Evening journal., 1890-05-13
PRINcIPLEs, oR ME-. WHIoHl

chance be in political principles Demo
crat In case such a person was placed /
on the Democratic ticket does any sane
man Of decent respectability for moment |
claim that every Democrat Is bound TO
support and vote for him? Undoubtedly /
no one will say such thing. May there /
not be other objections against certain |
parties that would make it absolutely |
and unqualifedly the duty of all respect
able and decent men, who value good |
government, to oppose certain people for |
officer Certainly this is so. and 1t cannot |
be gainsaid So all this nonsense about |
principles and not men, is absurd, ridicu |
lous and preposterous.- Della |
wafean.
Our Dover contemporary here comes |
right over TO the ground that Every |
Evening has occupied all along-that |
where the party places an unfit man on
the ticket 1t cannot expect voters with a
proper sense of their duty to themselves
and the community in which they live to
support him On the contrary, they per
form a public service ia showing up his
unftness and defeating him If they can
The trouble is that most Of us can see the
faults Of our political opponents SO much
more clearly than those Of our political
who value good government as they
should, can teach by their votes no more
wholesome lesson than that they will
have decent candidates even If they have
to 10 outside Of their own party TO find
them. This would make il necessary
for all parties to put their best available
men on the ticket and there Is no voter
who IS a patriot before he is partisan
but will agree that this Is an object
worth working for, Every Evening.
The above from the Dover Delawarean,
commented on by the Every Evening
amounts TO a declaration Of independence
Of party ties.
Both papers say, in effect, that they will
support any candidate they see ft to
supports without reference TO whom the
Democratic party may nominate.
Both papers give notice in advance
that they viii not support any candidate
who is not their candidate,
There are but two parties in Delaware,
so that lhese papers win have to support
either Democratic candidates or Repub-
lican candidates.
Both give notice that they have lively
apprehensions that the meanest thief
in this state might by chance" be placed
on the Democratic ticket, in which case
they would find congenial company in
the Republican ranks.
These two papers are intensely per
sonal-they are each run by man Ct
strong conviction and each is capable and
willing to 60 to any length on a career Of
rule or rum to the Democratic party.
The papers and the men themselves feel
that they are bigger than the Democratic
party. IT. is due to this sentiment that
this city has Republican mayor, Chief
Swiggett, the reform police force-all Re
publicans--and that such men as DR..
Draper were turned outof the Board OF
Health. It Is due to this sentiment that
we have Senator Higgins and the reform
ers whom he has appointed to represent
Delaware in the Federal offices.
Without stopping to institute com
parison between what we have and what
we might have had, II is simply necessary
to say that the reforms made BY substi-
tuting Republicans for Democrats have
been conspicuous failures. Nothing ht
been reformed in either case. Boil
changes are discreditable in themselves
and are the fruits Of this miserable
policy which these two papers again ad
vocate
To assume the attitude that these tw
/ papers take, II is necessary to imagin
an impossibility. Neither paper can hav
( the remotest apprehension justly tha
'the meanest thief in this state" will b
! nominated. This insinuation is an un
/ warranted insult to the Democrati
/ party. The Democratic party does no
! select thieves, does not contain thieves
and there is not the shadow of a SUI
D picion that thief, or even an unworth
man, will be nominated for any office.
e In plain terms, the case Of these tw
E papers seems to be this: they have the
t own candidates. any other candidate
r ''the meanest thief in this state, I
ID matter by what majority Of Democrat
Z ae may be chosen.
O. OF course these two papers have
es right to support any candidates tho
choose They have a right to any so,
be Of politics which suits them bes
o. They can be Mugwumps OF strsigh
OF out Republicans, but they cann
s. be Democratic on that prineipl
a Nobody has any right to dicts
Ell whom they shall support, but all goi
nc Democrats will rejoice to know whe
" these two papers stand. They stand f
a themselves, and whenever the cAndidat
" # the Democratic party do not suit the
they will flop to higgins. Harringto
M swiggett, with the train OF Fisher, Bac
b, Buckingham. Saville and Bacon.
isi Neither paper nor man can adhs