Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-10-11

TO the end that the political situation in Delaware
may be clarified with respect to a matter of prime
Importance to the Republican party and to the people
Vi 'his state and the country at large it may be we'll
TO announce at this time that no circumstance
will Colonel Henry A. dupont. senior United States
Senator, withdraw from the Republican ticket as a
candidate for reelection.
Those men who call themselves Republicans and
who are merely consprators against the Republican
party and its principles and policies; those who
call themselves Republicans and who are working
c"Verty with those conspirators; and those timd Re-
pubcans who have been thrown into panic by the
threats of the would-be party wreckers may as well
reconcile themselves to that fact and govern them
selves accordingly.
Senator DUPONT, through desire fault Of his
own, but solely because of the congenal hatred Of
one man. was made the issue in the Republican pri-
maries His friends rallied to his support he
Senator DUPONT, through desire fault of his
own, but solely because Of the disemper of
one man. was made the issue in the district
which preceded the Republican State Convention
once more his friends rallied to his support and
Senator DUPONT. through no desire fault OF his
own but solely because Of the hat?heat OF one
man, would have been made an issue on the floor of
the State Convention hall had it not been that the
bold and determined front of his many friends in the
convention was such that those who had conspired
against him did not dare to offer candidate in oppo-
ston TO his denomination.
He defeated his foes within the party lines and he
Will defeat them just surely that they have
taken to the political bush and are resorting TO
guerrilla warfare against him.
Senator dupont will withdraw because he is a
Republican who is. by the grace of the Republican
primaries, by the grace OF the Republican caucus by
the grace of the Republican State Convention and by
the grace of the ratification action of the Republican
State Committee and the four Republican district
committees, the Republican nominee Neither the con-
tho oln,
professed political friends the knee knockngs of
apprehensive men who real Republicans will in
duce him to withdraw. He is perfectly content TO
leave his official record and his political future to the
sober judgment of the great electorate OF the State
of Delaware and to abide by that judgment whatever
it may be.
If he had followed the advice or needed the dark
forebodings of weak who did not know the tenn
per OF the Republican electorate, he would no, have
entered the Republican primaries-and won them
IL he had followed the advice needed the dark
forebodings Of weak men who did know the tenn
per of the delegates to the Republican State Conven
ton he would not have permitted einy fight be
made in his behalf in caucus or on lie floor and
thereby he would have been depriveda the satsfac-
ton of winning Of the greatest personal victories
ever won by any public man in State.
III, after that victory, he had followed the ad-
vice or needed the dark forebodings weak men who
did not know the temper of the Delaware electorate
he would have declined the nomination. retired from
public life and permitted the Republican party Of this
State to pass into the keeping of men of the NAL
odorous type of ]. Frank Alice and Benjamin A.
Groves and their distempered financial hacker
1t not in the nature of things that Senator du-
Pont should pursue any OF the several and consecu.
tive suggested for his own political eIimna-
ton He had served the Republican party in good
faith; he had announced his candidacy for q renom
nation in good faith he had entered and Won the
Republican primaries in good faith he had obtained
the support OF the Republican in good faith;
he received State Convention platform endorsement
in good faith; he accepted from that State Conven
ton unanimous denomination in good faith and in