Evening journal., 1916-07-27
THAT POLITICAL PURITY
TRINITY.
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with the distemper of Alfred l. DUPONT the political
impurity of J. Frank Alice and the Kaleidoscope Shift
ness of Benjamin A. Groves.
II Is an insult to the Republicans Of Delaware for any
one to suggest that such trinity of political marplots
is possessed Of elements Of purity that be eIeVang
TO the Republican party of this State The written and
the unwrtten records and the facts give the lie to such
suggestion. They show clearly that while the Re-
publican party might he .able, by arduOus evangelisc
effort to elevate such trinity, that trinity Is not now,
and has been, qualified to elevate the Republican
party. When the Republican party Of this State be.
comes debased that It is willing to accept such
combination ifs mentor and guide in the matter Of
social political ethics, It will be high time for that
party To manifest its consciousness of the depth Of its
debasement by going out of existence
The Republican party, however, Is not going out Of
existence II is not going to lose it's sef.respect II Is
not going to sink low to be made the toy and play
thing Of this clownish trinity. II going to do the right
thing the American thing, the Republican thing. That
is, to stand by Republican principle, policy and de.
cency and to defend those things against all
The Republican voter In the Delaware of today places
proper value upon his party and the good things for
which II stands in public and private life II is because
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ly win fail in its conspiracy of political prostitution
that Is as hypOcritica in its pretense II
worthy In its conception and composition.
Believing In persopn and political purity, bellev.
ing in the great American principle Of majority rule,
believing that the elective franchise is priceless her-
tage and not a marketable cOmmodity believing in the
imperishabe wisdom and virtue which undere the
things for which the Republican party stands and be-
lieving In the necessity for ntegenty constructed
and mlItantly party organization, the Repub
llcan voter Of Delaware win stand by his principles,
by his party and by his organization in the epoCh-mak
ing political struggle that Is in this and all the
other States.
II Is struggle IN which political wisdom is battling
with political unwsdOm struggle in which political
honesty is battling with political dishonesty; struggle
in which political cOnstructOnsts are battling with
political destructOnsts struggle In which every man.
woman and child should be lined up the side Of right
and srrayed uucOmprOmlsingly against the side Of
wrong.
The founders Of the Republican party intended
that that great and beneficial political organization
should be used as trough at which Alfred l. DUPONT
might feed his congena hate to the point of supplying
euttony They never Intended that II should be used
as franchisetra bOurse with political parah Of
the Alice stripe In charge of IFS operaans. Nor did they
ever dream that in the days TO possessed
Of the shlfty political record Of BENJAMIN A. Groves
would proclaim himself apostle Of political purity
and probity and 90 out in the highways and hyways,
preaching the gospel Of civic Righteousness and point
ing frantlcalIy to Alfred L DUPONT as the Republican
Messiah and to ]. Frank Alice his high priest
I'm the political Holy Of HOLES. Had the found
ers Of the Republican party thought for an Inc
slant that such results would flow from their work,
they would sbandOned their enterprise and turned
b projects that gave promise Of other and better things
Happily for the United States and Its people, they could
not see far into the future. They built wisely
uer and upon such a foundation that today the
Republican voter m Delaware Is swayed by political
principle and not by congenital hatred. He Is swayed
by cold reason and hot patriotism and not by cold pa.
tr1otim and hot dstemper. He regards It patriotic
duty TO stand By his party and his organization because
they represent the things In which he believes with
unshakabe faith. He resents all attempts. matter
whether they be made BY Alfred l. DUPONT
else to subordinate Republican principle and policy to
unreaOnng personal hatred He feels that II that hatred
must exist at all II shOuld he kept within its natural
private field and he projected into the councils OF
marty that has something Infinitely important to
do than 10 meddle WITH be distracted by domestic
rudres that are private and not public in their nature
and that are Pisa-ike in their distempered One-sded'