Middletown transcript., 1916-10-14

no the end that the political situation in Delaware
may be clarified with respect to matter of prime
importance to the Republican party and to the people
OF this State and the country at large it may be well
to announce at this time that under circumstance
will Colonel Henry A. dupont, senior United States
Senator, withdraw from the Republican ticket
candidate for reelection.
Those who call themselves Republicans and
who are merely conspiraOrs against the Republican
party and its principles and policies; those who
call themselves Republicans and who working
covery with those conspirators; and those tmid Re-
publicans who have been thrown into panic by the
threats of the wOuld-be party wreckers may as well
reconcile themselves to that fact and govern them
selves accordingly.
Senator DUPONT, through desire fault Of his
own but solely because Of the congenital hatred Of
one man, 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 caucuses
which preceded the Republican State Convention
Once his friends rallied to his support and
Senator DUPONT, through no desire fault of his
own 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 determined front of his many friends in the
convention was such that those who had conspired
against him did not dare to offer candidate in Oppo
ston 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 are 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 by
the grace 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 reachery of
professed poliHcal friends the kneeknockings Of
apprehensve who real Republicans will in
duce him withdraw. He is perfectly content to
leave his official record and his political future to the
judgment the great electorate Of the State
of Delaware and to abide by that judgment whatever
it may be.
If 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 primaries-and them.
If he had followed the advice needed the dark
forebodings of weak men who did not know the tenn
per of the delegates the Republican State Conven-
tion, he would not have permitted any fight to be
made in his behalf in caucus the floor and
thereby he would have deprived of the satsfac-
ton of winning of the greatest personal victories
ever won by any public man in our State.
If, after that victory, he had followed the ad-
vice or needed the dark forebodngs Of weak 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 NAL
odorous type of J. 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 political eliina
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 the
Republican primaries in good faith; he had obtained
the support Of the Republican in good faith;
he received State Convention platform endorsement
in good faith; he accepted from that State Conven
ton unanimous denomination in good faith, and in
like good faith he received and accepted the ratihca-