Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1906-10-06

SEES HANDWRITING ON THE WALL.

SEES HANDWRITING ON THE WALL.
EET It'll anxiety fretting his thoughts by day
w and fear OF defeat haunting his sleep at
night, kind Of mental torture Known only to a
candidate seeking an election in an uphill CON
test, Editor Wilson, who is the Democratic can
didate for State treasurer, in the Delaware State
News this week makes pathetic appeal to Sen
atcr dupont to draw tight his purse strings,
withdraw all financial support from the Repub-
can party, and leave it high and dry-a prey to
tAc Democrats. In this way, he argues, only can
the Republican party be defeated and that is now
the one thing he most desires shall be done.
In his editorial OF nearly a column in length,
he takes the false premises that it is only by
the use OF money that the Republicans OF Della
ware can show a majority. AS we pointed out
yesterday and have time and again, Delaware
is no longer to be classed as a Democratic State.
1t has undergone a complete political change,
and it cannot be denied that the prevailing senti
ment in our State to-day strongly favors the Re-
publican party and its policies, certainly on ALI
national issues. And there is a reason for this,
for when it is considered that the products of
Delaware farms finds a ready sale in every near
by market, at prices ranging from fifty to three
hundred per cent higher than they were eight
or ten years ago, and that in the cities prosperity
everywhere exists, with plenty of work and good
wages seeking every available man, there is no
reason why the people OF Delaware, as we'll as
throughout the country, should not be heartily in
favor OF continuance of existing conditions.
To say that the people of Delaware incline to
the Democratic party they did thirty years ago,
IS to malign them and stamp them as ignorant
and bigoted incapable of determining what is
most Tor their own good
Editor and Candidate Wilson saws: 1--WE con-
Tess to having observed with surprise and mis-
gvings statement attributed to the Senator (du-
Pont) last week, that the Republican party would
carry the election OF Delaware next month bv
majority greater than in the past"
NO doubt that prediction appears like lack
o'-lantern OF night mare to Editor and Candi
date Wilson, disturbing those dreams he NAV
have OF being elected to the most profitable office
on the State ticket this year and vet no man was
ever more justified in making such prediction
Binding himself to the many reasons why Della
ware should be Republican, Editor and Candidate
Wilson assumes that by Senator dupont predict
ing big victory this year, he intends to do that
which he has never before knowingly done. which
is to use money improperly and illegitmately at
the polls.
Now that Colonel duIont, by reason Of his I'M
sought election as Senator has been made the
leader of the Republican party OF Delaware, he nc
doubt considers it his duty TO do everything in
his power, not conflicting with his conscience OF
the law, TO keep Delaware in the column of Re
publican States. That he will be generous with
the party in proper and legitimate way, goe.
without saying, and with an organization prop
erly supported and well-directed method Of en-
tightening and educating the voters of the State
carried out, there is no reason TO believe other
wise than that the Republican majority in this
State at the next and future elections will be
greater than in the past
If money has been heretofore used at elections
It has been due to a condition brought about BY
the Democrats themselves. For years and years
thousands OF those who voted the Democratic
ticket were paid for doing so. If in some dis
trcts Republican candidates were obliged 10
check the work and influence of the Democrats
by using Democratic methods with the floating
vote, the Democrats should be the last to COM
plain.
Driven to cover as they are. and having ex-
hausted that corrupt ammunition with which
they, for SO many years, kept the State Demo
cratic we now find the Democrats at bav. fac,no
certain and overwhelming defeat and PLEADING
with their conquerors TO be kind to them. I;