Newark post., 1914-07-29
SENATOR ULSBURY FLAYED
EvFpY EVENING OF WILMINGTON TAKES HIS MEASURE
AS NCONSPICIOUS OF SMALL POLITICIANS

these conditions may not De as sre'
ious as they look?'
"Mr. Gallinger-Possibly so
but there is no suggestion that that
is the condition in Wilmington
alone -
EDITORIAL IN EVERY EVEN
ING
When, on Wednesday, a Wash
ington dispatch in morning news
paper reported Senator Salisbury
of this State as saying, in the
course of a discussion over indus
trial conditions in this country, that
some manufacturing concerns In
Wilmington were discharging men
when there was work on hand for
them to do, thus intimating that
discharges were being made for
partisan effect, many refused to be-
lieve the story. The official report
of the debate in the Congressional
Record, however, proved its truth.
We reprint elsewhere from the Of
fetal report in the Record the col
loquy between Senator Salisbury
and Senator Gallinger of New
Hampshire, and readers may in
form themselves thereby. Also, in
a special from Washington, Sena-
tor Saulsbury's amazing reitera-
ton.
1t is surprising that man hold
ing the high position of United
States Senator should, in the first
place, display such ignorance of
business procedure as to even be-
lieve, much less intimate by yelled
accusation, that men in charge of
large industrial interests could
bring themselves to such a foolish
and criminally costly practice as to
discharge workmen while there was
work on hand for them to do. No
partisan advantage that could pos
sibly accrue from such policy
and it is not possible to conceive
that any partisan advantage what
ever would be derived-could COM
pensate for the money loss that
would certainly follow. And no
man with sense enough to assume
the management and control Of a
large industrial establishment
would even think of doing such a
thing, no matter how strong his
partisan prejudices might be. The
intimation Of Senator Salisbury,
therefore, was insulting and belit-
ting to such men, as well as an il
lustration of partisanshlp run mad
to the point of gross insult and ig-
norance.
Delaware has had some great |
men as her representatives in the
Senate of the United tates. She has
had some great men as her repre-
in the Senate Of the I'm
tied States. She has had a COM
number of able men; she
has had a few small men Of no
ability worth speaking of. But the
smallest and most inconspicuous Of
the latter class, fortunately small
in number, never ventured to such
depths of foolish partisanship, COM
bined with ignorance of simple bus
mess policy and regard for mate
rial interests in the management of
large industrial affairs, as to make
such an uncalled for and malicious
insinuation as was made by the
"junior Senator from Delaware"
So wonder the people Of his
State are ashamed Of him. No
wonder he became, apparently,
ashamed of himself, and on the day
following made some supplemental
remarks on the subject-as report
ed in a special dispatch from
Washington to yesterdays Every
Evening-calculated to place him
in better view before his constit-
uents and the country. But he had
made his display-one tha treveal-
ed him in his true light as a plea
yune politician rattling round in
an official position fit only for men
of ability and true dignity.