Middletown transcript., 1896-04-18
MIDDLETOWN. DEL, APR. 1s, 1896.
.rHE ISSUE IS NOW soUAnElY

MIDDLETOWN, DEL, APR. 18, 1896.
"rHE ISSUE IS NOW SQUARELY
JOINED.o
This is the declaration of the State
Sentinel. The issue is, Shall J. Ed
ward Addicks be the Republican party
in Delaware. Of course the State Sen
tinel, Mr.. Addicks' personal organ,
does not put it that way. The TRAN.
SCRIPT has no desire to misrepresent,
indeed such an act at this time would
be crime 20 the Republican Party.
for the situation IS critical, 50 we have
quoted the entire article from the Sen
tinel. Read it, every Delawarean,
whether Republican or Democrat, it is
on the first page, and decide for your
self as to our conclusions. Read at the
same time the shorter but equally. con-
yincing editorial from the Ne,os and
Advertiser. Taking these two articles
from different standpoints within the
party, we are convinced that Mr.. Ad-
dicks has determined to stick to his
text of "Addicks or nobody" and SO
far as he can direct this shall be the
issue and the result. Will Republicans
submit2
We are the more convinced Of this
conclusion because the "issue' as
made in the State Central Committee
is but pretext, carefully prepared in
advance by the Addicks people and
sprung upon the Committee with the
acknowledged purpose of creating
division, or rather of making fac
tional fight. "We knew the result be-
fore handn said an Addicks man, as he
poured into the willing eats of the
Democratic papers the whole work of
the State Central Committee, inelud-
ing the disagreement which any sensi-
bic party man would have given to the
public through Republican paper if
1t must needs 60 to the public at all.
The Democratic editor unwittin.ly
gave his Republican ally away in say
ing:
"The Addicks adhertnts are publicly
swearing and fuming over what they
call the tyranny and injustice of their
opponents in an arbitrary exercise of
the power of a majority. As a matter
Of fact, however, they are not mad at
all, but are chuckling to themselves at
the manner in which the stupid Hig-
gins men fell into the trap that had
been prepar ed for them."
That is to say, the "Addicks men,
were seeking pretext for factional
fight the onus of which they ould
throw upon the men who do not be-
lieve in "Addicks or nobody" To at
tain their ends they propose to usurp
the authority of the County Commit
tee under the plea of honest primaries;
TO throw at once suspicion upon the
integrity Of the several county COM
mittees and to acknowledge indirectly
that the primaries in the party have
heretofore been dishonest. We believe
in the honesty of the State Committee,
the County, District, and City Com
mittees, and of the primary election
held in Wilmington last June, that be-
ing the one referred to by the Sentinel.
The matter was settled in court and
everybody knows the Democratic Of
ficials would be ready enough to coz
vict the Republicans of violation of
the election laws il they could. No
criminal charges were made, only tech
nical, against the election officers, and |
these were thrown Gu, of court, and |
we defy the Sentinel to produce any
proof to the contrary. Further, if the
Sentinel will produce the proof of dis
honest primaries we will join it and |
the Democratic editors in denunciation
Of the patty organization, and the de-
shall be of the most earnest |
and emphatic kind. Come, meet the
ssissuen like men.
The Sentinel charges that Gen.
James H. Wilson, Hugh c. Browne,
Esqr., and those of the State Commit
tee who voted with them on the DR..
Layton resolution, "yoted in defence
- =. 4. L. =
1f dishonest parry primari es.' Til,
Is an insult not to those men alone but |
TO every Republican who knows those
men are honest and honestly uphold
Ing their views as representatives of
he party. The charge shows the des-
perate means the "Sentinel and its
party friends will use. They attempted
% defeat the Wilmington city ticket
ast June and aided IN its defeat. They +
I'd not do 1t alone. 1t was the stay-at-
|ome vote which gave credit to the
|harees Of Every Evening" charges
L fraud which even Democratic
Ionft and Democratic officials threw
Islt Of court, that is responsible for the
)emocratic victory last June. Still /
Il. Addlcks through Nh; Kittenger
id other friends did all they could to
efsnt tno Republican ticket ii NIL
5i6Ston ~ 1une, The 1lcks n61