The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-07-11
A WEEK OF
-La
POLITICS..
Indications Now POintt0 an
Organization Of the
\ Warning Republic
can Factions.

An the carefully laid plans of fhe Re-
pubicans OF both factions appear to have
come to naught, but it Is probable that q
harmony plan will finally bo agreed upon
| before the next election day Although
| the factions are disposed to quarrel a.
much as ever today 5here will be consider
able pressure to compel them to unite on
one ticket before November.
| The Democrats, while taking some corn.
| fort from the latest outbreak, will prepare
| to make hard fight against ono Repubii.
can ticket.
The masses of the Republicans of both
factions wish to get together. They ass
not particularly interested in the quar-.
rels amCng the leaders and will demand
that basis Of compromise shall be agreed
upon.
Both the Union Republicans and the
Regulars have been busy ever since thu
failure Of the harmony meeting explain
ing to the voters how 1t all happened.
Fred Bach, who led the Regular forces,
said to-day: "At Dover in 1895 the cry
was Addcks or nobody. 1t was nobody
with q vengeance. At tho Clayton House
the same voice raised the cry of 1856 dele
long as mon follow him Mr. Addicks'
absurd dictum that the 5000 Republi.
cans Of Wilmington shall have only 81
delegates at a convention where the IL. 900
Republicans in tho three rural districts
are to be represented by 100 delegate,
raised tho sword where his opponents had
brought the olive branch. The declaration
of his lieutenant inflicted weariness and
nausea where hope and union and conf.
dence should aud could have prevailed
Mr.. Bach's words state the position oi
the Regulars pretty accurately. They as
sert that they will never give in on a pro-
posed apportlonment which means fewer
delegates for Wilmington.
Tho Union Republicans declare that the
Regulars have been misrepresenting the
situation. They claim that they are In
favor of harmony, if it is brought abou,
in tho right way. They declare that the
recent conference was at tho solicitation
of the regular Republicans, and thoy sup
posed that the Regulars would come into
tho meeting with formal proposition.
Claiming that II majority of the Republi.
cans Of the State follow the Union banner
their leaders declare that the Regulars
should mako tho propositions and vote on
tham.
When the question ola State Conven.
tlon was raised in The meeting the Union
men say the Regulars sat dumb and re.
fused to vote. The Union men say that
they could not have agreed upon any other
apportionment than the 1S5 delegates, be.
cause that number was agreed upon by
regular State convention of tho Union Re-
publiCans, and the Conference Committee
had no power to change that apportion-
mcnt. One of the leaders suggested that
State Convention could be held, each fac.
ton voting for the list of delegates it would
put up in every district.
Then the excess of deficiency of dele
gates because of the different apportion-
ments could be settled in convention as
cOntesling delegates are settled. The
Union leaders say that the amalgamation
of the City Committees was due to II mis-.
understanding, and that Chairman
Downey practically went back on them,
refusing to present resolutions not to dis.
band the separate organizations but to act
jointly for harmony.
The present plans of the Unions are to
reor9anize their City Committee and to
put 1t into commission at once