Milford chronicle., 1895-05-10

So the Chairman of the Demo
cratic State Central Committee did
not disburse the sixty thousand dol
lars used by his party during the last
campaign. We are indeed pleased
to hear this and we are inclined to
accept it as being the truth. We
often wondered why he was selected
to run the last campaign, for we did
NOT think he could win the State in
ninety-four as the people seemed de-
termined to have change. The tide
was against the editor chairman's
party and it was not to his discredit
that the people failed to endorse the
once proud Democracy. No, dear
brother editor, you did your duty
there was actually moth
ing" left undone by you and yours
to keep the Republicans QUITO
keep the majority from winning in
1894 Could your foresight have
been equal to your hindsight we
doubt very much indeed it, you would
have permitted your party friends to
have squandered their cash in the
attempt to win at all. Had the sixty
thousand dollars which you deny
handling been saved and put at in
terest for two years. the sixty thous-
and or hundred thousand which you
will raise next year added to it,would
have given a fund for 1896 probably
sufficient to accomplish the ends de-
sired. Why worry over what is
passed and beyond recalling. Why
say ~" did not use a dollar of the
party's money and fail to tell who
did? You did not give any party
secrets away in your editorial Of
Saturday last although you started
out with an apology for so doing.
Just what you then deny doing every
chairman for a hundred years has
denied doing. There is always a
great cry of money being used in
Delaware with which to debauch the
ballot. Who uses it, anyway? The
Democrats claim they do not,--or at
least the chairman of their commit
tee positively says he does not
and he ought to be a truthful man
when speaking of political matters,
for he has been leading politician
ever since he came into this State,
and he alone knows how much longer.
Who was it said in a political speech
at Laurel during the last campaign,
"Let the Republicans come with
their Doodle. We will match them
dollar for dollar ~ And did they
match them dollar for dollar? III
they did not then the assertion made
at Laurel was untrue and an antruth
is a lie, is it not? 1t is always well
in political matters, to keep your
eyes on the politician who is holier-
than-thou. Holiness and politics are
when the holiness is of
q specially peculiar kind, well named
'political holiness" but it is always
we'll to watch the combination with
an ever careful e,and especially is
it well to keep "tabs" on the "hOly |
one" Of the Democratic party of this
State.
The Standardization is a high
,oned, elegant gentlemen, who could
not be induced to take any part in
he questionable things that other
politicians resort to who are not as
as he. Oh ! no, he
would not do anything not strictly
honest, and fair and honorable,-no,
lot even to win a victory for his
,arty, not even if he himself was the
Congressional candidate would he
10 anything that would cause his
to condemn him. We
now this, for he has said it in sub
lance many times, and has not his
ghole life proven it? No, no, the
Democrats do not use money in Del /
ware,-they have won here for these
many years, because they deserved to
they were the party
f the people lis this not true Mr..
hartman Editor? I
Holiness and politics, like oil and !.
-ater, will not mix, dear brother. a
In the meantime the Republican I
louise has failed to pass the election 5
ID, as it should have done, and our $
lend of the Democratic State Gen. 7
al Committee and the editorial de- z
artment of the EUery Evening, is p
,rrespondingly depressed because n
does not. see how his party can c
anage to win next year under the o.
me election laws that brought them W
feat last year. Ct
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