Middletown transcript., 1899-10-07
THE OTHER SIDE.

/, From The Union Republican, Georgetown,
The ''sdssex Republican is mistak-
en-. 1t is mistaken very often. It al
lows its wish to be 80 often the father
TO its thought. We refrain from saying
that its mistakes are deliberate mis-,
statements, or that 1t follows the lead
of that despicable school of Journalists,
who hold that any statement, however
untrue, is permissible in political dis.
cussions. Here is statement in point.
In its last issue it says 'the Union Re-
publicans, in almost a whining tone, q
year before the election, are begging
for harmony" This stat ,ment is false.
No Union Republican in the State can
be quoted to prove such an assertion.
The position Of the Union Republican
Party Is unchanged aud Interchangeable.
lt demands that the whole issue OF
party division be submitted to a COM
mon primary under the conditions Of
the new organic law, and that by this
method-in the High Court Of the Peo-
ple-one party, one emblem, and one
ticket be secured. There is no begging,
no whining in this. It is simple
proposition-an American proposition
"a fair and opportune proposition, in
agreeing to which no man and o fac
tion undergoes, or can undergo, any
humiliation or abasement. There Is
no other way whereby the party can be
saved. The disastrous and fatal s'bOlt',
from the May convention of 1896, Great
ing thereby two Republican organiza-
tions, made party unity In the future
dependant upon the adoption OF one or
two alternatives only-the surrender of
one organization to the other, or the
adoption of the plan for common pri-
mary called by agreement by both or
ganizations. The former is not even
considered by either side. The latter
remains as the only alternative. There
fore the Union Republican Party pro.
poses to offer this proposition for unity
and party integrity up to the last avail,
able moment, In spite of the nervous
meddling and evident CONSERVATION Of
the Democrats, as well as of men who
loudly proclaim theirRepnblicanism and
fulsomely shout forMcKinley, but whose
every act, whose every utterance gives
hope and courage to the enemy.
After every effort has been exhausted
to secure settlement of political diff
ferences by an appeal to majority rule,
at the proper time. the Union Republi.
can Party will hold primaries, and q
State Convention, and will elect delel
gates to a National Convention.
Those delegates will go. They will
again demand admission as the repre-,
sentatives Of majority rule In Delaware.
If they are admitted, that is the last
of the "bolting mlnority,n propped up
by an unjust decision of the National
Committee aud by the shameless act
OF prejured Democratic Clerks of the
Peace. II they are not admitted the
fight for majority rule will still go on.
There will be, however, one difference. |
No union upon any candidate upon
any part of the ticket for any Office in
the State will be possible. It will
necessarily be keen, bitter, uncoms
promising fight to the finish. Because
Of these consequences, easily forsssen |
by any rejecting Republican, free from |
the blindness of his own passion, and |
because, sooner or later, the principle
of majority rule must prevail-.T The
Union Republican. In season and out
OF season, places before ihs party the
only solution of the political proelern |
that Is possible. Whsther the appli-
cation Of this principle comes now, or
years later, come II must. There Is no
substitute for II 10 Republic. In i
the judgment OF The @Union Rspubli-
can, = h should BE- applied now-now,
when the Immediate future IL ous of 1
assured aacceasn later, when even
with united party there Ii certain I
defeat. :