Evening journal., 1912-04-18
THURSDAY. APRIL Is. Iel2
BOULEVARD AND wREckERs.

THE EVENING JOURNAL has received from Dr.
= Charles A. Ritchie well known in Middletown,
but now in Davenport Iowa. letter in which he
sends new address, adding:
please do not overlook thir for look forward with
great pleasure TO the daily receiving of THE JOUR-
NAL Keep up your fight for the DUPONT Boulevard
Surely the people Of Delaware have not all lost their
We wish to assure Or Ritchio that we appreciate
his approval Of the course of THE EVENING JOURNAL
in the boulevard fight We also feel in assuring
him that the people Of Delaware have al lost
their power Of Fully nine-tenths Of them
heartily in favor of the construction of the boule-
ward and regard it as a project that if completed,
viii with h great bendht all parts of the State.
The influence that is interfering with it's
struction is largely political Men who for years
have made It practice to subordinate public inter-
to political interest playing upon the preiu-
dice OF property owners and others They also
irdulgng in shameless Misrepresentation to arouse
public sentiment against the boulevard and General
Coleman dupont who has expressed willingness
20 spend s20ooo9o Of his private fortune TO build the
ro1l for the Of all tho people
Those men not only have worked night and day to
create that prejudice but also have attacked the
stitutionaty Of the Boulevard Corporations Law Now
that General dupont has asked for amendments TO
the law that viii mako more effective and take the
great road enterprise the grip Of the organized
band OF obstructonists he is being assaled
man having dishonest purposes in mind When Gov
eruor Pennev endeavors relieve the situation by
asking the judges of the State pass upon the con-
sttutionality Of the law and also suggests special
session of the Legislature to amend 1t and make it
more effective is attacked Perhaps the mean
est piece of work done by the conspiraors has been
20 accuse General DUPONT being desirous Of get
ting out building the road and TO cite the cessation
of work it proof OF that purpose,
Il may be said truthfully that there has been
time since General DUPONT first proposed the road
that he has not been eager TO build il for the good
Of the commonwealth He did no. order that work be
stopped until question of the constitutonaiy of
the law under which he operating had been called
into question by the very who now are oritieiz
ing him for stopping that work until the courts can
pass upon the all-important question raised II Del
awaroans fail to get a road which would mean
everything the future Of their roads system il viii
be the courts say the law is unconstitutional
or if they say it is constitutional because the peo-
pie Delaware permit themselves to be cheated out
of it by the obstructive and disgracefu work Of those
who are organized to prevent its construction.
General dupont has stood abuse than many
would have stood for the sake of doing something
that will benefit all Delawareans II is doubted
that there is another in the State who would
have submitted much misrepresentation and stn
have adhered Loyalty his purpose do what he had
set out to do for the public benefit Dr. Ritche is
only one of thousands OF persons in this State and
elsewhere who wonders what has come over the
people that they remain quiescent while wreckers
arc engaged busiy in their efforts to destroy the
boulevard project