Daily Republican., 1884-04-02
BLAINE REPUBLICANS.
THEIR ADDH EAS 10 THEREPUH'
LICANS OF DELAWARE
COUNTY RIGHTS.

ITHEIR ADDR EsS To THE REPUH
II LICANs OF DELAWARE
COUNTY RIGHTS.
At q meeting of the Blaine club Z
Wilmington, held last night, tho to
lowing address TO the Republicans q
Delaware was adopted
To the Republican Voters OF Della
ware: 1t Is becoming more AM
more evident that tho great majority o
the Republicans of Delaware are IL
favor Of the nomination Of James u
Blame for President by the Nationa
Republican Convention at Chicago oL
j Ine Sd next.
This sentiment is not a new growth
The Delaware Republicans were FOL
Blaine in 1876 and again in 1850; and
til cir undoubteu preference for him TO-
day il the simple and natural result OF
years OF careful scrutiny OF the actions
and conduct of the many able men with
whom he has been associated in the Re-
publican party. This wisdom and CON.
servatism of the Republicans of Della.
ware in their steady and persistent sup
port OF James G. Blaine for President Is
amply sustained aud justified by the
course Of the great majority OF Republl-
cans in many other States. Blaine Is
getting more delv gates from the pivotal
States OF New York, Ohio anu indiana
than any other candidate named and In
the decisive etate Of Pennsyivania the
delegates to Chicago will be almost
unanimous for him.
This general and positive preference
for Mr.. Blaine III these great Republi
can States is not the result of work by
interested agents or politicians, but II
Is spontaneous and Intelligent ex'
preston by a great majority CT Republl.
can voters, indicating clearly that the
NJ asses of the voters have cut loose from
the trammels Of party dictatorship ana
propose to choose candidate OF their
l0wn.
Now the same reasons and motives
which impel the Republican masses OF
others States to put themselves on
record in favor of their Presidential
! choice apply with equal force to the
Republicans Of Delaware. 1t Is both
their right and their duty TO say whom
they want to lead the Republican party
in the coming National contest. II tie
majority of the Delaware Republicans
are in favor of Mr.. Blaine for this ex-
alted position, as they undoubtedly are,
they should have 10 hesitation in say
ing 30.
But the only way in which they can
make their wishes or purposes effective
IL to send delegates to Dover, on the
17th of this month, who directly and
positively represent their sentiments.
With this object in view the friends or
Mr.. Blaine in this city have formed an
organization aud have pledged their
cordial and united support to the elec.
tion of such delegates. They now call
upon the friends of their candidate all
over the the State to join them in this
common purpose, SO that the conven-
tion at7 Dover may give honest and ef-
fective expression to the general senti-
ment of the Republican voters.
They make the further request of their
friends and fellow believers throughout
the State to aid them in sending to Chi
cago men who may be trusted to respect
the honest wishes Of their constituents
men who will do all that they honorably
can to nominate Mr.. Blaine, or who,
finding his nomination inexpedien:, will
Join with the best forces of the National
Convention in selecting the strongest,
most available and most representative
candidate before that body. The Blaine
Club of Wilmington, Delaware, does
not believe in the "unit rule" nor in
the first, last and all the time notion
of indorsing their Presidential candi.
date, but believe that the free and un-
tram melsd will of the majority should
| prevail in every instance.
1t is proper at this time that the at
tention of the Republican voters of tho
State should be called to the import
ance of the present party organizations.
] 1t is q part of history that the Republi-
can party of Delaware has been led to
disastrous and humiliating defeat for
many years in succession. The MEM
bers of the Blaine club of Wilmington,
Delaware, have no wish or pur-
pose to place the blame of the
mistortunes of the party on the
shoulders of any man or set of
men but they feel constrained, as
earnest and hard-working men of the
party, to point out. and if possible rene
dy, what in their judgment appears to
be the prime cause Of the party disas-
ters and dissensiGns.
Under the present rule of the party
governing the matter, the chairman OF
the biennial State Convention Is clothed
with the autOcratic power OF naming the
entire central organization or committee
of the party. This great power has been
repeatedly abused, az it naturally
would be, until to oday the State Com
mittee has become mere personal in
strument for the distribution of federal
and other political patronage. The
remedy for this great party evil lies
in change of the method of appoint |
ing or selecting and organizing the
State Committee, making it purely |
representative body of the party and
removing 1t from under the arbitrary,
personal and selfish dictation of any
one person or set of persons.
In order to effect this each county
ought to be allowed to chose its own
State Committee through its regularly
elected delegates to the biennial State
Convention In caucus assembled. The
members of the State Committee thus
chosen by the party delegates Of the
three counties in separate caucuses
ought to have the right to elect their
own officers either from their own
or from the party at large.
This is the plan which now holds in the
election and organization of the county
and there is no good reason
why the same plan or principle should
not be successfully applied to the
of State Committee
If this plan were adopted as the writ
ton law of the party it,would at least se-
cure an honest representation on the
Central Committee to the majority of
the Republican voters in each county,
and remove in q great measure from
men the temptation of leap