Middletown transcript., 1895-06-08

S - time to care fo
the wounded, bury the dead and begil
to plan wisely for the future of th
Republican party in Delaware?
With this Introductory thought ex
pressed, we ask the Republicans O
| Delaware who have been voting for
working and waiting for the applica
tion of Republican principles to tn,
State Government, to quiet confer
ence with themselves. We ask then
| to meeting in their own home where
the voter will be audience, chairman
and speaker; and where the State Senti
mel can come with confidential com.
munication to each member of the
party pleading for thoughtful, patriotic
and wise planning for the next cam
paign. The necessity of Independent
wise thinking was never greater
than now. The outward signs affect
ing the future Of the party are all
favorable. The National Republican
party is in splendid condition, while
the Inability of the Democratic party
to rightly govern this Nation was
| never more seif-evident than now and
it is likely to be made still more evil
| dent before the opening of the National
campaign of 1896. The keenest OBJ
servers and best judges of political
movements have already decided that
the trend of popular inclination is to-
ward the Republican camp, and that
the next NATURALIZATION is to result
in an overwhelming victory for that
party's ticket; and more than this, it is
expected that several Democratic States
will be swept permanently into the
Republican line. These are the out
ward and visible indications broadly
stated. They are propositions. The
internal signs indicative of the condi-
tion of the party in Delaware are not
all favorable. They are not hopeless.
We have waited long; have waited
and worked until apparently exhausted
and helpless; we have been cheated by
our opponents, betrayed by our friends
and severely chastened by the hand of
Providence. There can be no better
proof of the absorbingly interesting
conditions of National and State poll
tics than these statements. Itisa good
time, therefore, to take a quite hour
apart from the influences of factional
association, to get apart from the club
and the caucus, and think for oneself.
To think of the voters relation to the
party, and the party's relation to the
State.
We are sure that such a thoughtful
season will reveal to many erstwhile
loyal Republicans personal lack of
that deep and abiding interest in and
devotion to their party which marked
the lives of the men who founded it
and made 1t the instrument for purify
ing and saving the nation, twill also
reveal to such thinkers the fact that
the party does not hold that relation to
the State which the facts of it's birth,
history and opportunities demand. A
review of the history of the National
party viii! show that at sometime dur
ing its exitence it has controlled every
State of the Union except Delaware.
Why not here? Wby-even if the
party has not come into complete con-
troll of the State and has not had given
to it the honor and duty of reforming
its laws=-has it not been a lump of |
patriotic leaven slowly h4t surely |
bringing about policy of just, liberal
and progressive legislation? This
want of achievement, this lack of in
huence, is not due to any want of |
either intelligence or patriotism on
the part of the individual Republican |
voter, nor has it been-eould it have |
been because of the unreasonable |
prejudice of the Democratic voters. |
To charge this to such causes would be |
to say that the patriotism which has |
made the State to shine like diamond
in the constellation of 5tates has been |
expelled from the homes of the people. |
1t would be equivalent to saying that |
the memory of potrlotic ancestors is |
no longer cherished and that the
stories of their heroism are no longer |
told to their children's children. This
is not true. Delawareans are as pa
triotic to-day as they eyer were, and if |
Delaware Republicans are halLipg be-
tween two opinions about party polity,
it is because they have been deceived |
as to it's character. If they are want
ing in faith in and loyalty to leaders it |
is because they have been misled; be-
cause their confidence has been miss
placed and that they haye awaken, d to
the fact that their energies have been
misdirected-that their leaders have
gone astray-that they, the voters, are
smarting under the pains of defeat
when they should be enjoying the fruits
of victory.
Let there be no mistake of judg-
ment made as to the facts in this mat
ter. or as 10 the responsibility for them.
Such mistakes in the past have been
fatal and are likely to be SO again,
Get the facts well in mind and they
will lead unerringly to just judgment
when considered by the patriotic citi-
zen, and the loyal party man, in the
quiet of their own homes. Every Re-
publican whose knowledge of his party