The sun., 1900-07-09
DEMOCRATS D|SGUSTED.
Abandon Hope of Carrying Della
ware for Bryan.
Will go in to Make the Fight but
Have but Little Hope---They
Have no Argument to Give
to the Workingmen of
Wilmington.
From wilmington letter in Philadelphia In

From Wilmington letter in Philadelphia In
quirer.
Local Democrats have this week been
very much dsgusted over the turn af-
fairs have taken at the Democratic Ma
tional Convention. They have prac.
tically abandoned hope now of being
able to carry the State for Bryan. The
majority OF Delaware Democrats are in
favor of free silver, and they We're really
in favor OF the ratio OF l6 to ], but they
preferred to allow that to be under
stood rather than to be stated in the
platform.
OF course, the Democrats will go on
and make their fight, but it will not be
with the same hope they had before the
Democratic Convention. 1t had been
hoped that il the 10 to ! ratio was
ignored that the Democrats of the gold
variety would drop into line, but now
they will do nothing of the kind. 1t is
not likely that they will put an inde-
pendent ticket OF gold electors in the
field, but they will quietly go to polling
places on election day and vote for the
Mckinley electors. Of course, the gold
Democrats will try to support the State
Democratic ticket and will try to elect
two United States Senators, but there is
little hope of their being able to make a
good fight when considerable number
of the members and leaders of party
are oppressed to the head of the ticket
and will not vote for him.
The Democrats will not only go into
the campaign with the knowledge that
number of their people will not support
the head OF the ticket, but also with the
knowledge that there is little in the way
of argument which can be used with the
workmen of this city and State to induce
them not to vote for Mckinley. Too
much has come to Wilmington under
the Mckinley administration for the
workingmeH to forget it, The largest
manufacturing establishment located in
Wilmington in recent years has been
erected here under the recent admins
tration, and now work is about to begin
on one which is by far the largest that
has ever been established in Whining
ton. In addition to this number Of
smaller ones have been located here, and
the old ones have been buster than ever
before in their history. The workmen
and their families have been able to
enjoy life, and tie howl of the Demo.
ctats against the trusts will have but
little effect.
The American Bridge Company, which
recently purchased the plant Of the
Edge Moor Iron Company, has already
raised the wages of the workmen by cut
ting the number of working hours to 81
in week and giving the same pay as
formerly awarded for 80 hours in a week.
The same order provides that after jan
nary l. next, the number of working
- hours will be but 81 in the week, while
the wages will be the same as formerly
paid for TO hours. Assertions that the
trusts are grinding down the working
people will have but little effect here in
view of this fact.
In addition to this Delaware is max
ing money, and thereby doing away with
the necessity of State tax by charter
ing what are commonly known as trusts.
Some OF the Democratic leaders who are
just now talking against the trusts are
officers in companies which are securing
charters for such institutions, and are
representing them in Delaware. All of
this is as plain to the average workman
as to anyone else, and he is not going
to injure his own chances of having
work by voting against the Mckinley
administration. There is, therefore,
very little chance of Delaware doing
otherwise than going for Mckinley and
Roosevelt.