Evening journal., 1896-09-25

NOMINATION AGAINST HIM.
Hon. l.. Irving Handy, the regular
Democratic nominee, was In Whining
ton yesterday afternoon. An Evening
Journal reporter, who met him on the
street, asked him how ne regarded the
action of the honest money Democrats
in nominating Thomas f. Bayard, Jr.,
for congressman. He said:
The mask has dropped from the face
of the more radical and uncomprising
boilers in Delaware, and the ac-
tion of their convention (so-called) in
Wilmington last night gives us an op-
portunity to see the spirit in which
they are fighting.
In the usual political acceptation of
the word it was not a convention at
all. There were no delegates repre-
senting a constituency. 1t was simply
a meeting of the Honest Money
League" Every member of this
league, or club, was entitled to a voice
in the meeting. This did not make the
convention unwieldy in size, for the
entire membership of the league is less
than 325. According to the newspaper
account of the meeting, when a test
vote came the pretense of its being a
state convention was made as ridicu-
lous as possible by extending the right
to vote to anyone who happened to be
present, and claimed to be a sound
money Democrat" whether he was a
member of the league or not. ! quote
the Morning News:
''Mr Burchenal asked who had a
right to vote, and Chairman Mullen
said that he supposed the members OF
the league
General Postles wanted all sound
money Democrats to have a vote, and
It was so decided"
This coterie of boilers, claiming to
represent all that is true and genuine
of the Democracy of Delaware, named
an electoral ticket in opposition to the
Democratic electoral ticket and a can
didate for Congress in opposition to
the Democratic candidate. They ap-
pointed committees with power to nomi-
nate county tickets, to whom the regu-
lar Democratic nominees are, how
ever, recommended" They were,
moreover, gracious enough to endorse
Mr.. Tunnel, the excellent and worthy
Democratic candidate for governor.
They have finally left the Democratic
party of Delaware. They have stuck a
knife in the Democratic state ticket,
and they did it knowing full we'll that
the wound thus inflicted must drain
blood from every vein in the party.
Every tyro in politics knows that their
action in boiling my nomination is in
furious to Mr.. Tunnell whom they en-
dorse, as well as to me, whom they re-
ject. II is injurious to every man on
our ticket. 1t is helpful to nothing ex-
cept Addicksism. They have left the
party and struck as hard a blow as
they could at its prospects.
1t is notorious that they have left
with their mouths full of revilings and
denunciations of those of us who pre-
fer to remain behind in the good old
Democratic home. We, in their Ian
guage, are Anarchists" and "repudia-
tors of honest debts" They say that
we are attempting to destroy, like
traitors, the honor and integrity OF the
government, and that we are aiming to
overthrow the purity and authority OF
the United States Supreme Court
They have left the Democratic home
and have cast their false and foul ac-
cusations at the door as they went out
One significant fact in recent Della
ware history is this: Regular Demo
Gratis have been more conservative in
their action here than in neighboring
states, and boiling Democrats have
been more radical and bitter here than
elsewhere In Maryland, Pennsylva-
mia, New Jersey, New York, and in
other states, the regular Democrats (iI
their conventions held since the Chi.
cago convention) have endorsed both the
platform and candidates of that Ma
tional Convention. In our state W.
were more tender Of the feelings oi
gold standard Democrats. We remem
bered the battles we had fought side
by side with them. When they said
Let us have no division in the rank
OF Delaware Democracy" we salt
Amen" We adopted platform tha
all could stand on. In making up ou
tickets we have ostracized no Demo
crat because he believes in the gol'
standard. Many such are on the legis
lative and Constitutional Convention
tickets of our party. Personally in al
of my public utterances / have beel
frank, but moderate and conservative
How have these "Simon-pure" Demo
Gratis, who now put themselves in tn
attitude of boilers, received our brother
ly conduct? They have struck at on
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, at the part of the state ticket that doe
/. not happen to please them. In othe
. states we find that the gold standar
boilers who have been treated les
kindly than ours have, are acting wit
more moderation.
It is certainly the right Of any ma
to leave the Democratic party and
fight it after he has left it, But If
man exercises that right, and at th
= same time sets up a claim that he is Z
o heart about the best Democrat in th
state, he proves himself in the face {
n all men a false pretender and an arraI
sr hypocrite. The members Of the Demo
k cratic party are the voters who voi
l. the Democratic ticket. The member
E. of the Democratic party this Fall al
the voters who will vote the Demo
cratic ticket this Fall. 1t does not s
much matter what they have vote
he hitherto.
s. They say that the Chicago convei
ie ton was captured by Populists. 81
r how about the Dover convention? w;
n It captured by Populists? 1t honort
Of me with a unanimous nomination Il