Middletown transcript., 1895-04-27


compromise candidate? inquire that
astute statesman's friends. Because
he is not compromise candidate, but
has been in the race from the first.
Look at the votes of his personal
following in the Legislature if proof is
wanted. Because he, more than any
other man, is responsible for the re-
fusal of the Addlcks men to caucus,
whispering into their ears "Higgins, be
careful or it is Higgins" as he whis-
pered in the ears of the friends of Mr..
Higgins, "Addicks, be careful or it is
Addicks." AS honorable gentlemen
as can be found in this State bear tes-
timony to this fact. Because in the
presence of General James III. Wilson,
Mr.. Washington Hastings, Hugh G.
Browne, Esq, and other gentlemen,
he said he could not afford to contest
the seat of his friend, Senator Gray,
when he could have had the unanimous
support of the Republican party, and
with united party he could have been
in the United States Senate two years
ago. His closest friends at that time
say that to all their appeals 'she gave
the same answer that he would not
again be candidate for that office"
Because those same friends of life
time now say that year ago they went
to Mr.. Massey and again urged him to
be their candidate and he, like Peter,
"thrice denied" the wish of his friends
but no man who has ever known Mr..
Massey would believe that he "began
to curse and to swear" or even to be
the least profane as the State Sentinel
tries to intimate in its last issue, in
order to find something good to say of
Mr.. Addicks.
Six years ago when the writer had a
vote for United States Senator his per-
sonal choice was George V. Massey,
but Mr.. Massey had no faith in the sue
cess of the Republican party in the
'SS campaign and on two occasions
during the canvass in riding from Will
mingtOn to Dover on the Delaware
Railroad, argued with the writer, then
a candidate, that Republican effort
could avail nothing In this State. |
Those talks are trifies of themselves,
but they are an index to Mr.. Massey's |
political course in this State for years.
Again, Mr.. Massey was at the Union |
League in Philadelphia when the news |
of Republican victory came on the |
night of that election, and he ridiculed |
the idea that it was true. AS the at
torney for the Pennsylvania railroad,
along with Mr.. Gray, who is retained
it is said at $4,000 a year, Mr.. Massey
had more influence with Democratic
than any three Democrats
in the State, and in 1889 Democrats
stood ready to vote for him for Senator,
and they are honorable men and as
party men no one would have censured
them. And further, in 1888 Mr.. Mas
sey made one speech in Middletown
that in its praises of Mr.. Cleveland de-
lighted his Democratic auditors. 1t
was these and similar facts that de-
feated Mr.. Massey in 1889. And they
should have defeated him.
Mr.. Massey's attitude in. the Re-
publican Party for years has been ano-
malous. If his closest political friends
know what he means by his hide-and-
seek methods they do not give it out,
and with his deadlocking the General
Assembly for the past three months,
5he party has reached the conclusion
n this county that no Senator is pre-
erable to Mr.. Massey. If he would
lot contest Mr.. Gray's seat in 1894, he
would not in 1900, and Mr.. Massey's
election would mean vote presumably +,
With the Republican Party in the
senate on National affairs, for corpo- |
ations generally, and the party in the |
state and especially in New Castle
county would go to pieces. That :
$ the conviction of the rank and file as
veil as the party leaders in this County.
Will Mr.. Massey and his friends