Middletown transcript., 1896-05-23
REPUBLICAN COUNTY COMMIT.
TEE.

REPUBLICAN COUNTY COMMIT
/ TEE.
| At a meeting in Wilmington on Sat
urday, May 16, of the New Castle
County Republican Committee the fol-
4 lowing resolutions were adopted:
Resolved. That the Republicans OF
New Castle county, through their Rep-
resentatives in County Committee as.
sembled. express their condemnation
and profound abhorreLc ce of the attempt
of one J. Edward Addicks to destroy
their patriotic party organization and
by bribery to found upon its ruins a
personal party of the ign GRANT and de-
based and the venal Of both political
parties; that they denounce his election
of alleged delegates to so-called Re-
publican State Convention, by the Cor
rupt use of money, notably in the Sixth,
| Eighth, Ninth and Twelfth wards Of
this city, the hundred of New Castle
in this county, and in Little Creek,
Cedar Greek and Dagsbtro hundreds of
Sussex, whereby he secured more than
third of his following in that conven-
tion; that they reafirm their unalter-
able faith in the rules. the customs and
the principles that have hitherto gov-
erned the conduct of party conventions;
in the right of each convention dis
trict to name its own members for
committees and to select its own dele
gates to the National Convention; they
insist that to violate these conditions
is to invite discord and TO overwhelm
the party with defeat and destruction.
Resolved. That the Republicans of
New Castle county call The attention of
all fair-minded party men throughout
the State to the gross and unprece-
dented violation of party usage by the
application of the Unit Rule in NAM
ing the Committee til Credentials at
the recent alleged Republican Conven-
tion, and confidently appeal IL all hon
est men for their unqualified disapprO-
val of the blind and outl lageo"s refusal
of the chairman of the Convention to
hear a motion for amendment to the
report IF that committee; the Republic
cans of this county stigmatize the ap-
pointment of that committee, its re-
port, and the confirmation of that re-
port, as an outrage upon fair play, a
violation of party rules and robbery
of their most precious rights aud priv
ileges; they endorse and cordially COM
mend the action Of the self-respecting
delegates in resenting the insults de-
liberately inflicted upon them and in
Withdrawing from the body which rec
ognized neither right, nor rule, nor
reason, but followed alone the personal
diclation of their unworthy and des-
potic leader; they recognize the Con-
vention held in the Hall Of the House
of Representatives OH Tuesday last as
the Republican Convention of the
State and heartily approve their pro-
ceedings and the choice they made for
delegates and alternates to the National
Republican convention.
Resolved, That the Republicans of
New Castle county hereby express their
gratitude to the Republican Senators
of the United States in giving their
unanimous vote in support of Henry
A. DUPONT. who was elected to the
Senate from this State on May 9th,
1895, they recognize that he was de-
prived of his right and the State and
the Nation of an honorable nd
worthy representative by the base con-
spiracy Of j. Edward Addicks with
the Chancellor and the Governor of
Delaware, both of them Democrats,
and the further connivance Of all the
Democratic and Populist Senators of
the United States: they characterize
the part that Addicks and his several
tools played in this matter as unrepub-
lican End Infamous, and hereby de-
nounce them the open enemies of the
party and public enemies of the State;
finally they wish to emphasize that the
Democratic Chancellor and the Demo-
cratic Governor of the State. have full
filled their part of the conspiracy by
securing the unanimous vote of The
Democrats and PopuIists in the United
States Senate, for it was 50 recorded
yesterday in that body.
Resolved, Tha. the Republicans of
New Castle county, through their Rep
resentatives here assembled. give their
unfalteling adhesion to the principle Of |
representation according to population;
they reiterate for the benefit of every
party voter in the State, the eloquent |
resolution, unanimously adopted by |
the Union Republican Convention of |
1866, and solemnly pledging the party |
Of the three counties to its undying prin-
cipIe; the resolution which was writ
ten, presented and successfully sup
ported by the late venerable Republic
can leader, the Hon. Nathaniel B.
Smithers, in section 10 of the platform
then framed and reads as follows:
Resolution TO-. That the principle |
of representation according to popuIa-
tion is alike Republican and expedient
that in the construction of future
conventions Of the Union Republican
party such principle shall be recog-
nized and the Central (Stite) Commit
tee to be appointed by this convention
is hereby directed TO fix suitable
number of delegates for conventions
hereafter to be held and to all0t To |