Smyrna times., 1916-10-11

no 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 may be we'll
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 merely cOnspirators against the Republican
party and its principles and policies; those who
call themselves Republicans and who are working
coverty with those consprators; and those tmid Re-
publicans who have been thrown into panic by the
threats of the would-be party wreckers may as we'll
reconcile themselves to that fact and govern them
selves accordingly.
Senator DUPONT, through desire fault of his
but solely because of the congental hatred of
one man, was made the issue in the Republican pri-
maries His friends rallied to his support and he
Senator DUPONT through desire fault of his
own. but solely because of the distemper Of
man. made the issue in the district
which preceded the Republican State Convention
Once his friends rallied to his support and Yon
Senator DUPONT, through desire fault of his
own but solely because Of the hate-heat of
man. would have been made issue the floor Of
the State Convention hall had it not been that the
bold and determined front 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
He defeated his foes within the party lines and he
will defeat them just as surely that they have
taken to the political bush and resorting to
guerrilla warfare against him.
Senator DUPONT will not withdraw because he is
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 grace of the ratification action of the Republican
State Committee and the four Republican district
committees, the Republican nominee Neither the
spraces Of avowed political enemies the treachery Of
professed political friends the kneeknOckings Of
apprehensive who 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 needed the dark
forebodings of weak who did not know the tenn
per Of the Republican electorate he would not have
entered the Republican prmaries-and won them.
II he had followed the advice or needed the dark
forebodings of weak who did not know the tenn
per the delegates to the Republican State Conven-
ton he would not have permitted any fight to be
made in his behalf In caucus or on the floor ano
thereby he would been deprived Of the satsfac
ton of winning Of the greatest personal victories
by any public man in our State
If. after that victory, he had followed the ad'
vice or needed the dark forebodings Of weak who
did not know the temper Of the Delaware electorate
he would have declined the nomination, retired IRON
public life and permitted the Republican party OF tn
State to pass into the keeping of men of the mai
odorous type Of ]. Frank Alice and BENJAMIN A
Groves and their distempered financial hacker'
1t was not in the nature of things that Senator du
Pont should pursue any of the several and consecu
tive courses suggested for his own political elmina
tion He had served the Republican party in goo
faith; he had announced his candidacy for renomi
nation in good faith; he had entered and won IN
Republican primaries in good faith; he had oDtane
the support Of the Republican caucus in good fatn
be received a State Convention platform end0rsemeI
in good faith; he accepted from that State ConVeI
ton a unanimous denomination in good faith' and
like good faith he received and accepted the ratihca