Evening journal., 1916-10-30
LOOKING BACKWARD.

! ias e'' mail this morning We found the follow
City, Oct. 2s. 1916.
Editor JoURNAL-The following is an open letter I
am sending Every Evening.
Editor Every Evenng-You are mighty anxious
about the Democratic candidate for Governor this year.
but you were not very enthusiastic about the Demo-
cratic candidate four years ago you? You did
lF so much as mention his name in your editorials
4 refer to the Hon Thomas NJ Monaghan. We re-
member, and watch your Democratic candidate on
Yours, With Due Respect
JAMES NJ. CANNON"
"As l have said before watch Jim Hughes sdel"
Very truly yours
JAMES NJ. CANNON"
There is no doubt that Thomas NJ Monaghan Dem
ocratc candidate for Governor four years ago. re-
ceved what may be called a deal at the hands
of a certain section of the Delaware Democracy The
election returns showed clearly that in a political
sense. he "sain in the house of his friends The
same fate that had overtaken Peter j. Ford another
Democratic candidate several years before. overlook
him. and in both instances it the Democratic ele
ment that now is endeavoring land H. Hughes
in the Governors chair that decided that neither Ford
Monaghan should occupy that official place.
It may be, OF course that the friends OF Ford and
Monaghan will forget and forgive the past and sup
port the Wolcott and Hughes state ticket In this
paign The letter Of Mr.. Cannon indicates. however,
that there some Of them who not Of a forgive
ing spirit
Friends OF Mr.. Hughes express confidence however.
that Notwithstanding a section Of the State Dem0c-
racy has served peremptory notice. BIZ defeat. upon
Mr. Ford and Mr. Monaghan that the executive once
closed to them, they and their friends VIII be so
revengeful to return the compliment but will fall
in line for the Wolcott-Hughes ticket
Both Ford and Monaghan brought lt on them
selves" a Wolcott Hughes Democrat said today.
They we're warned they could not be elected. They
should have needed that warning. Instead they de-
liberatey put themselves in a position to be knitted
(. by Democrats who determined that neither
should occupy the Governors chair. They should not
have aspired high in view Of the sentiment that
listed against them in certain Democratic quarters and
that would exist again II they again II
is the duty and their friends to accept the sit
uaon as they find it and support the tickets regard
less OF the past and its bearing upon future Demo
cratic nominations. The friends Of Ford and Mona
CHAN will not knife the wocott- Hughes ticket because
they cannot afford to do it. matter what the
friends Of wocott and Hughes in certain poten-
tal districts did toward defeating Ford and Mon
afghan when they In any event neither Ford nor
Monagan possesses the political influence he for
merly possessed. In Democratic sense, this is no
time be paying much attention to last years bird
nests"
We wonder if either Mr. Ford or Mr. Monaghan has
fallen so in Democratic influence and esteem that
either be described truthfuy as a "last years
bird nest" Our impression is that they have manv
friends in State who the treatment they re-
ceved at the hands Of that section Of the State Democ
racy that is to send Josiah O. Wolcott 10
the United States Senate and James H. Hughes IN
the Governors chair it formerly eager to send
Peter J. Ford and Thomas NJ Monaghan to the Demo.
cratic scrap-heap and, to elect in their stead Re
publican candida for Governor.