The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1900-02-07
NO HOPE
OF HARMONY.
Regular Republicans Re-
fuse to Have Amy Deal
ing With Addicks.. q,

party of Delaware was driven to tho winds
yesterday when at Dover the Regular Re-
publican State Committee refu sed to ac-
Cept terms for IA compromise held out by
the Union Republican State Committee
last week, by adopting the following re o.
luton which was reud as an address:
Headquarters Republican State Com
mi tee, Whining on. Dell Fob. 6, 1900
J, Frank Alice, Esq, Chairman Union
Republican State Central Committe, Of
Delaware:
Sir: am directed by the Republican
State Committee Of Delaware to acknowl.
edge the receipt Of yonr undated commuhi
cation and to transmit to you the follow
ing reply:
Tho electorate which this Committee
represents yields to mono In advocacy Of
tho vital issues aud high principles of the
National Republican Party, and from tho
in promoting Republican success and
stand for the party first, candidates for
Office next.
For the past four years there has been
constant and unremitting effort on the
part of tho Republican party Of Delaware
to promote harmony, but where compro-
mi es havo been made hey have not been
lived up To by you, and the fruits Of vic
tory have not been secured.
In substantution of this claim we
point with pardonable pride to the follw-
ing history of our party organization and
the acts Of its leaders and members:
In 1883 our party elected n majority on
Joint ballot In tho General Assembly Cau-
Gus rule, the cus ON of tho party, prevail
ed, and tho Hon. Anthony Higgins WAS
nominated in caucus and thereafter duly
elected United States Senator. Some ia
vored OF hers, but when Mr. Higgins was
chosen every Republican assented to the
choice of the party representatives in the
Legislature.
With this encouragement We were then
in better condition to make our contest
against the Democratic party and wo be-.
gan the campaign of 1890 with every in
idiration ofsucce s.
by tire rotation rule of the party, Kent
county was entitled to name the candi-
date for governor; Sussex county the can
didate for representative In Congress-
The Kent county caucus named Harry
A. Richardson for governor: the Sussex
caucus named Henry T.. Cannon for Con-
gress, under the unwritten law of tho
party. that the delegates to the state con-
vantinn from county should bo allowed
to choose the candidate which the county
ia entitled to; accordingly, these caucus
nominees wore ratified unanimously by
tDS state cODVehElOn.
This state ticket was defeated and tho
Democratic candidate for governor, Rob-
ert j. Reynolds was elected bv small
plurality of less than five hundred votes
by and with the financial assistance rem
dered to him by Mr.. Addicks.
We deem il proper to state that this was
admitted by Mr., Addclls in A pr|. 1892, to
three persons Of integrity and character,
who baye siuco made oath t!ieretc.
In conversion with them he asserted
thar he elected Robert J. Reynolds hy
placing five thousand dollars ($5,0oO) in
tho hands cf james L. Wolcott, saying to
them: II gave him (meaning tho said
WolcotD five thousand dollars, justin the
(meaung the Uemocrats) had sprut
every dollar they had" and adding, You
know | had no in crest III the Richard
sons" (meaniDg tho Republican cardi-
date for governor and his cstiinablo fatf fer).
In substantintion we refer 10 the "Ar-
pument and evidence submit ed to tha
Republican National Convention of 1896,
page &C. New Castle county gave u Pep-
nblican plurality in this election of 53l
votes
In the State Convention of 1891. acting
under tho time honored rotation rule tho
Sussex county delegates selected Josiah
Fl, Nlarvil for governor, tho Kent
county lelegatos selected Jonathan S.
Willis for ,nrross, and they were thore-
upon nominated by aoclamntiOn.
The party under tho management of
the State committee aud its chairman,
General James H. Wilson, gained nota-
be victory at the election. Mr.. Marvl
was elected by n plurality Of 1.07S votes
and Mr.. Will was sent 10 Congress bvh
plurality of ,1o0 vo' es-the first Republic
can Representative since 1872.
The party carried Nav Castle county by
mn average plurality on he legislative
ticket of /, l!O vo' es, nnd Sussex county by
an average plurality Of 2l5 votes.
The Legislature which meT in January,
1895 to choose "A successor to Senator Hig.
gins was composed of nineteen Republic
cans ami eleven Democrats. An attempt
was made to hold a caucus according to
tho party Gus ON but this was fru 'tratcd
By Mr. Addicks.
The mem5 5ers of our party voted through
out the session for various Republicans
and exhauatei everv effort to elect n sena.
tor The candida es trlod by everv means
at their command to secure an election,
and all, oxcepting Mir Addicks. finally
Withdrew in favor of Colonel Henry A.
DUPONT. for whom, on the last day Of the
session fifteen votes were Cast-fOur So
called Republicans, at the b,hest Of Mr..
Adlicks, refused to vote with the fifteen
Iii addition Mr. Addicks Conspired with
the Democrats to prevent an election, by
entnrlng into IN agreement with william
II. Watson, n Democrat, to take part in
Tho Joint assembly of tho two houses and
vote for a senator. notwith landing that
tho said Wa son, thoretoF0ro a state senn-
tor and speaker of tho Senate, who. by
virtue of such Office became governor up.
on the death of Governor Marvjl, on April
0, 1895 had previously rolinquishel his
right to participate In the proceedings of
tho General Assembly and joint Assem-
bly,.
MIR. Watson, though governor of the
state and no' entitled to vote, on that day
appeared in Joint assembly in pursuance
OF the aforesaid compact with Mr. Ad-
30 of which Colonel dupont received flf-
teen.
When Colonel duPont's ron'es for his
seat in the United States Senate was
pending, Mr.. Addcks by his lobbyists
made alliance and was in league with the
Democrats md Populists at Washington
with tho result that Colonel dupont re-
ceive thirty-one votes in tho Senate and
votes were cast against him.
Every Republican United Senator either
voted or was paired in his favor, and
voted or was paired against him.
In August, 1898, after the adjournment
Of the Legislature and before Congress
had convened MIR. Addicks added to his
record for disloyalty to the Republican
party by telegraphng to Senator Wash
burn of Minnesota that "Iho Republicans
will carry Delaware next year pledged to
A Addiclss for Senator l made Delaware
II the Republican party Is
u. - Nnoc 7 r,,s1 bal, k,tu
ten thousand fathoms doep."
In 1896, MIR. Addicks Il ecured by his Pc
culiar methods, anI apparent aud subserv.
lent ma ajority In the State Convention, call
ID to choose delegates to tho National Con
vcntiun.
The Republicans In that convention
fought with vigor and desperation the at
tempt of Mr.. Al.lcks and his followers to
throw tho customs Of tho party 10 the
winds. and to wantonly violate its rules
and tilpe e-honored traditions.
Mr. Addickss overr,lled oil precedents,