Evening journal., 1896-10-13
ADDICKS NO SACRIFICE
He Rejects Overtures to Step
Down and Out.
REGULARS GROW MAGNANIMOUs.

REGULARS GROW MAGNANIM0US.
WANT ADDICKS TO GET OUT OF
THE FIGHT IN FAVOR OF JOHN
H. HOFFECKER, AND OFFER TO
DROP HOUSTON AND TAKE UP
wILLIs-ADDICKS WILL NOT
AGREE TO ANY COMPROMISE.
The regular Republicans are doing
their best to break the hold of j. Ed
ward Addicks upon his party, and some
of the leading Addicks men have joined
forces with them, but If there is to b.,
sacrificial Offering this fall, Mr.. Ad-
dicks is determined that it shall be
somebody else and not himself.
From some OF the Addicks people It
is learned that on Saturday night there
was a meeting of a number OF leading
Addicks candidates, held at the Clay
ton House, after the Reed meeting at
the Auditorium, at which a proposition
looking to an arrangement OF the pres
ent strained relations of the two fac
tions and the making of a single ticket
were discussed.
The proposition, it is understood, was
substantially as follows:
That, in view Of the well-known i'm
possibility of Addicks electing his leg
islative ticket this year, he withdraw
Internationally as a candidate foi
United States senator; that the legisla-
tive tickets as nominated by the Union
Republicans in Kent and Sussex coun
ties stand and be endorsed as they are,
with possibly two or three changes:
that the candidates for members of the
! Legislature assemble at once at George
/ town, Dover and Wilmington, and be
released from any promise they have
made to vote for Addicks, and enter
into an agreement at his request, that
they are at no time in the next ses-
sion of the Legislature to vote for him
| for senator; further that it would be
agreed and understood that John H.
Hofecker, Addicks' candidate for gov
ernor. be the candidate of the Republ-
can members of the Legislature for
! United States senator, and to receive
/ the full Republican vote; that John
G.. Higgins or some other person ac-
ceptable to the Republicans, should be
taken up as a candidate for governor
and Willis for Congress, and a single
Constitutional Convention ticket be
agreed upon in each Of the three coun-
ties.
1t is reported that the leading candi-
dates and some of the principal follow
/ ers of Addicks were strongly in favor
of this proposition and that it would
have been accepted without a doubt
had not Addicks interfered personally,
and declared emphatically that he
would under no circumstances consider
the matter or permit his men to accept
it.
The Addieks people express them
selves as disappointed that an arrange
ment showing 80 much consideration
/ for the faction could not be agreed
upon and be acceptable to Mr.. Addicks.
II is the only proposition that has been
/ spoken of and laid before them that
could meet with the favor of all of the
Addicks followers, and a majority of
his opponents.
It cannot be ascertained just who IL
was on the part of the Republicans who
made this proposition, but it is said on
the best of Addicls authority that it
was man holding high official posi-
ton in the regular Republican organi-
zation.
The conference at the Clayton House
lasted for nearly two hours and would
have lasted longer had not the men
from Sussex county been Obliged to
take the midnight train for home.
Chairman Browne has the resigna
tions OF John c. Higgins and Robert G.
Houston in his possession, with power
to act at any minute" said another Ad-
dicks man. THE regulars, as they call
themselves, are badly scared, but that
does not affect Addicks. He is in this
fight as a winner or loser, and will
take his medicine like a man. We are
true to him and if we find treachery
in our camp we shall know how to deal
with it."
Chairman Browne pleaded ignorance
of knowledge OF the proposition out
lined above Mr. Addicks and Mr..
Kittinger are out Of town and Mr.. Will
ley was not at his Office.
However, the tickets are filed with
the clerks of the peace now, and there
is no getting them of, even if COM
promise is effected.