The evening Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1902-1902, 1902-09-01
NEW UNION
PARTY LEADER.
From the Philadelphia Record.

z Wilmington, Del, Aug. 80. m
longer will the Union Rspubliea,
! party and Hon. ). Edward Addick.
J National Committeeman, lack fol
; an orator. They have one in tn
person of United States District
Attorney William Michael Bryue
1t begins to look as If the Unior
Republicans will put up a wh,rl
wind campaign. Under certain
conditions it is already mapped out
There is to be plenty OF music BY
brass bands, lots OF red fire ane
William Michael Byrne is to fur
uish the oratory In every hundred
and at every town and cross roads
IN the State.
He~is to shout for two United
States Senators aud the rule Of the
majority. Mr.. Addicks, 1t Is said
10 delighted.
Mr.. Bryue departed late this alter
NOON for a New Jersey summer
resort, where Tor a couple OF day .
he will be engaged in preparing
q statement which he proposes
TO deliver on stage Of the Union
Republican Convention at Dover on
Tuesday. Among other things 1t
Is wbispered the statement viii
embody a claim that tho Union
Republicans will poll a vote Of 10000
Tor theE Congressman if the bat.
d lie is carried to the polls.
s,' POSSIBILITY OF A HITCH
" OF course there is a remote pos
s;bility OF hitch in the plan OF
campaign outlined by Mr.. Bryne
and presumably agreed to by Mr..
Addicks and State Chairman Alice.
Mr., Bryne is hopius,or says he is
shat the Union Republican Gonven.
tion will finally, IN the interest Of
harmony, nominate DR.. L. II. Ball.
the pr resent Congressman.t 10 succeed
himself aud that DR.. Ball will give
the Union Republicans a promise
that III the future he will be good
and whack up the Federal patron.
age at least half and half If he
does Tho Mr.. Byrns thinks the Ad-
dicks Republicans may nominate
DR.. Ball again.
At this time, however, none of the
Addicks Republicans thinks that the
Convention will do any such thing.
They say the convention, on Tuesday
will not nominate DR.. Ball but that
Mr.. Byrne will be the man. So much
is expectcu of this proposed whirl-
wind campaign that it is not believed
MIR. AddIcks will stop the combat, at
least not until the time OF the cleo
tion approac ches, If at all.
Mr.. Byrne, II he goes on the Union
Republican ticket for Congress man
will hold himself In readiness TO be
pulled down, If this b. necessary In
the interest Of harmony.
MAY ELECT THE SENATORS.
The difficulty with Il Republican
nomination in Delaware is that a |
man never knows when he has one.
He is up on the ticket one day and |
down on the next day. Sometimes
he slides from one place on the
ticket to another with lightning
like rapidity. DR.. George Marshall
slid from the top, for Governor,
to the bottom, for Insurance Com
two years ago.
80 the campaign will be marked
with this air of uncertainty, em-
phasized by the fact that legislators
at any moment may agree to get
together and select two United
States Senators.
But if the campaign shows effects
Of being susceptible to Mr. Byrnes
Oratory Mr.. Addicks may SEQ the
20, 600 votes as Mr.. Byrne does and
then there will be a fight to the
finish.
Regulars. however, slip in a word
now and then that Mr. Byrne will
come out of it third best, and that
under the conditions the Democrat
&C candidate will be chosen.
MOTIVE OF MR. ByRNE.
The motive OF Mr.. Byrne in this
ight. according 10 his friends, Is to
leal ~the breach In the Republican
'arty and aid President Koosev
or denomination.
He does not wish the President to
'ave any more factional fights upon
us hands than is necessary, lie
wants the old Delaware sore to DO
lealed up, and united party IN Del.
ware to be the outcome Of tho Roos.
yelt administration,
or course, this pIeases Mr.. Addicks,
$ 1t Includes his election as a United l
tates Senator 1
Anyway, the man who can bring I
bout harmony In the party here I
I'LL be regarded as one OF great in. !
uence. Such man, with two Sc n.
tors might get all important position; !
,r instance, Mr. Dyrnc, who i, III. i
,illar with the situation in the Phil. t
'pines, regarding the friars and sim. S
ar matters, might be apnoi ltcd to u '
lace on the Philippine Commission. /
lr. Byrne's friends think lie would a
OF be adverse to accepting IT.
NATIVE OF NEW JERSEY o
Mr.. Byrne is a native OF New Jer- q
~: lie was graduated at George. Il
'wn University. As soon as adnit.
ID 10 the Delaware Bar he became
nown asan orator and Republican
Jump spe aker. Once he toured New f.,
ork wiCh Roosevelt. When Mr., d
'atson was Governor he sent Mr., +
yrne as the orator TO represent Del. A
Yare at the Atlanta ExnosiiInn L