Middletown transcript., 1916-10-14
Eleven Potent Reasons Why Senator Pon Should MOI
Withdraw From the Republican Ticket; FiUe Potent
Reasons Why Townsend, Reinllardt and S1Ualn
Should Withdraw, Without Further Delay,
From the Party Wrcclers' Ticket

cal place over the wreckage of the party that nom
mated them and the bodies of their associates
a regularly constituted ticket.
The question that now confronts Colonel Townsend
Mr. Renhardt and Mr.. Swain is whether, in this
election they prefer party wreckers support to Re-
publican support, or Republican support to party
wreckers' support They must realize that they Can
not have both the milk and the meat"
We have given eleven why Senator dupont
should not withdraw from the Republican ticket. We
shall now give five potent why Colonel Town
send Mr. Reiphardt and Mr. Swain should withdraw
from the party Wreckers' ticket. They
First-They have been nominated by the Republican
party for high and important Office, and in the be
lief that they will do everything possible to promote
the principles and policies of that party and to elect
its representatives to Office
Second-The third ticket upon which they also have
been nominated has been set up not to the
Republican party but to wreck it; not to promote the
principles and policies of that party but to njure
destroy then and to elect representatives Of that
party to Office, but to defeat them.
Third-The party wreckers' ticket represents po-
Itcal impulse that recommends it to the favorable
consideration Of any loyal Republican any lover Of
good government.
Fourth-Republican control of the next Congress
may depend upon the reelection of Colonel dupont to
the Senate and Representative Miller to the House
The failure of Colonel Townsend, Mr.. Reinhardt and
Mr. Swain to withdraw from the party wreckers' ticket
is not only interfering with the proper and ag
gressve conduct of the Republican campaign but max
ing possible continuance of Democratic control of
both branches of Congress.
Fffth-The Republican voters of Delaware will
not support any man who strikes hands with lends
encouragement to a movement which has personal
enmity for it's chief impulse and the wreckng of the
Republican party and the defeat of majority of the
candidates the Republican ticket for its chief OBJ
jecs.
In view of the foregoing, and of the approach of
the general election it will be we'll for those who
have been scheming get Senator DUPONT off the Re-
publican ticket and to keep Colonel Townsend, Mr..
Reinhardt and Mr.. Swain on the party wreckers
ticket to abandon their impractical and impossible
projects and to settle down to the legitimate enter
prise of electing the Republican ticket that was nom
dated in Dover on August 22-and when we say
"electing the Republican ticket" mean eecting all
of it and not part Of it.
No candidate on that ticket is spineless as to
permit himself to be used by any other candidate as
a sacrifice for Republican party wreckers holiday
It will better for those who are planning for that
party holiday to give heed to that fact now
when they time TO change their policy, than to
ignore it until it is too late for them to do so. But
whatever they may decide to do, let them not lose
sight of three material facts One that Senator du
Pont will remain on the Republican ticket until the
polls close on November and that the same public
favor which won him the nomination will win him
the election Another is that it is not likely that
Colonel Townsend Mr.. Reinhardt and Mr.. Swain Will
so far forget themselves to remain on the party
wreckers' ticket The third is that the Republican
friends of Senator dupont Representative Mlller'
George NJ Fisher Charles ]. Luff and Amos A. Wat
son will not stand by and them sacrificed on the
altar of the Maodorous Order of the Political Double
Cross for the benefit of any Republican candidate who
is so indscree as linger in the anteroom OF the
Order.
The friends of dupont, Miller, Fisher, Luf and Wat
son demand a square deal from and for every cand-
date on the Republican ticket. They want nothing
less; they want nothing more and they will know
how to deal with those men who refuse to give it.