Evening journal., 1903-01-19
" TIME FOR DEEDS
IN DELA WARE"

IN DELA WARE"I
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
If the Regular Republicans should by
'some peculiar fatuity reject the pa
triotic offer Of the Democrats who are
willing to join with them and elect one
good Republican and one good Demo-
crat to the United States Senate. they
win throw away an opportunity that
may never come again. anl they will at
the same time do as much to perpetuate
an era Of political brdgandage as its
most highly paid votaries.
If they now throw away the FIST
real chance they have had since the
Ideadlocks began, in 1895, they Will
make their professions of loyalty to
their State and of devotion to lofty
ideals seem hollow; will nullfy the
effects of long and tenacious struggles,
and will, in fact prove as recreant to
their party and to the cause of good
as the very enemies they
have fought so admirably and persist
emily.
SO fine is the chance offered them
that the wonder is excited that they
SHOULD for one moment hesitate to
seize It, The decent citizens of Della
WARE are in favor OF the ''way out"
the Republican newspapers Of the
country endorse IL but some mousing
politicians are disposed to palter and
to hesitate on the narrowest political
grounds. What effect, they say, viii
this plant CT Republicans voting for
NDemocrats have ON the party eventual
ly; cr, II they accept this offer now,
what will happen two years hence?
Shall we not have to fight Addicksites
again, and shall we strengthen our
selves before the people 10y accepting
Shall we admit that a Democrat should
go to the Senate through our aid?
The answer to these objections is
best made by looking at the results Of
the struggle thus far In 1896 the Reg
ulars could marshal fifteen votes in the
Legislature fer DUPONT They could
not elect al senator. but they were able
to cause a deadlock. The results of the
struggle We're a vacancy and the cleo
ltion of a Democrat to the Senate in
1897 I'm 1899 they prevented the e,ec-
ltion of Addicks by the narrOwest
chance on the last lay OF the session,
and another deadlock and vacancy fol-
lowed. In 1901 the Regulars had only
seven votes and by good fortune main
tanned another deadlock, resulting in
two vacancies In the United States SEN
ate which now exist In the recent
election the result OF the factional
struggle was to elect "a Democratic
congressman in place Of the Regular,
H. H. Balm, and in the present Legis-
ilature the Regulars have in a total of
hfty-two only eight members at the
most who can be depended on, while
there is reason to believe that i'm a
prolonged contest, with the tempta-
tions which are incident to it, the
Union Republicans will this year sue
lceed in electing Addicks and another
Union Republicans. thus defeating the
Regulars decisively and perhaps final
lly for a generation.
In other words, the work of the Reg
u,ars. admirable though it has been
has been purely negative; they have
helped the State by defeating Addicks
lbut they have not helped their party
(which has lost ground until 1t faces
imminent extinction, together with nl
THAT the Regulars have contended for
BY the plan proposed, the Regular
iRepublicans actually get one senator
and the twenty-one Democrats oiter Z
the six Regulars the long term OF fou
wears and ask only the short term o
ltNo wears. BY this plan the Union Re
lpublicans will be surely defeated 10
the present; and If, by reason OF 1ur
ther debauchery Of the Republican
marty. the Democrats should win Il
, 1905 the Regulars who have fought tn
fight on moral grounds should be TN
first to admit that under the circun
stances the cause of good governmen
0wcslld best be served in that way.
But even then the Republicans woul
1 stiu have a senator, whereas they nov
, have no hope of electing one, and more
n lover their chance of electing anothe
senator in 1905 would be infinitely bel
ter with a Senator at Washington, an
the Addicks faction thus temporary
defeated In national politics the re
8 sults of the plan would all be In faVo
Z Of the Republicans. One Repupilca
vote would be balanced by one Demo
cratic vote in the Senate for two years
but the Republicans would have Ser
: ator for two years longer than the Den
J. ocrats, and IN addition, the plan woul
Il help pull the party out of the mire I
L that State and relieve the Administrs
NJ ton of a grievous load TO carry.
On purely political grounds, then IN
=" offer of the Democrats is highly az
p vantageous to the Republicans, b'
" cause a continuance of the struggle, a.
4 cunning that the Regulars will be alb
s to prevent the election of Addicks IN
10 session, which is very doubtful, WI
certainly in the end insure to the benz
'o fit OF the Democrats; and on the NOR
l. lgrounds. which is the Irofessed bas
20 of the activities of the Regulars, the
Ia is no room for debate.
AZ They have declared time and again
~ Mark Hanna and to the world that the
y are enlisted in a patriotic endeavo
~ from which nothing this side Of Il
IL grave can swerve them; that they a
o. fr,riup IN prpeorvQ tho integrity of III