Middletown transcript., 1896-06-20
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Committee Al to 8, second BY the Com
lmittee on Credentials 81 to II, finally
by the Committee itself 5Gsa to 3204,
/ IS sore defeat, but 1t is one that ht
has brought upon himself and that ht
merits. The TRANSCRIPT has sale
that no man is Republican who viii
do as Mr.. Addicks has done. He hal
but one recommendation for the seal
ia the United States Senate which ht
has boasted be will purchase in Della
ware-and that Is money. His friends
name no other, and he has undertaken
to build up for himself q personal party
which he called in the State ConVen'
tion in Dover on May 18th the "Ad
dicks Party - The money that he hal
put out in the State has been through
! individuals, who were occasionally
party officials who had allied themsel
YES to Mr.. Addicks politically. This
is not Republican; it is not the act of Q
good party man. No Democrat could
| get following in his party by such &C.
tion. It has been "Addicks or Nobody
with him from the first. In the last
General Assembly be controlled four
votes and by a conspiracy with the
Democrats he left the State of Della
ware minus a representative in the
United States Senate. He did more
he went to Washington and spent his
money to prevent the seating Of Col.
DUPONT, and at time when the Re
publican Party needed that vote in the
Senate. There is no doubt about all
| this. j. Edward Addicks is guilty
Of these acts, and because of these
things, which are better known in
Wash ington than they are in Delaware,
he was turned down by the Republi-
can National Convention as not being
a Republican. 1t was upon this ground
alone-there could be no other and
the Republicans of New Castle county
will never associate with him or recog-
nize him politically in the future.
They cannot afford to do:it. He won the
majority vote which he had in the last
State Convention by the use of money
at the primaries, it was a Doodle ma
jorjty not a representative one, and
the Republicans of this county, and
we think we can say Of the State, can
not afford to recognize Mr.. Addicks as
q Republican. Many Of the very men
who voted for him at st. Louis detested
the ma6ss methods but they thought bis
s.the regular convention. He has
fewer friends to-day than ever he had,
one of his delegates at st. Louis, it is
said, having quarrelled with him and
left before his contest came up. When
he quits spending his money his friends
will vanish like the morning dew. Let
Mr.. Addicks 60 to the Democratic
Party where he proposed to Senator
Gray to 60 in 1888. If the Republicans
will turn from their worship of the
golden calf, if they will utterly destroy
the image as did the Israelites of old,
a Joshua will be found to lead the Re-
publican hoses into the land of Canaan.
The promised land is near, let no one
doubt it.
This brings Us to the men who have
acted with Mr.. Addicks and espec-
tally to the men who were with him
at st. Louis. There were sAddicks
delegates" in the late State Convention
from Kent and Sussex counties who
were not in sympathy with Mr.. Addicks
and his methods, but in their zeal to
beat the Democrats, nay in their desire
to escape from the oppression of Demo-
cracy as it is practised, they had ac-
quiesced in letting him have a trial.
There are hundreds of others in those
counties who have seen his selfshness
from the beginning, have recognized |
his false republicanism and are not |
surprised that the National Convention |
has agreed with their view of the man. |
But this is not time to say Il am hol-
ier than thou" BarringIthe men who |
are in the ''Addicks Party" for what
they can get out of it, all should say |
henceforth am not a "Higgins man.,
nor "duPont man." nor all Addicks
man but I am Republican. Fhe
man who talks and counsels otherwise
is not a good Republican, nay he is not |
a Republican, and Republicans should |
get away from the influence of all |
such. We admire Senator Higgins for |
his able and clean record in the Senate, |
equal to the best, and for his unselfish |
withdrawal from the contest, though |
he was the par y nonile ',,ni his fidel-
ity to the cause of the man whom Re-
publicans believe was elected to the
Senate as his successor; we admire Col.
dupont, his unquestionable Republi- |
canism, his business ability, his ac-
knowledged standing as one of our
leading citizens and especially do we
admire the discharge of the unsolicited
trust placed in his hands by the Re-
publicans in the last General Assembly;
we think the qualities we have named
are justly due these gentleman but We
could not follow them OF any OF ther man
after he shoeld say, 'It shall be or
nobody That is not Republican.
We have been surprised that some good
men have followed Mr.. Addicks this
far; they have made u mistake, and the |
time has come when all Republicans
should assert themselves as such. To
follow the Addicks' lead longer is to