Evening journal., 1896-10-29
HIGGINS DENOUNCED
contIausd irsm FIr.l psra.

reply except VitupcratiOn and abuse.
! Higgins and his friends held a conven-
ton at Georgetown, and only his
friends were permitted to participate.
How many times have you seen An
thony Higgins, Washington Hastings.
e. G. Bradford and General Wilson
prance up and down this platform and
rail at the disfranchisement Of Repub-
licans by the Democrats? Yet by one
stroke OF a pen here are these very peo-
pie disfranchising nine-tenths of the
Republicans Of the state. This COM
PEELED us to issue a call for another
convention, from which no one was
shut out. We nominated an electoral
ticket and nominated man. the peer
OF any for governor, John ID Hoffecker.
The week before we nominated him w.
G. Spruance went to Mr.. Hoffecker and
asked him If he would accept the nomi-
nation of the Georgetown convention.
Mr.. Honecker said yes, II there were
no conditions attached. Knowing all
this we nominated him, without max
ing any conditions whatever. We also
nominated J. S. Willis Why? Be-
cause It is a universal custom of the
Republican party to renominate a con-
gresham who has served faithfully.
These two men have always been and
still are Republicans.
Mr.. Willis has made a good repre-
sentative. He succeeded in having put
into the River and Harbor bill an ap-
propriation of S220000 for improving
the Christiana but it did not meet the
approval Of the Board of Engineers.
DO you think Mr.. Houston could get
it through for you? Why, this is the
first time in twenty-five years that we
have had a representative who would
cause any one outside the state to
know that Delaware was represented
in the lower house.
why was that Georgetown ticket
nominated? Could they be elected
Assuredly not. They have confessed
that they can't win, don't expect to
win, and they say to us: You shant.
Every reason given for Withdrawing
their electors would apply with equal
force TO the candidates for governor
and congressman. Mr.. Hoffecker was
the first Republican speaker OF the first
Republican House OF Representatives
in Delaware"
Here Mr.. Hayes read an editorial
from the Morning News commencing
Mr.. Hofecker's honesty and Republi-
canism. He then read another editor
ial from the same paper in which no
name was mentioned but which pre-
sumably referred to T.. E. Bach, in
which the person referred to was
strongly scored.
Mr. Hayes continued: "The last is
the man who last night said
that the flag of Turkey was
the only one which bore
star. the emblem Of our party. He
could not see the forty-five stars in the
glorious banner of our own country.
These people have an objection to
this ticket. It is Addicks. The obiec-
ton to Addicks is two-fold. lie uses
money at elections and no prevented
the election of a United States senator
About the money part of it you all know
it's a case of the pot calling tho kettle
black. These men have become political
purists. When did they become inocu-
lated with this virus? Why you relnem-
ber when we carried Kent and Sussex
counties that they didn't object to It's
use and Horace Greeley Knowles saved
Sussex county with it and was ap-
pointed consul to Bordeaux as his re-
ward. More, the election of Anthony
Higgins to the United States Senate
was the result of the money used in
that campaign. They only object to
the use of money when they haven't
got It, They could have prevented the
use of money by passing a bill which
was presented to the last Legislature
but which they refused to favor / am
not in favor of the use of money in
elections, but have always heard that
If you are going to fight the devil you
must use fire.
"They don't mean that about the
money. If they do, why did they ask
! the National Committee for S35,000?"
Mr.. Hayes went on to disprOve the
charge that Addicks prevented Du-
/ Points election, and cited several times
when he could have been elected. He
continued: "They say Addicks pre-
vented the election of Colonel DUPONT.
Why, Great God, they argued for three
months down in Washington that he
had been elected.
Levi c. Bird says I would rather
have the Democrats win 1000 times
! than Addicks once E. G.. Bradford
doesn't want the Republican party to
win, but wants to organize a new party
out of the wreck. COnfessedly they
can't win and they act the dog in the
manger. Unless there is treachery OF
the kind contemplated there is abso-
lutely no hope for the Democratic party
in Kent or Sussex counties. The Hig-
gins people wanted to fuse with the
Democrats in Kent county, but the lat
ter said you have nothing to fuse
with"
Mr.. Hayes defined his position and
views on the new Constitution, and
stated the necessary changes in his
opinion. He closed with an extract
from an address by Senator Edmunds
of Vermont. on the hopes and plans OF
Republicans.
ADJUSTMENTS.