Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-10-09

the past week. In looking over
the list Of active members our
memory of those individuals who
pose as the leading lights of this
organization brings an involuntary
smile. Ex-senator Alice now a
bolter After all the ranting that
this gentleman has done against
/ boilers, we now find him chief
among the boilers himself. After
all that Alice has done in Delaware
politics, it is now up to him to crit
icise Frank H. Davis, who was
nominated for Attorney General.
Next we find Mr.. Richards the
head of the movement, who prob
ably has never done anything for
the Republican party, except when
he, himself, was a candidate on the
ticket but now that he has had
from the State eight years of most
profitable practice, and most OF the
practice he now enjoys has been
obtained by reason of the fact that
he was associated with the .Attor-
ney Generals Office, we find him
Directing to the action of conven-
ton in which he took no interest.
Having failed to secure the nomin-
alton of his present deputy, he be-
comes a bolter. The attitude
of Merritt Willis is ridic
ulous, showing a vacillation that
is characteristic of that gentleman,
and yet, which during his course in
politics has been covered up by
the fact that he posed as one Of the
holier than thou. Mr.. Willis was
the man who in the Republican |
convention, arose and made a mo-
ton that the nomination of Mr..
Davis be made unanimous, and he
voted for the motion. Now he
thinks he was wrong. In the fu-
ture it will keep somebody busy
telling Merritts when he is right.
Another one of the leaders we be-
lieve was Mr.. Fisher. Yes, it was
Mr.. Fisher. His brother had a
post office and wanted a reappOint-
ment, but did not get it. He is
boiler. The chairman of the State
committee is George S. Capelle, of
this city, a man of active business
for years, the brains Of the
Coal Gas Company.
Evidently Mr.. Capelle is not as
Keen as he was in his younger days. 5
Mr.. Ward, who was the Attorney
General, and attorney for Mr.. Adj
ticks for a number of years, and ,
Who was also an attorney for the )
Bay State Gas Company, does not :
hink Mr.. Davis quite fills the bill. +
Politics does make queer bed-fel- 7
ows. There is one thing that we r
ION quite understand. Is there a
or a clique around the =
Attorney Generals Office attached !
o interests that are so important D
hat some individuals connected =,
nth it would rather see the defeat J,
t the Republican party than to Y
ose their connection Herewith p,
We cannot help feeling that there r.
something more back of this II
than the defeat of Davis =
u Attorney General. We frankly n
Omit that we would much regret -
, be convinced that there could be "
My Interior motive of this charac %
r, because the existence of such II
condition would be a blow at .
vii liberty in this community. =
conditions have fire.
lently masqueraded behind the
ask of virtue, and what the peo-
e of this community want to
low now is, whether or not the fo
zen book which has been selected We
the emblem of the new party is NJ
mask or not. There is no need tn
the world for third ticket. Re- tn
blicans who did not participate or,
the primaries leading up to the sp
invention, and who are not salts ad
d with the ticket nominated at Sc,
,ver on August rs, can find one vel
ing open for them to do. 1t is a clu
rsonal privilege to be denied by La
man, and that is, the right to acc
'atch from the ticket the name of ",
y man with whom he is not sat Tn
ed. That is the only proper bet
d honorable course for Republi- mu
IS to take in a matter of this Ho
Id, and it is at the very least, the ere,
y limit that could be expected The
men who have prohted so emin- 81
ly by the existence of the Re 10 $
olican party as have those gen
men who now appear as spokes-
n for the Independent RepubE-
party.
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