Middletown transcript., 1895-12-14
PRINCIPLES NOT MEN.

1.-THE undersigned members or the
| Republican party i'll New Castle county
| hereby express their conviction that ii
| is the imperative duty of the Republi-
can County Committee to expel from
| membership therein Robert j. Handy,
on account of his cooperation with
the Democratic members of the Gen.
| eral Assembly, at its last session, in
their effort to defeat the election of a
Republican United States Senator
from Delaware, deeming that he has
BY this political treachery forfeited the
right to represent the Republican party
in political capacity or to be recog-
nized as member thereof.
And we hereby unqualifedly con-
denim the methods employed in this
State by J. Edward Addicks to crafty
his selfish political ambition, and par
ticularly his treachery to the Republi-
can party in the late senatorial contest.
And we hereby declare that J. Ed
ward Addicks has for these reasons
pl ICED himself in antagonism with and
outside the Republican party and is
not entitled to be recognized as men,
ber of it.
The above ''protest" was signed by
500 Republicans. many of them the
most prominent men in the Republican
Party in the State, and there are many
more who would have signed the petit
ion had an opportunity been given
them. The protest. y with list of
the signers. was printed in the Morn
ing Ne,rS of Monday. In its opinion
of Mr.. Addicks and Mr.. Handy it ex-
presses the sentiments of fully nineteen
twentieths of the Republicans of New
Castle county, ,and many of the remain
ing one-twentieth have no respect for
Mr.. Addicks save for his cash and will
stand by the Republican Party in any
event. The anti-Addicks sentiment in
st. Georges hundred is surprising, and
it is strongest and most resentful
among the rank and file. We have
been agreeably surprised at the express
sion of that sentiment this week, indi-
cative of the healthy condition of the |
party here. Party men in the ranks |
have regretted that they had not an
opportunity to affix their names to |
that petition. though the most Of the
in the country with whom |
we have talked believe thai it is ssbad |
politics." that to tread Addicks and |
Handy out of the party" is a mere
form, leaving them as independent to
act within or without the Republican
Party as they were before, and it has
no influence upon them, but gives en-
to the Democratic Party.
the allies of Addicks in his conspiracy
to rob the State of its just representa-
ton in the United States Senate. 1t is
only this fact that has prevented an al
most unanimous endorsement of the
petition by the Republicans of New
Castle county. Because Mr.. Addicks
declares himself the leader of the Re-
publican Party does not make it true.
any more than if he shall. assert him
self to be an honorable man. But the
greatest injury comes to the true inter-
ests of the party in the lower part of
the State. Addicks plays the martyr
and his friends there represent that
In all his gifts to organizations and
of pictures to clubs,
which he absolutely forces through his
paid lieutenants upon the party, that
he is solicited 10 do it by the party
leaders "who take his money! and
hen! "kick him cut of the party.n OF
course he is acting part, as he has
been doing all along.
But TO publish a protest, to sign or
not to sign a petition to expel political
makes little difference SO long
is the party members are unit in
heir denunciatiOn of party treachery.
Is is the Republican Party of New
Castle county on the relations of Mr.,
Addicks to the Party. The duty of
he hour is to 90 ahead. Those who
4 ould s'reselv.' them out Of the party
councils can the more heartily join the
arger number who believe in voting Ii
hem out at the primaries as being the
more direct and potent way. the prac- J
cal and telling way. There is victory i
lhead of the Republican Party Of New
jastle county and in the State next
November IL every man calling himself i
Republican will but do his duty. j