Smyrna times., 1896-03-18
POLITICAL BRICKBATS.
How Each Party Can Hurl Them.

The Democratic Glasses" of the
Sunday star has the following missile
directed at the head of Mr.. Addicks
and his friends:
''NIr. Addicks has learned that the |
way of the plutOcrat is not exactly /
smooth. Last year his staunch sup
porter at Dover was Charley also
known to fame as Handsome Charley
Moore, and in the transactions be-
tween Addicks and Moore it came TO
pass that the former loaned the latter
81 900, taking therefore Mr.. MOore's
note. Now, what's a little thing like a
note between friends, anyway? Not
long ago Mr.. Addicks indited polite
request to Handsome Charley that he
liquidate the said note, to which the
| latter made reply, thanking Mr.. Adj
| dicks for his gentle reminder, and en-
closing an account for 50, 800 due for
services rendered during the session
of the Legislature, and intimatlng that
| Mr.. Addicks would confer favor by
remitting the balance of 81 800. What
| the delicate outcome of their delicate
| exchange of compliments between the
leg-puller and the leg-pullee will be is
difficult to say; but, it is probable that
his once esteemed adherent, while even
Newell Ball, which is the same that
indicated the propriety of pasting the
great Jay Edward on the coat-tails Of
Matt Quay, III presidential and vice
presidential farce candidacy, is forgot
ten. Such are politics as seen from
the top story of gasometer.
Republican Glasses" in the same
paper, has the following drive at Mr..
Wolcott and the proposed non-partisan
Constitutional Convention:
''The Republican party cannot aband-
on principle on the one question of its
life work in Delaware. The hope of a
new constitution has alone kept the
party alive in this State. The cOnven-
ton of next December with its promise
of life and liberty to the people of the
State is the sole incentive of the nigh
tv effort now being made by the Re
publicans, for the disasters of the past
year would otherwise have proved
fatal to further party endeaver. The
convention is all there is to the coming
struggle. Take it out of the reckon
ing and hundreds of the best men in
the party will attend TO their private
affairs and leave the State to the rob
bers and the vOte-buyers who have
battened upon it, 10, these many years.
The Republican party has pledged it
self again and again to the reforms
outlined above, reforms to which no
Democrat in office or seeking Office
will ever agree, and the party cannot,
dare not, now when the hour has come,
abandon its purposes and pledges and
fOredOOm the State another decade, or
until another generation of strong men
has come up, to the harsh and sinister
conditions of the old constitution.
With the men in the harness to-day, it
is now or never, and with the great
body of the people it is "ten or moth
{ ing" The Republican party cannot
, hide behind the Democratic fortress of
on-partisanship. 1t is Bipartisan
Ship, as the Evening Journal as aptly
and exactly characterized it. 1t means
t a deadlock, failure, funeral of years
{ of political aspiration and endeavor.
: ''Finally the Democratic organ of
the State, the Dover I1ldeG, has come
9 out for non-partisan convention, of
! fifteen on each side WOlcott under
stands that this is the last ditch for
the old constitution and if he can lun
the great popular movement into this
hole the old entertainments can be
saved and the reform can be STAYED
e off for ten years more If Re-
= publicans have been hesltating, they
need do so no longer. WolcOtt never
> before did thing in politics OF husi-
ness on it. He has always gone on the
e presumption that Republicans had nc
rights which a Democrat was bound to
4 respect"