Smyrna times., 1896-09-02
ADDICKS MEN TALK.
They Present Their Case to Mr.. Hanna.

Wednesday was busy day around
national headquarters at New York.
There was plenty to do and lots to
talk.
That old fight in Delaware had an
innings at headquarters. Heretofore
the Higgins branch of the trouble has
been in evidence Wednesday the Ad-
dicks people came to the front Owing
to the nature of the fight and the fact
that the National Committee is in no
way giving countenance to factiOnal
contention in any State, nobody cared
10 discuss the matter
This much however, was learned and
it embOdies the main story of the
episode. The followers of ex-senator
Higgins, State Chairman Browne, Sec
retary COlqhoun and their friends have
had the ear of the National Committee
recently and it was on the suggestion
of one of Senator Higgins friends that
the Addicks people were invited over
to discuss the situation in Delaware so
far as the national ticket was concerned.
This invitation was accordingly ex
tended to the State chairman of the
Addicks faction, s. j. Wiley. Mr..
Wiley came over to-day, accompanied
by j. G. Shaw, ,Jr., d. Mifand Wilson,
j. Frank Alice, DR.. G. H. Layton, DIR.
Geo. w. Marshall and J. Edward Ad
dicks himself.
For fully an hour the delegation
above named was in private consulta-
tiOn with the National Committeeman
N. B. Scott, who is in charge of the
national campaign in Delaware, and
the other members of the Executive
Committee. The official report of the
meeting as given out from National
Committee headquarters reads:
"Ihe Executive Committee is desir-
GUS that the friends of Mr.. Addicks
and Mr.. Higgins establish harmonious
relations. Both delegations, the one
of that morning and the Higgins dele
CATION of the previous week, gave the
committee the earnest assurance that
Delaware would be safely carried for
Mckinley and Hobart"
The Higgins people, it is asserted,
and there seems to be no reason to
doubt this part of the statement,
offered to withdraw their electors if the
Addicks people would do the same.
They also agreed to permit the latter
to name a majority of the electors.
The Addicks men rejected these
propositions before the committee.
One of them said:
"We have the lawful party machin-
cry of the State in our hands. If the
Higgins people earnestly desire the
election of Mckinley and Hobart they
will withdraw their factional Opposi-
ton to the regular electors and join
with us in carrying Delaware. If they
do not, we will carry the national
ticket independent of them and with
out their aid.
eve do not ask the National Com
mittee for dollar. We are willing to
carry the State for Mckinley and bear
the necessary and legitimate expense
ourselves. The Higgins people, l am
told, want the National Committee to
put up money. We say that it is not
necessary, Let the committee use its
funds somewhere else, where it will
do the most good. The regular Re
publicans of Delaware are not asking
the National Committee for penny.
OF course, when he spoke of the
Irregular" Republican, my informant
spoke of his faction, the Addicks men.
The rejection of the propositions of the
Higgins people, for a mutual with
drawal of electors, means that the Ad-
dicks people intend to concentrate
their efforts on their national electors
and furnish the cash besides,
1t is an awkward situation all around
SO far as Delaware is concerned, but
here at headquarters among those who
are in a position to calculate the Sc
quence of events, serene confidence
is expressed that Delaware will be all
right in the November roundup.