Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-12-19
Confession and Avolaanc@

Anong lawyers the .pleH Of confession
and avoidance" il, practically
admitting guilt and then denying it is
not regarded with great farar, and the
attorney who resorts TO it does not
thereby advance his professional rspu
tafion.
But it il the pisa that il low rpsortsd
to by the lawyer Of the Addicks Repub-
lican organ in this city, whose skilful
services are called into requisitIon
whenever it is deemed possible, by an
extraordinary effort, to make plausi
Bile argument in favor Of any Of the
policies past present or future OF I'D
dicks Republication in Delaware.
The latest effort in this lire appears
10 this mornings issue OF the local
organ of Boss Addicks, and it eudeasors
to make a good argument in support Of
the right Of the Addicss Republican
party to the title and emEiem OF the
Republican rarity of the Stste. 1t
argues that the decision Of the clerks
Of the peace in 1876, awarding this tIte
ana emblem 70 the opponents Of tine
| Addicks rarity, was not 10 accordance
with the isw it argues that the rscog
nitian Of the Addicds party BY the last
Republican National Convention makes
il the regular Republican party Of
J.! Delaware, as like recognition of the
Regulars by the convention OF 1896
clothed that faction with party regu-
/ lsrity.
| Containing on this line. the Addicks
lawyer contends that there has been a
/ practical merger Of the factions in ons
party, in which the Union Republicans
control the majority vote. Nov, this
is an important point, for. IL there be
bus one party, two factions of which are
claiming the party name and emblem,
then the clerks of the peacs may. by Law,
dacide which faction is entitled to such
party name and emblem. But the facts
of tine case are that two parties exist,
and have existed since 1896 the Re.
publican PARTY and the Union Republi
can party-the former having for iti
emblem on the official ballot an eagle,
and the latter tive-point star.
And this situation is admitted ever
by the Addicks lawyer in the article vi
allude TO. For. while 10 one paragraph
it ia commended that the factions hay,
merged into one party, IN the closing
paragraph a stirring appeal is made fol
party unity, which Is held to he tn
Republican shibboleth. Nov, this ap
peal fer party unity must be directet
either 20 the Regular Republicans AM
the Union Republicans, or to the UnioI
Republicans alone, as a protest agsins
a Division Of the latter organization int
two or more factions. II the appeal !
for unity Of the Regulars and th
| Unions, then the division OF the tw
i into separate parties, each with its part
: name and device, is admitted, and tn
contention that the clerks of the peac
may deprive the one Of its title and DE-
vice and bestow them upon the otnel
falls to the ground. II the appeal IL
prayer that the Union Republicans r,
frain from factional divisions, then til
party name and device of the Republ
can party is likewise in no mann,
threatened.
The Addicks lawyer, therefore, az
= mits that, under the law, the Unic
Republican party has not the shadow
a right to apply to the clerks of Il
peace for the possession Of the nan
ard title Of the Republican party.
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