Middletown transcript., 1896-07-11
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party this year almost anywhere, but
our thoughts are of the Republicans In
Delaware. Were we united We could
sweep the State, we could do itwithout
money and despite the assessment and
delinquent laws But we have split
uron the rock of "Addickso or Nobody
which has been placed in the path ci
Republicanism by Mr.. Addicks and
a few personal followers. Mr.. Ad-
dicks represents Doodle, nothing more,
nothing less, and having gotten per-
sonal following he has added from
time to time the disappointed self
seekers and nov has many honest Re-
publicans who because Of false state.
ments are prejudiced in his favor and
because they hope he can win. If Mr..
: Addicks could win, which he cannot,
the members of his party would be al
war with each other over the division
Of the spoils, the promises far outnum-
bering the plums. When Mr.. Addicks
returned from his visit 10 Mark
Hanna before the st. Louis Conven.
tion he with alarm summoned his de-
legation to hasten to st. Louis. OF q
certain man he was Told that he would
not be hurried. His mess tge was. s.Tell
him say it is TO his interest to go
now. You will not understand that
but he WILL" 1t is this "interest"
that has helped to divide. the Repub-
lican Party to-day. The people gener-
ally do not understand it or they would
not be the followers and supporters of
such men.
We have intimated as one cause for
division: The false claims that are
made by Mr.. Addicks and his followers
and the falsehoods told of their OPP
ponents. At the st. Louis Couven-
tion Mr.. Addicks said, 81 made Mr..
Higgins Senator and defeated him."
The devil never told baser lie than
the first part Of his declaration. Mr..
Addicks was not known to half dozen
people in Kent and Sussex counties,
says his paper, the Sentinel, previous to
the assembling of the General Assem-
bly, which elected Mr.. Higgins, and he
had nothing to do with his election in
any way. This is a sample of the Ad-
dicks method, however. L is one way
of gaining adherents at The expense of
party division. Another cause of di-
vision is the persistency with which
Mr.. Higgins name is brought into
every matter. This has been the
trump card of the Democratic papers
and some of the Republican papers
select those parts for clipping. They
have fosiered division of sen: iment
and effort for years. One of these
papers lends encouragement to this
spirit by its report Of the organization
of the committee at Georgetown last
week, though it carefully conceals the
fact that Geo rye E. Smith had Ga votes
to 13 for d. o. Moore, the man who was
a member of the General Assembly in
1889 and who bolted the Republican
Caucus saying he favored the father of
his brother-in-law, and would vote for
no one else. The paper encourages
division thusly:
The Sussex County Republican
Central Committee met at Georgetown
last week for organization. When the
fight over contested seats from Little
Greed Hundred had ended George P.
Smith found that II his political head
was entirely scratched off. Ode Moore
has contested his seat i'm the committee
just as Higgins had contested the right
OF Addicks, at st. Louis, and Ode won
with hands down. This left the Ad-
dicks wing of the convention in con-
troll by the vote of to 5. Thus armed
they made short work Of electing
Caleb II. Layton Chairman of the
Committee.
There is but one personality in this
matter and that is Mr.. j. Edward Ad-
dicks. He declares himself the leader
after defeating the election of a Sena-
tor, and those who choose to select him
as such can do 30. 1t was reported
yesterday that he had decided to take
the nomination for elector on his ticket
to be named at Dover next Tuesday and
his followers in Wilmington, seeing his
determination and kno wing It would
show his personal unpopu larity, having
failed TO dissuade him had telegraphed
for DR.. Layton. Certainly the man
who was their candidate for the Vice
Presidency and for Governor can be
allowed to take the nomination for
elector by his own personal party. II
not, why not?
But the party is divided and union
seems to be impossible. We all want
harmony but how can it be had? There
is one way and that is to surrender
fully and completely to Addicksism as
the Democrats have surrendered to
Populism in the Nation. Is that right?
II it is not right, what then2 Lst the
harmony people answer.
Two State Conventions meet next
week. The Addicks Party meets at
Dover on Tuesday and the Republican
Party rec ,guiz-d by the National Re-
publican Committee meets at George
town ON Thursday. Both primaries
will be held to-day. 1t i, certain that
the Regular Republicans will not re-
cognizs Mr.. Addicks as Republican
in any way but If The Dover Conven-
lion should dominate good and true
Republicans, such men spoken Of fol.
'eiect.ns as William c. Spruance, E-qr.,
Mahioye Hayes, Esqr.. and Charles f.
Richards, Esqr., that should be no rea-