Middletown transcript., 1896-06-27
MIDDLETowN, DEL. JUNE. 81, lss

MIDDLETOwN, DEL. JUNE. 81, 1ss
REPUBLICANIsM vs.. ADDICKsIsM.
This is the issue with Republicans.
1t is one that they must meet. The
members of the Republican Party
must either accept Addicks or they
must reject him. There is no middle
ground, for he will not have any. He
still says be is the leader of the Repub-
lican Party in Delaware though the
National Convention said he is not a
Republican. 1t SO said because be had
held four men in the General Assem-
bly, to prevent the election Of United
States Senator; it SO said because he
had appeared in Washington with a
raid lobby to prevent the seating OF
Col. DUPONT when every Republi-
can in the United States Senate said
by his vote that Col. DUPONT had been
duly elected and was entitled to repre-
sent Delaware in the Senate. The
Chairman of the National Convention
said out of his own mouth, II hold in
my hands the proof of the treachery OF
this man, the reasons why shall vote
against him." He has been repudiated
in the Supreme Court of the Republic
can Party and it only remains for the
Republicans of Delaware to turn their
backs upon this man who has but one
qualification, his money, and who has
shown from the very first that he will
wreck the party. to crafty his selfish
ambition. There are enough Republic
can votes in Delaware to-day to carry
the State safely into the Mckinley
column on Nov. 8, despite Addicks
and his Doodle if Republicans will only
unite. The choice is Addicksism or
Republicanism, and there can be no
more compromise than there was be-
fore the General Assembly when vot-
ing for Senator. 1t was then SAD
dicks or Nobody" That is his COM
promise to-day so far as he is con-
cerned. He stands as a political high
wayman demanding "this office or
your life.n There is strength enough
in the party to meet and vanquish him,
and to march straight on to victory, II
it is united. 1t Is question for the
voters to decide. What shall that de-
sision be?
The estate Sentinelf and the close
personal followers Of Mr.. Addicks are
attempting, as they have attempted
more or less all along, to make this
personal matter between Mr.. Addicks
on the one part and Senator Higgins
and the gentlemen with whom he
went to st. Louis on the other part. 1t
is nothing of the kind. There is but
one personality in this matter and that
is Mr.. J. Edward Addicks. For the
first time in the history of the Repub-
lican primaries money was used on
May 9th last and by purchase Mr.. Ad-
dicks controlled a majority in the
State Convention which followed. Not
only did he gee control of the Conven-
ton by the use of money but he pro-
ceeded to override every party pre-
cedent and to ignore every minority
right. He stood personally as dicta-
tor In that convention with bowling
hoodlum at his back made drunk from
the contents of sixteen beer kegs which
he brought down on his free train, and
by his absolute refusal to recognize
any minority or county rights, a..refusal
to compromise for the success of the
party in any respect, he drove from
that convention the self-respecting rep
resentatives of the large majority of
the Republican vote in the State, the
vote that stands ready to-day to put
Delaware in the columns Of Republi-
can States. Those delegates could do
nothing else than retire from that con-
vention, nothing but to endorse Mr..
Addicks and by that endorsement to
say that his course in defeating the
election of Senator so far as he was
concerned, and in opposing the seating
of Col. DUPONT, was right. That
course was wrong and they protested
against it, They sent representatives
to st. Louis and the party in National
Convention has said that Mr.. Addicks
is not Republican. There is only
one thing for Republicans to do, to
stand by the National Convention and
Mckinley and Hobart.
The State Central Committee has |
called State Convention to nominate
three presidential electors, and candi-
date for governor and representative
In Congress, to be held in Georgetown |
on Thursday, July 10th. The call
appears elsewhere. That call is regu-
lar and represents no personality but |
Republicanism in the State. All Re-
publicans are invited to take part in
the primaries, to stand by the Republi-
can Party of the Nation. The voters
can and must decide this matter for
themselves.
The TRANSCRIPT has all the time
insisted that among the Republicans
Of Delaware are many who, having
Gespaired of delivery from the bondage
Of Democracy in any other way than
by the use Of money at the polls,
q practice which thu Democrats have
followed for years, have accepted Mr..
Addicks as the only means Of escape.
They are in no sense ''in sympathy
with the treachery which caused Della
ware for the past year to be without