Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-06
SHOULD VOTE FOR BAYARD.

Thomas F. Bayard was nominated
by the Democrats as the outcome Of
a fair and open contest in the pri-
maries. There is no reason why he
should not poll the entire Democratic
tions he would not expect the votes
OF many avowed Republicans. But the
conditions Of this years campaign
have been more than ordinary.
Coleman du Pont was not nominated
as the outcome of fair primary con-
test. There was no contest at all.
He was forced on the party by in
side manipulation. He ia, in fact, his
own choice. He was nominated in a
listless, we-have- got-to-do-it fashion
by a convention whose members acted
as mere automatons, the Big Boss"
himself and his lieutenants pulling the
strings behind the curtain. He was
already member OF the United States
Senate. but not by election. The man
ner in which he broke into the Senate
is well known. At the time of his ap-
pointment he held the office of deputy
police commissioner Of New York
City, than which no other Office could
more positively identity him as New
Yorker. For one does not have to be
highly intelligent to understand that
the police department Is essentially
local in it's functions. His principal
business interests are not local TO
Delaware, and have not been for sew
eral years past.
Since becoming q member of the
Senate, his record Is mostly one Of
being elsewhere, which tends to show
that he likes the honor, but is not so
fond Of the place, and gives some
color to the report that he is likely
10 resign and allow one Of his chief
lieutenants TO slip IN by appointment
His alihi is that attendance in the
Senate is not important, az practically
all of the real legislative work is done
in committee rooms. Now any bright
schoolboy knows that all legislation
ir the Senate is enacted by voting on
the floor of the Senate. The commit
tees do not pass any laws. Il is also
on the floor of the Senate that the dis
cussion takes place which lead. to
amendments and improvement OF bills
reported out by the committees, and it
is on the floor of the Senate that the
'jokers" sometimes inserted in the
committees are detected.
Senator du Pont asks to be elected,
not so much for what he has done,
but for what he Will do hereafter
Well. what ss he going 10 do? He has
not specified anything. Finding a few
jobs on the Federal pay roll for hi.
favored supporters will not give him
high rank as a statesman.
If Coleman du Pont really wishes
to do something fine in politics, and
make a place for himself in history
as truly great man, let him pass
down the word that his supporters
must not use money for the purchase
of votes, even though an election with
the corrupt use of money eliminated
may mean his defeat. II he assumef
TO be the Republican leader, he also
assumes the responsibility for thi,
shameful and notorious blot on the
Republican party in Delaware. Traf-
ticking in votes is, in free and demo.
cratic form of government, one of the
most diabolical of crimes. The better
class Of colored voters are themselve.
becoming resentful of this corrupt po.
litical regimenting of their race. Th,
conscientious voter who may, once o.
twice in a lifetime, cast split bal
lot. is certainly higher. grade Re
publican than the ward heelers wht
pass out the five-dollar bills on elec
ton days. If the Republican part.
is the party to which the coiored vote
should naturally turn, why is it neces
sary TO buy his vote, anyway?
In view of the facts which max
Coleman du Pont an unappealing can
didate, the conscientious Republical
will gain caste, rather than lose IL
with the intelligent people of Della
ware (always excepting the profes
sional politician who wishes 10 Sc
himself up as a boss) when he vote
for good, clean. public-spirited an
able Democrat, Thomas F. Bayard. ]