Middletown transcript., 1897-10-02

1 ity has rights which the majority is bound
/ to respect. 1t is not for the Republicans oi
any other section of the state to contrayene
this patriotic policy.
absolute peace and good will have pre-
vailed in the Republican conventions OF
Delaware since the adoption and applica-
ton of the resolution of 1884, by which the
state was DIVIDED into four districts for
convention purposes, and it would be an ir-
| reparable blunder to do away with the ben
Efficient influence of that resolution. The
principle that the delegates of the four dis
tricts in caucus assembled shall select their
representatives among the officers and COM
mittees of the convention and upon the
state committee has given voice and its due
share of influence to every possible ele-
ment within the party. In its practical eff
feet this principle of minority representa-
ton has operated to make the Republican
conventions of the last twelve years mod
els of harmony. good will, wisdom and pa
triotism. and it has brought success to the
party. Not until unwise and violent efforts
were made to ignore The resolution Of 1884
did differences arise and disaster overtake
the party.
1.-THE propositions for q change in the ap-
portionment and in the rules of the organi-
cation are therefore to be deprecated The
people are content with both as they now
are. Let well enough alone is cardinal
rule of conduct that applies perh APPS with
greater force to party and to popular poll
cies than to any other phase of human ex-
perience. The Republican conferrees are
led, therefore, to recommend that the an
cient basis of apportionment be left undis-
turbed and that the rules and customs OF
the party which have worked so admirably
for many years be continued as the guide
and light of party action.
TT is obvious that if q change must be
made, if the conferrees of the Union Re-
publican State Central COMMITTEES insist
upon different basis of appointment of
delegates, it can only be made upon the
broad principal of representation accord
ing to the Republican vote. This principle
prevails to-day in a modified form in at
least three of the four convention districts;
and the practice thus locally applied for
many years has prepared the people for its
general application in the state. 1t is the
Republican principle of government ap-
piled to party management and it has
operated with unquestioned satisfaction for
time out of mind in the great Republican
State of Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, etc.
1.-THE Republican conferrees believe that
it would contribute to the growth OF that
good feeling between the factions, eVi-
dences of which are seen on every hand, if
a single state committee were formed and
with this object in view they propose that
four members of the Republican State Com
mittee, one from each of the four conven-
ton districts, shall resign and make |
place for that many members of the Union |
Republican State Central Committee. The |
committee thus reformed shall continue un- |
til successors are duly chosen by the dele
gates to the next regular state convention.
"Or, if this last proposition should be
deemed inexpedient, we would suggest for
convenience of amalgamation that the Re-
publican State Committee be enlarged to
twenty members by adding thereto two ad-
ditional members for each of the four con-
vention districts, the said eight additional
to be selected from the present
State Central Committee of the Union Re
publican party, the committee to remain
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