Evening journal., 1912-11-12
TUESDAY NOV. IL. 1912.
DELAWARE STILL REPUBLICAN.

THE official count in Delaware has been completed
the official pluralties have been declared, and it
at last is possible analyze the election held in this
State last week with that there will be
further shifting Of figures which will make such
analysis Vaueess
The fact which stands out most prominently is that
the Republican party Of State to the Ma
tonal Progressive party the credit for having saved
to the Republicans their Governor continued control
of the State Senate and the election OF the full county
ticket including the Levy Court in New Castle county.
Il is useless for any Republican no matter how close
ly he may be welded President Taft. or how much
he may hate Colonel Roosevelt, to attempt to
trovert this fact IL stands out boldly upon the cleo
tion returns that had It not been for that National
Progressive vote there would have remained in Della
scarcely a shred to remind the public that for
longer than decade the Republicans had been para
mount here When speak OF National Progress
sives we do not mean those who permitted them
selves to be used by the Aee-Houston- Drexer cabal
which had in contemplation the restoration Of the saus
bury Democratic machine to unquestioned and unds-
puted power this State We the friends Presi-
dent Roosevelt in this State who stood by the national
issues represented by Colonl Roosevelt but who re-
fused positively to become parties to the AleeHous
ton-Drexer conspiracy 20 make the Roosevelt move
ment here a ladder whereby the Democratic machine
might climb from the depths OF defeat to the heights
of victory Delawareans and Republicans to those
National Progressyes debt Of gratitude just they
to the Alee-Houston- Drexler cabal debt
tempt that is so great IL never can be fully paid.
When is considered that Colonel Roosevelt received
S.SS6 votes in this State and that Of that number
Hsnson the sucker" Progressive candidate for
ernor received only 309 votes, it shows that not hum
dreds. but thousands Of Delaware friends or Colonel
Roosevelt viewed with dsapproyal the conspiracy OF
Alice. Houston, Drexer and their accomplices to de-
liver the State and its people to Willard Saulsburys
machine Those National Progressives saved to the
Republican party in this State the very things they
needed block the Vaccinations OF the who
running the Salisbury political machine. They also
saved TO the people of New Castle county the great
harm that would have come TO them had the affairs
OF the richest and most populous county in the
State been turned to that machine for expoita-
ton.
Another fact that stands out prominently in the
olcial is that Taft sentiment so strong
in this State that almost twice as many votes were
cast for the President for Colonel Roosevelt. The
total Taft vote was 1898, and the total Roosevelt
vote $3.50 Those figures make it clearly apparent
that despite the aggressive campaign conducted in all
three counties by the National Progressves and the
Sucker" Progressives it at time threatened to
dislodge President Taft from place in the
uing.
Nor should Democrats here felicitate themselves
with the thought that the fact that Woodrow Wilson
carried Delaware by plurality of $3.50 that
there has been big shift Of sentiment to the Demo-
cratic side Wilson's total vote in Delaware
22,631. That for Taft 15,99S, while the total
Roosevelt vote S,SS6. The combined Taft and
Roosevelt 24SS4 or 2253 votes greater than
the total Wilson In 1908 the total Republican
vote in Delaware for President 25O14 while the
total Democratic vote was 2207i. That gave Repub-
lican majority in that year OF 2.943, majority
just 600 greater than that represented by the
Regular Republican and the Progressive Republican
vote Of this year Surely in view OF the disturbed
ana unsatisfactory condition in the Republican side
and the united condition Of the Democracy OF the
State the rumored lavish money by the
did and hypocritical Democratic machine in the two
lower counties, that is not much of change of SEN
timent in total poll of than As 900 The
figures all show that Delaware in the recent cleo
ton Republican by 2,253 votes and that the Re-
publicans and the Progressves by composing their
differences will be in a position years hence to
throw Delaware back into the Republican column,
where il properly belongs.