Evening journal., 1888-12-15
soMs selE-eMpENI TRuTHs.

OOME oGLF-ENlDENl NJ TO.
Many Of the newspaper speculations
concerning Mr. Harrison's coming Cabi-
net are exceedingly silly; but sillier still
are some of the same kind Of guesses and
assertions in respect to the Delaware
Senatorship. Here is the Milford Chroni
Gle, for example tearing It's last shirt
over the alleged Republican factions. It
is losing its temper, its discretion and it's
reputation for veracity in a struggle
that is apparently too much for it's
strength. Yesterday it said some very un-
kind and very untrue things about this
paper II labors under the mistake. ap
parently. that there can be no political
loyalty or friendship that is not
bought and paid for It assumes that
there is no honor among men who have
political preferences. 1t is indscreet "a
TO expose itself Abuse and misrepre
sentation never win support IF You
have no case abuse the lawyer on tho
other side.
The Chronicles stock in trade is the
cry of faction, for which it has no
basis. A cabal is not faction. No one
swallow nor half dozen swallows make a
spring There can be no factional result
where the majority of the representa-
tives in the General Assembly repre-
sent the majority of the people In
their respective hundreds. as is the
case with the coming Legislature. The
Al iran
all those who have taken no active part in
politics and il has an exaggerated idea OF
1actionai warfare. II will take every Re
publican member Of the Legislature 10
elect the Senator. Hence the man that
will be elected cannot be factional
header, but he must be the leader Of these
men who voted for him and all Of their
party constituents The moment all tho
Republican representatives agree on a
Senator, all factionalism is stifled by that
very act, for they represent all the posi-
BILE factions in the state
Therefore too, it is silly to
say that the election Of the Senator from
this county would disrupt the party.
The fact of such an election would CO.
ment stronger instead of shatter the
bonds that now bind tho
Republicans Of Kent and Sussex. II
would be accepted by all the world as an
act that was intended for the benefit Of
the party at large, purely patriotic act,
and this intention itself would 20 a
great way towards making the benefit
real. Such choice would be proof upon
its face, in view of the fact that county
lines are exceedingly stubborn obstacles.
that the men who made IL must have
been actuated by the highest political
motives. We do not wish to imply in the
remotest degree that different choice
would have the contrary appearance. We
merely wish to emphasize, what will be
obvious 20 every reader, that the election
of New Castle man by the Kent and
Sussex representatives would be in itself
the best proof Of the sincerity, the dis
interestedness and the patriotism Of
those representatives.
The manifestation Of such spirit by
its representatives would make the party
rock-bound from Brandywine TO Balti-
more II would open the way, too, for
all sincerely independent voters to ioin
IT. It would be a guarantee that the
petty chickering's Of the past, engeadsred
invariably by still pettier men, were pos
sible no longer, andthat thecounty lines.
The most fruitful as well as the most con.
temptible source Of party division, were
wiped out forever.