Middletown transcript., 1916-10-14
(EDITO ORIAL)

ton action Of the Republican State Committee anu
the four Republican district committees.
Every step he has taken has been marked by party
loyalty and regularity The suggestion that he with
draw is insulting it is unwarranted.
There is not one valid reason why Senator DUPONT
should withdraw from the Republican ticket
There are eleven good reasons why he should re-
main candidate They are:
First-He is a Republican.
Second-He has made an honorable record in Con-
gress.
Thrd-He is the choice of the Republican cleo
toFate.
Fourth-He is the choice of the Republican caucus.
Fffth-He is the choice of the Republican State
Convention
sxth-His candidacy has the ratification of the Re-
publican State Committee and Of the four district COM
mittees
Seventh-His attitude towards all the other cand-
dates the Republican ticket is Of absolute
loyalty.
Eighth-He has valid right to expect and to de-
mand from them the same of absolute 10y
atty toward himself and his friends will insist that
he receive it.
Ninth-The interests of our State and the country
at large demand that Delaware shall return Repub
can to United States Senate to the end that that
legislative body shall be in harmony with Republ
President and a Republican House, and Senator
dupont is the only Republican Senatorial candidate
in this State.
Tenth-He is entitled, by his record and by his re-
nomination to the support of every voter who. de-
serves the name Republican, and also to the sup
port every of political farpay and good gov
ernment
EleVenth-He was requested by influential Republi-
cans other friends his candidacy for
a denomination. 1t at their solicitation that he
did So They stood by him in the Republican primary
and in the Republican State Convention They are
standing by him today. They will stand by him
tho ion he ma
to those loyal friends were he to entertain the thought
of withdrawing from the ticket.
So much for the political status Of Senator DUPONT
Now let us turn attention to infinitely more SER
ious phase of the Republican situation in this State
We refer the fact that Colonel John G. Townsend,
Jr the Republican candidate for Governor; David
j. Renhardt the Republican candidate for Attorney
General and William ]. Swain, the Republican can
didate for State Treasurer have been placed the
third ticket put in the field by the coterie of self
styled Republicans who bent upon wreckng the
Republican party electing Democrats to Office this
Fall.
The seriousness of the situation is found not in the
fact that they have been put on that partywreckers
ticket but the fact that they have permitted their
names to remain there, Notwithstanding their knowl-
edge that that ticket has been set for the
purpose of wrecking the Republican party and de-
feating Colonel Henry A. DUPONT, the Republican
didate for United States Senator Thomas W. Miller
the Republican candidate for Representative in Con-
gress; George M. Fisher, the Republican candidate
for Lieutenant-Governor Charles J. Luf the Re-
publican candidate for State Auditor of Accounts
and Amos A. Watson, the Republican candidate for
State Insurance Commissioner
Surely Colonel Townsend, Mr.. Reinhardt and Mr..
Swain not lost to intelligent understanding
of the situation as to imagine for instant that the
friends of Senator DUPONT Representative Miller, Mr..
Fisher, Mr. Luff and Mr.. Watson will condone toll
crate the party and associate dsloyalty that
would be symholized by them continuing candi-
dates on that party wreckers' ticket.
Political magnanimity is not unknown quantity in
Delaware but it never yet has reached the stage of
shouting approval of who seek to climb into Off
m The Evening Journal Wilmington, Del, 0etr 8, 191