Evening journal., 1890-04-28
FRleHrENep At A GHOST.

After paying various, varlegateo, lett-
handed. ironical, intended to-be funny,
intensely personal and intensely irrele-
want compliments to the EVENING
JOURNAL, the Dover Delawarean says
Seriously the editor has sense enough
to know, If he is not an idiot, that the
par " has been almost ruined by factions
and by dissensions and personal animosi-
ties, and he would render the party a
service by telling the truth and warning
the members of the party, that further
contentious win completely wreck and
ruin the best party that ever existed in
this state or any other state. The time
was when the Democratic party of this
state was unit, and when it was in
vincible. We recall the dark days Of the
late rebellion, when 1t took brains to lead
The fact that the Democratic party was
not harmonious in the past is not mat
ter OF sense, but Of knowledge, and 1t
is no use to attempt to tell the party
what any man may know and what every
man does know. Any ill.tempered fool
can do that.
1t is OF no use. 1t is positive harm, to
revive the old factions, to open the old
sores that should be healed. The Della
warean should take its own prescription,
swallow a little dose Of its own advice,
and what is more to the purpose, quench
It's own factiousness, dssension and per
sonal animosities. 1t should try to
bring itself into harmony, not drive
other papers to what they have and
the Delawarean has not.
Just where the Delawarean makes its
mistake is in recalling the dark days Of
| the late rebellion" and other dreary and
dreadful recollections. The Delawarean
spends too much time in the cellars con.
tanning the damp and musty archives Of
dead recollections. 1t is the present and
the future that we have to deal with.
The EVENING JOURNAL advocates that
wholesome sort of politics which let's
"the dark days fade away into deserved
obscurity; 1t belongs to that wholesome
Democracy which has no jibes for any
other Democrat who Is honest and loyal
to his party and which welcomes back
those who have erred with cordial greet
ings and absolute silence.
II the Delawarean would turn its bat
teries against common enemy and at
tempt less hectoring within the party,
1t would find sufficient work and have
less time to brood over the darkness
which encompasses the soul Of misan-
thrope.
We assert again that the Democratic
party is harmonious.
There is nothing to disturb its har
mony except the selection Of candidates
As the party is party Of principles it Il
not to be disturbed by the candidates
Those who feel that they cannot go int
the convention with determination Il
abide loyalty by any candidate wh'
may be nominated, have the privilege o
an American citizen Of sitting on tn,
curbstone while the procession goes BY
There is not man in Delaware quit
large enough to dictate what the Demo
cratic party must do. There are som
really great men, and there are SOM
who esteem themselves great, Th'
great men are too modest to dictate
those who esteem themselves great ar
too puny and too selfcontemplRtive
The Delawarean may mean all right
undoubtedly it does, but IL cannot accom-
. plish anything for the benefit Of tn
Democratic party by iltempered refer
ences to past dissensions. There is n
sense in sounding note Of alarm I'll
there is something TO cause alarm.
There is nothing ia the present situS
tion OF the Democratic party in Deli
!. ware to excite alarm except the ghost Z
Z dead faction.
A ghost is creature Of a disordere
! Imagination or shadow used by tn
wicked to coerce the timid. A health,
sober, sensible man should not tai
: fright at a ghost.