Milford chronicle., 1916-10-13
Eleven Potent Reasons Why Senator DUPONT Should Not
Withdraw From the Republican Ticket; FiUc Potent
Reasons Why TOIUnScs1d, Reinhardt and SlUnin }
Should Withdraw Without Further Delay,
From the Party WrockcrS' Ticket

ITO the end that the political situation in Delaware
may be clarified with respect to a matter Of prime
Importance to the Republican party and to the people
Of this State and the country at large it may well
to announce at this time that under circumstance
will Colonel Henry A. DUPONT, senior United States
Senator, withdraw from the Republican ticket as a
candidate for reelection.
Those men who call themselves Republicans and
who are merely consprators against the Republican
party and its principles and policies; those who
call themselves Republicans and who are working
eovertly with those conspirators; and those tmid Re-
publicans who have been thrown into panic by the
threats Of the wOuld-be party wreckers may well
reconcile themselves to that fact and govern them.
selves accordingly.
Senator DUPONT. through no desire or fault OF his
own, but solely because Of the congenital hatred Of
one man. was made the issue in the Republican pri-
maries His friends rallied to his support he won
Senator DUPONT, through no desire fault Of his
own, but solely because Of the distemper Of
one man, made the issue in the district
which preceded the Republican State Convention.
Once his friends rallied to his support and
Senator dupont, through desire fault Of his
but solely because Of the hate-heat Of one
man, would have been made an issue on the floor of
the State Convention hall had it not been that the
bold and determined Of his many friends in the
convention such that those who had conspired
against him did not dare to offer candidate in oppO-
sition to his denomination.
will defeat them just surely that they have
taken to the political bush and are resortng to
guerrilla warfare against him.
Senator DUPONT will not withdraw because he is a
Republican who is, by the grace Of the Republican
primaries, by the grace Of the Republican caucus by
the grace Of the Republican State Convention and by
the Of the ratification action of the Republican
State Committee and the four Republican district
committees, the Republican nominee Neither the con-
spiracies Of avowed political enemies the treachery Of
professed political friends the lneemockings Of
apprehensive men who are real Republicans will In
duce him to withdraw He is perfectly content to
leave his official record and his political future to the
sober judgment Of the great electorate Of the State
Of Delaware and to abide by that Judgment whatever
It may be.
II he had followed the advice or needed the dark
forebodings Of weak men who did not know the tenn.
per Of the Republican electorate, he would not have
entered the Republican primaries-and them.
II he had followed the advice needed the dark
fOrebOdings Of weak men who did not know the tenn
per Of the delegates to the Republican State Convens
hOn he would not have permitted any fight to be
made in his behalf in caucus or on the floor and
thereby he would have been deprived Of the sasfac4
ton of winning Of the greatest personal victories
ever by any public in our State.
II. after that victory he had followed the adj
vice or needed the forebodings Of weak men who
did not know the temper Of the Delaware electorate
he would have declined the nomination. retired from
public life and permitted the Republican party Of this
State to pass into the keeping Of men Of the mall
Odorous type Of J. Frank Alice and Benjamin A.
Groves and their distempered financial hacker.
was not in the nature Of things that Senator du-
Pont should pursue any Of the several and
tive courses suggested for his own political emina-
ton He had served the Republican party in good
faith; he had announced his candidacy for renomi-
nation in good faith; he had entered and won the
Republican primaries in good faith; he had obtained
The support OF the Republican in good faith;
he received a State Convention platform endorsement
N good faith; he accepted from that State Conven-
ion a unanimous denomination in good faith, and in
ike good faith he received and accepted the rathca-