Middletown transcript., 1896-08-15

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PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING
Middletown. New Castle County, Delaware.
rlcKENDREE DOWNHAI1,
EDITOR AND PRoPRIEToR.
Entered at the Post Office as second-class matter
MIDDLETOWN, DEL, AUG. Is. 1896
THE BEST FOOT FORWARD.
In many respects the Union Repub-
licans of Kent and Sussex counties
have put forward the best material at
their command in the nominations OF
their county tickets. This is COM
mendable act in any party. and will
naturally tend to strengthen the party
making the nominations. Their weak
est nominations from our standpoint
are to be found on the Legislative
branch. Here are some of the "Ad-
dicks or nobody men who stood out
to the last on May 8, 1895, against the
election of Col. DUPONT, men who
gloried in that result with great de-
light. There are others whose names
appear on the same ticket who favored
the election of Col. dupont and de-
nounced the combination to defeat his
election. They are Of and among the
representative Republicans of their
communities. There are men nomina-
ted on the tickets who were delegates
to the Georgetown Convention, named
despite the protests of the Addicksits
it is said. OF course all such nomina-
tions are made with the view of
strengthening the ticket, and are
''good politics." One of the nominees,
not delegate, said to the writer at
Georgetown that be did not believe
Mr.. Addicks could be elected Senator
should the Kent and Sussex tickets be
elected, for "the people recognize the
fact that Col. DUPONT is entitled to the
senatorship. y e e is is very very evident, how
ever, that Mr.. Addicks and his closest
advisers do not take this view. This is
not their intention, as their nomina-
tions for the General Assembly attest.
Mr.. Addicks intends to make the
United States Senate if possible and to
this end are all the energies of the Ad-
dicks advisers directed. 1t would seem
too that Mr.. Addicks is learning some
politics for he absented himself from
the Kent Convention and left to others
to carry out his desires. This is put
ting the best foot forward. But what
Of the results2
Will the Republicans of Kent and
Sussex counties who look iahead to Re-
publican rule in Delaware endorse the
tiekets nominated? The .Addicks peo-
p5e hope SO but it is for them to say.
To US it would appear like endorsing
the seAddicks or nobody" policy that |
has robbed us of the services of a Sem
ator since March 4th 1895 and that has
disrupted the party;it looks like the
endorsement of the Addicks policy to
ignore the large Republican vote in
New Castle county without which the
State is permanently Democratic. This
is suicidal and there is expectancy in
it for one man only-J. Edward Ad-
dicks for the United States Senate
through success in Kent and Sussex
counties. Is this the intention of the
voters of those counties? We do not
believe that it is. Before the Sd of
November they will see the selfshness
Of Mr.. Addicks and the people who
are the closest to him and who hope to
profit by his promotion and they will
defeat it. 1t is an "Addicks or no
body" effort disguised as much as pos
sible by the men who are put on the
ticket, men, many of them, who have
not believed in this policy and who do
not believe in it. 1t is an effort to put
the best foot forward in advancing The
Addicks' plans. The TRANSCRIPT is
not advising the defeat of any Repub-
lican, but every unselfish Repu blican
voter should have his eyes fully open
TO results when he casts his ballot.
1t is understood that the Republic
cans will nominate tickets in Kent and
Sussex counties. Not a factional ticket,
not ticket in opposition to the we'll
Republicans who may be
found upon the Addicks ticket, but
ticket that protests against the treach-
Dry of Mr.. Addicks on May 9th and
his utter disregard of the political
rights of others manifest before and
'ince that day. None may regret the /
obligation to right and duty that de-
pands such course more than the
men who do it, but the future of the
,arty demands it. 1t is not yet too
ate, however, to save the party organ ,
zation from disruption and defeat if I
very tried and true Republican would q
lssert himself and demand that the
light thing be done. If every man
would put his best foot forward and
leep it there, casting aside sellishness,
hen might the party be victorious. t
AN EXPLANATION DESIRED.