Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1890-09-09
REPUBLICANS SPLIT.


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the Primaries In Duek Creek.
STAFF Correspondence EVENING JOURNAL.
SMYRNA. Sept. 9.-Harry Richardson
has carried Kent cou nty, but by such
means as were never before known In Re
publican politics. As consequence
there is split In the party that cannot
be healed in time for the election and all
hopes OF carrying Kent county are dis
PEELED.
Played the "Nigger" act.
Duck Creek hundred will make a fair
example of the methods resorted to by
the Richardson Republicans to carry
their delegations.
1t has never been customary In this
hundred for the colored man to vote at
the primary elections. This year the
colored men under the influence of Will
mington colored men, showed q decided
inclination to exercise the elective fran
chise at the little as we'll as in the big
election when this became known the Hig
gins men brought James Potts home
from Washington to hold the cash OF
the colored element and keep them from
the polls
Potts is leading young colored Re-
publican who was appointed messenger
in one of the departments at Washing
ton through Senator Anthony Higgins,
and it was thought he could check the
colored men and hold them aloof until
the aaamaral election In November. After
20 Elved the colored men went into
canch9 and Charlie Potts. the father OF
the man who came from Washington, led
the kick against him. He arose
in the meeting and taking an cid saw
said that he had dream that he went to
the gate Of Heaven but could not get In
because be was not on horseback return
ing he met Anthony Higgins who was
mounted, and he told him his experience
at the gate Of. Heaven. The Senator
thought while and then proposed that
the colored man act as the horse and he
would be the driver, and then they would
get into Heaven together. This was
agreed upon, but when they reached
the gate, the keeper directed Anthony
TO hitch his horse outside and come in.
The colored speaker made the point that
the Republican party rode the negro to
the polls aud then hitched him outside
Young James Potts tried his best to
swerve his father from his purpose, but
he had received his cue from the Rich
ardson men, who deceived the friends OF
Mr. Higgins by telling them that the
negro was to be kept from the polls by
both sides. When the polls opened Sat-
urday morning the Higgins men were
sanguine that they would carry the hun
dred, but when Charles Potts appeared
upon the scene with his sable supporters
and polled forty-two straight Massey
votes IL knocked the calculations
of the Higgins men to the wind and
they threw up their hands and loudly
protested against the outrage. but it
was ne use, for the Massey men, under
the leadership of Speaker of the House
John H. Hoffssker, had II all their own
way, and as Thomas Jefferson, the Hig
gins postmaster expressed Ii, "had all
the id niggers In the hundred. !"
The Massey men polled ninety-six
votes and the Higgins men polled
votes
The Party is Split.
Democratic disaffection is harmony
alongside of the. Republican disaffection
in this hundred, Leading Higgins Re
publicans openly declare that they will
bolt any ticket the convention puts up
and A. l.. Hudson, Esq, one of the lead
ing Republicans and representative men,
said TO your correspondent this morning:
Just at time when the Republicans
had it in their power to assume control
Of state that has been under Demo-
cratic control for about thirty years,
George V. Massey, by his rancor and
prejudice, allows himself TO split the
party into fragments. No such
methods were ever adopted in
the hundred or the county and IL
John Fl. Hodecker should come before
the people he could not carry his own
hundred. Barnard is man who has
three times the capacity Harry Richard
son has, and he Is my choice and always
has BEEN II the Massey men
had not run in the negro vote,
we could have covered the
hundred anyhow, but as soon as our men
saw what the Massey men had done they
refused to vote at ALL | know lots of
men who refused to have
anything to do with the meeting and the
action OF the Hoifeckers has hurt the
party very much, and you may look out
for trouble from it, They put their foot
in il Saturday and they see it this morn
ing"
The same attitude as assumed by many
other representative men and the local
leaders cannot patch the breach, as they
are men who viii not be wheedled.
Typotheta Entertained,