Middletown transcript., 1896-04-18

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:. :. ~, he >ui,jec, Of Il. lrps E sl4e i"as.
'f.,a issur "as sqpartl, lied with ~.
advocates If honrt primary tletfiaus
on one side and the promoters Of dis
honest primary eltc. ion on the other.
The friends Of the .MirnHg Nrws'
voted in defence of dishonest party
primaries, and the editor Of that self
constituted mouth piece of the goody-
gocdy element of the Republican party
in the city of Wilmington, against his
own conviction, in opposition to his
personal knowledge of frauds perpe-
trated at former party primaries under
the same management, al attempted in y
double loaded editorial to pull these
men out Of hole into which they
jumped in their insane opposition to a
request for fair play among party as
sociates.
That is all the resolution offered at
the committee me, ting by DIR. G. r.
Layton was-a request for fair play in
the party primaries. Here is the text
of the resolution as reported and
printed Morning News' and every
Evening":
During the meeting a resolution was
presented by DR.. Caleb r. Layton, who
moved that it be adopted by the COM
mittee.
1t asked the Sta.e Central Commit
tee to make part of its call, for tile
primary election to elect delegates to
the Dover Convention, which chooses
delegates to the st. Louis Convention,
the following rule:
That the committee selecting the
primary election officers make as part
| of the board election a representative
| of the minority in all hundreds and
wards, where there is but one voting
place, and whtr. there are mere
that one voting place, the represents
tion shall be equal. Each side to select
its own officers, and in case of failure
to do this the act in relation to hold
ing primary elections shall goverp.--
Morning News.n
Resolved, That it is the sense oil
this committee that in the call for del.
egates to the Republican State Con-
ventiCn to be held at Dover, Del, in
May, 1896, in all wards and hundreds
in the s ate where there is but one
polling place for the primary election
for said delegates there shall be min
ority representation of a Judge and
clerk of the primary election officers,
and where there are mere than oLepoll.
ingplace that the officers Of the prim-
ary election shall be equally divided,
and that the majority and the minority
Of the election officers shall be selected
by the opposing parties, and in case of
failure thereof to hold said election
that the act in relation to primary
elections shall govern, and that this
resolution be embodied in the call for
the conyention.-.Eyery Evening""
The reports agree 50 far as the essen
tials of the resolution 60. They agree
in saying that the resolutions were de.
bated for more than an hour; that ills
purport was fully explained, and moth
ing more was asked and demanded
than that fair division of primary
election officers be made between the
contestants. Who offered the resolu-
tion, who seconded tbe motion to adopt
| it, and who voted for and against it,
was published in the newspapers, and
had been discussed all over the State.
| before tine editorial OF defence was
| written by the editor of the Morning
News" And yet lie pretends that lie
did not know anything about it. LIE
refers to DR.. 9. II. Layton as '.lhe
person who presented it," Evidently
he thought it smart to ignore so promi-
nent a man. and thus discount the res
olution's influence by making it appear
to have been the work Of some un-
known and obscure ''person."
Here is the opening paragraph OF
the "Morning News editorial:
There is decided misunlerstand-
| ing as to the action of the republican
State Committee on Monday, in refns-
| ing to adopt rule which was offered
| by a member fol action. The rule con-
tanned the word .n.inority,n implying
that two parties were to take part ia
the election for delegates 10 the State
convention, and reference made 10 'sop-
posing PARTIES just exactly how the
rule was worded We are unable to dis
cover.
Shade of the absent and honorable
ex-counsel to Persial who could have
anticipated the printing Ct such nom
sense as this in newspaper once con-
| trolled and still owned by you2 who
would ever have imagined that the
editor of the .Morning Nswsn could
have prefaced an editorial with such
confession Of falselirM and pretended
ignorance?
He is .making ado" in yeiy f.uliel
way in order to dcceive his readers. Ii.
cannot be possible, however, / hal many
OF them will be deceived. With the de-
feat of the Republican city ticket at
the last municipal election still in
mind; remembering that tie Republi-
can voters refused TO sanction. Ia an
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