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ng a majority of the caucus, are the
friends OF old King Caucus, while the
Regulars, being in q minority, are op'
posed to him.
The upshot OF the matter is likely to
be that instead of first holding a caucus.
the Republican members of both sides OF
the Republican party or OF the two
branches Of the Republican party, art
likely to hold conference instead OF a
caucus, and at this conference each side
is expected to say for whom it. will and
for whom it will not vote. If this idea
| is carried out there is likely to be some
very interesting scenes in the conference
which has been planned, and some hard
feeling is likely to result.
On top of this announcement comes
the announcement from Regular sources
that there has been a deal made by
which Anthony Higgins is to go to the
Senate this time, while ]. Edward Ad-
dicks is to have the next term. This is
pretty enough on the face Of it, but it
has too many marks of improbability.
The story is well vouched for, but there
are some difficulties in the way. One Of
the difficulties is the Union Republican
majority.
The Union Republican party has for
several years claimed that it is the Re-
publican party of Delaware, and the fact
, that it has sixteen of the thirty-one
members elected by the Republicans to
the General Assembly is regarded by the
leaders OF that party as vindication of
their claim. This being the case it is not
likely that they will surrender to the
Regulars on the understa nding that Ad-
dicks is to 60 to the Senate the next
time.
Admitting for the sake of argument
that all OF the Union Republicans favor
Addicks for Senator and this is by no
means certain) it would be very fool
ish move for them to make. At the
present time they have majority of the
Republican members, and if they all
voted for one candidate the Regulars
would be placed in the position of the
minority attempting to dictate to the
majority, which would have the effect of
crippllng the Regular organization.
THIS is something which cannot gener-
ally be tolerated by the people of any
party, and it would take lot of expla-
nation to get it out of the way.
In the second place if Addicks has all
OF the Union Republicans now it would
be like buying gold brick for him to
drop his present chances and to depend
upon the result of arolher election and
the promise of the Regulars to help him.
He must know and his friends must
know that the Republican party pledged
to elect Addicks Senator could never win
in this county and in some of the dis
trcts of the other counties. There arc
too many Regular Republicans who arc
opposed to him and who would vote
against him in the election. This being
the case it is not likely that any dea
such as Is mentioned is likely to take
place.
What is likely to take place is this
The Republicans in the Legislature vii
hold a conference and informally discuss
the matter OF the Senatorship. After thi
is done each side will vote for its favor
; c candidate until the members hav
found the will OF the people and thel
one side or the other will give way or
compromise will be reached and a Sena
: tor chosen.
Y The Republican party does not inten
to make the same kind OF record that
did four years ago, when it continued t
I vote for Senator until the session wa
e over without arriving at a choice. T
{: pursue such a course would be equivaler
& to turning the State over to the Demo
s cratic party again, and il the Democrat
e party chances to get control of the Stat
j. for another General Assembly it wi
d make matters very interesting for til
;. Republicans and will see to it that tt
It Republicans will not have anotht
chance to win. Therefore the Republ
g cans will, so far as lays in their powe
If do all they can for the good Of Il
e State.
W WlLMINGrvN, DEL. Nov. l9--Sincc II
'e year 1889, when ]. Edward Addicks mao
J. his meteorlc appearance In the State car
S. tal and with great benignance offert
d himself as q compromise between A
le thony Higgins and George V. Massey
j. the contest for the [. s. Senatorshi
% he has been periodic spectre to the r
n publican party. In each campaign wagt
EluCG uIldJ llIllc tllC luOuSllU vi AuulCk
N candidacy for the United States Sena
III has been as an evil spirit lowering ov
ID the party.
ID In 1895, with a majority in the Legi
,e lature, the Republicans found themselv
e, in deadlock, because the supporters
of Addicks continued faithful to the leger
q. and refused to submit to caucus action
n unite with the opposing faction to sele
of some Republican other than Dictat
as Addcks. And so the evil spirit wo
ot and when, in 1897, the Democrats h;
is control of the General Assembly the
id filled the place which the Republca
lie had failed to fill by electing Richard
le Kenney to the upper house of Congress
ID Once more the fortunes of war ha
0, turned in favor of the Republicans, al
= the Legislature of 1899, to convene
e. little more than six weeks hence, W
le have the naming OF a successor to Geo"
L. Gray. But the evil spirit of Addicksis
ct has not vanished and the State awai
c. the outcome with mingled forebodil
g, and hope
III Numbering tifty-two members alt
Ie gether, the coming Legislature will
in made up of thirty-one Republicans al
o. twenty-one Democrats; the Senate co
as. tanning nine Democrats and eight Repu
le licans, and the House twenty-three r
,e publicans and twelve Dem 1crats. OF Il
N thirty-one Republicans in the Gener