Evening journal., 1894-09-06
prlnclnles. 81 men. whIeh J

Principles, or Men, which,
The Dover Delswarean, in May, 1890.
said I'VE agree that the Democratic
party is party Of principle, but
that does not compel every Democrat
to vote for every person placed on the
ticket. The meanest thief in this state
might by chance be Ia political principles
a Democrat In case such a person was
placed on the Democratic ticket, does any
sane man Of decent respectabllity for
moment claim that every Democrat is
bound to support and vote for him I'M
doubtedly no one will say such thing
May there not be other objections against
certain parties that would make it abso-
lutely and unqnslifedly the duty Of all
respectable and decent men, who value
good government, to oppose certain peo
pie for office Certainly this is SO. and
IL csnnot be gansaid. SO all this non
sense about principles and not men, is
absurd, ridiculous and preposterous.
Samuel Bancroft, Jr 5 Every Evening
in commenting on the above, said that
sour Dover contemporary here comes
right over to the ground that Every
Evening has occupied all along-that
whore the party places IN unfit man on
the ticket il cannot expect voters with
proper sense Of their duty to them
selves and the community in which they
live to support him. On the contrary.
they perform public service IN showing
IN his unftness aud defeating him II
they can. The trouble is that most Of
US can SEQ the faults Of our political
opponents 80 much moro clearly than
those Of our political friends. This
ought not 10 be SO. Men who value
good government as they should, can
teach by their votes no more wholesome
lesson than that they will have decent can
didates, even II they have 70 go outside
Of their own party to find them This
would make il necessary for all parties
TO pQt their best available men on the
ticket and there Is no voter who Is a
patriot before be is partisan, but win
agree that this IS an object worth work
ing for.
And the EVENING JOURNAL, in com
AfvAbtA& Oh DuAAt n1u tlia w say
''rhese two papers are Intensely per-
aonal-they are each run by man o.
strong conviction and each is capable
and willing to go TO any length on >
career Of rule or ruin to the Democratic
party. The papers and the men them
selves feel that they ara bigger than th.
Democratic party 1t is due 20 thii
sentiment that this city has a ReDub.
llcan mayor Chief swiggett, the reform
police force-all Republicans thsi
sach men as Dr. Draper were turned on
oi the Board Of Health. Il is due TO thi
sentiment that we have Senator Higgins
and the refoImers whom he has ap
pointed to represent Delaware ia th,
Federal Offices
Without stopping TO institute a com
parison between what we have and wha
We might have had, it is simply necsssar
to say that the reforms made BY substl
tuting Republicans for Democrats hav
been conspicuous failures Nothing ha
besn reformed in either case Bot
changes are discreditable in thsmselve
and are the fruits Of this missrabl
policy which these two papers agai
advocate.
TO assume tile attitude that thes
two papers take, q Is necessary to im
sgine an impoasibility. Neither pape
can have the remotest apprehension justl
tnat s'the meanest thief in this state
viii be nominated This insinuation
an unvarranted insult to the Democrat
party. The Democratic party does n,
select thieves, does not contain thieve
snd there Is not the shadow of q sus
pieioh that thief. Or even an ar WORTH
man. viii be nominated for any Office.
En plain terms, the case Of these tg
papass seems Is BE- tbis. They haf
their own candidates. any other cand
date IS The mshnest thief Ia this stat.
NO matter by what ms isrity 81 Dem
Gratis be may be chosen.
*0i course these two papers have
right to support sny candidate th
choose They have right to ary 81
ci politics which suits them best III
can 10 Mugwumps or stralghtout Repu
licaue. but they cannot BE Democratic
that principle Nobody has any right
dictate whom they shsll support, but
good Democrats Will rejoice to kni
where these two papers stand III
stand for themselves, and whenever
eseaidates Of the Democratic party
not suit them they win flop to Higgf
Harrington, Sgiggett, with the train
Fisher Bach Buckingham. Sarille !
Bacon
And now-in the very next CUB
naso1ial campaign after that VIII
brought forth line above c0mmsnts-