Smyrna times., 1901-03-20

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to elect two United States Senators
necessarily keeps the State before the
pubIic--the reason for such a stupen
dous bunder. In an interview of Sen
ator Hanna, telegraphed to the New
York Tribune last week he said:
''I have always been guided in every
act solely by what 1 regard as the highs
est interest of the party. L have meyer
used my position to do injustice or
show partiality to any deserving Re-
publican. In ighing the party's bat
ties 1 have sacrificed much-even my
health. And as I said before, 1 have
determined to strike back with all my
strength whenever in future l am un-
Justly attacked by Republican news
paper.
The Senator then gave a detailed
history of his connection with the Adj
dicks-duPont factional war in Della
Delaware. "The du POnt delegation
was seated above the Addicks delega-
ton at the st. Louis convention in
1896, he said mainly because of the
vigorous fight Senator ThurstOn of Ne
braska, made against the Addicks
men. have frequently heard Thurs
ton say since that at that time he had
acted upon mIsinformatiOn. The Adj
dicks delegates were seated over the
DUPONT delegates at the Philadelphia
convention last June mainly because
of duPont's stubbornness. Though
the evidence showed plainly that the
Addicks delegates were entitled to the
seats, In the hope of harmonizing the
party in Delaware the National Com
mittee proposed to admit half of each
delegation from that State. Addicks
was willing to abide by this decision,
but dupont obstinatelv refused to ac-
cept the proposition. He insisted
upon having all or none. Then the
National Committee, by what as 1 re-
member was an almost unanimous vote
declared that the Addicks delegates
were entitled to the seats. This de-
C4SlOu WAS uOI nubbllg II WAS
the result of most exhaustive investi-
cation conducted by Henry c. Payne,
of Wisconsin as a subcommittee of
one. Payne is the clearest headed
politician on the National Committee.
When the DUPONT people realized that
Payne's report was to be adverse to
them, they pleaded that 1 be a sub
committee of one to make further in
vestigation. This was done and for
more than two hours | listened to the
talk and complaint of the DUPONT
crowd. A dozen or more ofthem were
before me whereas only one of the
Addicks people appeared. The du-
Pont crowd made such a poor showing
that was compelled to report them to
Payne, and he submitted his own and
my report to the full committee
want it known that at the hearings of
the contests at Philadelphia the one
from Delaware, as we'll as that from
Louisiana. in the last of which I was
interested-I vacated the post of
Chairman of the National Committee.
did this because / feared that my
connection with the political side of
the administration might have too
much influence on some minds"
Senator Hanna then dealt with the
recent failure of the Delaware legisla-
ture to elect Senators. "To give you
better understanding of the matter, -
he said, 81 would remind you that q
year ago last December, when the nat.
ional committee met in this city to Sc.
lect time and place for the Nationa
Convention, was instructed by the
committee to straighten out the tangl,
if possible. l never worked harder OF
anything in my life than did on this
Finally, when the Addicks people sug
gested as a compromise that each side
be permitted to name Senator if tn
Republicans carried the Legislature
L thought the way was clear for har
mony and for effective work in Della
ware. But DUPONT would not agree I
this-at least, the result of his stub
born stand at Dover this winter show
that he did not agree to it. duPon
had only five votes that could b
counted on to stick to him throughor
the bitter struggle in the legislature
Addicks had twenty-five votes-twent
that were with him through thick an
thin, and two others who would hav
come to him at any time when in I'll