Smyrna times., 1904-06-22
REGULARS GET FROZEN OUT
At NATIONAL CONVENTION
DELAWARE UNION REPUBLICAN DELE
GATES ARE SEATED BY COMMITTEE.
Despite the Eloquent Appeals Of the BALL.
NitIds Delegation They Could Not Prove
Their Title Clear TO Seat 10 That Body.

The action of the National Com
mittee in deciding the Delaware con-
test il favor of the Addlcks delegates
last evening approved by the Com
mittee on Credentials. A resolution
declaring the Regular Republicans, or
anti-Addicks delegation, entitled to
the seats was defeated by vote of 33
to 8. Then a resolution seating the
Addlcks delegation was adopted un-
animously. The Regulars were first
heard, and for them Benjamin Nields,
the Wilmington lawyer, made an
eloquent and vigorous plea for the re-
cognitiOn of the real Republicans and
the decent people of Delaware. He
said it was not so much a fight for
party control as for party publication,
for 1t was a struggle, he said, of the
respectable, law-abiding Republican
citizens of the State of Delaware to
repudiate Addicks and Addicksism, to
overcome the baneful influences of
corruption at the polls and to cast off
the CALLING yoke. He quoted passages
from convention speech of Secretary
Root, who said the Republican party
stood for purity in politics and the
highest ideals in public affairs, and
asked if the party proposed to stand
by that sentiment why it should hesi-
tate to repudiate Addicks and all that
he represents.
Addicks Openly Denies Charge of Bribery.
The attorney for the anti-Addicks
faction charged that Addicks had at
different times used some $500, 600 to
obtain the election of his lieutenants.
and in the effort to elect himself I'm
tied States Senator. Mr.. Addicks
rose to a question of personal privilege
and emphatically denied the charge.
He was not permitted to make a speech
however, but replied to questions from
the committee.
For the Union Republicans the case
was presented in an able argumentative
speech by Secretary of State Laytop.
He told the committee that the whole
situation could be summed up in a few
words, thatit was a fight against j. Ed
ward Addicks, who had been bounded
for years and years by enemies within
and without the State; that they would
never rest and never accept any proffer
OF peace. Every possible effort had
been made by the Union Republicans
to unite the party, but the irregular
Regular" would have none of it. Thev
had offered to abrogate their own
rulers, accept those of the Regulars"
and go into common primaries with
them but the offer had been rejected
as was every attempt to bring peace to
the party in the State. The Union
Republicans had grown weary of these
efforts, although always ready to ac-
cept any reasonable suggestion for the
good of the party and of the State.
No Minority Report Will Be Made.
That ended the matter so far as the
discussion was concerned. The 6rst
motion was that the Regulars be seated
IN the convention. That was defeated
by vote of 80 to 9. Then it was
moved that the Addicks men be seated.
and that was carried withouta a dissent
ing vote. Thus, there will be no
minority report, and the convention
will not be bothered with that source
OF friction. The two factions. with
feelings so different, left the hall
Both are quartered at the great North
ern, and the anti-Addicks men sought
their quarters at once to prepare for
the trip home.
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