Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-01-04
omces Are Not the Great Issue.

Offices Are Not the Great Issue.
As an effective argument in favor Of
Republican unity, the Morning News
calls attention to the fact that the
possession Of a large number of State,
county and local Offices will be at stake
during this years campaign in Della
ware, and that it is important that
these offices be not given to The Demo-
Gratis through Republican discussions.
This is true from one point of view,
but from another point the same argu-
ment can be pressed upon the leaders
and voters of the Democratic party. In
a State that is naturally Democratic,
and is SO admitted to be by one of the
most prominent of the Republican
leaders, the State and local Offices
should not be deliberately presented to
the Republicans by reason of Demo-
cratic discussions or failure of the
party to plant itself upon the sound
Democratic principles that won for il
such a succession of brilliant political
victories In the past.
So much for the situation as far as
the State and local offices are con
cerned, but there is another issue, and
a grayer one, at stake. The issue OF
honesty should not be lost sight OF
Outing the coming campaign. 1t
should be the aim of all honest voters
of Delaware to repudiate the malign
influences that have so insolently come
to the front during recent years; in
iuences that have not stopped at COR
rupting the suffrage, both at regis
trations and elections, but have entered
the halls Of legislation and tempted the
servants of the State with large money
brides for thei. votes for Senatorship.
Beside this issue, the mere matter oil
Offices pales into insignificance.
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If tho Republican party passes the
Gold Standard bill, says the Milford
Democrat, tho Silver Republicans OF
Ohio and throughout the West ''will
Join hand-in-hand with the Demo.
cratic party, and help place that noble
leader Of the people, William Jennings
Bryan, in the White House in 1901. y
There tits again! The same old will.
o'.the wisp of getting the support O!
tho Silver Republicans and grangers'
for tho Democratic party. The Demo
cratic party was to get that same
support in 1896, but it failed to ma
terialize to any approciable extent. tt
man up a tree it seems that the hes
thing for tho Democratic party to do i:
to declare doctrines and nominate can
didates that will prove acceptable t,
Democrats, There is much NOR,
assurance Of success in this than il
trying to capture the votes of f'Silvel
Republicans and grangers. -
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The great sensation caused by tn,
disappearance of George B. Eyre o
Chester shows what yellow Journalism
can do at times, two newspapers o
Philadelphia being engaged in grea
rivairy--the offering Of rewards and sth
employment of searching psrties--t
make capital out CT the affair. It i
said that the police annals Of Philadel
phia. record the disappearance of a
least two thousand men from that cit,
during the past year, all Of which com
bined did not cause fraction OF tn
Excitement generated by sensationa
newspapers over the Eyre case.
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In the opinion OF the Democrati
Richmond Times, "tliere can DO n
sincere and genuine reunion Of tn
Democratic party until Popul,sts hay
beun excluded. Populism, abandoned
and Democratic principles rsasserte
and rc-established. And there can b
no better time to secure this exclusio
OF Populists, this abandonment c
Populism, aud this ie-establishment q
Democratic principles than this yea
of grace, 1900. A party such as th
| Democratic party would be after thi
process will be sadly needed IN th
national campaign Of this year.
| Although Goebel failed to eaptur
the eopernorship of Kentucky, he ST
cured control Of the Legislature Tue.
day, and had himself elected presider
| pro tenn of tho Senate. The Democrati
caucus nominated Former Senator ]
s. q. Blackburn for Senator, to succee
Senator Lindsay, and he will in o
probability be elected.
| Lovers of skating should mako ii
most of tho present opportunity Of OF
Toying this pleasing pastime. Thol
has not been such good skating j
this locality in n decade, and there
!. 20 telling how long it Will last.