Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-03-29
TBE COMMENTATOR.

lnb UU1lllEN ! Alum.
Republican Glasses" in the Sunday
Sta.r, appears to have a great admiration for
william Randolph Hearst, the New York
socialist and agitator Mr. Hearst is the
most transparent blatherskite of the age.
ana II he has accomplished anything save
ny the means of the money left him by
ms ~ iather 1t doesn't appear Of record.
ne puDhshes a series OF newspapers which
eAlst lot the purpose of advertising Hearst
ana 70 arouse tie masses to discomfort
py appeals TO passion and prejudice. But
even tins Mr.. Hearst pays others 10 do.
Tor IT he has any ability with pen nobody
has discovered it, He hires it done. His
money gave him "a seat in Congress but
it Is yet to be discovered whether he has
even average ability; in fact he has figured
III congress as nonentity. The MASSES
need leadership without question. but the
leadership oi Hearst because of his money
Is dangerous. Yet We arc not surprised
that Glasses' has been forced into ex o.
pressions of admiration.
by the way. the various persons who
ma iaVor in the cyea OF Glasses
make strange bcdlellows Hearst the
yellow journalist Alice. the supplanter
oil Addicks, and 4. Coleman du Pont
presumably the foe of Alice Perhaps
one represents a cherished ideal in Jour
naiismi another has the favor of the ad-
immstration, while the third presumably
has golden arguments to be used AZ
election time "Oh. good Lordl OH. good
devil prayed the negro in storm at
sea, explaining that he didn Q know which
would get him first. 1t has a certain phi
losophy behind it..
Now all of this suggests an illustration.
lt is a fact well known to horticulture
that each plant or tree has its own peculiar
bug or worm TO feed upon il, to cleave to
II to the exclusion of all else. There is
the potato plant which has its own ad-
mirlng bug; and there is the tomato with
its worm which rejoices in a voracious
appetite. Well, a few years ago Luther
Burbank joined the two plants and pro-
duced his famous "pomato" He felt that
not only had he created most important
species of vegetable. but he had solved
the pest problem, for there had never
lived pest that had ever seen a pomato.
80 he set out his plants and the next
morning came forth to view them. Beholdl
a strange creature had arrived over night
and was already busy. 10 had the head
and legs of bug, but the body Of a worm;
so Burbank named it the "pomato bug
worm" This fable teaches a lesson so
obvious that it would be an insult to
name IL.
The Lewes Pilot is disposed to laugh
at the numerous cliques in the Republi-
can party and names a half dozen ofthem.
From certain viewpoint the situation is
indeed amusing, but when we turn to
Democracy we do not observe that the
situation has improved a whit. There
are salisbury admirers, but only recently
q very prominent Democrat declared that
he would support Addicks in preference.
kenney is popular with an element in
Kent and Sussex, but in New Castle there
are Democrats who prefer Alice, and some
OF them have not forgotten the tongue
lashing he gave them az the last Demo-
cratic convention. Judge Gray. who
towers above all, has determined and
persistent enemies among the Bryanites
who would regard it their duty to knife
him should he come up for his party
support IL is said on what appears to
be good authority. that Handy received
his nomination for attorney-general be-
cause kenney after he had him whipped
TO a standstill decided that il was best
10 placate New Castle county. Should
Peter j. Ford run for Office again he would
be cut worse than he was before. and
right in Wilmington, too. John Birgs is
ground between the millstones of Kenney
and salisbury, and another milestone
the Pennsylvania Railroad is hanging
about his neck. And SO it goes; and vet
the Democratic party has only empty
honors to fight over. Suppose a cam
paign were opened with probable victory
at the end, may we not guess how the
squabble would be intensified
As matter of fact. politics is de-
moralized in this State in both parties
but perhaps, as chaos precedes creation.
a better era may be near at hand In
the elder day Bayard and salisbury under
stood conditions better and managed
affairs so that factionalism dared not
raise its head. They cordially de-
spised each other and did not hesitate
to express their opinions to their friends.
But they were bound by the terms of an
alliance, offensive and defensive. and for
one to raise his hand against the other
meant that the structure would totter.
The end came when Wolcott endeavored
to break the salisbury supremacy, en-
forced the unit rule in convention and
compelled the Salisbury faction to fight
for its existence or, rather for revenge.
This third faction defeated itself, sent
salisbury into retirement and paved the
way for such success as the Republican
party has had.
While Bayard and Salisbury we're
hating each other and dividing the honors.
the Republicans had a similar arrange
ment Higgins was the Senatorial as
pirant from New Castle and Massey from
Kent Had the Republicans been sue
cessful at any time during a long period
of years and had there been two Senators
to elect. Higgins and Massey would have
been named almost without opposition
But these gentlemen had no consuming
love for each other.
In other words, regardless of what may
he anybody opinion as to the nature Of
such am arrangement, the political game
in this state requires senator from
New Castle and another from Kent or
Sussex. L. doesn Q mean that they shall
be political or personal friends, for it is
q fact that the two senators representing
any state are seldom friends. But as far
as the public Is concerned each must
respect the rights, or at least the powers
OF the other
Another thing is just as certain: The
poonle of one scrtion of the State will NOT