Evening journal., 1896-05-08
A FIGHT TO THE DEATH,
Higgins and Addicks Plumed
for the Encounter.
NO QUARTER AsKBD Or GRANTED

Interest has Seen added to the struggle
by the arrival In town yesterday after
noon OF Frank Bonner, OF Philadelphia
he was one OF those who handled the
aduicks forces at Dover last spring and is
here now to participate In the carrying
out Of the Addicks programme tomorrow
Yesterday, Ia company with ex post
master Daniel + Stewart he went out to
see the game Of baseball and afterward s
took super With Mr. Stewart it Is TO be
presumed that they talked Of anything
but the result OF the gsms during the
lev hours they spent together
Mr.. Stewart is not an anti Higgins
man. In fact, he Is an Rdmirer Of the ex-
senator, but for more than two wears be
has been hunting for the scalp of Chair
man Bach, of the First District Commit
tee, and he will never sheathe his knife
until he gets that brunette trophy.
The Addieks lieu,enants are all ct
their appointed station, cooked and
primed with ballots, long green nd all
the other essentials and showing bold
front all along the line
1t will be pretty fight no matter
which way the scales turn. and instruc
tive as we'll as interesting.
While the Addicks leaders profess TO
be sRnguine Of solid delegation from
Kent county the news which comes from
Dover has had dispute ing eff CT upon
some Of them who we're so sure OF 3
walk0ver In the midland county
That the Higgins and Massey men
down there have been endeavoring to
break the 'solid centre" OF ths Addicks
line has been verified and they seem TO
have met with some success. for within
the past two days Frank Alice and
his colleagues have been acting as
though some of their plans have been
frustrated when they least expected It.
II the Higgins men can get fifteen or
twenty delegates from Kent county they
will use them to good advantage In
making up for expected and unex pected
losses in Kent and Sussex counties
IL WAS given out from both sides to
day that no quarter will DO asked aud
none granted II the Higgins men Sc
cure control Of the convention they will
apply the unit rule and no Addicks man
will be permitted to go TO St. Louis as
the representative of the Republican
party OF Delaws County lines will be-
obliterated In the endeavor to stamp out
Addlckslsm. The same may also be said
Of the Addicks men. Should they con
troll the convention both ex-senator
Higgins aud Colonel Henry A DaPont
will be the irst and foremost victims led
to the sseri6es on the unit rule princi
pie.
It is to bs tbs death OF one faction or
the other and the Democrats party will
ring the krell over the survivor ia No
vember
The Platform Architects.
Higgins controls by a majority Of two
the commi tee on platform aud will
frame the report as he sees 6t. regardless
Of the presence of Addcks on the com
mittee Ulless be controls the conven-
ton, though this will avail him little, as
an Addlcks convention can very readily
upset the work OF Higgins committee
The platform has already been roughly
outlined. IL declares for a protective
tar # cleveTly straddles ths financial
plank and generally denounces the rule
OF the Democratic party both national
and state, and makes sll sorts Of promises
Of reform in Delaware II the people will
only give the party an opportunity 10
make the new constitution and the laws.
Higgins Men Make Big Claims.
The claims Of the Higgins men have
not fallen of ia any particular They
still declare that they will carry every
ward 10 the city e6cepting the Third
! Parts of New Castle, Bssndywine and
Blsc bird hundreds are conceded to the
Addicks people
I'VE will have a clever working msi r
ity In the Sussex county caucus, said
one Of them to day, "and no man ia the
stste will be more surprised at the re
turns from the lower county than Mr..
Addicks himself
'Our control. OF the convention is
slresdy assured. said another 1--WE
shall have at least 105 Of the 100 dele
gates and mrybs more Addicks "a
heing fooled 10 all psrts Of the state. and
he will realize lt fully when the returns
come in to morrow night
That Is all Higgins bluff. ssii En
/ Addioks leader to whom these claims
and statements were communicated
I'VE are going to win in ell three coun
ties and take everything In sight
Minority Rep resentatIon Granted.
The FIRST District COMMITTEES. douinated
/ by Chairman Bsc1, this morning an
nouuced the officers who will hold the
primary elections tomorrow. Minority
representation has been accorded the
Addicks wing in most of the wards, but
the selections were all made by the Big
gins men TO suit their own purposes.
These are the voting places aud elton
officers, the inspector being named frs;
In each instance:
First ward, northeast corner OF Four h
and Tatnall streets; James s. Wallick,
Emery Brown, Samuel Wier
Second ward, west. FELTON, HOUSE
Joseph Sooy, w. !. W,rth. William w.
Ratehffs
Second ward, east, southeast corner oi
A and buttonwood; Willlsm b Cook,
Thomas Gsynor. Richard E. Craig
Third ward, southeast corner OF Third
and Jefferson: w. e. Graham, Elmer e
Hsre, Frederick Connor
| Fourth ward, southeast corner Fourth
and Walnut; Vernon Robinson, Robert
Atkinson, John WilliAms
Fifth ward, between Market ard Mon
roe. northeast eOrner of Eighth ard JEFF
ferson, James B S.idhRm, William @
Blain. Harry V Bootes.
Fifth ward. Monroe to Broome, south
west corner of Seventh aud Jackson; J
Bowers, j. n. P. Norris, George w
Groves
Fifth ward, west Of Brcoue. southwest
corner of Rowland ard Claytcn; II. Il