Evening journal., 1896-10-29


duty. If he is elected he will be q Re
publican member Of Congress first. last
and all of the time. and he will never
be found lobbying with Democrats TO
defeat the viii Of the Republicans of
the state. This Mr. Willis did, and if
he denies it, the speaker holds himself
ready to prove it. Mr. Hastings had
accused Mr.. Wills, of Georgetown. Of
SO doing
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
I now hold in my hand a copy Of the
same paper, under date OF October .27.
giving an account OF a meeting. and
among other things. | find the follow
ing:
E. T. Warner. the president Of the
Business Mems Mckinley and Hobart
Club, presided at the meeting. Mr..
Warner said he also, on behalf of Colo
mel Benjamin Nields, denied the report
that he would vote for Willis. Mr..
Warner said that Colonel Nields wou.u
never vote for any traitor to the Re-
publican party, and charged that it was
largely through the influence of Mr..
Willis that Colonel Henry A. DUPONT
was not seated as senator"
ALL CHARGES DENIED.
Now, my fellow-citizens. there is an
old proverb that all should learn, and.
when learned it should never be for
gotten People who live in glass
houses should not throw stones" Cap
plause)
wish here, before this Delaware au-
dience, as the friend of Mr.. Willis. TO
enter a positive denial OF the truth OF
all those charges. (Applause) / Wis
tied him at his home on last Saturday
and interviewed him in reference to the
first Of those charges.
THE UNsEATING OF DUPONT.
Mr. Willis told me that he never
spoke to a Democratic senator upon
the subject of the contest of Colonel
Dupont until after that contest was
settled, and then the only converse
ton he had with any Democrat upon
the subject was a conversation with
Senator Gray of this state.
He said he approached Mr.. Gray and
asked him.
Senator do you really believe that
Colonel DUPONT was not legally elected
as senator from the State OF Della
ware? He said that Senator Gray
replied that he certainly did so believe.
and so believing, he voted against seat
ing him, when Mr.. Willis said he ex-
pressed regret that it was not other
wise. (Applause.)
HIGGINS PURPOSE.
I learned from no less a distin-
guished person than Hon. Anthony Hig-
gins, on the 2nd day Of last July, on
the railroad train between the cities OF
Wilmington and Philadelphia. the pur-
pose Of Mr.. Higgins and his friends in
this campaign. I had hoped that those
purposes would not be carried out. Mr.
Higgins told me- in that conversation.
that he and his friends, the faction that
he represented intended to nominate a
ticket in this campaign for the purpose
Of defeating the ticket whose success
am now advocating
FOR DEMOCRATIC SUCCESS.
He told me that they not only in
tended to nominate ticket. and nomi-
nate il for the purpose Of getting
ticket that Republicans, who would
not vote the Democratic ticket. would
vote, so as not to vote directly for
Democrats, but that others who were
determined to beat this ticket would
vote directly the Democratic ticket.
l replied to him: Senator that
means Democratic success"
His reply to this was: YES, It
means Democratic success. but prefer
able to the success of the other peo-
pie"
And when I mentioned to him:
Senator, how about our friend Will
LISP he said: "Oh, he is for Addicks,
and we intend to take down the cleaver
and split all that whole C. d. crowd
down the spinal cord"
/ quote the gentlemen literally. That
conversation occurred on the 2nd day
of July 1896, and if Senator Higgins is
in this audience he will bear witness to
the truth Of my statement. And not
only is it true, but / challenge from the
gentleman himself denial OF it's truth
(Applause.)
My friend was attacked on the 2nd
day Of July. On the 3rd day Of July I
sat down In my Office and wrote those
facts to my friend, Mr. Willis, hoping
that it might apprise him of the true
condition of the feelings Of factions
toward him, and still hoping that those
feelings might lie down before Novem-
Der, and that the Blue Hen might
gather her chickens under her wings
(Applause)
Honor yourselves and honor your
state by electing Hon. j. S. Willis your
next representative in the National
Congress.
Walter H. Hayes spoke lightly on
| the national issues, and then contin-
ued: 81 have been accused in this cam
paign Of sacrificing Mckinley for the
state ticket. ! have spoken forty-five
! times in this campaign and / know and
want to say to my friend from Mary
! land that the vote of Delaware will be
cast for Mckinley. The only way TO
prevent it will be for a part of the Re
publicans to follow the advice of their
candidate for Congress who said on
Saturday in Sussex county: II you
can't beat the Union party any other
way vote the whole Democratic ticket.
Why have we two state tickets? There
is on the registration a Republican ma
jority OF 1000 or $500 Why is this
not to be cast for one ticket? Who
ever prevents il from being cast for one
ticket should be held accountable and
shall be so held.
Il do not propose to vilify any one,
! Itf Tho E,rrIfch 1aupnnpp has certain