The sun., 1900-12-29
SATURDAY, DEC. 20, 1900.
SALISBURY AT DOVER.

SALISBURY AT DOVER.
over his escape from the communicating
influences of Kent and Sussex county
Democracy, anent the Dover conference, |
is, to say the least, Embellishments
able in that Salisbury should find him
self out Of tone and touch with the De- |
lnocracy TO whom ''the family owes all |
thu political honor it has ever enjoyed.
In attempting an analysis of this re-
inarkable circumstance we confess an in
ability to determine which has deterio-
ated, Mr salisbury or the Kent and Sus-
that he is unchanged, and that his De-
mocracy is that of his forebears of sew
eral generations ago; and also that he
had never before found it necessary to
apologize for being a Democrat. 1t fol-
lows that in his estimate the Democracy
of Kent and Sussex counties has changed
in some particulars. 1t is possible that
Mr.. Salisbury is mistaken regarding his
opinion of himself. He, very probably,
is not exactly the same kind of a Demo-
crat that his grandfathers were. 1t is
also to be hoped at least, that the Kent
and Sussex Democrats are not exactly
the same kind of Democrats as We're
their grandfathers. The world has moved
considerable since the days of these Dem
ocratic grandfathers and we presume
their Democratic grandsons have moved
with it. The school houses, churches.
newspapers and railroads that have multi
piled in lower Delaware, that have taken
there a bigger and better life, and have
brought the people out of that region into
the bustling progressive life of the world
to send them back with new and better
ideas of life and living. These influences
have changed everything; politics with
the rest We think they have changed
things for the better. At least that is II
reasonable conclusion Then let us sag
that the Democracy of Kent and Sussex
counties is better article than in the
days of Mr.. Saulsbury's grandfathers.
We are ready to confess, If anybody oh
iects to this concession, that the better
ment has been small, and that it re
q,lires the evidences of general improve
ment to establish it. But still the world
moves. Mr.. Salisbury and the Democ-
racy moves with it. But the assumption
is, from his own testimony, that he is
unchanged as to his Democracy-thnt il
has come to him from his grandfathers
unadulterated, land that he represents il
as they did. Here then we find the dis.
tinction between Mr.. Chairman Sauls-
bury and the Kent and Sussex county
Democrats, the distinction between thC
old and the new, between the better and
the worse. 1t was the apparent inferior
ity of Mr.. Saulsbury's Democracy thai
compelled him to apologize for it, or tC
recognize the necessity of an apology fol
it,
There is a law of nature which we thinl
is generally recognized, which makes
growth and decay Synonymous with lif'
anu ucdbii, Nleli SloNth otplH uSNd9 w
gins Applying this rule to Mr. Sauls
burys Democracy, and accepting his owl
testimony as accurate concerning it; w
should judge it to be in a state of putri
faction; either that or it has been EN-
balmed and is now a mummy. In eithe
case We can understand why Mr.. Sanls
bury felt uncomfortably out OF place a
the Dover conference. In the first cas-
the odor would not be that of roses, am
in the other the vision would not be on
of beauty. Mr.. Saulsbury's acknowledg
ment of feeling Of discomfort Will
among the Kent and Sussex Democrats
,inder the circumstances, becomes proc
of the general betterment of the Demot
racy of that secticn-they object to til
smell of decay and refuse to embrac
nummies.
We presume that, under the crcum
stances, the Democracy of Kent and Sus
sex counties will live without the con
inendation Of, Mr.. Chairman Saulsbur,
now THAI they have parted company
lbtH what will become of him?