the very
r. next issue of the paper--the Record un
n blushingly says:
- "But the elimination of all tn,
Ie Records political misdOing is in askinj
A. Senator Salisbury to relinquish hi
, present exalted office into the hands O
~ the people to whom it belongs withOu
10 using what patronage and influence h.
n may derive from it for the purpose O
IN perpetuating himself as the represen
y tative of people whom he has neve
is and can never even apprOximatel
r represent"
IL Thus we see it using arguments dia
n metrically opposite and utterly ire
40 cOncilable, but both shrewdly frames
of to damage the cause of the Democrat
party. | commend to the Record tn
old remark that a man with tw
tongues, and both bitter, needs lon
memory lest one give the lie to tn
X, other. 1t is not always what is sal
H. openly that shows the hearts true fee
'F: ing. The unguarded expression Greer
ed ing in often opens widest the window
of the soul. The following sentenC
y. taken from the last issue of the Rec0r
"a, is a case in point:
al 1t will be the inevitable result this
ma if these forces are put up by Democrat
al neglect, or Indifference, or cupidity, {
fear, that with their confinement the
n will gather in force and intensity unit
us they shatter in pieces and forever th
n feeble and rOttening she'll of Democracy
- / have put in italics the unguarde
i. expression. What lover of Democrac
RI would have found il in his heart thC
IN to speak of its overthrow "Feebl
and Rottening Shell" j." indeed Defei
sr- and even defilement may come {
ed Democracy, but lover might fin
words more tender to describe its hi
ne initiation. The words quoted soun
TX like the "ghOulish glee of an enem
&c, gloating over the prospects of its fal
m In closing, let me say to the editor {
III Record that it is not my purpose or de
sire to "expel him or his paper frol
OF the party. For him have every kin
IN regard for him wish every good 70
tune. His paper might be in its spher
"o a light and a cheer to Democracy. M
lg- desire is to call him back to the SUI
port Of the Democratic party-th
Ia whole Democratic party, regardless
factional divisions. But If he will NJ
'hI or can not conscientiously, unite wit
lovers Of Democracy in Duck Cree
'ef Hundred in healing our party diffe
az ences and supporting Democracy
IN this great year when the party
va marching for the right to a life an
an death struggle; If he will persistent
hg and causelessly seek to perpetual
strife and bring upon US defeat, rul
lr- bing pepper instead Of pouring oil ini
a., the wounds of the past, he must n,
!. feel offended If ! call upon fellow Den
.n- ocrats to scrutinize the purpose whic
his dictates hisaction, In thus doing
to believe ] represent the best Interests
Democracy, irrespective Of faction.
FIsHBURY.
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