The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1901-02-06
NOT A ONE MAN ISSUE.

Seventeen fruitless ballots have been
cast tor United states Senators at Dover.
1t Is about time something was done. 1t
rests entirely with one man to determine
whether on not Delaware is to be repre-
scented in the next Senate.
The Morning News.
There are fifty-two men voting for
United States Senators at Dover, which
one of them is it that holds up the cleo
ton? #.
The editor of the News is talking like
parrot, and say .ng things in watch there
is no sense. lnere is no one man in the
Legislature, or out of it, competent to de-
termne what the News asserts. There
are five or six men in the Legislature
tor it, have banded together to determine
the election of United States Senators to
suit themselves or, apparently, to pre-
vent the election of any senators to rep
resent Delaware at Washington. That
is the truth about the matter and very
well the News knows it.
Some days ago the News said:
We are i'll thorough accord with every
man in Delaware who declares that the
General Assembly should elect two Cml-
ed States Senators, and that those Sen
ators should be Republicans. In that
respect we do not differ with Il single
man i'll the State. That is what we are
anxious to have done at Dover, and done
at once.
Ii those two Senators cannot be elect
ed in ole way, let them be elected il
another way. The one end sought is t
have Delaware represented in the United
States Senate by two Republicans.
The election of Senators is State
affair and political necessity-it is not
personal question in the slightest degree
Two men thoroughly representative o.
the State, and representative of the ma
jority political party, should be elected
That is all there is in the situation a
Dover today. 1t is not a question of TIN
election of this man or Of that man
but OF the election of two thorough.
capable and representative RepuDncans
Why not stick to this broad statemen
of the case? And why should not tn
News, in pursuance of the idea her
expressed, drop its personalities and Civ
the weight of its influence to forwar
the will of a majority-a big majority
of the Republicans of this State? SUI
posedly the News is an advocate G
truth. AS public journal, presuming t
discuss public questions, and make c
modify public opinion, it is, in justic,
and ought to be in practice, barred froi
the expression Of prejudice, and tn
publican of known untruth for the SAX
Of its sptes, and in seeking its reveng
This is what the News does in its col
tinual harping upon its parrot-hke CT
of zone man. in its attempts to elucidat
the Senatorial question. The intimate
that any one man commands, arhitraril
the votes of the Union Republican mcl
bers of the State Legislature, is an i
suit to those men, any one Of whom
the equal of the editor OF tue News
intelligence, political independence al
patriotic desire to serve well this Sta
and the nation. 1t is very probable tn
they have larger interests at stake, al
know practically far more about Il
States needs, and know more about Il
politics of the State, and what will be
promote the future successes of the II
publican party.
The Union Republican members Of Il
Legislature represent as their associat
and sons, the veteran Republicans WI
have for a life time contended again
Democratic misrule in Delaware. Tn
know all about the road over viii
they have fought their way to Repub
can supremacy, and they value VIII
they have won far too highly to give
away now that they have won it, The
are the men whom the editor of t
News insults by intimating that they a
owned and controlled by zone man
The Union Republicans are voting co
sistently and honestly for one candidat