Evening journal., 1900-06-13
THE EVENING JOURNAL WEDNESDAY. JUNE is. 1900

standing that the said Watson, thereto
fore a state senator and speaker OF the
Senate. who by virtue of such Office be
came governor upon the death of Gov
ernor Marvil. on April 3. 1895. had pre-
viously relinquished his right to par
ucipate in the proceedings OF the Gen
4 eral Assembly and joint assembly.
Mr. Watson, though governor OF the
state and not entitled TO vote, on that
day appeared In joint assembly in pur-
suance of the aforesaid compact with
Mr.. Addicks, and voted: making a total
vote of thirty. OF which Colonel DUPONT
received fifteen.
When Colonel DnPont's contest for
his seat In the United States Senate
was pending, Mr.. Addicks by his lobby
lists made alliance and was in league
with the Democrats and Populists at
Washington, with the result that Colo
mel DUPONT received thirty-one votes
in the Senate and thirty-two votes were
cast against him. Every Republican
United States senator either voted or
was paired In his favor. and every
Democrat and Populist either voted or
was paired against him.
In August 1895, after the adjourn
ment Of the Legislature and before
/ Congress had convened. Mr.. Addlcks
added TO his record for disloyalty TO the
Republican party by telegraphing to
Senator Washburn, OF Minnesota. that
"lhe Republicans will carry Delaware
next year pledged to Addicks for sena-
tor / made Delaware Republican. Il
the Republican party is the party Of
treachery, | will help bury Il ten thou
sand fathoms deep"
In 1896 Mr. Addicls secured, by his
peculiar methods, an apparent and sub
/ servient majority IN the State Clnven-
ton, called to choose delegates to the
1 National Convention.
The Republicans in that convention
/ fought with vigor and desperation the
attempt Of Mr. Addicks and his fol-
/ lowers to throw the customs of the
party to the winds. and to wantonlv
! violate its rules and time-honored tra-
ditions
/ Mr.. Addicks overruled all precedents
rules. customs and traditions refused
TO allow the delegates elected in a
county 70 select it's members of com
mittees, and caused his chairman of
the convention to arbitrarily appoint a
committee on Credentials, which
promptly seated all the Addicks dele
gates, who had been elcted by fraud.
lhumidatlon and bribery, and unseated
our duly accredited delegates.
Mr.. Addicks also applied the odious
unit rule and afterwards elected his
delegates to the National Convention.
Notwithstanding the formal contest
made by your organization in the RE-
publican National Convention held al
81 Louis, our delegates were seated on
the evidence submitted.
! In the campaign OF 1896 we desired
10 secure a common ticket for dele
gates TO the Constitutional Convention
Whlch was frustrated by Mr. Addlcks
insisting upon naming a second ticket
IN New Castle county. which resulted
In the election OF six Democrats
we wished the Republican party 10
control the convention in order that tha
new State Constitution should prescribe
lust methods Of election and an eoui-
table and fair legislative apportionment
RMS was defeated by your refusal To
act with our party. and the Democrats
obtained a majority in that Constitu-
tional Convention and gerrymandered
the state.
Y The result Of this legislation was to
deprive our party Of its proper repre-.
sentation in the Legislature, and thus
enable Mr.. Addicks to benefit by the
Il gerrymander
As an illustration-The total vote for
i Republican State Senators. elected in
1898 was 5.4S4. The total vote for
Union State Senators elected in 1898
was 3.23S. The total vote for Repub-
lican Representative elected in 1898
was 1885. The total vote for Union
i Representatives elected in 1898 was
4,7S5. Comment is unnecessary.
In this same campaign your organiza-
ton refused to compromise with us on
the question of Presidential Electors
and insisted on your electors remaining
on the ticket. In order that the state
might be carried for President McKin-
ley, and to prevent the wrong OF Civ
ing the electoral votes of Delaware
, to William J. Bryan we caused the
J Presidential Electors OF our party to
withdraw their names from the ticket.
and patriotically placed the names of
your Presidential Electors on our
} ticket. This act of ours alone was in
the cause of Delaware's rolling mp a
: plurality of 1874 votes for President
Mckinley whereof New Castle county
gave 2.621.
At the Dover convention held I'm
August 1898. the Republican party of
Delaware. believing it TO be the inter
est of the state and nation that they
, should 90 into the coming campaign
with a united party nominated J. II
Hoffecker. a Union Republican for rep.
resentative to the United States Con-
gress; I. Heisler Ball for state treas.
urer. and John A. Lingo, Union Repub-
lican. for state auditor. These nomi-
nations were made with the view and
!, hope that they would heal the breach
y in the party.
We also agreed to hold common pri.
1 maries with you in New Castle county
: but after making and signing this
a agreement your party sought to violate
. its pledges and annul its agreement by
= making certain preposterous demands
of the nominees for the Legislature
e stating that you would only place theil
names on your ticket, upon compliance
=, Herewith. These demands wer,