Evening journal., 1895-05-31
TROUBLE IN THE CHOIR.
Republican Workers Issue a
Hot Manifesto.
WILL OHABGE DEFEAT TO ABDIOKs

gaaization Workers They Also Say That
DIckey, saulsbnrJ aud Ponder Are TAX
Ing a Hand with Addicks to Defeat
Them.
II bribery and treachery can accom-
pllsh their ends in Wilmington the
Republican city ticket will be defeated /
20 morrow. That Doth of these foul Il
Instruments are being used Is 10 longer
a secret Most of the conspiraiors have /
been uncovered by the Republican First /
District Committee, and their tracks All |
lead to Claymont Three members OF |
the Phmnx Fire Company have been \
approached curing the wee k first, each /
man by himself, and finally last evening,
the three were met In a body by q we'll |
known Addicks agent who earned 3 |
great deal Of unsavory notorietY at Dover |
last Winter.
The man has been more or less oficious
since his return fFcm Dover, but be gave
it out with much ostentatiou that his
master wanted the Republican ticket
elected He represented Addicks as
being especially interested in Jacob H
Lswis's election az mayor aud in this
wey tiled to create the impression that
nothing was 10 be feared from the
traitor band; but be was distrusted and
watched II wss soon discovered-ten
days ago-tuab he was advising the
/ Addlcks men % vote the straight Demo
cratic ticket He did his work very
quietly but he made a mistake In two or
tnree men 10 whom he talked
This man had d meeting with the three
members of the Ph@lix Company last
evening at the engine house He met
/ them for the purpose Of making 3 deal
/ He opened the interview by a references
to the failure of the Legislature to
/ vote thea an appropriation for
a chemical engine He said: "You
Know Fred Pyle defeated you
/ Mr. Dickey had the Democrats fixed Z
support your bill, but Fred Pyle never
allowed the bill to CONS up Now. II we
carry Council Dickey and me will give
you an appropriation anyhow. Council
will give It toyou
Now II yon will use your inhnencs
to defeat George Fisher / will not only
get Dlokey TO give you that appropriation
for the chemical. but Mr. Addicks will
pay ) on well for the sb
The Addicks agent then WAL ted to
know how much money they wanted 10
defeat Fisher. The thr men did not
know. They could not give a figure.
Neither could he but be would see
Addiels again and meet them any time
they would suggest he assured them
again and again that Addicks would pay
them well for the Job and continued
"We began our work Eve weeks ago
and We expect to carry the First, Second,
Third, Fourth SIKH. Eighth, Ninth
Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth wards
We have secured The colcrsd voters OF
tha Vaelith ward soma time ago a4d
that ward vas bXed last week Rat
ledge is defeated. That was easy We
nave also COS ths 'daikiea' dxed ia the
sixth wsrd aud all We need Is Tor Won 70
turn in aud Fisher Is defeated. We ars
devoting our ergies to the tix.h and
Ninth wards aud am confident tha. we
will succeed
The parties separated after ssver,l
more Intellectual efforts on the part Of The
Addicks agent to get the Phnlix men to
. fix price They adjourned to u Get this
morning
At the same time reports came to head
! quarters OF troable in the Sixth and
+ Twelfth wards among the colored voters
Z Rumol declared that organiz ,tions OF
! voters had been formed ia each ward
with a view Of either "blesding" the
Republican candidates or Of staying at
home on election day The rumor com
ing from the Sixth ward was soon dis
I ! covered to have but little foundation
, The trouble had all emanated from
Joseph It Brinckley. ex jsnitor OF thC
Custom House and a warm friend OF ex
, / Postmaster Stewart But the Twelfth
ward movement proved more dangerous
Il was organized, so it proved, by the ex
l ianitor Of the post ofies while Daniel f.
Stewart was postmaster, and by "Bm'
> Clayton, a we'll known colored man of the
Twelfth ward. Clayton runs an engine
. for Charles Baird and was bailiI o
= Council in 1882 BE and Kittiogsr hav,
been seen in close consultations severe
s times this week, and on Tuesday evening
b they walked on Market street together
e. CLAY ton has not voted for several years
!. His plea always Is that he has no toa
!. receipt.
The Republican organization refuse
TO pay his tax, while his Democrat,
friends preferred to keep him disqualified
+. Both men have been driven out of b,
\ pariy organization There are bal
dczan other colorsd men 10 the rRslfth
: ward who, for various reasons, wer,
allowed TO become disqualified I,
s vots aud ell OF them have joined The
ie Collins Clayton Kittenger Club Bal
hey have gathered other men IN upOI
Y ths promise Of big money, and the clul
II numbers about thirty, of whom twenty
= are qualified voters and have hitherto
voted the Republican ticket.
9 These "kickers' as they are called il
, the Twelfth ward, are holding meeting
nightly aud usually at "Bill' Clsyton'
house On Wednesday night the'
Y received a committee from the FRS
n District Committee, with view o
% settling their differences with the party
They all dlsclsimed any intention o
hurting the general city ticket, but the,
J. were resolved to defeat James P Rat.
y ledge for the Council unless they 60
y what they wanted. They wanted. the!
=, said, TO name the next bailitf OF thl
h Council, and $500 Ia cash
). The visiting committee assured then
a that they could not get either demand
and left But they learned that JohI
7. DickeY had been in consultation will
a committee OF tie "klckers" on Wed
72 nesday afternoon aud that the nigh
=. before james Ponder who has q desk II
he the law cffice OF his cousin, Willar,
ie salisbury, attended meeting IN 81 ill'
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