Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-08-16
kent REPUBLICANS WORRIED
Outside Influences Tampering
h With the Negroes.
QRMlNG A NEW ORGANIZATION.
pwn as the New National
Negro Party.


Dover, Aug. 14.-The Kent county
|epubllcan leaders al both factions are
agitated Just now over a
sw enemy which has made its appear
nee here, and which is quietly but
2rely and effectively sapping away
|pch of that party's strength. This is
% season of darkey cnmImeetings and
pods gatherings, and the assemblages
this sort from some cause nre un
suRlly numerous this year in both Kent
pd Sussex counties. To these meet
lgs, to help along the oratory there
eve come many strange colored men
pm other States, several of them of
Inoh ability and way above the oIdi-
Dry in education. These men preach
)werful sermons to their oolored
{ethren in the evenings working them
\ to fever heat on the religious line,
. then spend their days hob nubbing
th dark. skinned school teachers,
pisters, local and professional, Sum
-school superintendents and others
posed to have more or less influence
oDe the colored element.
10 one apparently dreamed that there
81 any political Significance in all
p until about week ago, when it
Wed out somehow around the big
[hr now in full swing on the Colored
|4leRe ground that these strangers
<{e almost to man agents Of the
|SE National Negro Party organized
e time ago by the national leaders
e Afro A merican League. In fact
RT9uietly have they worked and SO
fully that today there are few out
OF the actively Interested Republi-
leaders who are aware of it.
MENTION was first practically called
{he matters especially among the
0icks leaders, who watch the move
5ts of their colorad henchmen very
by the unusual number of these
g1s meetings, as stated above, which
Being held. 1t is we'll known that
arrange for and carry on These meet
e cpsts money In other years it has
The custom of the brethren, befoi Q
4&pf these meetings to make a
51StIlng canvass among their friends,
4{t8 and black, to raise money for
15Rurrnse. This year, strangely, this
<f|ot been done to any considerable
5yIS yet the meetings have been held
money has come from somewhere.
M Addicks men are more exercised
his matter than are the Regulars,
n ne natural reRson that four. fifths
It6 Addicks strength at least in
lSnfhnd Sussex is lodged in the black
0JIkfhgent. This was made apparent
lt8kday by the heIcuiean efforts used
4the Addicks workers to get the
9lfx9d voters out for registration and
3s3plgdge them, but the colored men
S4su that the independent leavep is
<Ing by the off-hand manner in
.il<p4 they treated all overtures. There
&I5l4be much Investigation of camp
tQg work done this week by ths Re-
leaders, and every strange
n man who carries grip and Is
ressed is being spotted. The
tj "a the new National Negro Party,
u e{bted,. is to make of the negro an
nd4nendent voter, especially in States
i{StN bis strength amounts to sufficient
q1Ntpg the scales in the Republican
1fy The claim is very sensibly made
$4ding negroes that by doing this
4tQtEro is bound to secure recognition
Ne Republican party, whose tool
~ seRl he has been for over 80 ears.
" 2Etands the Republican leaders
this more new cause foi worri-
1heR Regulars are becoming more de-
IdeA IS time rolls on in their opposi.
!04 ~ the Addicks ticket numed Mon !.
AK AHu leading men of that faction
~ Atate that not single name on
Itbe endorsed for any position no
a3tf how desirable Regular the
ak15d3fe may be unless he first openly
Avs from the ticket. They want
M nor will they tolerate anything
~ z3p the least besmircbed with
ldd5 Many consultations have
zen AVlr by the Regulars of both this
qunfy md Sussex since that conyen-
ION wH9sheld, and the faction is pre-
arBd stQl act as unit now in the
aattsr. The Regulars are made more
6termined in this line of action be.
Hu48 IL Is potent-that the gas man is
3sl f9 qirength in these lower counties.
)ls69 36faction is creeping into the
lnH4 M Addicksism with wonderful
tKi4Sf since the fake convention was
el4 hnd the green-eyed monster is one
{1s main levers at work. 1t is even
1ng men heretofore recognized as
&nts as we'll as the rank and
6e comforting of pIenipotentiary
ppon J. Frank Alice has done
AZ yards bringing this feeling to
The Sussex men are especially
a in their opposition to A lice
~ zde the whole thing. Old wire
ull4I own there claim that Alice
~ ~ ~ he knows about as much
21qe ming a winning political game
hatigard hen does about style, and
1k ne has always allowed himself to
e t1ohHed In the game even after the
u4tg have placed winning cards in his
s&Q4 md they want to know where
3reE got his political training any
10 see him rolling in clover knee
ma basking In the sunlight of tho
Is favor, attending ain the big
hts and white house confabs.
ley are left to subsist on husks
ted TO bow the knee while
~ $be timber and carrying water
~ political pot is too much for
lexF Nd the kick that is already on
y NttI Is of the Fitzsimmons order.
tr011 Milford Marshall is being de-
isl1z by the workers. They say his
le4f{4 is mistake in every way, as
&Yx ~ IN the State who has worn a
/ R<(C Guard uniform during the
)n years will knife him and use
i8jf 9uence against him because of
h &yal Of thB guard in 1888. Mar
q is alleged, worked against the
d Hnent bill before the Repubii-
ID slature of 1889 after promising
b ~ 1t. He is about the weakest
"a could hare been named, and
IA obnoxious one to the Regular