Smyrna times., 1904-05-04
R0BT. D. HOFFECKER.
Editor and Proprietor.
RoBT. D. HOFFECKER, JR.,
A.a.A ILL.

THERE are many Republicans who
have not yet given up all hope of har-
mOny in the coming campaign. Down
in Milford the NeaCS and advertiser
draws some comforting lessons from
the recent convention of the Regulars
held at Dover. 1t points out that
there are "some indications that the
whole membership in that party is not
disposed to follow blindly the leader
ship OF DR.. Ball. The delegates
chosen to the National Convention at
Chicago are pronounced Regulars just
as every one supposed they would be,
and it would have been strange in.
deed if a Regular convention had Sc
lected delegates of any other kind
but when it came to the selection of
State Committee contest arose. The
''implacables" (and by that appelation
we mean DR.. Ball, George A. Elliott
and the select few who control the
Evening Journal and dictates its edi-
torial policy were DESTROYS of retain
Ing the old State Committee. Their
policy is neither to give nor take.
They consider themselves the whole
shooting match" and are 1usolently
dictatorial in their assumed leader
ship. No one dares to take issue with
their rule or ruin policy without being
in danger of being read out of their
little party. The suggestion that there
are good Republicans outside OF their
ranks whose cooperation ought to be
sIGrted is not approved by them, and
1871 Republican expresses himself as
DESTROYS OF winning he--is branded at
once as an Addicks man. By this
narrow and unwarranted course the
Regulars have antagonized almost
every man in the three counties who
carries any weight as political factor.
The rank and file saw how untimely
the course pursued by these Regular
leaders, would lead to Democratic
ascendancy in this State at the coming
election and in order to inject some
independence into the management of
the Regular organization, and to give
it broader gauge a fight was made
against the old members of the State
Committee from the city of Whining
ton. The outcome was the election of
T. Coleman dupont, Anthony Higgins
aud Thomas s. Lewis as the members
of the State Committee from Will
mington. None of these men were
wanted by DR.. Ball or his immediate
following. They are not the subser-
Went kind of men who do the bidding
of the bosses in what is claimed to be
the SimOn-pure Regular organization.
Mr.. 7. Coleman dupont is represented
as an earnest Republican who gave
much time and attention to Republi-
can politics in Kentucky prior to his
removal to Delaware few years ago.
He is young, active, capable business
man of large experience, and having
the popular characteristics which at
tract men to him, he ought to prove
an important factor in the Republican
politics of Delaware. We are assum
ing that he will develop a much
broader independence in his politica
action than has marked the record O
several of his fellow-members on tn,
committee in the past. M. Hlggln
has not been in good standing TO
some years with the Regulars VIII,
claim to be the real thing. His cleo
ton as member Of the State Com
mittee puts MIN in position where b
can make himself felt in favor of on
Republican ticket at the coming cleo
ton.
''The Regulars made rather an IN
necessary display of the ''respecta
bility" represented in their conven
ton. 1t was this same crowd of re
spectables that has been trying to rul
the Republican party ever since tn
early sixties. They are all right q
far as they go, the difficulty is Their
are not enough of them. The 81
perience of the past two years ha
shown that in order for the Republica
party in Delaware to win against Ii
Democracy it must rally to its supper
the men who work in it's shops. tn
men who toll at the forge and IL
men whe plough in the fields Thei
are all respectable elements in sociei
even though they may not measure U
to the standard of responsibility tn
was represented il the wealth and i
telIect of the Regular convention, al