The sun., 1900-05-23
CONTROL OF union
REPUBLICANS WILL
REMAIN UNBROKEN
ANY Action by National Conven-
tiOn Will Have no Effect
in Kent and Sussex.
PARTY'S STRENGTH THE SAME
Democrats Refuse to Fuse With
Anti-Addicks Republicans Be-
cause the Latter Have no
Strength and Cannot
Deliver any Goods.
From The Suns staff Correspondent.

From The Suns staff Correspondent.
Dover, Del, May ESQ much fac,
tory-brand campaign matter appears in
the Anti-Addicks newspapers of New
Castle county, especially the city of Will
mington, that it would seem the Anti
Addicks literary bureau is working over
time. The Auti-Addicks claim that the
Union Republican party in Kent and
Sussex county is disintergrating was
laid before leaders and members of that |
party today in several parts of this |
county and in every instance the Union |
Republicans received the request for an |
expression Of opinion with the decara-
ton that it woud be waste OF effort to |
expose all the sophisms, fallacies and
lies direct which are contained in the
stereotyped matter presented to the
newspaper reading public by the Anti
| Addickstes. Suffice is to say that it is
the same old onGe-every.tw stuff
containing the same falsehnods that
every poll of votes since 1894 has dis
proved.
The Union Republican party in Kent
and Sussex counties shows the same
strength today that it has presented
against the Democratic forces and the
Anti-Addicks Republicans in every CAM
paign since the Anti-Addicksites bolted
the party. That strength has been suffi-
cient to gain victory over the Democrats
and Anti -Addicks Republicans in former
campaigns and there is absolutely no
reason to doubt that Union Republican
victory is certain in the two lower coun-
ties this fall.
Judging from the attitude and CONVEX
sation of Union Republicans in those
counties any action of the Philadelphia
National Convention whatsoever will
} not effect the strength OF the Union Re-
publican organization in Kent and Sus-
sex counties. If the Anti-Addicks dele
gates representing the Republican min
ority are seated at Philadelphia there
will not be any stir among Union Re-
publicans, and the conventions action
will not result in any increase in the
ranks Of Anti-Addicksites.
Union Republicans haven't any reason
! to desert their party. As Union r Z
2 publican said to TIE Sun correspondents
today, "The Union Republican part, a.
Kent and Sussex will carry these twe'
counties over all opposition thi4 ~ ~ .
the same as it did in 1898; hence ~. >A,
elect our entire county ticket Ia vt. a~a
majority of the Legislature r.tn. s..e tHu
lower counties,
4 Won't Fuse With .snft. .G,sicksites
/ At the last elncti y, ~. An5i .Aldicks
t Republicans pnlled ~ lies in Kent
/ county. State ~,n4f"t John Abbott,
: who was here t",i.,, ri his way to Will
= mington, MAS ii,cnIeu 10 smile at the
j statement tnt'e is any DETECTION from
the Union kepu1!ican party in this
i: county. As to the declaration that the
n Anti. 4 ~ dicks vote would double itseli
, this fall he was positive that the Anti
= Addicks ticket would not reach the 20t
! obtained in 1898.
y TAKE nv district for instance" said
Senator Abbott" "In the Tenth Repre-
r sentative district there is but one Regu-
Il lar Republican. He is an office holder
y having secured position at the Agri
n cultural Department at Washington.
mo man can pretend ignorance of the
d situation" continued Senator Abbott
t .'The majority should rule in the party
. as in theEState, and in Kent and Sussex
:. counties the majority of the Republican
}. party is the Union Republican party ano
n it rules the party and the counties down
:. here"
d Efforts are being made upon the part
3. of the insurgent Anti-Addicks Republic
n cans in Kent and Sussex in the direction
.s of fusion with their Democratic allies
r. These Efforts are meeting with the same
refusal meted out to the Anti-Addicks
Republicans in 1898. The Democrats
have said to them, "Yon haven't any
strength and no goois to deliver. We
do not believe you will poll any more
Z than the 206 votes accredited to you IL
1895"
: 1t has always been said that part o
e the 206 votes credited to the Anti-Ad
~ =, dicks Republicans in 1898 We're cast by
" Democrats who were dissatisfied will
,a the Democratic nominations. That il
I I very generally believed by most poii
y ticians in the lower counties today. Tht
= !. Anti Addicks cause in Kent and SUSSEX
20 counties is hopeless, The Anti Addick
organization is kept alive by the coteri'
of DUPONT Republicans in Wilmington
who come down here and direct th
Anti-Addicks county chairmen, one Mr.
!, Mensch il Kent, and Robert G. Houston
r. in Sussex, to keep show of organization
ol in the field. Without the periodical
" visits of encouragement from the VIII
E, mington party bolters Anti-Addicks Re
III publicanism in Kent and Sussex woul,
simmer out