Evening journal., 1899-12-12

to 1t. The question then forces itself |
lWhy did you print IL? What was your
motive? What had Mr.. Higgins done or
left undone in his relation to the party
or to yourself? And OF what have ] |
been guilty either as a party worker
or as your friend that we should have
Invited and received such a sinister
and invidious blow at your hands?
Moreover you say that the Daily Re-
publican is "an Addicks paper" when
each word, line and proposition OF your
reprint fatty contradicts the charge.
That paragraph as printed is as effective
an attack upon Mr.. Addicks and his
friends as was ever printed in any pa
per in Delaware, not excepting your
own. How then can you accuse your
contemporary Of being IAN Addicks
lpaper,' again | am constrained to ask,
what was your motive? But to show
the utter absurdity of your charge
/ need point out that the same
falsehood appeared fully two monthsl
ago in the Every Evening, a Demo-
cratic organ, whose owner has recently
been elected to the directorate of the
r.. w. & b. Railroad Company. | have
not read anywhere that either the own
er of the Daily Republican or Of the
Sussex Republican has been honored
thus by the powerful assistant solicitor
OF the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
The offensive and deliberately de-
ceptive paragraph had its inspiration
elsewhere than in any Wilmington
newspaper office-probably in Phila-
delphia. lt may have been waited
through the whispering galleries Of theI
Wilmington Federal building into theI
ItfnQnnffa n1f al b4 N
ianimus and the object Of this libel areI
plain enough to me- What utterly con-
lfounds me is that you should have lent
yourself to its dissemination without
instant and indignant denial. The mall
ice Of it is aimed at Mr.. Higgins, of
course. The object, TO remove that
fearless and in1exible leader Of honest
opinion as a factor within the social
ed Regular Republican organization.
Whenever an attack is contemplated
upon the integrity of the Republican
party OF Delaware or upon that Of the
state itself. the first step Of the pro-
moters Of the nefarious scheme is to
try to put Mr.. Higgins out of the way
For more than thirty years he has
lstoOd guard; and it is my confident
prediction now that If these political
thieves persist in the conspiracy TO
break into the Republican armory,
they will find there. as of old, chal
2 longing for the password.
, Mr. Editor, it is very difficult to ex-
. tinguish a man who is honest. able
and fearless. too. 1t certainly cannot
be accomplished by newspaper. libels
however adroitly put forth.
When the Republicans of Sussex
hnd out who and what is behind this
sly and insidious attack upon Mr. Hig-
q gins and what the scheme
foreshadows, they will make
short work Of the plot and the plotters
when they learn that this is work of
the Railroad party; they will smash
4 the Railroad party, and the Sussex Re
publican will help to do 1t. When
fthey learn Of the scheme, now being
: Matched, TO unite "the decent Repub-
!, leans with "the decent Democrats tai
y legged sound money! for the purpose
!. OF electing two Railroad senator's, one
doubtful Republican, the ether a sure
democrat particular young lawyer oil
: wilmington, who has already held two
Important offices in the state; the Sus.
= lseN Republicans will rise as one man
9 irrespective of faction, to fight the con
y lsprators and to wreck their scheme
% me Republicans Of Sussex see clearl,
3 that this proposed alliance between
J, the Regular Republicans and the Rail
e road Democrats would, perfOrce. driv,
e the Union Republicans to seek an All
II lance with the Silver Democrats. Will
y the consequent result that the lattel
9 lcombination would out-vote the former
u two TO one in the next General Assem-.
e bly,.
> The Republicans of SUSSEX. see ever
u a worse result than that. They forese,
I, that the proposed alliance OF Railroad
y adherents would precipitate such bit
y ter and deadly factional fight among Re
+ lpublicans as would make the next Leg
p isiature overwhelmingly Democratic
ana the alliance in January, 1901, woult
r not be between Republican and Demo
crat but between Democrat and Demo
T crat. There would be two Democrati,
e United states senators, and that is pre-
o lcisely what the great head of the Rail
I road party is trying to bring about. Il
would improve the chances Of election
OF the young Wilmington lawyer.
The Republicans of Sussex count,
will not walk into this trap, whatever
q few misguided or interested railroaf
- adherents in that faction may do il
Kent or New Castle. They are looxinf
e to the future and to a united party. For
v 1900 the Republican factions will agret
s lon most things, and they will agree IL
It disagree on the senatorships They
@ will agree to carry their resnectiv,
counties, their state ticket and secur,
Republican self-government. The,
/. will elect a representative to the lower
q House Of Congress. for Republican
j. votes are needed there. They will agre,
= TO let the senatorial seats remain va
b cant. They realize that IL is better fol
!, the nation and infinitely better for III,
e state that those two seats should b,
r. vacant, covered with dust. than filles
It lby two railroad senators selected from
h the Delaware Democracy.
g The Sun Of this morning states tha
l. Mr. Addicks yesterday pointedly al
d legged that Mr.. Bach was employed Z,
II forward Mr.. Addicks' canvass Tn,
e Sun says:
VI Anent Bach and deals there was on,
which he entered that is vouched for b.
It no less a person than J. Edward Ad