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WEATHER. rtlr tonight; Thursday oioudy, wsrmsr, with rain.VOL. LV. NO. 256By 0*rrl»r. llaSENATOR DU PONT’S DEFEAT REGARDED AS PROBABLE BY HIGH REPUBLICAN AUTHORITYColonel George. Nox McCain, Veteran Writer and PoHtical Observer, Reviews the Political Situation in Delaware and Reaches This Conclusion; Also Believes Representative Caleb R. Layton Will be Defeated.In the Philadelphia Evening Isnlger. a Republican paper. of Monday and yesterday appeared an interesting and c.*mprehenslv# review of the political campaign In Delaware, written byColonel George No* McCain.Colonel Mc^'a.ii is an author ofaote, a newspaper man of eouod experience. a political ohaerver of established reputation, and an activeRepublican. Value, therefore, attache* t*» hla political reviews and tha conclusions reached by him after thorough lnveattgatlon. and hla con* elusion* in respect of the result of the election to be held in Delaware, next Tuesday, are:That Cnlted States Senator l‘ole* man du Pont probably will be beaten by Thomas F. Bayard.That the re-election of Kcpresenta-tive in Congress Caleb K. i«ayton “la not going to be a walkover.Following are the high Ughta of Colonel McCain’* interesting conclu-Bemorratlr Victory Probable.Judging by thV sent.metu abroad today, 1 shall not be surprised if the Democratic nominees carry the State.There are a .variety of reasons for this conclusion. ^Some go back twenty years, others less than twenty months. Heg.itdleas of age. a I are potential in their bearing on the results of November 7.Factional and class haired, family estrangements and flagrant.y vicious political deals are involved in the duThe questions of personal fitness, of inefficiency and inattention to duty, and p4¥iatbly. as occupying leading place, :he openly expressed fear that the political freedom of the people of Delaware as a whole will be menaced by Senator du Pont a election, are involved.T. Coleman du Pont wax appo.hted 1 mted States Senator by «fcvernor W arn D. Denney, last year, to fill the unaaptred term of Jos.ah O. Wolcott. Senator Wolcott was elected through a spit m the Republican party, to succeed Colonel Henry A. du Font.Senator Wolcott after serving four years resigned to accept the appointment of Chancel, r of Delaware, last year.The res.gnatton of Wolcott, the appointment of du font to his place and the three days’ fight for Wolcott s confirmation in the Senate of Dela-wwre ;s known In the expressive slang of the Delaware Peninsula, as the •‘Dirty Deal “In the face of Indignant and furious outbursts of itomocratic wrath, for they thereby lost a Senator, and the i ana*hemaa of Republicans who op-posted T. Coleman du Pont, the so-called and Inelegantly expressed. | ‘Thirty Deal was consummated.Everybody eeemed to have hla own opinion on the subject. There was no investigation.Ever since then the fires of political | hatred and revenge have been burning ail over the little State.The people of Delaware fought Ad-dlcks consistently and continuously for years. Not because they hated Addu-ks. mr he was personally a companionable. hail • fellow • well • met, though a rathsr cold-blooded individual. but because they feared the influence of hla weaJ*h.Hes.de*. he was an outlander.Thus you find toda this same old feei ng entertained anew in De.a-Keptttdlrqp* for Bayard.As a res til: of the m-paftjte Denney du Pont-Wolcott complex of last year. Mr Bayard this year has a solid Democratic Party behind him.He will, moreover, have the support of the anti-du Pont e.ement in the Republican party which la far more potential in a quiet way than e. her Renat* r du Pont or h a frienda imag-ine, I know.Nggftor aU of the Htats Senate Re-publicsna are arrayed against Se-.a tor du Pont This Includes 8lenatora 1 D. Short. J Carey Palmer of Pue-e-x J r Aliee. Jr. of Kent, John W. Walker, of rural New Castle, sod J. W Robertson of Wilmington.The moat vigorous and denunciatory opponent of the Ib-nt.ey-Wolcott-du Pont dee! flan bean Senator Jan.ea F A lies. Jr.. son of former Cnlted Pt*?«e Senator J Frank Aliee. of Kent county.Layton la Ranger.Delaware. It must rfe recalled, la a very uncertain little State, politically.It is more uncertain today than it has been for a long tlma.Continued on page I,HOPKINS GFTM BTATK SKWft UR.Iover. Nov* 1. -Colonel James W lekeo. editor of the Delaware Htate Nows, ksv* away a Durant «ar. value $*ln* * n Dover Green last night, a • • tee* prtae. The award was made t» Charles Hopkins, a former member of 3 Cure of West DoverKent Coanty Gave Liberally.Dover. Nov. 1.—L J Hayes. Ken* c .j.’v chairman for the Memory. Dbraiy Fund, stated tha- the resul: s» - w* that thirty-five hundred p*r-aon* contributed to the cause andchiefDemocratic.Newark—opera House. PenaTor T. M. Carmw: Arkansas will be the speaker.Peafnrd and 1 talma r. The chief speakers will l»e Judge William H. Hoyce, Democratlo nominee for Rapresentatlve In congress, Thomas F. Hayard. nominee for Cnlted State* Hena-tor. and Mrs. Mabel F. Derby, nominee for auditor of accounts.
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