The sun., 1900-07-12
DUTY OF DELAWARE boilers
They Should Lay Aside Personal
Feelings and Vote the
Straight Ticket.
MUCH DEPENDS On THIS STATE
The Republican Party Will Need the
Two Senators From This State
and Even the Single Vote
in the Lower
House.
MUCH DEPENDS On THIS STATE

From the Phladelphia Inquirer Of Yesterday.
In spite of the fact that the Republican
National Convention placed its inddrse-
ment on the regularity OF the SO called
Addicks delegates, the fight between the
TWO sections oi the Republican party in
the Diamond State goes merrily on Two
Republican organizations are being per
fected and two tickets for state officers
will be placed in the field, unless some
co1l.headed sense comes TO the leaders.
There have been some signs that each
faction, or rather the regular organlHa.
tion and the boiling faction, are maneu.
vering toward common agreement as to
ticket this fall, but signs OF this Kind
have been uncommonly plentiful in Del
aware for several years and nothing has
ever come of them. What is wanted in
Delaware is, not sign Of harmony, but
active unity.
A great deal depends upon the little
State this fall. While no doubt her three
votes in the electoral college will be cast
for Mckinley and Roosevelt, the COM
plexion of her Congressional delegations
js as yet problemstical. The Legislature
which will be elected will have the un-
usual task of choosing two Senators, one
TO occupy the seat at present held by
AhAS la'd II. hVhhCy3 a OChlOSIno. ahh
another to fill the vacancy made by the
expiration of the term of George Gray,
in 1899. In the State at large the people
must vote for a successor to John H.
Hoffecker, whose recent death deprived
the State of the onlyrepresentative it had
in the lower house.
The Democratic party in Delaware
this iall will put forth unusual efforts to
capture all three of these offices. The
State Committee is of exceptional
strength, and, as it has no hope OF win
ming the State for Bryan, it will con-
centrate its work upon the one weak
point OF the Republican party. Torn to
pieces by internal dissensions and by
the unpatriotic selfishness of insurgents
who are defying the IT gulsr organization,
there will be two Republican tickets
named for every office in the State, in
uding the Legislature. Tne plan is t1
allow this to proceed to a certain point
and then for the regulars TO take in the
bolting faction and, by creating COM
promise ticket out OF the two, place a
ticket in the field that will please every
body.
Ii this is the best that can be done,
then. We wish the program good luck,
but our observations have led US to be-
lieve that the nomination of two
tickets only ends by leading to jeal-
ousies, heart. burnings and disappointed
ambitions, and makes more enemies than
friends foi the joint ticket. 1t is Of this
condition that the Democrats will take
advantage. They will foster the hard
feelings between the two sections OF the
Republican party, and should there be
an Addicks and boiling ticket in the
field the Democrats will unite and by
laying aside partisan and f4ctional jesl-
onsies elect a Legislature and thus win
two members in the upper house at
Washington. 1t may be that they will
be able to win the Representative at
large as we'll.
In the face OF this state Of affairs it is
the duty of every Republican in the
State of Delaware to lay aside anv per-
sonal or factional feeling that he may
have and work earnestly for a united
party and Tor the success OF the regular
ticket. The Republican party will need
the two Senators from the Diamond
State, and it may be that even a single
vote in the lower house at Washington
may decide its complexion at its organi-
zation eighteen months hence.