Evening journal., 1916-10-31
Y0TE sTRAIGHT REprnLICAN.

OUR esteemed contemporary, the Newark Post
~ prints two editorials which especially worthy
OF the careful peruss of Delaware one. deal
ing with the important matter Of the election OF
United States Senator Henry A. DUPONT is as fol-
lows:
Voting for Senator Henry A. DUPONT is just
much the duty of every Republican as the voting for
the Republican electors. That the electoral vote OF
Delaware viii be cast for Charles r. Hughes is gen
orally admitted The vote for the national Republic
can ticket in Delaware is predicted to be unusually
heavy There u.s. however an element in the State
who from personal enmity. are trying TO defeat the
candidate for Senator How any man. who is a Re.
publican from principle vote for the national
electors and for the u. s. Senator is more than
we can comprehend II is absolutely vital that Presi-
dent Hughes have working majority in the Senate
The citizen who votes for one and not for the other
duty.
II takes but small reasoning to see that either
Senator DUPONT goes back TO the Senate a Demo
crat. To vote for Burton is only a crude cowardly
OF voting for Democrat To send a Demo-
crat is to cast vote for who will act directly
contrary 10 what you Republican believe
The question C an be stripped down to one Issue
do YOU Republican want a Republican Senator
Democrat
We know the answer Then vote the straight Re
publican ticket and allow no one to dupe YOU other
The other editorial deals with the surprising will
ngness OF Dr. Hiram r. Burton, former Republican
Congressman 10 permit himself to be used as crea-
ture by the Party wreckers to send a Democrat in
stead OF Republican TO the United states Senate.
That editorial reads
The greatest surprise that has ever come 10 us in
few years OF political observation is the ac-
ton OF ex-Congressman Hiram Burton in allowing him
self 10 be used in the attempted defeat OF Republican
u. S. Senator and thereby essenng the strength Of
Republican President II were a throe-cornered
fight, il would be surprise, but to deliberately so
aid in the defeat of the party that honored him is
little more than we can conceive His record in Con
gress is something OF which We are proud He should
have continued-at least we have always so main
tanned. But after the Republican party in reg
uar primary and convention placed the candidate in
the field for him to oppose him in the method taken
is a shock to our idea OF his Repubcanism. We take
no exception his objection Senator dupont be-
fore the convention. He then Justly within his
rights and practices of the party Tut to sympahize
with the opposition far to lend his name TO
further scheme. conceived in personal hatred and
planned TO defeat the Republican candidatewell, Il
shows TO us that his professed Repubcanism is not
founded on secure conviction. BY his action he IS
fighting his own principle. he is not only lending
himself to aid in the defeat of his own State party
but is opposing The whole national party We respect
his pre- convention opposition but condemn his deser-
tion which casts reflection his whole public
II is not only politically indecent. IL is sacrl-
fee OF principles. Had events passed that he was
opposed TO the national platform. could have ex-
cused him and honored his independence But ia
accept the national platform and the same time
aid i'm the defeat OF the the ticket who
will vote for those principles in the Senate-weu if's
beyond our ken. Really. expect to see him vel
withdraw. His position now does not in any way har-
monte with the career and our conception Of the
man.
In response to that wish to say that the deptf
Of Dir. Buron's political degradation as "A result o.
his association with j. Frank Alice and the Other
Party Wreckers is revealed by his letter Offering {,
Withdraw from the Party Wreckers ticket as a Sena
torial candidate II Colonel Henry A. DUPONT will
withdraw from the Republican ticket and agree 4
the selection Of a compromise nominee No docu
ment ever was penDed in this State reeked NOR
with political hypocrisy than does that Burton letter
One paragraph of it reads follows.
My sole purpose from the beginning. in aowin
the Of my name the Independent ticket. ha
been TO II possible. the election OF Repub
can 10 this important Office. have known fror
the beginning, that Colonel dupont could not
elected; II is for this that ] ready 10 e
10 the last ditch Of personal sacrifice to force tn
nomination c. candidate who. unlike Colonel du
Pont, will command the united support OF the whole