Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-09-15
WEDNESDAY sEPT. is. I9I5
HE WENT; HE HAS RETURNED START SOME
THING.

VxTILLARD SALISBURY. junior United States sena-
w tor a me-too member Of the Foreign Relations
Committee and Democratic boss of Delaware, is home
from the Orient He has fingered so long among the
Chinese the Japs that he is slan-eyed and looking
for trouble.
While he was away. that hit-him-n-ths back. praise
MISUNDERSTANDING and him-when-he's-down apol-
ogy for a Democratic newspaper-the Every Evening
attacked him savagely and demanded his retirement
from the Democratic leadership.
Now that Senator Salisbury is home, we invite the
Every Evening to start something. Let it say to his
face what it said behind his back Let it set up the
Democratic revolt that it suggested Immediately fol-
lowing the last city election said before seno
Tor Salisbury is sant-eyed and looking for trouble In
view of what has PASSED it the duty of the Every
Evening to knock the chip off his shoulder
The Every Evening would like the public to believe
that il possesses influence in the Democratic party We
challenge to pit its influence against the Salisbury
machine in the next Democratic primaries. Let it
raise the black flag revolt and invite the Demo
cratic voters of our state to rally beneath it, Let il
set up a primary ticket Let IL define the Salisbury
and the anusausbury issues clearly In short let It's
influence be measured by the vote cast at that pr-
mary
We venture the prediction that 1t accepts that
challenge It will carry county, Senate district
Representative district, hundred or an election dis
trict in the state. The Salisbury machine viii beat 4
all along the line.
The trouble with the Every Evening IS that il has nc
influence among Democrats. THE EVENING JOUR
NAL is an out-and-out Republican newspaper Not
withstanding that fact should be sorry, indeed
il did not possess the Democratic side, far more
potential influence than exercised by politically
misanthropic neghbor at Fifth and shipley streets
senator Salisbury will carry the next Democratic
primaries in Delaware The ticket will be made up o
Salisbury
II will be defeated at the general election, not be
cause of the Every Evening but in spite Of IT, Sauls
bury has established undying fame for winning at Dem
ocratic primaries and losing at general elections H'
is United states Senator today by the grace OF Col
onel Theodore Roosevelt He is part of the Democratic
hotsam thrown into Congress by the Progressive tda
wave of 1912 He strutting his brief time upon tho
public stage He has failed to Nationalist himself here
because he has measured up to accepted Senator
ia standards To compensate himself for his short
comings in the United States Senate, he has sough
to internatonalize himself by going to China an
Japan and seeking obtaining audiences with Pres
dent Yuan shh-Kai. Of the Republic Of China. Cosn
Okuma Premier Of Japan; Baron Kato, Minister q
Foreign knairs and Baron IwasaN another man prom
ment in Japanese politics.
While in those two Oriental countries he mu
have played heavily upon the fact that he is men
Der of the Foreign Relations Committee, becaui
that news is played up prominently by the rok
Japan Advertiser the columns Of which were us
TO inform the Japs that Senator Salisbury was wi
them; that he is "a prominent official in the pre-
ent administration in America" that he is 'mel
Der Of the Foreign Relations Committee, &c. It W
clever press agency work. Post Wheeler. Amerc
Charge a. Affairs who introduced Senator Saulshu
10 Baron Kato and others is old newspaper ms
He used TO do work for the New York Press, the We
minister Gazette the New York Evening Post. and oti
papers Il will be seen. therefore. that. from p'
licty point of view the junior Delaware Senator v
IN good hands.
BIT now he is home again. where the human
sizes him up for what he is and human recollection
praises him properly for what he has been.
His return has caused political professional
cial or civic oonvulsion in Delaware. He went; he
returned Even the Every Evening is keeping edit
iallv mum about it, Can't il possibly throw some
in the wheels Of his Salisbury machine and start
Democratic revolt 10 kill the political deafness OF
September dodrums? We trust sincerely that its
have not gone cold since its incandescent editor
utterances against salisbury delivered with 81
emphasis in the merry month Of 1t should b'
up and start something
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