Evening journal., 1912-10-31
KENT.

- OMPLA1NT is made by men close to the salisbury
~ Monaghan machine that the Democrats in Kent
county lukewam in their attitude toward the
gubernatoral candidacy Of State Senator Thomas M.
Monaghan and that they are not manifesting any
enthusiasm with respect to the Democratic state
ticket Such compainants admit that conditions In
the midland county given rise TO much uneasiness
among those who are charge Of the enterprise OF
bringing the election Of the Salisbury Monaghan
State ticket The strange part Of Vt Is that some OF
the machine leaders here express surprise that Kent
county Democrats manifest little interest in the
fortunes OF that ticket
As we view it, the surprising feature OF the situation
in Kent lis that the Democrats eVince any interest
whatever in that ticket which they have been denied
all representation, Notwithstanding the fact that Kent
county is the only that is Democratic The
machine leaders know, as well do the Kent county
Democrats that New Castle a Republican county, ana
Sussex another Republican county, entered into deal
I'm tho Democratic State convention to take every ONCE
on the State ticket, and to leave Kent the only Demo
cratic county in the state, off the State ticket alto
gethor For the machine leaders an unfortunate
feature of the situation is that the Kent county Demo
Gratis know that Senator Thomas NJ Monaghan the
Democratic candidate Governor was privy to- il not
the actual insgator Of, this deal against the Demo
Gratis of Kent
Senator Monaghan and his friends should not think
that the Democratic in Kent county have the
doadencd nerves of a camel the sensbilities Of a
hippopotamus OF that such treatment as was dealt
out to them the Democratic state Convention would
fail 10 give rise TO bittor resentment The Democrats
there have shown time and again that they know how
10 resent and avengo insult Their Indifference at
this time relative TO the fate Of the Monaghan State
ticket lis one OF the natural things in the world
when the insult to which they subjected by Sena-
tor Monaghan and his machine friends is taken into
consideration
Examination Of the election returns Of the three
! counties since 1900 shows how generously the Kent
county Democrats have supported the Democratic
ticket and how shamefully they have heen rewarded
/ this year by the Salisbury Monaghan Democratic
machine for their constancy.. In the McKnley-Bryan
campaign i'm 1900 Mr. Mckinley carried all three coun-
/ Ties hut there was big difference in the puraliues
Tho Kent county Democrats cut his plurality down to
/ 78 votes. the New Castle county Democrats handled
their campaign IN such way that his plurality in thai
county was 3,OO2, while Sussex sssss tSsS
sly of SOC In tho RoosexSAG@s ss1Ss'of 1904
Kent county once more held it's record as the banner
one from the Democratic viewpoint Roosevelt 1t is
true carried all three counties, but Kent kept MS
plurality there down TO S21. while New Castle gave
Linn 2O2s and Sussex sos. Nor was Kent lacking II
SIS loyalty to the Democratic I'm the Iatt-bryar
campaign of 1908 II kept Tafts plurality down 30 o.
votes while New Castle gave him plurality OF Iva
and Sussex. S57 In 1910 which an off year, tho
Kent county Democrats elected their county ticket
and kept the Republican plurality for State lreasure
down 10 Sc votes while New Castle gave the Republican
candidate 100 and Sussex, A2S
In tho light Of those election figures it is not sur
prisinc that the Kent county Democrats are ndgnan
that the Salisbury Monaghan Democratic machine TN
year deprived them OF an representation on the Demo
cratic state ticket aud entered into deliberate dea
for senator Monarhans convention benefit, to divd
all tho nominations between New Castle and SUISSE
countios We fail 10 sec that there is anything In
situation such as that TO make Kent county Democra
enthusiastic