Middletown transcript., 1895-03-23
friends of Mr.. Addicks and Mr.. Massey.

and men who have peen devoted to til
principles of the party for life tim,
are asking, "on what can the part
ever stand together in this State,
this plank is destroyed"
The "break" has come, but it cam
from the men who have the least rea
son for making a s'break." Those me
occupy the only tenable and defensibl
position in the Senatorial contest
They are the representatives of thei
party according to all party rule an
precedents, honestly and fairly so, an
there is no getting away from tina
fact. Mr.. Higgins is as much thei
first choice to-day as he was the da
they cast their first ballot for him
and any citizen who will take tn
time to consult those men on the sub
ject will receive that assurance as w
have received it. They have beel
accused, however, of saying "Mr
Higgins or nobody" We were assuret
long since that neither Mr.. Higgin
nor his friends in the Assembly hell
any such position, and it is perhap
with the idea Of showing the people
that there is ''no dog in the manger'
with them that the sbreak" has beer
made.
How will it be met ? The friends Of
Mr.. Addicks and of Mr.. Massey have
been saying that a ''break" is all thai
is needed to elect Senator. The
''break" came, and it came as those
men most desired, but they continued
to vote for minority candidates. II
perhaps was unexpected to them and
they were not ready to meet it, but
Republicans throughout the State will
expect them to meet it, and to meet it
in manly manner. We are not in
clined to accept the average news
paper report, and more especially con-
cerning the senatorial situation. Fra
ternal courtesy, perhaps, forbids our
speaking SO frankly, but truth is higher
than courtesy. The disregard of truth,
the desire for sensation, was never
better illustrated than in the reports
of this senatorial contest, and this
week the Philadelphia Record exceeded
them all in its pictatorial fake of a
dying and incoming governor. For
these reasons we do not credit the
newspaper declaration, to wit:
''Senator Handy thought the change
was a miserable failure of an attempt
to break the ranks of the Addicks
men," and
1.-THE Massey men said that they
could not be fooled"
We believe the members of the Gen
eral Assembly are too sensible men.
too good Republicans, to indulge in.
any such comment. To elect a worthy
to the U. S. Senate is not
''fooling" nor can there be "misera-
BILE failure" unless the men who are
opposing Mr.. Higgins are responsible
for it. The vete of Wednesday proves
this and we believe the whole General
Assembly accepts it, hence the Republi-
cans who have seen fit to oppose MI.
did not use the language al
tributed to them, unless-and we have
faith to believe the "unless" will never
come; that "unless" is not in all theiI
thoughts.
A gentleman who is as near Mr..
Addcks as any other in the State iu-
formed us few weeks since that Mr.,
Addicks has an investment in the
Dover Inder. The following editorial
in Thursdays issue is corroboratiye
evidence of that fact:
"The scattering of the former Hig-
gins vote in the ballot for a Senator
yesterday morning has an underlying
which is not difficult of
ascertainmeDt. 1t plainly shows thai
The Higgins forces are desperate.
Their only hope now is the defeat of
Addicks. All idea of electing their
chief is abandoned. The SCATTERING
in their votes was the re ult of an
attempt to ensnare the Addicks men
into leaving their leader and votin g
for compromise candidate"
1t is an endorsement of Mr.. Addicks
with the hope that it may be 'Mr-
or nobody" and perhaps "no-
body" preferred. but of that we are
not certain. The Indez, however, does
not represent its party in this matter.
The vast majority of the men who are
Democrats from principle and not for
and party profit, favor the
election of the logical candidste, the
legitimate nominee Of his party, An
thony II ggins. And 1t should be An
thony Hig gins.
The "break" has not come against
Mr.. Higgins counsel, though We be-
lieve it is against the wishes of the
vast majority of his adherents and
of those in this county.
They stand upon the Republican doc
trine of "majority rule" and "party
organization" and no one can gainsa,
their position. But Anthony Higgins
is not only statesman, he is patriot,
and by no act of his, or with his
will the Republican party OF
Delaware be disorganIzed, or suffer
any humiliation or defeat. 1t has
cost too many years of labor aud sacri-
ice. To one of his frmest legislative
we heard him say only this
week, "the interests of the State and
of the party in the State and Nation
are above and beyond the claims of
any man or set of men, and you will
10 right in so considering them"
Ordinarily such declaration, such
of circumstances. would
slect a U. S. Senator, and the man
would be Hon. Anthony Higgins.