Evening journal., 1915-01-22

districts OF our State, including your
own county registered an emphatic re.
pudiation of the liquor traffic, your own !
county rolling mp over fifteen hundred
aud Sussex nearly thousand against
it. IL is believed by some good people
and perhaps known BY some bad people,
that fair vote and AN honest count
then would have returned rural New
Castle county and the city of Whining
ton dry, likewise. Moreover. well in
formed people have no doubt that this
sentiment has grown greatly since then
throughout the State, as elsewhere IN
the nation, and that the number of vot-
crs IT given the opportunity now 60
record rhcir will as such. would be found
TO be largely augmented. Nor can IL
reasonably be doubted that their con.
/ yictions touching the question have
grown apacc in the advancing cnlight-
cnmcnt OF the day respecting the nm.
told evils of it all. And their insistcncc
be il remembered, that this colossal in.
/ iquity shall be annihilatcd grows with
the warmth of their convictions against
it,
Thus far in this discussion have
dealt with this question as IL only tho
voters constituted your constituency.
Bmt You will not deny, ] think, that in
your high Office YOU are the representa-
tive of the people of your state of all
political aligmments, and cl all sexes and
ages. This is truc as 10 every action of
yours relative to the public welfare.
but in peculiar and emphatic sense
is II true of the question under consid-
Grafton. When YOU take into account
the attitude of these together with
that of the voters there is an over
whelming majority in this common.
wealth against your action herein crit
iciscd That is 10 say. YOU. their Rep
resentativc in Congress. spoke oppos-
itely 90 the desire of all have thus
enumerated when you voted against the
proposed prohibition amendment You
may object that am not warranted in
my conclusion that all of the people in
the state demanding county and State
prohibition demand. likewise, national
prohibition. To this ] would sav. that
not only nearly all these may be so
: counted, but others added TO that mum.
b Der would clean up this nation am
Z make it white of this dcep-dycd miamv
] from border to border And ihat is tho
J ultimate of the proposition that faced
YOU that day upon which YOU put the
q stamp OF your official disapproval.
= >. You misrcprescntcd the will of
a large proportion of your supporters fo
r. the Office You hold And | may be per
10 nittcd 20 add here that these are of th
s quality of citizenship whom you ha
c most reason 10 consider when YOU thu
spoke for them in your remesontativ
'1 relation. ] need not argue that state
2 mcnt II is compliment to YOU am
Ut likewise testimony to your good chara,
fer, that q great many good peopl
F. trusted YOU for what they wanted d
'' YOU m the matter of this ISSUE tina
they knew was to be made in Congrcs
., soon. when they deposited their ballot
" for YOU They had three reasons {,
voting for YOU; your good character, q
- J have stated. your temperance rccoI
y" some years ago in the state Legislature
n and your Willingness. as 1t appeare
that they should believe after you wei
| repeatedly interviewed, that YOU won
voice theig instructions on this issue.
You state in your Washington intc
view, that presumably is accurate, IN,
YOU received "two letters from Charl
NJ. Ievister, assistant State superb
tendent of the Anti Saloon League, s.
liciting my support for that amen
ment and requesting a statement fro
! me i'm favor of it. | made no rep
whatever to either one of those lettcl
When asked by different persons as
how / would vote on the question, J 4
cliucd TO say whether ! would or won
not vote for the amendment ha
been informed by two other gentlcm
of The number probably in your mind
this statement, both of whom are publ
citizens and well known throughout q
state, that for your answer to their Il
quiry yon called attention to your we
known temperance convictions and
your public record. presumably referrn
90 your aforementioned record in Il
State Legislature. They believed th
that implied that YOU would vote Il
this amendment DIR. Levister, cyidcn
~ for sufficient reasons, rs he though
believed i'm YOU for that outcome; 4
he sent forth t. the temperance vote
OF the state his sanctionng "satisia
tory" Just before the election. In 9th
words knowing at the time that v,
would not vote for the amendment, W
! allowed your studied evasion of an a
- frmative answer TO your interviewer
- your excellent general character al
n your temperance record as lCgislat
at Dover To mislcad them and them
unintentionally msead many others,
n the end. it would seem. that they mig
vote for YOU under this misapprehc
sion. was one of this number, | q
gricved TO say, in view of the action
yours in the premise. | voted for yo
not certainly because you We're Dem
n crat, or would give your support
distinctly Democratic measures. but b
cause ! believed that of all the thr
candidates for the Office you were mo
likely to be elected; and that. If clcc
ed, for the reasons assigned believ
that your vote would surely be record
for the widest range of overthrow pc
sible in the action of this devilish j
fanny of law. | venture the assertil
that had any other one of your compc
itors for the Office, either in the rece
election or two years ago, been in yo
place at Washington at the time
this pending measure he would ha
a given better account of himself TO !
H temperance constituency than you did
Permit me to say to you, Mr.. Brocl
son. that | would rather think of yO
b as I thought on election day. namel
"a that you were frank in nature as we
& as in name. and that you would NJ
n allow your temperance friends ;