Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-05-30
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Boys at play, when imposed upon and
tricicd Ivy their elder and INSCRIPTIONS
companions, frequently console them.
selves BY scornfu!ly casting at their OPP
pressors the trite and homely maxim,
"Cheating never thrives." The Republi.
cans Of Delaware are learning that
cheating in the game of politics likewise
fails to prove thrifty, and that elections
won by corruption aud fraud are sure
to react upon the party guilty Of resort
ing TO such disreputable methods.
Last year the Republican party was
victorious in this State, mainly through
the influence of large corruption fund,
contributed by a political adventurer,
who sought By this means to purchase a
seat in the United States Senate. But
those whom he purchased, whose con-
sciences had been dulled by yielding to
temptation on the ground Of political
expcdicncy, had little conjunction in
dealing disrepuiably with the man who
had dealt disreputably with the people,
and the bargain for the senatorship was
not consumnated. The result was a
divided aud disrupted party, with one
faction ready to rend the other to pieces,
regardless Of considerations for the
future. Thus early did the Republican
party Of Delaware learn that " Cheating
never thriyes."
The effect of the political corruption
that flooded the State last year left its
evil impress upon the Republican party
organization in Wilmington. In hotly.
contested primary the supremacy Of the
controlling machine was seriously threat.
ened and itresorted to fraud and trickery
10 save itself from defeat. A ticket nomi.
mated by false counting and ballot box
stutfing was put forward as the choice
OF the party. The defrauded voters re.
voltcd, and the Republican machine OF
Wilmington, leading a divided and
angry party into municipal campaign
Is also learning the truth Of the boyish
maxim, Cheating never thriyes."
To-day the Republican party is hope
lessly divided, not only in Wilmington
but throughout the State. The Young
Mems Republican Club and the Bust
ness Mems Republican Club have pre-
sumed to read certain discordant Gle
ments out of the party, and the Dove
Sentinel, organ of these elements, re
spends that these two organizations d.
not represent the party, and woulc
occupy but small space in conven
ton Of the party, The old Repubiica,
feebly pleads that the "wceding out o
the malcoutents" be postponed "unti
after the election" Tho Milford
Chronicle, an Addicks organ Significantly
remarks that if tho Republican ticket i
defeated at the election in this city mex
Saturday, "it will not be hard to faster
the blame where it justly belongs" Tn
Morning Nc'cs is as silent as thougl
there was no election in sight for
decade, evidently afraid TO essay the roll
OF either a peacemaker or combatant
Such is the distracted and dis
gruntled condition of party that wa
victorious at the polls in Delaware las
year. Had its victory been the result
of contest of principles, it would no
have so speedily disintegra.ed. But il
triumph was corrupt one, due to frau
and debauchery OF the suffrage.
did not represent an honest public senti
ment. II was disgraceful cheat. An,
now the party is face to face with
painfully practical illustration of tn
truth of the old saying, Cheating ueve
thrives."