Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-10-11
PLAIN TALK BY Mr.. HUKILL.
Why McMullen Is Deemed IN
worthy of Support.

the subject OF anti. McMullenism. Per
haps it would be we'll TO first apologize n
little to the Middletown Transcript for
going with my complaint to Democratic
newspaper, and | will, lest they should
feel called upon 10 repeat what they did
two weeks ago, when they made such 4
sweeping broadside slap at the whole field,
but struck nobody but me. They should
be more charitable towards me in such
matters. They must reGolleet that have
been Republican in good standing and
helping to fight the battles of the Republi-
can party, and in their hundred, too
since before their mammals ceased to trot
them on their knees.
| have consideration and liberality
enough TO neither ask or expect party
organ to take any part in this undesirable
fight and all we ask is to be let alone.
This is our fight and we will make it and
take the consequences, and if we get
worsted we will not go crying to the party
organs or to 4 AicAullen constituency Tor
sympathy or for healing ointment.
Go TO u Democratic paper Indeed. where
would we SO them Why do they go to
Democratic authorities for license to
practice law or run u newspaper or before
Il Democratic court with their clients
case? Simply because there is no other.
Why, the very air they breathe almost, is
Democratic, and to undertake to ignore
the Democratic prevalence in this State be-
fore the next election would be mere mad
ness. So we need only further say that
this little editorial firm had better not
founder about i'll water where they have
not taken soundings lest they set over
their heads.
Now. back to the subject in question.
There is an effort being made, both in TINS
and the two lower counties, to create the
impression that this fight is against Mr..
Higgins. We, emphatically deny the
charge, and will chow the absurdity of
such q thing. In the first place, if wanted
to settle any grievance with Mr.. Higgins,
would not undertake to strike him over
this fellows shoulders. | would not want
such Il pile of dead-wood intervening. Be-
sides, his fight does not enter into this
affair before the election with me, and
conscientiously believe that to defeat Nc
Mullen would be doing Higgins favor. so
lar as any support he might expect to get
from him in his reelection is concerned.
And who knows this any better than Mr..
Higgins and his friends should know?
And certainly to depend on anything so
f1lmsy as any pretense that McMullen
would support him, if elected, would
be extremely foolish. A man who
after he (IIiggins) supported him to
the full extent of his influence and with
his money, in trying to crafty his polti-
cal ambition in years gone by, could be
so void of manly principle and so migrate
full as to turn his back upon him and i'm
mediately couple up with his greatest po-
litical antagonist, for the sake Of an office
which he had to steal through Demo-
cratic influence, by undermining another
one of his best friends (John NJ. Dumb
and which office he afterwards dlsgraced, is
not the man for anybody to trust, particu-
larly Mr.. Higgins and his friends. And
does not everybody who is in the least ia
miliar with the politics OF this county,
well know that they have denounced
each other in terms most radical, and
sometimes vile in all these years past until
a few months ago. We would not say that
he had not pretended some friendship
for Mr.. Higgins for a short time back,
but what does that amount to? Deceit
and Misrepresentation are his stock in
trade. For instance, i'll electioneering for
his nomination in his own hundred, those
i'll the hundred vino are in a position to
know, and whose statements anybody
would accept, say he told the colored
voters he was Higgins man and at the
same time was telling the white voters he
was not Higgins man nor ever was.
And on the day of the nomination cleo
ton he said openly and above board, that
he was for nobody i'll particular, but for
the good of the party, when everybody
else believed that he is for McMullen only.
| had hoped his nomination would not
occur, and the people in the hundred were
warned against it. Then it was a hundred
matter, and should have been left to the
people of the hundred to settle; and if it
had been the result would have been diff
ferent. But no; the very identical man that
ordered the train that carried the
delegates to the Republican State conven-
ton to run past Bear station and left
McMullen standing on the platform, for
fear that his obnoxious presence or his
polluted tongue might mar the tranquility
of that convention, is the man who sent
his aids. in person, into New Castle hun
dred on the. day of the nomination, to
manipulate the colored vote in McMulen's
interest, and who, it is positively asserted
and by McMullen's friends, admitted that
this aid sent from Wilmington did. by
trick of deception, delude a wagon-load of
II innocent colured men who intended TO
vote for another candidate into voting for
McMullen, which produced that shabby 81
majority.
Since those who are undertaking to take
his part and have been saying. "Oh, this
kick don't amount to anything-they have
no influence, they are not worth mind
ing" have awakened to the fact that it
does amount to something. They are ask
ing lis if we don't think we better cease
our opposition. and for the party's sake
let him be elected. They say it should
have been settled at the nomination, but
since he has got upon the ticket what can
you do? We say let those who busted
themselves about getting him on the
ticket, busy themselves about getting him
Of, and if they can't coax or persuade him
to get off, then force him off, and give us II
clean sheet and this trouble will end. They
have their choice to get him out of the
way before the tickets are printed, or have
him beaten at the election. Rather than be
shall have any chance to give us any
trouble in the Legislature, we will burn
the bridge before he crosses il. We are Just
determined that they shall not ram this
dose of crow down our throats and that is
the long and short OF il.
Why. they say, you may defeat the
ticket when they ought TO know that
every ounce of weight he carries tends to
sink the ticket. Then, why persist in try
ing to carry him. Then they say, "such n
course will ruin your future prospects," /
am sorry to say this very man played a
prominent part in placing my political
future behind me, and | have nothing to
expect from that direction. On the other
hand, ii we are to take this case Us Il
criterion, we must admit that mans dis
reputable acts recommend him for party
favor. and ii ne Succeeds rascality will be
at a premium. Now do not think so; and
believe that tine rebuke he will get will
serve as warming to the party in the
future. w. Ii. HuKlLL,
WILMINGTON, Oct. 9Th, 1891.
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