Middletown transcript., 1900-02-10

L uO 4bCRuOllIf II 0t1LO tA
session at Dover last Tuesday, adopted
the following reply to the propositions
recently made " the Union Republir
can State Committee:
Headquarters Republic n State Com
mittee, Wilmington, DEL, Feb. 6, 1900.
J. Frank Alice. Esq, Chairman Union
Republican State Central Committee
Of Delaware
Sir: / al directed by the Republi
caa s ate Committee of Delaware to
acknowledge the receipt of your un-
dated communication and to transmit
to you the following reply:
The electorate which this Committee re
presents yields to none in advocacy of the
vital issues and high principles of the Ma
tional Republican Party, and from the
time of Lincoln have ever bean foremost 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 the Republican party of Delaware to
promote harmony, but where compromises
have been made, they have not been lived
up to by you, and the fruits of victory have
not been secured.
In substantiation of this claim we point
with pardonable pride to the following his
tory of our party organization, and the acts
of its leaders and members:
In 1888 our party elected majority on
joint ballot in the General Assembly. Cau-
Gus rule, the custom of the party, prevailed,
and the Hon. Anthony Higgins was nomi-
mated in caucus and thereafter duly elected
United States Senator. Some favored others
but when Mr.. Higgins was chosen every
Republican assented 10 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 we began
the campaign Of 1890 with every indication
of success.
BY the rotation rule OF the party, Kent
county wGs entitled to name the candidate
for Governor; Sussex county the candidate
for representative in Congress.
The Kent county caucus named Harry A.
Richardson for Governor; the Sussex caucus
named Henry p. Cannon for Congress, un-
der the unwritten law Of the party, that
the delegates TO the State Convention from
county should be allowed to choose the
candidate to which the county was entitled:
accordingly, these caucus nominees were
ratified unanimously by the state coDven-
ton.
This State ticket was defeated and the
Democratic candidate for Governor, Robert
J. Reynolds, was elected by small. plural
ity of less than five hundred votes by and
with the financial assistance rendered 10
him by Mr.. Addicks.
We deem it proper to state that this was
admitted by Mr.. Addicks in April, 1892, TO
three persons of integrity and character,
who have since made oath thereto.
ADDIcKs ASSISTED ELECTION OF REYNOLDS.
In conversation with th,m he asserted
that he elected Robert J. Reynolds by plac-
ing five thousand dollars (S5 0OO) in the
hands OF James L. Wolcott, saying to them.
II gave him (meaning the said Wolcott)
five thousand dollars, just i'll the nick of
time to save Kent county, for they (mean-
ing the Democrats) had spent every dollar
they had" and adding, You know had
no interest in the Richardson's" (meaning
the Republican candidate for Governor and
his estimable father)
In substantiation we refer to the "Argu-
ment and evidence submitted to the Re-
publican National Convention of 1896"
page GO. New Castle county gave Rppu-
blican plurality in this election of531 votes.
In the State Convention Of 1894, acting
under the time-honored rotation rule, the
Sussex county delegates selected Joshua H
Marvil for Governor, the Kent county dele
gates selected Jonathan 8. Willis for Con-
gress, and they were thereupon nominated
by acclamation.
The party under the management Of the
State Committee and its chairman, General
James Fl. Wilson, gained notable victory
at the election. Mr.. Marvil was elected BY
a plurality Of 1.078 votes and Mr.. Willis
was sent to Congress by plurality of !, ,109
votes-the first Republican representative
since 1872
The party carried New Castle county by
an average plurality on the legislative ticket
of 1,120 votes, and Sussex county by an
average plurality of 215 votes.
The Legislature which met in January,
1895, to choose successor to Senator Hig-
gins was composed of nineteen Republicans
and eleven Democrats. An attempt was
made to hold caucus according to the
party custom, but this was frustrated by
Mr.. Addicks.
coNsPTRED TO PREVENT ELECTION OF
SENATOR.
The members Of our party voted through
out the session for various Republicans and