Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-09-29

Tho nfsthads Of Addicksisu. &
4 In Kent and Sussex counties each Of
the two Republican factions has its
own. legislative ticket in the field, and
In the insolence of its power the Ad-
dicks faction has refused all oyertures
for compromise and combination. 1t
has but one object in view the election
OF candidates to the Legislature who
will vote for j. Edward AddicKs for
United States Senator, and any COM
hination that will not tend to this re-
suit is contemptuously ignored.
The Sussex Republican of George
town, which seems earnestly in favor
of Republican success in Delaware, but
which will not abjectly bow down to
the absolute rule of Addicksism, al
ludes to the disappointment of many
Republicans in that county at the
failure of the two factions to get to-
gether. "They cannot understand" il
says, why certain party leaders would
rather the party be defeated than they
should fail to secure nominees who
will vote for a certain man for United
States Senator. They do not see the
use of 'wrecking the party just because
one man cannot have everything his
way. The truth of the matter is that
Republicans of this county are tired Of
the party, and the members thereof
being used by men for the purpose of
fighting their own personal fights, and
furtherlng their own ambitions to the
detriment of the party. The party
suffers every time and the members
thereof are the men who have to bear
the consequences. The refusal of the
Union Republicans to accept the offer
OF the Republicans, which was SO fair,
is hard to understand. The bone Of
contention are the Republican dis
tricts, and the other districts to receive
very little consideration on the part Of
the leaders of that party. They do not
seem to care whether the rest of the
ticket is elected or not, just SO they
can succeed in electing their men to
the Legislature. This shows what kind
of Republicans they are. Why is it so
important that the Legislative ticket
should be elected2 Why do these
particular leaders want that above
everything else? Is it not important
that all the ticket should be electedY
Is not the Union Republican who is
nominated for county Office just as
much entitled to the work and efforts Of
every man in that party as any other
nominees? Then why is that leader
willing to sacrifice every man on the
ticket, if necessary, to get the Legisla-
turer Is it not plain that that particu-
lar man may want that Legislature
which he knows is favorable to him,
(which he nominated) for some pur-
pose of his own? What that purpose is
should be apparent to every one. Do
the Union Republicans of this county
intend to allow themselves to be used
as catspaw, to pull the chestnuts out
of the fire that somebody else may en-
Joy them2"
The Sussex Republican, we think,
has fully portrayed the Union Repub-
lican position. 1t is "Addicks or no.
body" and the Union followers are
putting forth every exertion in the
direction of preventing it from being
nobody" In Kent and Sussex their
plan is to avoid any fusion with the
Regulars that will not give the Unions
the legislative candidates in all OF the
presumably Republican districts. In
New Castle county they have succeeded
in dividing the Regulars in various
districts and hope to slip in between
and secure the nomination of Union
candidates. Both factions having en-
tered upoM common primaries, they
will insist upon the Regulars solidly
supporting the Union nominees thus
| obtained.
Throughout, the entire scheme is for
the advancement of Addicks. He has
stated that he proposes to be candi-
date for Senator for fifty years, if he
shall live that long. There is no COM
promise about him. The only manner
in which he can be defeated is by the
people going to the polls on the day
of election and voting against all leg
islative candidates committed to his
interest. As is truly remarked by the
Delaware Democrat of Georgetown,
this adventurer who lives just on the
border of our State and whose interests
are all elsewhere, can scarcely be con-
sidered citizen in the strict sense
of the word, and his aspirations to fill
the highest Office in the gift of the
people should be sternly rebuked as
they have been by. the Democrats and
by the best element of the Republican
party"