Evening journal., 1916-06-24
Peoples Column
ALFRED |. DUPONT

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ALFRED l. DUPONT
AND j. FRANK ALLEE.
To the Editor Of THE EVENING
JOURNAL:
Sir:-We read in the Wilmington
Morning News of last Monday a state
ment credited TO ALFRED l. DUPONT, to
the effect that he intends to make a
fight for pure politics in Delaware.
and that he will begin his fight by
throwing whatever influence he may
possess against each and every candi-
date for public Office who either is
the choice of the Republican party
which he terms the machine" or
aligned with il as it's servant. and
claiming that his proposed fight for
pure politics is backed by his con-
viction that it is a duty he owes his
native States.
If Alfred DUPONT actually believes
that political conditions in the Re-
publican party are in such a deplOr-
able state as to engender within him
a feeling against them so strong as
TO amount to a moral duty he owes
his native State to annihilate them,
and in their place to substitute con-
ditions. which would make for him
absolutely pure politics, he is certain
ly to be praised by every decent, hon
est citizen in Delaware.
But the question is: Does Alfred l.
dupont actually believe that political
conditions are so rotten i'm the Re
fr naf uu a
necessitate or make advisable the
fight he proposes 10 make against
them. or has he an Interior motive
hidden behind his apparently serious
and honest purpose to attempt a most
difficult work purely for love of po-
litical righteousness within his native
State?
That is a question: most serious
and perplexing questionable writer
would like to have answered But
who is there to answer it? Certainly
we will not accept the answer Of Al
fred 7. DUPONT as a true answer to
the question. and certainly we will
not accept the word of the Whining
ton Morning News. which. according
to report in this section. is absolutely
under the control of Alfred |. dupont,
as a true answer to the question.
The writer cannot even agree with
Alfred I. DUPONT that conditions in
the Republican party are OF the ma
ture that he would have the public
believe they are. have been a voter
in Delaware for nearly thirty years. If
conditions in the Republican party
are any worse since | became a voter
I certainly fail to see in what man
ner they are. But / can recall when
conditions we're considerably worse
| than they are today. and that time
wasn't so many years ago. either
Where. at that time, was Alfred !.
DUPONT and the moral duty he owed
TO his native State? We fail TO re-
call any statement coming from AL
fred l. DUPONT at that time that he
was going to begin a campaign 70
purity local conditions within the
: Republican party, although he was
/ then a resident, and a voting resident
Of Delaware.
reiterate I am sorely perplexed
have tried. and tried hard. to make
myself believe that Alfred I. duPon
is sincere and that the rotten politi
cal conditions he believes exist in th'
Republican party are responsible fol
thoughts and ideas for the bettermenI
of his native State which might have
permeated his system until they be-
came so troublesome to his con.
science that he was virtually forced
to perform the duty he believes hC
owes his native State. But in spite
of us. the possibilities that Alfred
dupont may have back OF his scheme
to purify political conditions, or tha
he may be one of those cranky. noto
riety-seeking agitators that occasion
ally spring up in various parts Of oul