Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-04
Bv a S,u6 Correspondent


WILMINGTON. Del. Dec 4.
The reason Senator Willard Salisbury,
of Delaware. Is going TO have such q
sweaty time holding his place in the
Senate is severalfold.
Being "A Senator is very pleasant and
often glorious. SO it is only natural that
a number Of ambitious men should want
Salisbury '"1' But the man who ic
alreGa ''"o ought to have Il
This advantage
q. ss. -. . -----.,y rcos..-r'ng the
friends WI, have gut the man up
there"
The newly elected senator. ii he is
a wise politician, sees to 1t as quickly
as he can that ali the lieutenants who
fought for him get jobs of SONG sort.
This will male them feel good and
in tho next campaign they may be ex-
pected to fight for him again. partly i'll
consideration Of his having given them
Jobs and partly In hopc "f hts giving
them better ones. of course, few OF
them may desert him because ne didn't
give them as nice posltions US lney
thought they should have ana Few
moro may go over TO the enemy DC
cause they think the enemy, II elected,
will give them better lobs. But, gener-
ally speaking II a man rewards an MS
nolitical friends they will be his politi-
cal friends still when he goes into the
next fight.
NOT ENOUGH JOBS
Now the unfortunate part or IL 10Y
Senator Salisbury is that he Is sen"
tor from Delaware and not from Nc"
York or Texas or some other "'dte
= Delaware is small; its population y
about 225.O0O; but it has lots ot ihei
who want political jobs. lhere are
probably as many political Jop hunterS
in Delaware as there are in New NorL
or Texas. But. Delaware being so small
there are not nearly 50 many poilt'ca
iohs When a Texas Senator mas
Mace TO fill he can I'LL it and make one
man happy without disappointing more
Than three or four. \ senator iron
Delaware in the same circumstances VII
tickle one man and disappont from III
,een to twenty.
Senator Salisbury seems 20 he suher
ing principally because he has peen uil
able TO take care" of everybody wh,
thought he ought to be taken care Oh
He probably would be better oil IN nj
fight for denomination II there hau "ee'
absolutely no patronage to distribute
Nobody would be mad" at him and tn
sole question would be, Has Saulsbur!
been a good Senator? And the ahs"e
would be in the affirmative.
The fact is. Salisbury has been
much better Senator. much bette
statesman, than politician. EHerybod
admits that In distributing patronage
what there was of 1t to distribute-h
had to disappoint some men. but som
say he has disappointed the wrong mer
That remains to be seen.
STANDS WITH ADMINISTRATION
The Senator has stood with the Ad
ministration and the Administrative
likes him But the Administration
= not the voting Democrats of Delaware
The Senator is popular with the Demo'
racy/ Of the United States. But tn
Democracy of the United states doe
not vote in Delaware. No mater no,
proud the party in the nation may b
OF Salisbury, no matter how grateft
the Administration at washington ma
be for his stalwart support of its pol
icies. the fact is that Sausbury's con
tinuation as Senator depends upo
what the Democratic voters of De
aware think of him. and what the Dem
ocratic voters of Delaware think of hir
is a matter of politics and not of states
manship.
No Delaware Democrat has bee
found by the writer--though there ma
be such---who criticizes Senator Saul'
bury's positions and actions so far a
they concern the National Governmen
All the criticism is of his positions an