Evening journal., 1910-04-22
FRIDAY, APRIL 22. 1910
MOCRATIC HOPES.

GONE of the New Jersey Democratic news
- papers are hopeful that their party will
win in the next campaign but others are doubt
full They lack confidence in their party. They
recall that after years of Democratic domination
in New Jersey that party went down to defeat
because its administration disgusted the voters.
The Democrats have never been able to recover
from the blows delivered against them years
ago. and a leading Democratic newspaper of the
state asks If the party is vet prepared to make
winning bid for public confidence. Unless the
party has changed, and unless it Is prepared to
name acceptable candidates and to keep the old
Democratic ideas i'll the background. there Will
be no hope of Democratic victory The Demo
Gratis must prove to the dsgrunted voters that
they arc worthy of confidence.
In New Jersey conditions were similar to
those in Delaware when the Democrats lost both
states. Doubtless there are many Democrats
in Delaware who are asking whether their party
s,,s- entitled to public confidence. The Demo
cratic newspapers, however, show signs of
doubd They think the Democratic party IS
deserving of the support of the voters, and the
chief Democratic paper reasons along that line
by defending the things which caused the de-
feat in years gone and by implying that re-
turn of the Democrats to power would mean a
restoration of the old regime
Probably it thinks that since the Democrats
have been out of power many young men who
do not remembIr the former regime have be
come voters and they arc not concerned with what
in this kind Of argument. Under the old control
a young Republican desired to vote and often
he found that he was not on the assessment list
He was told that he would have TO go to the
Court House and very frequently he was put to
no end OF trouble because of the intrcaces of the
election laws before he could cast his ballot.
Naturally that young man had no love for the
Democratic party. He could not by any means
become politically indifferent independent,
but he developed into a partisan of the deepest
TTle Hlar .1rfrH re
sponsble for election manipulation which made
it hard for him 10 cast his ballot
AS a result of the years of Republican agita-
ton in Delaware the election laws were chang
ed and we have free and open ballot with a
fair rount and no discrimination between Re
pnblicans and Democrats. The young voter
therefore goes to the polling place without
thought of the past He fails 70 give credit tc
the Republicans for bringing about this change
Partisan feeling is not so intense The ties %
political allegiance are not so strong Inc old
cr men know full we'll what return OF th'
Democrats to power would mean. The youngei
men are not so well-informed
Gradually, day by day, arc getting an IN
dication of what the return OF the rule OF th'
Democrats would mean in Delaware. we ART
seeing the point of view of the Democratic lac
ton which controls the party organization II
the state The opinions of that faction well
expressed in the local Democratic naper Con
troll of Delaware by the railroad and other cor
pOratc interests Is OF course the underlying luS
Of the local paper. Such progressive natona
legislation as the postal savings banks and th
parcels post system are sneered at. publ
service commission under any condition is con
demned
campaign for disfranchising a large par
OF the population is advocated with more an
more freedom. The views of the extreme oonserN
ative wing of the Democrats are boldly avowe'
Bryan IS denounced as a mountebank. TIL
Bryan following is disliked by this element
the Democrats. The only use they have fc
the followers Of Bryan is to get their votes
him-ham political game such as was playc
at the last State Convention
An assault is being made by these Democra
upon the Republican administration of the sta
and county regardless, apparently, of the da'
of the old regime when no one knew what Il
appointed officers at the Court House rece
cd in pay. When the Democratic machine i
nored the rights of the voters and appointed
these officials. If created political oligarcl
whose sole object was to provide fat polite
Jobs for the elect of the party-that close co
poraton of henchmen who managed the politic
affairs of Delaware solely for the benefit of I'll
favored few.
The New Jersey Democratic newspaper Il