Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1910-12-14
BRIBERY QUESTION
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heal leutenants OF Willard Salisbury,
Jr., went from this city to Dover with
instructions to kill off the candidacy
ui W ilIiam Salisbury, and they did IL.
liz result was that Kent county lost
Ffhe congressional nomination and that
il went to Robert c. White of Sussex
county The understanding is that
YWilard Salisbury, Jr., and his friends
Awerc not tied particularly to White,
but that they accepted him as the best
instrument they could obtain Tor the
destruction of William Saulsbury's
candidacy. That William Salisbury
and his friends resented keenly this
action by Willard Salisbury, Jr., and
his friends was made ma lifest later in
the election returns rom Kent county
and also i'll the editorial columns OF
William Saulsburyfs newspaper. In
other words, the William Salisbury
Democrats knitted the Willard Sauls-
bury ticket in numbers sufficient to
defeat it. and with it the Senatorial as
piratons OF Willard SauIsbury, Jr.
The dry Democrats, who feared
White, also played a part in that re-
suit.
1T has been charged that the liquor
Interests i'll this city and county sent
into Kent and Sussex counties fund
OF $4,000 to he used in III effort to
elect to the Legislature men who
would vote for bills providing tor re-
submission OF the local option question
to the voters i'll those two counties.
When it became known that that $751;
lpoo had been placed in the hands of
democratic leaders in those two coun-
lies and that the money was being
ltscd to further the election o. certain
democratic candidates for the State
Senate and the House, many 'dry De
lmocrats refused to stand for sEch uie
Ithods and cast their votes for Rerub
lican candidates who were known to be
free from the faint of liquor Doodle.
Another fact that caused Democrats
who are in favor of Kent and Sussex
counties remaining dry to leave their
party for the time being was the close
working alliance between ,ormer U.
s. Senator Richard r. kenney and
former Representative Alexander M.
Daley, of Dover. kenney always has
been allied with the liquor interests to
greater or lesser degree and that
an dother alliances not to the liking
of Democratic voters lin Delaware
have had much to do with the decline
OF his political fortunes. Heretofore
DAILY has been allied closely with the
anti-liquor forces in this State and has
Il been at the head and front OF the anti
liquor movement. This year however,
kenney and DAILY worked hand-in- glove
in Kent county for the success Of the
Democratic ticket When the dry
Democrats learned OF this unnatural
alliance and were informed that the
liquor interests had sent $4,000 into
ent and Sussex counties i'll benalf OF
Salisbury ticket they refused lon
to follow the leadership oi DAILY
took refuge in the Republican
MP. Other Democrats followed
Inn there when it became known
at the Democratic organization was
th whiskey, and holding out induce
ents to the white 'foater vote which
suited later in Is per cent, of that
ena vote going to the Democrats.
'The fact that Salisbury had for al
Is in this campaign soured and dis
runtled Republicans, among them
brmer United States Senator J. Frank
(Allee and former Secretary OF State
Caleb r. Layton also served to stitfen
the Republican organization and to
bring to it Democrats Of independent
thought and action, who resented be-
ing parties to sic ha game OF treachery
and party disloyalty and ingrattude.
1t is admitted here that that alliance
cost the Republicans seats in the Della
ware Legislature. The party will re-
ceive ample compensation Tor such
loss because Alice and Layton now
are so far outside the Republican lines
that they never can return or take
with them into the camp OF the enemy
more than a handful OF their former
party friends. In fact, Alice made tho
long and everlasting journey two year:
ago. and this year was classed as q
Republican pariah who had become
Democrat. When Layton and Others
manifested signs o. Republican dis
Royalty and treachery to the organlza'
tion. there were thousands of kcpub
licans who did not hesitate to say that
it would be well to let them go ahead
write the record OF that treachery OF
The election returns. and then read
them out Of the Republican party. II
WAS felt that the organization could
IDEAL with such men far better withou
than within the party lines. As the sit
,ation now stands, the Republican
bartv has won the fight against bott
he Democrats and the Republican Ar
holds, and the party leaders are well
Iatisfied with the result