Middletown transcript., 1906-04-21
m1DDIErowE, DEL, APRIL 81, 1905.
NOT CAUTION


Committee decided upon at its
meeting yesterday afternoon, on
the proposition of the Union Re
publican State Committee looking
towards harmony. We hope
however, that the members
thereof were not Influenced in
their action by what the EUenfng
Journal had to say under the
caption, "a word of Caution
We do not affect to speak as does
the Journal, in an authoritative
way, nor do we claim to "know
the sentiment and temper of a
great majority of the people OF
the State We only speak from
what we know, and what we hear
from the Republicans with whom
we come in contact. We do not
try to secure the opinion of
Democrats, as we think that they
all are in favor of two Republi-
can parties and tickets. 1t is
natural that they should be so.
But of the working Republicans,
those we have talked to about
the matter say almost univers-
ally, "We are tired of this con-
tinual pickering and dealing. We
are tired of committee made
tickets. Addicks is down and
out, and it is time, right now, to
unite the party, and win'out at
the approaching election. F"
We believe, and it is not our
personal opinion alone, but the
result of our talks and consulta-
tinns with Republicans of this
County, that more than 90 per
cent. of the Republican voters of
this county would approve and
vote for a proposition along this
line. One State Convention with
100 Delegates, apportioned as
they were before the split, one
State Committee and one County
Committee in each County, SO far
being a virtual acceptance of the
Union Republican proposition
with a proviso, that two Senators
shall be chosen by the next Leg
islature, one of whom shall be
from this County to be selected
by the members chosen from
this County, and the other from
either Kent or Sussex County to
be selected by the members from
those Counties.
We do not feel that we should
permit to pass without protest
some other gross and wilfull
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
the same editorial. The Journal
says, "With few exceptions the
men who have filled public Offices
for several years. have been
neither the choice of the people
nor fitted for the Offices into
which they have sneaked
a very few such as the
Tax Collectors, Attorney for the
Levy Court, Trustees of the Poor,
and other minor officials, have
which they have sneaked." The
fact that all the officers IN the
Senate, County and Hundreds,
have been since 1898 elected by
q majority of all the votes cast.
ought to be a sufficient answer to
the first part of the falsehood.
As to the second part, the State,
Counties and Hundreds have
never been SO well managed and
directed as during the period
since 1898, referred to. We have
. personal acquaintance with a
large number of the officials of
the State and Counties, and we
are proud to know such clean
able men as the Republicans have
put into Office. What the Journal
to accomplish by villify-
ing all Republican officers with
few exceptions, is beyond our
ken.
The people are, we believe,
tired of committee made tickets,
but it is not because of any OBJ
jections to the men named on
those tickets in the past. 1t is
contrary to the spirit of Ameri-
can Government, and is not con-
ducive to party success. Those
are the reasons for the opposi-
tion to the present system of
managing party affairs. Every
Republican is entitled to share
in the nomination of the men he
is expected to vote for. To bring
this about, there must be one
primary election, held under the
direction of one committee, and
the party must be united. In no
other way can success be as
sured.
LIGHT AND WATER
No question of recent years,