The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1900-06-20

FOR ADDlCKS.
The Addicks Delegation
Will Undoubtedly be
Seated.

The Committee on Credentials of
the National Convention, Of which
Serene e. Payne, of New York, is
chairman. last night administered
crushing blow to the DUPONT
Higgins faction Of Delaware. recog-
nizing all the Addieks delegates by
a vote Of SO to 9.
So unexpected and so overwhelm-
ing was the action of the committee
in it's effect upon the Dupont peo-
pie that they were unable to de-
eide last night whether or not to
carry the fight into the convention
to-day.
While no one could say authori-
tatively last night whether or not a
minority report would be present.
ed the feeling at the DUPONT head
quarters was that the vote was SO
Overwhelming that it would be a
hopeless contest. and the probabi-
lities are that the DUPONT people
will throw up the sponge.
The Addicks people were cores.
pondingly elated, and the ANNOUNCE
ment Of the result was received
with wild cheers, which were taxi
en- up by the crowds in the corri-
doris on the first floor as the news
was circulated by the numerous
friends of the plucky Delaware
leader.
The Addicks delegation, which
will undoubtedly be seated in the
convention to-day, consists of these
members:
At-large-J. Edward Addicks,
William B. Clerk, J. Frank Alice
and DIR. c. r. Layton.
District-Hiram r. Burton, A.
B. Connor.
The hearing before the committee
lasted a couple of hours, during
which all the testimony presented
before the National Committee was
threshed over. Speeches for the
Addicks people were made by
lawyers w. H. Hayes aud S. J.
Abbott and DR.. Layton, while the
DUPONT people were represen ted
by Lawyers Levi c. Bird and c.
r. Richards, Postmaster Brown,
who is chairman of the Dupont
Higgins State Committee, and Cen
sus Supervisor Jonathan Willis.
After the DUPONT people had been
heard it soon became apparent
that the committee was largely op-
posed to the arbitrary stand taken
by the Dupont people in refusing
to consider any proposition or COM
promise that did not eliminate Mr..
Addicks from Delaware leader
ship. The committeeman fairly
fired questions at the DUPONT peo-
pie as to whether they would join
with the Addicks people in the
primaries; why they had barred
them out of the Republican prim-
aries; why they would not agree to
divide offices and the Scholarships
with the Addicks people, and why
they refused to caucus jointly in
the Legislature.
The Addcks people were willing
as they had been before the Ma
tional Committee, to split even and
divide the delegation with the Du-
Pont people; but the latter main
tanned the incorporating stand
they had taken all along, and
the committee simply took the bull |
by the horns, and so recognized
the entire Addicks delegation.
Mr.. Addicks last night said he !
hardly believed the DUPONT peo-
pie would 60 before the convention
with a minority report. 1--WE don't
care if hey do" said he; "the con-
elusive vote by the committee is a
fair indication that e minority re-
port wonld be overwhelming de-
feated.
Ex-Governor Yarmouth of Louis
lana, made an Intellectual speech
for the DUPONT people before the
vote was taken.
The fight between the DUPONT
and Addicks factions has been
waged ever since 1895, and
the struggle before the Committee
on Credentials was the hottest that
they ever had.