Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1916-10-17

Townsend to get of that third ticket
will give TO him the unenviable dis
tinction Of passing into history as
Delaware's worst-beaten candidate
for governor. Reinhardt and Swain
will not be far behind him. Delaware
Republicans simply will not stand for
such double-dealing as that in which
those men are indulging at the expense
Of the Republican party and Of regu-
larly-nominated Republican candi-
dates. What surprises me is that men
like Townsend. Reinhardt and Swain,
who have had political experience. do
not realize that fact. which damns
their political present and which. IL
persisted in. will damn their political
future because OF the gross irregular
ity Of their attitude toward the Re-
publican ticket"
Another man who is being scored
roundly by Sussex countians Is Dr..
Hiram R. Burton. the Party Wreckers'
candidate for United States Senator.
The Republican party has done so
much for him in the past and re-
ceived so little by way Of beneficial
service in return. that he is being de-
nounced on all sides as a man who
has permitted himself TO be used by
the Party Wreckers as a mere creature
10 assist in preventing the reelection
OF Republican United States Senator
who has befriended him time and
again during his political career
While IL is admitted here that he is
i not Republican candidate and,
/ therefore. not on the Party Wreckers
ticket in such a reprehensible light as
are Townsend. Reinhardt and Swain,
in view of the past favors he has re-
ceived from the Republican voters OF
this State. he ranks with those three
men in the field OF Republican criti-
cism and denunciaotion.
THE best that can be said OF him in
extonuation Of his present conduct is
that he has reached a stage Of political
senility that makes OF him a pitiable
spectacle in section Of the State in
which. years ago, he was highly re
spected as a Republican" a Milford
man said. 1T is pity he has sunk Ia
such a low political level. especially
i'm the sunset OF his life. He cannot
last long enough to live down the po-
litical stigma that will attach TO his
name if he should continue to serve
as a party wreckers' creature
As 10 the party wreckers move
ment itself in this county. investiga
tion discloses that it is by no means
so formidable as its promoters woul'
have it appear II is a much-iniiate'
affair which is likely TO blow up a
any minute and which already showl
signs OF dissolution II Townsend
Reinhardt. Swain and the Republican
county candidates were TO Withdraw
from il, It would blow mp at once an'
be reduced TO a condition of pOl.tica
! impotency. AS the situation nov
shapes up. Townsend. Reinhardt ant
Swain, by remaining on the thir'
ticket. have made themselves the rea
props of the party wrcciers move
, ment. II IS admitted on all sides tina
we're il not for them and their Office
hunger what remains Of the movemen
would disappear.
IF the Republican party is defeate'
next month. Townsend. Reinhardt AM
Swain must shoulder the responsible
ity for that defeat a Laurel Repub
lican OF prominence said when askel
by telephone to express an opinion
They have permitted themselves t.
b be made by the Alfred !. DUPONT an
r J. Frank Alice workers the mainstay
OF the party wreckeTs' scheme. Town
b send Reinhardt and Swain hope Z
{ receive enough Republican and part
, ". l<ers' votes to elect them. regard
less what may become OF the can
3 didaci,a Of Senator DUPONT Congress
t man Miller and the other Republican
/ candidates. That hope will not b
> realized. True Republicans will hav
nothing 10 do with them if they re
main on that ticket. They not onl
+, will refuse to have anything TO d
with them in this election. but the
will refuse to have anything TO d
{. with them in elections to come. Me
!. who have been honored by part
with nominations such as those nor
/, held by Townsend, Roinhardi an
/, swain canuo. play a double-dealin
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