Daily Republican., 1881-06-14
A new Organization wanted.


Gated conciliation and compromise
without the sacrifice of honor in the
Republican party, and when there is 50
much at stake as there is in Delaware,
it is the heigh h of foolishness for the
party to be divided into two wings and
to be at daggerS' points with each other.
Before it is too late we would call upon
the party to come together again and
forgetting the folies of the past remain
united? But how is this to be done we
are asked We will suggest plan that
every good and true Republican should
adopt.
First let us take little review of the
situation. Where are we now? Divi-
ded and daily drifting farther apart
Daily drifting farther away from Re
publican uecess and Republican an
ticipation OF the redemption of She
State from that Democratic rule which
disfranchises and politically enslaves
$4,000 citizens of New Castle county.
The party has never before gone so far
in ruinous course as it has this time.
There has been too much bulldog peril
naticity exhibited on all sides, which
has resulted in the organization of
City-Executive Committee believed by
one side to be illegally elected and on
that account will not be obeyed. Next
Saturday evening, unless all signs fail,
there will be another committee ap-
pointed which will be looked upon as
illegally constituted by the other side.
With these warning factions the party
goes before the people and the people |
will laugh at their pusilanimous efforts
to lead the party to success and victory.
The latter cannot be done with divid-
ed party. The glorious old motto that
"united we stand divided we fall" is
as true now as it ever was in the past.
We must be united if we would sue
Ceed. If we insist upon being divided
we cannot help but fall. We are fool
ishly opening our ranks to let the CO.
horts of Bourbon Democracy march on
to an easy victory.
But what is our plan for conciliation
and union of the Republicans? Sim
ply this: let us have new organiza-
tion of the party. This can be effected
without the sacrifice of honor and in
tegrity. OF course this would necessi-
tate dissolution of the City Executive
Committee organized last Saturday
night, and dissolution of the commit
tee which will in all probability be Or
ganized next Saturday night. No mat
ter which is legal or which is illegal,
which is the right or which is the
wrong; which is the straight or which
is the crooked, let all committees be
dissolved. 1t is better to have no SEM
blancS OF an organization, than to have
two making warupOn each other. Let
a public meeting of the Republican
party be called in the Institute Build
ing or i'll the Opera House. presided
over by some gentleman who has never
taken very active part in politics,
who is capable and honest, and in
whom all parties have implicit conf
dence. Let this presiding officer be
mutually agreed upon by Messrs. Hig- $
gins, Bird, Pickles, Baker, Bach, Coyle I
and other leaders of both wings. We I
may be asked why we have excluded
office holders from the list we have
mentioned. We answer, we have done n
so purposely. In this new organization
let office holders step to the rear for the
time being. Let the people who are S
not office holders recognize this move
ment. There are other Just as good and
tried Republicans as Messrs Pyle, Nc :
Mullen, Thompson, Stroud, Bye, Haw-
kins, Rudolph, Devices, Culbert, Rob
erts, Smith, Swiggett and others whom
we might name. No person doubts the
true Republcanism of any of the gen
tlemen named, and being asked to take |
back seat in the reorganization of '
the party would imply no lack of con-
fdence in them as honest and efficient 9
Federal Office holders. Simply let this /
be a movement Of the people and by |
the people who are not interested in :
keeping themselves in office.
At the meeting proposed let COM $
mittee of gentlemen be appointed of
.judicious men to draft rules for the ,
future government of the party, and {
let those rules embody the principle of '
each ward electing its own executive
committee, and at the same time desig- '
nate some person to be chairman of the !
city executive committee. This would I
shift the contest for organization of the
ward committees to the Republicans of '
the wards themselves, and thereby avoid |
little meetings in a crowded room liable
to be packed at any time by the ad- f
herents OF cne side or the other. There t
are other necessary preliminaries to a o
sound organization which could easily !;
be provided for at the public meeting 4
suggested or by the committee appoint Il
ed by that meeting to draft rules for Il
future guidance in organizing the party. =
We think we hear some one ask, what C
will you do with the present rules for S
organizing? We answer make bon .
fire of them. The people who made II
those rules can unmake them, and sue
ceed them with others. Let them be