Middletown transcript., 1899-11-18
pers and leaders are boasting, trying TO
keep their courage up, but they are
badly disconnected all the same.
App1oKs IS THE "pEY1LO

ADDICKs is THE DEVIL
From Union Republican, Nov. 10, 1899.
'tThis is what the insincere and un-
reliable Union Republican" has to
say, among several other things:
Union Republicans want a complete
victory. They want to elect the whole
ticket. To do this they will make any sac
rifce, except that of their inalienabe right
of majority rule, of a republican form of
government, of the right to choose their
own leaders and their candidates.
A nice time to talk about majority
rule" Our Sussex contemporary should
remember, and probably it does, that on
May 8, 1895, three men from Sussex county
and one from New Castle county, all of
them elected as members of the General
Assembly on the Republican ticket, refused
to permit the majority of fifteen of tl.eir
party associates to elect a United States
Senator. Morning News.
Notwithstanding the epithets of the
Morning News applied to the Union
Republican at the beginning of the
above qnotation-the illogical resort
of low and common natures the
Union Republican still advocates the
union of the party upon the basis of
majori y rule, and declares that this is
not only "a nice time to talk about it,"
but in Every sense the only time. Nei'
ther has the Union Republican forgot
ten the failure to elect Senator in
1895. (DIt has not forgotten, also,
that the Morning News, in revenge for
that failure to elect, absolutely aided
the Democratic party in the succeeding
campaign with the avowed determina-
tioa of making the Legislature Demo-
cratic. (2)And yet it still has the
hypocrisy to whine over vacancy,
when it helped to fill that vacancy
with Democrat, and that Democrat
r. R. Kenny. 1t strikes the Union
Republican that such result to clu-
sade for Political Righteousness, should
convince even fool that the inspira'
tion was not from above, but from
below. Neither has the Union Repub'
lican forgotten that if the failure to
elect in '95 was wrong, it was equally
wrong in '99. (9If majority rule was
right in '95, it was equally right in '99.
There is no objection to mentioning all
these reciprocal sins of commission
and omission twenty times day If the
party can only profit by them.
the great Gr1mWEffiau post WrutB
of Paradise Lost, but what the dense
perception of the Morning News is un-
able to receive, is the idea of Para
disc Regained. It is evidently devo-
tee of the idea of Original Sin. and re.
jects any atonement. Itthinks only of
the fall of man, and Of the lost glories
of the Senatorship of 1896. Wlapt in
sombfe contemplation of that loss, it
prefers to be damned, rather than be
saved by turning cheerful and benig.
nant eye to the future. This is not
the condition of the Union Republican.
It is cheerful and lopeful. 1t laments
all errors of tie past. but desires to use
them as stepping stoneso to party,
united, genero IS, victorious. The
question for all true Republicans at
this time is not what errors have been
committed, but how in The future they
can be avoided. 4It is no. the duty
of the Morning News to question the
sincerity Of Union Republicans. The
truth or falsity of what they profess
can be proved BY the Morning News by
accepting thsir->profsssions and thus
bind it to or loose it from its accusa-
tions. The Morning News processes
to be Republical paper, anxious for
success, eager to all in the election Of
Republican Plesdens in the cam,
paign coming, logically anxious to aid
the President when elected by the only
practical aid possible by votes in the
Senate and House Of Reprssen tatives.
Instead of calling naLes ne ask the
Morning News TO join hands with the
Union Republican, to thr,w aside per-
sonal prejndices aud enmities which
have no place with those of exalted
principle, to labor steadfastly for q
united party, to submit the whole vexed
question TO the people, pledging itself
to sustain every nomination made by
the people. If the News will do this
we will call the public to witness who
first breaks the G, impact; If the News
will not, we leave the public 10 settle
the truthfnlness of the charge it has
brought against this paper.
~ How was this2 Many have forgotten.
(2) How did the Morning News" help
elect Kenney2
[3) But why should the Addicks legisla-
tors vote for Addicks first last and an the
time They never had majority of the
Republicans elected to the General Assem-
bly,.
(4) But money will buy at Common pri-
maxies as well AS elections or in legislative