The sun., 1900-01-29
THE HARMONY PROPOSITION.
From the Dover State Sentinel.

From the Dover State sentinel.
Up to the present the Sentinel has re
Trained from discussing the proposition
of the Union Republicans, made by Mr..
Alice, the chairman of the State Com
mittee, to Mr.. Hugh Browne, chairman
of the bolter organization. The PROPOSE
tion is eminently simple and is easily
understood. 1t needed no argument and,
go far as we were concerned, we were
content to lei the proposition go to the
people, to stand or fall on its merits. For
after all is said and done the people
necessarily must be the final arbitere.
Our disposition today remains the
same. We are content to let the PROPOSE
tion stand or fall, be accepted or rejected
as the great mass of the party shall deter
mine. We do desire to see the party
united because we know that union
means the placing of the State in the
Republican column. We know that
union of all the Republican forces means
for the State good government and a
sound administration. And these will
result in untold benefits to all the peple.
1t is eminently fitting therefore that the
people shall dt eide for themselves, and
80 far as we are concerned we shall ac-
cent their verdict.
the general feeling OF the Republican s
as to the proposition of the Union Re-
pubicans? We do not mean what is the
individual opinion of this, that or the
other sorehead, or what is the personal
opinion of the editor of the Republican
at Georgetown, the News at Milford, or
the Transcript at Middletown Neither
one OF these papers, nor all of them
taken together, express the honest senti-
ment, wish or purpose of the Republican
voters in their several communities, For
months these editors have been shriek-
ing themselves hoarse, and making the
air lurid with their vituperative maiedic-
tions, and what have they accomplished?
Absolutely nothing except to emphasize
the fact that the fools are not all dead.
In spite Of their wild, crazy rawlings the
Republican procession has moved on.
with ranks closed, with the strength of
its organization fully maintained, and
ready to enter upon the fight that shall
result in the complete redemption of the
Safe from Democratic misrule.
The Republican says in effect that har-
mony is impossible, which means that
its editor wont play. Well, that's all
right, and he is not to be considered.
He can go into his corner and suck his
thumbs while the band plays on. The
News says, ''the Regular Republicans of
this section take little stock in the propo-
sition. They will not agree to any plan
of harmony which does not include his
(Addicks) retirement" 1t will be re-
inembered that the News finds it's domi-
cile in the strongest Union Republican
district in the State. 1t is to be noted
also that the News has been firing its
heaviest guns for many weary months.
1t is manifest that it has used blank
cartridges, its powder is worthless or its
gun is no good. At any rate the game
while very plentiful, refuses to be killed
or wounded. The editor can j,in the
other little fellow in the corner and ex-
change thumbs. The Transcript, of
Middletown-well,w we will have no quar-
rel with sick man, and we dismiss it's
editor with the hope that he may
find health ard enjoyment in his
little "dish OF crow" May he live to
enjoy it,
But the people. What of the people?
We have been at no lutte pains to ascer-
tain the will of the people, and after two
weeks of investigation We can state with
ont fear of successful contradiction, that
the rank al d file Of the party, the great
mass of those who do the voting, who
make msjorities, who win victories, they
want harmony, a. they mean to have
it, despite the vaporings of cranks and |
crazy people, despite the fiimsy nothings |
of an Insignificant number who realize |
that when the party is fully reorganized |
they VIII find themselves III the corner |