Evening journal., 1896-11-17
SITUATION REVIEWED .
Browne Tells Hanna All About
the Rumpus.
MKINLEY PROSPERITY TWISTED

LlSHED ANNALS OF THE WAR
MADE PUBLIC-FEDERAL 'PLUMs
THAT THE FAITHFUL HUNGRY
ARE ENDEAvORING TO KNOCK
DoWN-THE ADMINISTRATION
Is WARNED AGAINST THE
GREED OF BACH.
state Chairman Hugh c. Browne has
resumed his correspondence with Ma
tional Chairman Mark A. Hanna. The
following letter was picked up at
Ninth and King streets, and while it is
not exactly the proper thing to make
unauthorized use of a private letter.
there are political emergencies which
Justify the setting aside of the code Of
newspaper Office ethics, and this is one
OF them:
Mark A. Hanna, Chairman Republican
National Committee.
MY Dear Mark We have met the
enemy and he is ours. Delaware went
Tor Mckinley and at the same time It
Went Tor Addicks-but in an entirely
dlHerent sense of the term. In other
words, we helped the Addicksites to
elect the Mckinley presidential elect
ors and, by a shrewd little piece Of
politics, we helped the Democrats lick
Addicks We occupied in the state
campaign the same relative position
that the Palmer and Buckner Demo-
Gratis did in the national campaign We
couldn't vote the Democratic ticket.
but we could split the Republican vote.
and here we are to-day, smiling and
happy, while the Addlcksites are sit
ting in groups on the goods boxes, en-
deavoring to figure out how it all hap
pened. They are blue and sore and re-
sentful, and saying all sorts of nasty
things, but we 90 right on kicking our
heels and smiling. II makes them 80
mad to see us so happy. Some Of them
try TO look cheerful, but in these days
1t is awfully difficult to tell an Ad-
dicks man from a Bryan man at first
glance in Delaware.
We saved something in New Castle
county. Addicks endorsed our candi-
dates for sheriff, coroner, receiver OF
taxes and county comptroller, one Of
our candidates for the Legislature. four
of our Constitutional Convention dele
gates and four OF our five candidates
l.
enough to enable us to elect part Of
them, but ! don't think that he will
ever be so indiscreet and impolitic
| again, seeing the manner in which we
/ slaughtered his candidates wherever
we found them in the field. Some OF
his men are so convinced OF the error
that they made that they are talking OF
! demanding a new election, but / don't
think they'll get It.
The national end OF our campaign in
Delaware was handled in an able and
adroit manner; better, in fact than
any campaign ever conducted in the
state. AS chairman Of the only Repub-
lican State Central Committee in Della
ware, / managed il. Bach and Coluu-
houn and some OF the other boys did
little clerical work for me, but all OF
the administrative labors fell upon
my shoulders. You may imagine how
tired ! am.
Mr. Higgins said to me: Hugh. you
are an executive wonder. Next to Mr..
Marcus Aurelius Hanna you are pos
sessed Of greater executive ability than
any man / know" / guess he's about
right. l did good work. l made a
name for myself. The Democrats all
slap me on the back and say: Bully
boy" Regular Republicans say that /
am thing Of beauty and a Joy for
ever. Honest Money Democrats de-
clare that ! ought to have a life tenure.
while the Addiclxs men say that they
might as well move out OF the state n
] am to remain at the head Of the regu-
lar Republican organization. I tell you.
Mark. If you want to conduct a sue
cessful campaign you must have a
state chairman who is young, active
and brainy. A man who commands
the respect of the community and one
who has a good opinion Of himself. /
gave the party standing in the COM
munity; / gave the people confidence
in the party, and / gave the Demo-
Gratis a good deal more than they ex-
pected to get. When / am by myself 1
regret that I gave them so much:
when / am out among men and hear
the Addicks men cursing me up hill
and down dale / am sorry that / did
not give them more. But all disinter-
ested persons say that Stansbury j.
Wiley was not a tallow-dip to my arc
light In view OF all this, l feel en-
/ titled to ask for almost anything at
your hands
Things are in bad shape down in
| Kent and Sussex. In the former the
Democrats refused to count the votes
/ that Addicks had bought, and a Demo-
cratic majority was the natural result
In Sussex the voters that he bought did
not vote the Addicks ticket and there
was another Democratic majority there
! Now he proposes to contest the election
in both counties. He wants the Demo-
cratic Board of Canvass in Kent
county to reassemble and count the
votes they threw out, and has already
begun mandamus proceedings in the
! Superior Court. ! have an idea that in
about two or three weeks he will get il
where the turkey got the axe. OF
course we profess to be very indignant
that the votes we're thrown out That's
policy. We are making a play for the
rank and file Of Addicks followers.
Washington Hastings is helping us
along in the Morning News, but If you
cut hole in the indignation editorials
that he is writing you can see through
/ them all right. To be frank with you,
If it were not for fear that the Demo-
/ Gratis would repeal those odious as
/ gpccmanf and COLLECTION laws and give