Evening journal., 1896-10-17

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Intheir platform the Republcansp paid
their respects to Addicks and Addicks- /
ism in the following terms:
We denounce the long continued use
OF money for the bribery OF voters as
crime against the fundamental prin-
ciples of any form OF popular self-gov-
ernment, as It dishonors and disgraces
the state. We call upon the Constitu-
tional Convention to give its first con-
sideration to the suppression of this
gross and growing evil.
Washington Hastings in an editorial
on the day following the convention.
expressed himself in the following
terms:
The convention has answered. in no
uncertain tones, the assertion that
compromise would be made with those
who took part In the Dover convention.
The candidates named on Tuesday
were not acceptable to the Republicans
who met in Georgetown. Jonathan s.
Willis name was not even presented
for denomination by the delegates OF
his own county. He has taken his
place against the Republican party
and, therefore, finds no favor in the
eyes OF its members, who believe in
steadfast adherence to the vital princi-
pies OF that organization. Mr.. Willis
has chosen his place at this time, and
he will have to abide by the results.
The air has been cleared The voters
Of Delaware know now that the Republi-
cans have been sincere in that position
which they took at Dover on May 9
last. They have hewn straight to the
line laid out on that day. They have
set themselves against Addicksism
The action of the State House conven-
tion endorsed at ST. Louis by
the Republicans of the country
at large, has been endorsed by the
convention at Georgetown. The
/ Republicans who met yesterday have
vindicated the position of those who
protested at Dover in May. The Morn
ing News, which has stood for what It
considered the right. and which it still
holds to be right, has been endorsed
and vindicated by the Georgetown con-
vention.
The gentlemen who met yesterday
as Republicans, made up one of the
strongest and most thoroughly repre-
sentative conventions ever held in the
state They are deep-rooted in their
loyalty to and their confidence in true
Republican principles. They have
| given the voters one of the best tickets
ever placed before the people of this
state AS a result Addicksism will be
stamped out, and a fresh start will
then be made possible. There can be
but one Republican party.
It was believed that this ended the
matter, so far as the want-to-win pa
triots were concerned; but it did not
The wheels of compromise and victory
continued to buzz in their heads. They
began working the county conventions,
the Addicksites, the regulars, and even
invoked the influence of the National
Committee in behalf OF harmony Mar
tin B. Burris and John M. Clayton,
the little rival leaders in st. Georges,
fell upon each others neck and wept.
They carried their protestations of mu-
tual love and esteem into the conven-
tion, which selected Constitutional
Convention delegates, and Clayton was
seated Edward G. Bradford became
disgusted with the lack of sincerity on
the part of his colleagues and resigned
from the advisory committee. Then
followed the offers OF compromise on
the electoral ticket; the refusal of Ad-
dicks to withdraw any of his candi-
dates, and the unconditional surrender
: on the part Of the regulars on the cleo
J toral ticket. In Kent and Sussex coun-
ties several of the Addlcks nominees
were endorsed by the regulars, and al
, one time there was danger of a com
e plete surrender to the gas man in the
two lower counties; but those loya
regulars, who we're not yet ready tC
pass under the rod of Addicks, succeed
! ed in partially blocking the schemes o
+ the want-to-win men.
e After that the air was full of com
3 promise talk, but Addicks, much NOR
+ steadfast in his declarations than tn
men who started out TO eliminate him
1 refused to take any of his candidate
II off the ticket Just before the expira
II ton of the time allowed for maxim
/ changes on the ballot had expired,
u representative of this want-to-win ele
A. ment of the regular organization offer
ed to withdraw Higgins and Houston
he accept Willis for congressman, an
h John II. Hoffecker for United State
in senator; endorse the Addicks legisla
is tive tickets in Kent and Sussex couI
Id ties, and anything else the Addicksite
ii might ask, provided that J. Edwar
t. Addicks would withdraw from the figl
for United States senator. This mas
le unanimous offer was also refused
ne Addicks, and again the want-to-wi
X element was checkmated in its repre-
H. hensible efforts to compromise with
or man who had bought away their SUI
d. porters and disrupted their party.
it What their next step will be there
in no telling. They seem TO have Il
t. support of the regular Republics
State Central Committee, and their il
n. consistency and treachery to the reg
is. lar Republican candidates and electo
d. go unrebuked.
ne 1t is time that Edward G. Bradfoi
IN IN and his friends should go before tn