The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1901-01-16
THE INAUGURATION.

of Governor Hum and Lieutenant Gov
ernor Cannon, at Dover yesterday.
marks the beginning of new era in
Delaware politics, and marked the be-
ginning of long term of Republican
administration of State affairs.
Altogether it was a brilliant and i'm
posing event. In We olden times" when
the gods We're supposed to take a par
tlcular interest in human affairs and
were frequently interfering with their
order and impressing peculiar character
lstlcs upon them, such an affair as Do
yer witnessed yesterday would have been
nailed as an augury of their special
favor The day was beautifully fair:
the SKY was cloudless; the atmosphere,
clear and sweet as the breath of spring
cooled by the southern winter storm Of
the night before-propitious weather.
Inc good gods were domnent Under
these favorable circumstances the Re-
publicans of the State, from all parts of
1t, moved upon the State CAPITAL rs
plous pilgrims move upon a shrine of
worship to witness miraculous cures and
to be healed of their infirmities. 1t was
a jubilee day. Thousands of peonle
smillngly radiant and happy in contem
plating the propitious signs, and anxious
TO witness an unusual spectacle and toke
part in imposing ceremonies which bv
some means, though not unusual, had in
some way acquired new and peculiar
interest, were upon the streets. Repr.- |
sehtatlyes of every city, town, hamlet |
and home of the State were there: most
OF them We're there to enjoy the evil |
dences of the coming-of the presence
some long looked for person. event or
condition from, by or out Of which they |
nave great expectations. The person |
was there. The event occurred.
Behind this delightful day and these
unusual conditions is long train of
untoward events and circumstances |
The people who crowded the State Cant
tai yesterday, their parents and friends
had suffered many ills and endured
many defeats, many of them had des-
pared of ever realizing what had come
TO them in this inaugural or what lis
coming portends. Why these sufferinrs
why these defeats and why this dcS
pair they did not know. They had been
hghtlng an evil had been trying te
rectltF a wrong. Why should the eva
win, and why should this wrong con.
tinue? In the stress of the fight II Il
possible, they never stopped to inquire
about these things. But in yesterdays
sunshine, in the communions and con
CALCULATIONS over such glorious achiev.
ments, such glorious achievements made
apparently asy by the possession Of 50
much of their fruits as were in view and
in the expectation of still richer fruits.
the question, why so many troubles?
Why so many defeats? comes demanding
an answer.
From this vantage point of success the
retrospect is not painful. The ills suf
fered are now the less ills, the defeats
now the less defeats, but their lies in
memory Of the suffering the impeled
motive for effort; and amid the urichs
OF defeat lie the causes which led Ia
them-not merely the apparent and
minor causes, but the basic causes hitber
to unseen and perhaps unsupported. The
Republicans Of the State may not b.
ready to coucede, on this suggestion.
that the right times, the fullness of time
for their enthronement had not come,
but we suggest the hind-sight view in
dictates that this is true. This i not
saying that the Republicans could not,
nor vet that they would not have gov
crned the State as we'll, or even better,
than the Democrats have governed il
We think they would have done it better.
But We're their ideals any higher? Were
the motives impelling them any more
unscfish, and was there any reason to
believe that they would, or could have
risen superior to the Democratic posi-
lion, had they been entrusted with
power. a
In answer TO this let US suggest what
will ut once, we Think occur to any one
rs historic fact. Aside from personal
ambitions the Republican politics for tho
Yeas following the civil war was tie
politics Of enmity and hatred; political
effort WAS more to get even, to revenge,
than a do Justice The latter politics,
that which followed the enactment Of til"
dciiHGuout talk llw ana that consc-
Inent lFan tho application of that
lazy and developed under the smart of
III iIflictiuns, was again IN intensified
political hate of The evil doer, and in no
sensr modified Or enuobled by desire
10 deal Justly ana develop righteousness.
- one, We'll. only ftw objected to the
law because # the injustice it worked
10 individuals. nor because it was IN
just in principle, bur many hoped for
success To give the Democrats TASTE
Of their own medicines" hoped for sue
cess under the law for a chance of an
PLYING it and assuring Republican sue
cessrs as Democrats assured Democratic
successes. In this the motive principle
OF our party was just like the other. The
Republican party had to get back in
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