The sun., 1900-03-31

OlCDaluS.
THE Sun says: "The national conven-
tion has no authority to settle any q ues-
ton relative to state politics. 1t is not
an authority in this CASE"
Ii that is the fact why did the Union
party ask the national convention Tor
recognition at st. Louis? Why does it
now declare its purpose to ask for such
judgment at Philadelphia?
The state party that repudiates the
Judgment of the national convention re-
pudiates the party.-Evening Journal.
The answer to this Isl TIE SuN holds
that truth alone is authority. Authority
is not truth.
The question at issue is not one OF
whether the National Republican Con-
venticn OF 1896 had authority to admit
the Anti Addicks bolter delegates, but
whether they did right or wrong in doing
so. In common with other similar bodies
governed bv written or unwritten laws
the national convention has authority to
Judge of the qualifications and election
Of its own members. 1t was in the exer-
else Of that authority that the conyen-
tion admitted the Anti-Addicks boilers.
To ssy that the question was decided on
its merits at that convention, is to say
what everybody knows to be untrue.
Tnat question was settled when the Anti
Addicks boilers left the Republican
State Convention in 1885, they bolted to
secure seats for their delegates in the
national convention, and in pursuance
OF a promise made to them, that if they
bolted and sent Anti-Addicks delegates
pledged to vote for William Mckinley,
these delegates would be admitted with
out question of the regularity of their
election. The bolt that was inspired
from out OF this State was made and the
promise made to the boilers was kept;
not to establish their regularity in Della
ware politics, but to let into the conven-
tion m"n pledged to vote for Mckinley
and to keep out delegates who were not
so pledged. That act could establish
nothing beyond the hall OF the conven-
tion-had no right or power to do any
| more than that.
In doing what it did the convention
did wrong. The men It admitted at ST.
Louis we're not in any sense the dele
gates selected by the Republicans of
Delaware. The body that selected them
Was simply sn sssemblage OF man repre-
senting NO organization or party, recog-
MED By ne srga zitien, party, party
rule or law, or Stats statute. They were
then absolutely without authority and
without following. The Republican
party was intact. Its delegates were
regularly chosen and regularly convened
and organized. Its national delegates
were regularly and legally elected. Those
delegates were the only delegates
authorized to represent Delaware at St.
Louis. No act of the convention could
alter that truth-the conyenti IN could
admit the Anti-Addicks boilers, but it
could give not them regulirity-could
not make tie progeny of a bastard
PSt'oAS1i poho5
The Anti-Addicksites' title to regular
ity was petitionel for, after the National
Convention, to the Democratic clerks OF
the pea,e in this State, and was granted
by them acting un Ter the State law and
Tor the Democratic party. It is from
that source-the Democratic party OF
Delaware-that the Anti-Addicksites got
their party name and emblem; that
party was made, authorized, by the
Democratic party for purposes of its
own-to assure the defeat of the Repub-
lican party.
Such party could not be the regular
Republican party. Its origin bars it
from that title and makes its claim to it
pretense and its use Of it deceit and
lie.
The Sun does not propose to ask for
any judgment at tie Philadelphia con-
vention. The Union Republican party
will send delegates to that convention
and expect them to be admitted; not for
the sake of any Judgment, for or against
their regularity but because of the
undisputed right of the Republicans
of Delaware who accepted the nomi-
nation OF the S.. Louis convention, and
OF all previous Natio 1al Republican
Conventions, to representation in tie
Philadelphia convention.
The party which accepts and vote for
the nominees selected at convention,
accepts the judgment of that convention
at the only point at which it is obliga-
tory.
The Union Republicans did that, not
to establish their regularity but to retain
and confirm it.
The party which by lies. slander and
perjury, misdirects the action of con.
vention, repudiates its judgment.
The Anti-Addicks boilers did that.
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