Evening journal., 1916-08-02
THE asrCkER MOYEMENr.r

THE "SICkER MOVEMENT
THE Republican primaries in this state will be held
on August 10 Republican voters should be on the
alert to guard themselves against the political conf
dence men and god-brick manpulators who have been
put in the field by J. Frank Alice and BENJAMIN A
Groves. leaders OF the new movement TO wreck the
Republican party deliver our State TO the Demo-
Gratis
Those and their emissaries are at work in
all the districts They posing as political reform
ers and mportuning Republican voters to assist them
in defeating Republican machine" that does not
exist and in purifying the Republican party They
cloak their party-wreckng purpose with hypocritical
pretense and boast that they making much head
way in the rural districts
It's cinch TO fool the farmer" one of the Alice
Groves emssaries said yesterday THE voters who
live in the towns and villages as easy to
handle"
In fact this political god-brick artist seemed to
take pride In the work of deceit in which he was en-
gagged at the behest OF Alice and Groves or some Of
their leutenants
THE EVENING JOURNAL deems it TO be its duty to
the people who reside in the districts and to the
Republican party and the principles for which IL
stands, to the voters against permitting them
selves to fall INTO the hands of this organized crew of
political god-brick men, who profess TO be trading
in political purity while in reality their stocl-in-
trade political putrdity They political menace
TO the party and the public and should receive eli
couragement from any Republican source
The voters in the sections should experience
pleasure in showing Alice Groves and their hired
agents that IL not "a cnoh to fool the farmer" and
that the voters who live in the towns and villages are
not almost easy handle" when Il comes TO pass
ing out political gold bricks The assumption that
the farmer the resident of the town and village is
ready to swallow dose OF political hypocrisy that
Alice and Groves may to mix for him is an in
sultng one II cannot fail TO arouse resentment.
" bo hat
aas been all things all men in politics. engineered
he nomination Of State ticket in Dover and immedi-
"for suckers to vote" That ticket became known as
the Sucker Ticket" name that cImgs to it to this
day.
No doubt Alice looks upon his present campajsp az
Sucker Movement" The utterance of one OF his
followers referred to above would seem IN indicate a.
His experience four ago with his sucker Ticket
should have taught HIM that Delaware is NOT neoDied
WIN suckers and that Sucker Movement" such as
ue and Groves are engineering will not appeal to
Ticket" MS SUMMIT
reports received from reliable sources in vsr,ous
secuons OF our State show that the Sucker Move
ment Is meeting with little success The Auaecroves
At'acK upon the Republican organizations their char
hcterzauon OF It as machine" and their assrr,
uon OF political virtues that they do not possess have
fallen fiat Republican are rallyine 10 tho an
port OF their party and its organization when az
votes counted the evening Of August 10 ~ vii,
be found that Republicans are not suckers" but SON
sibe and patriotic citizens and that Il is not a cirt
for men of the Alice and Groves stripe 10 afoo tbs
farmer" anyone else who has ordinary political
,ense.