Evening journal., 1910-09-02
THE PRESENT AND THE MISSING.

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ID OLITICAL parties persist, but individuals pass
along and out of sight and new ones come
TO take their places. Times change We miss the
old ones, we welcome the new ones. Men get
tired of attending political conventions They
grow weary, but other and younger men come to
the front Political parties move on regardless Of
individuals. But the passing off the stage of some
individuals leaves a pang of regret to The observer
who has watched year after year the summonng
of the clans at Dover at the, political conventions
the social and political times there the good cheer
often the fuss and commoton, the mysterious ru-
m0rs, the desperate efforts of newspaper writer's
to get the wire at late hour at night for in
the past things were always done at the latest
possible hour
The Republican State Convention and the
scenes surrounding il we're in striking contrast
with conventions of the past, void of the excite
ment and the thrills and the making and unmak-
ing of states in a moment
Even the old Capital hotel which in political
days of yore at convention times was the citadel
OF rum and reason, or unreason rather has been
transformed. Many figures we're missed the other
day, many glad hand was not outstretched be-
cause the man behind il among the missing
Colonel Henry A. DUPONT was there the chief
survivor of the days of yore, the chief figure Of
now united party, but where we're Anthony Hg
gins and ]. Edward Addicks? Governor Pennewill
sat in the front with the Sussex delegates but
where we're Ex-Governor Lea and Ex-Governor
Hum? Caleb r. Layton was missing but Caleb
S. Layton, his son, was there. Former Senator L.
II. Ball was there, but Former Senator J. Frank
Alice not. Former Sheriff Stafford was on
deck, but where was former Sheriff John Z. Tay-'
lor? Clerk of the Peace Harry A. Brown was on
hand but where Former Clerk of the Peace
Winfield S. Quigley? No one at the convention
saw George d. Kelley in the Middetown deega-
tion
Philip Quigley Churchman made fine speech
but where was Philip L. Cannon? Henry P.
Scott looked we'll with his delegation butJwhat in
the world has become of Henry b. THOMPSON?
George W. Marshall reminded us of old times, but
where George w. Roberts? John M. G. Moore
came back to life, but where we're George M Fisher
and Fisher Pierce? And where we're the aged
long-whiskered patriarchs who in the Union Re-
publican conventions used to come from Sussex
county, sit the front, and listen to the read
ing of the resolutions as if they we're inspired
from above. Those dear old deaf men always
enjoyed it so much.
Walter o. Hoffecker was there prasing Mr.
Heald for his work in helping to secure the Fed
eral building for Smyrna, but where Walter
H Hayes? And Dr. Thomas G. Moore has prob
ably attended his last convention Where was
Lewis b. Morrow who once presided at a conveh-
(ton which narrowly escaped being struck by real
u lightning? And where was former Representative
Hunter Of Sussex who always wore a red neckte ?
Where was Henry McComb Lang? Why did Colo
mel George w. Sparks sit in the gallery and
! Charles r. Miller hold forth down stairs? And
what in the World has become of Hugh c. Browne
who once made flying leap down through the
trap door of a convention stage? And General
James II. Wilson and General l. Thomas Parker
we're among the lmissing and we all regretfully
know why General T. Coleman DUPONT was not
there And where we're the New York and Phil
adephia correspondents, who used to come TO the
convention? Missing, but Frank Whelan was there
writing note paper just he wrote before
the flood in hieroglyphcs which will cause
the devil in the Republican Office to say his pray
ers when he attempts to decipher them.
Good that Colonel Tom Ewell wasn't there to
write about the defeat of Colonel Tom Curry So
we might 60 on mentioning the throng that was
there or not there but there is an air of sadness
about it ALL A political convention ought to be a
sort of old home week for them all. Wonder if
Dovers dryness, or if the abolition of the passes
had anything TO do with it?