Evening journal., 1908-01-25
What ] Know About
Delaware Politics and
Other Things
FoRrY.EIeHTH ARTlcLE.
BY Washington Hastings

The State Central Committee approved Of the action
OF the conference Of party leaders before mentioned
from an unequal and unfair contest no candidates
Tor state oices or for member Of congress this
congressional district placed in the field in the year
~ ~ 6io0e lSeo lhls aeton was recorded and published
to the world solemn protest against the undemo-
cratic, anti-iepublican system of government under
Wlch the people Of this State then living; and II
attracted widespread attention all this section
the country in Republican circles in newspapers and
peilou0ds Oh hepuDncan politics and faith; notable
among Them being THE North American Review" then
owned and conducted by late Allen Thorndyke Rice;
Weh ppDleauon devoted much space in its columns and
much time and in directing public attention Ia
wha II desgnated from time TO time in large capital head
iies as a blsrahchlsed state and as l have always
Thought IL rendered service bringing about the
repeal Of obnoxious tax assessment and collection
laws.
No pronounced and palpabe public wrong ever lasts
or can last forever Il endure bright light
publicity and the scrutiny and criticism of enght-
ened public opinion. Even its strenuous and un-
compromising advocates in the heat turmoil Of the
contention, come at last to view II in its
and comprehend In their full magnitude the evil conse-
quences and ultimate disaster which inevitably follow
continuance and persistence il; and il goes down
before that august tribunal And so went down our
od-tme preudicia election laws and today the ballot
is free and untrammeed and well protected in Della
ware as il is IN any State in the Union-and a good
deal more so than II is in OF them which might
be mentioned And Il NAV be added so will 90 down
and in due time be utterly wiped and obiiterated
the gigantic wrongs only chiefly political which
today aiict the body polite and menace all honest men
mean the present attempted monopoly Of many the
important industries of the country. The men, though
comparatively lew in number who time being
grasp and control the whole producing interests
and render everybody else subserven contributors
TO their own interests and their unseemly greed
Captains qf1ndustry" and "Napoleons Of Finance
they have sometm been gandoquently called but slow.
moving, sometimes, sleepy and often exasperang public
opinion is at last being awakened and is beginning
hnss as hey est and the certain tendency of the times
and TO call shady by their proper names And
proper and wholesome remedy is being applied and
VIII be continued until the is thorough radical and
complete People read nowadays and good many
OF them remember and profit by what they read and
soma OF the abest and brightest writer's statesmen
OF the aay are most admirably supplying the needed
formation and instruction. Among these Professor
Frank Parsons in article in the July 1901 number
OF Ihe Arena presents the situation Of todaS in so
terse graphic and convincing a manner that 1 am in
dueed to reproduce quotation from it in order that
my reader may nave the opportunity-if he has not
had it heforc-of reading little Of what this eminent
lawyer and statesman has to this all engrossing
slavery and serfdom have been abolished
The press-gang has vanished and thievery is
trying to hide itself Our principal robbers do
not club their victims the highways but carry
them ia street cars and railway trains, or cap
ture their money politely with stocks and trusts.
Nothing has improved more than robbery In
stead OF a dangerous encounter with pistols to
get the goods and cash that two three trav-
elers might have with them, the modern high-
wayman builds a railroad system with other peo-
pes money. or gas or electric plant or
street railway, a telegraph or telephone
trar1 Mise. Oh waters some stock. gets a rebate
on oil. beef or wheat or forms giant trust and
robs the population Of continent a stroke.
Then the rcbber buys a newspaper or caresses
II with greenbaclss and has himself entitled "a
Napoleon Of Finance" while the rudimentary
undeveloped aggressor pecuative survival Of
more primitive tunes who steals bag of flour
instead Of a grain crop takes a few hundred
Instead Of million, has to put up with the old
time, uneivilzed name of thief" imprisonment
FOR debt has been abolished, and also imprison-
ment for theft--if committed according to law
and by methods approved by the particular
variety OF the Napoleon having control of the
government"
While like Professor Parsons live and write and
speak and the plain people Mr. Lincoln called them
listen and read and heed their counsel there will be
no danger that government of the people the people
and by the people will perish from the earth"
The Democratic candidates for Governor and Repre-
sentative in Congress, Benjamin T. Bggs and John b
remington were elected without serious opposition the
Republicans placed no candidates in the field; the only
opposition being that of the Prohibition party-then
consisting OF few hundred voters. but vastly
augmented by q few nomadc and restless Republican
politicians who did the cause Of the well-meanng and
CONSCIENTIOUS frohoiuonists more harm than good The
campaign-if Il could be called such-was listess and
unnterestng; the many Democrats who did not take
traordinar,. tht-.- about IL w "a
said that the Democrats Wilmington sent afteen
hunore aoi @ en to Kent and Sussex counties at that
election just IRON the force OF habit keep their hands
in but never fully believed the story. have known
good many Democrats IN my time but never knew
one who thought would do anything of even question
able morality r poitics-unnecessarily Moreover most
OF them being rue-blue Democrats and consequently
poor who had to their money by the sweat OF
the brow, not likely throw away on the vague
apprehension of the loss Of few an election
where there opposition nor for the fun of tho
thing, either SO am willing acqut them OF this
charge and put IL down the fairy tales which
the Republicans in the habit inventing about
the Democrats and vice versa whenever opportunit,
offered
The prospect for the future Of the Republicans Of
Delaware in 1856 was certs4nly not enc,
brighter skies propitious times and surround
ings were only little way ahead OF them
The long known, but carefully guarded and concealed
animosity existing between the Bayard and Saulsbur,
factions In the Democratic party which had long been
ing underneath the surface, began bubble and
develop the "ulcerous place which before It had onl,
affected unseen. The Democrats having nobody else
70 fight thought doubtless that that a good time
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to do; and the Republicans pulled themselves together
and took heart OF hope
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