Newark post., 1914-12-09
TO THE REPUBLICAN OFFICE
HOLDERS

lican newspaper, but it is not a
party organ.
There is no Republican in our
State who is too small to receive
praise from it for any act that is
promotive of public good.
There is no Republican in our
State who is too large to receive
public censure from it for any act
that is productive Of public harm.
We take the stand that Repub-
lican who is elected to office has
three important duties to perform.
The first is to commit no official
act that will be injurious to the
public.
The second is to commit no Off
cial act that will bring discredit to
the party that has honored him.
The third is to commit no official
act that will stultify him as an in
dividual in the eyes of the people.
When any Republican Office
holder does violence to any of those
duties, we believe we perform a
valuable service to the public and
to the party by calling attention to
the fact and demanding that, for
the sake of the public and the
party, he repair, so far as it may
be possible, whatever harm he has
done, and refrain from future dis
creditable acts.
The very least that can be done
by man who has been elected to
office by the Republican party is to
be honest. The very best that can
be done by him is not only to be
honest but also to be constructively
and obstructively useful. In other
words, to construct the good and
to obstruct the bad things in pub
lie life.
Above all other things, a Repub-
lican who has been honored by his
party should live up to the pledges
that his party organization made
to the people as an act precedent
to his election. AS a public official
such a Republican is the repository
of the good faith of his party. 1t
is his duty to be true to that trust.
Such thoughts are aroused by
the fact that the new year is rap
idly approaching; that a new Leg
islature controlled by Republicans,
soon will assemble in Dover, and
that new Levy Court, controlled
by Republicans, soon will assemble
in this city.
Republican members-elect Of the
Legislature must bear in mind that
the Republican party has promis-
ed that the forthcoming legislative
session shall be short and that it's
predominant characteristics shall
be the intelligent and business-like
dispatch of the peoples affairs. 1t
is the duty of those members to en-
able the Republican party to live
up to that pledge. They should go
to Dover fully determined that the
session shall not exceed beyond the
sixty-day limit and that it shall be
made even shorter if business pru-
dence should seem to warrant it.
With no extraordinary event, like
the election of a United States Sen
atOr, to disturb the course of gen.
eral Legislative business, the Repub-
lican majority can offer no accept
able excuse for prolonged session.
Nor can it shift the responsibility
for such a session to the Democra-
tic minority. The Republican ma
.jorny will have the power to decide
when the session shall end. There
can be no division of responsibility
if it fail to end within a reasonable
time.
SO much for the Legislature.
Now for the New Castle County
Levy Court. Through it the Re-
publican party organization has
promised to give to the taxpayers
clean honest, economical and busi-
ness-like administration Of every
Republican member of that court
to do his utmost to enable the party
to keep that promise. There must
be no violating or stretching of the
law for the benefit of anybody.
The good name and fair fame of
the party are of infinitely greater
importance than is the pecuniary
interest of any man in the county.
If, in the past, there have been any
allowances of county funds for in
creased salaries or other purposes,
it is the duty Of the commissioners
to let it be known at the very out
set of their new administration that
there will be no more Of such things
They should live within the law and
compel all who have business with
them to live within it so far as it
may affect either the treasury or
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