The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-10-31
C ST THE FIRsT STONE.
What Happened N the uu,paiGn of 1881.
Who Then Went Back on tho Republican

What Happened N the umpaign OF 1853
| Who Then Went Back on tho Repubiiea,
Party.
Mr., EDIToR;-These people, calling
themselves Republicans, beiter kuown TT
the II ggips faction, act as though they
t3oU h everybody else were stupid iool
an had no memory, but some Of us do
member what ap)Gued Il years ago
least. They ar now branding cverybody y
who don't happen to think rs they do. az
traitors liars and hypoCrt. Ii everybody
mad proved as spitetul ana vindic.lve anC
untoryiving toward them as they are
proving themselves to be toward Mr. VIII
liz and Mr.. HoIecker, NJ. Higgins would
never have been U. 5. Senator. If they
would be willing to be- governed by - scrip
tural injunc n. Lat he that is without
sin cast the first stone, they would be
perfectly doclle and harmless.
Who is there that was in the lenst
familiar with political matters in 1852,
that does not recolleet how the State
ticket WAS made and who helped to make
1t, and who defeated it. On Monday
after the delegate election the so called
Dover ring headed by Richard Harring-
ton sent for Higgins to meet them at a
ho tel near the Z, w. & B. Depot, to make
up the Slate before they went into the
convention, Oh tho following Thursday.
How Higgins acquiesced in that conference
and conceded TO them the nominee for
Governor (Albert Curry and agreed to &C.
cept the candidate for Congress, and how
he sent for Washington Hastings and
rendered him the nomination, and how
the anticipated cat and dog fight Conven-
ton terminated in n political lovef east.
But how 1t panned out is what we wish
to call special attention to, just what hap
pened between Mr.. Higgins and his
lrionds after they got to understand what
he had taken the liberty of doing without
their appreciation, we will not undertake
to say positively, but there was visible
eHoCts of a storm, and 1t was said they
tumbled down on him like q load of
bricks, and that he got considerably
bruised for his presumption that they
would endorse such a reckless course
Any honorable man would have been
bound to live up to his word given in that
conference and work entirely for the cleo
ton of the whole ticket which he had
Nay verify, instead of his saying to his
friends, l made the engagement and have
got The back bone to live up TO it, he
wilted under their scorching rays and
cowed under their chastisement and pout-
ed and sulked during the entire camph sn
like spoiled child, who had to walt for
the second table.
He left the ticket to take care Of itself,
including his friend, Mr.. Hastings, who
had gone on the ticket at his (Higgins)
solicitation Until few days before the
election he or they got in their fine work
by preventing the funds that were to be
sent from the National Conmiltee and
capped the climax on election day by cut.
ting the head off the ticket, thereby caus-
ing the defeat Of the whole Republican
ticket. Every man on that ticket was
highly and justly Indignant, AS for Mr..
Hastings he might have boen seen any time
within the next few days spending his
leisure time wetting his knife to take An
thongs scalp, and even went so far as to
defeat Mr.. William Spruance for district
judge to spite Anthony; notwithstanding
it was necessary to remove the only Ne
publican judge from the bench to do So
Now there are some set of mon (including
Mr. Il. H. w who are branding
Mcssrs Hoffecker and Willis as traitors
and saying all sorts of ugly things about
them They richly deserve to be showed
up and have their former political short
cOmings exposed one by one.
= A REPUBLICAN,.