The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1901-03-18

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hanna nd ths Delaware Dispute.
From fire Philadelphia Inquirer. n
4 The Inquirer does not always agree
with Senator Hanna, but sometimes the
'tsenator is right, and when be Is II de-
flights to commend him. He IL abso-
lutely right regarding the Senatorial dis
pute in Delaware. He, has been talk
ing about the failure Of the Legislature
to send two Republicans to the United
States Senate. He says that Addicks
had twenty solid votes, with two more
ready to come TO him when it was Obvi-
ous that they would elect him; that du
Pont had but five votes that would
stick TO him; that in spite of this fact
Addicks was willing to compromise and
permit du Pont to be elected, If du POnt,
on the other hand, would agree to Ad.
dicks election; that du Pont refused to
compromise, and is therefore responsible
for the result. This is absolutely the
truth, and it is curious to see how some
of the lnsurgent newspapers are criticis-
ing Hanna for stating it. Here Is one
in Philadelphia, for instance, that re-
marks: |
Senator Hanna's statement is practi-
cally confession that he tried his ut
most to get the respectable Republicans
to compromise on Addicks. and, more
surprising still, he not only does not
condemn by Il word the discredited horde
Of Addicksites, but with a shocking dis
regard of political morals, essays to ex-
cuse and defend his extraordinary con-
duct in giving aid and comfort to the
Addicks contingent against the interests
Of the honorable Republicans OF b-la---
ware which concern the whole Repuh-
lican party. Chairman Hanna, in fact,
actually places the blame for the out
come in Delaware upon the Regular or
du Pont Republicans, whom he de-
nounces for stubbornness.
If you pick out the craziest lunatic in
an asylum he will tell you that he alone
is sane, and that everybody else is crazy.
If you pick out rabid Insurgent news
paper, that represents only small mi
nority, it will tell you that it alone
embodies all that is good and pure, and
that the great majority of citizens are
corrupt. In the quotation above given,
the respectable and honorable Republic
cans of Delaware are proclaimed to be
only those who opposed Addcks. This
is a direct insult to the great body Of
Republicans of the State.
The du Pont Republicans claim to be
the regulars, but they are not. They were
thrown out of the Republican National
were refused recognition by
the National Committee. and were
tllrashed out of their boots at the polls.
The so-callcd Union Republicans are the
genuine regulars Of Delaware, not only
because the! have the National party
recognition, but because they proved on
election day that they We're in large
majority.
And yet here is a little contingent hold
ing itself up as the only genuine thing
in Republcanism that absolutely defines
the great majority. Finn and his crowd
in PENNSYLVANIA tried to wreck the Re-
publican party here, and du Iont and
his little following, to satisfy their own
ambitious and their spite, are trying To-
do the same thing in Delaware. 81.
1t makes no difference to The In
quircr whether Mr. Addicks is ever
Senator or not, but it stands for the right
Of n majority TO rule, ard if, as the re-
suit of the du Pont bolt from regular
Republicanism, the State is captured by
the Democrats, dn Ponl and his boilers
alone will be at fault.