Evening journal., 1906-07-30
ADDICKS' COUP
ONLY A FIASCO
de Had No Right TO Call Any
Meeting Until Alice Had Re-
fused TO Call One
NO JOINT CONFERENCE

That Addicks' coup d'etat promises to
burn out a fiasco is the legal opinion
among Republicans. His meeting en- Sat
urday at whioh-h declared he had twelve
committeeman or their proxies present.
and which he called as vice-chairman of
the Union Republican State Committee
has been declared by lawyers familiar
with party rules and their legal interpre-
Ration as wholly illegal.
At that meeting Addicks and the Others
removed Senator Alice as State Chair
man of the Union Republican Committee
sand expelled him from the committee.
fAddicks was elected state Chairman ard
iDaniel b. Murray. of Viola was elected as
scommftteeman. Peter y. Alrichs' OF
iGlasgow was removed and Thomas e.
Hmn of Nrddletown elected to fill his
place. and S. John Abbott Of Milford was
expelled and Senator A. Z. Connor Of
iFelton elected in his stead.
The action Of the State Committee at
Dover was rescinded and Addicks was
authorized 10 call a convention for Au-
gust % in Dover with primaries August
4 ,25 to elect delegates.
Mr.. Addicks. Newall Ball and Senator
i iConnor were elected a committee TO con-
duct harmony negotiations with Chair
man Ball of the Regulars. The Sc rlans
A were the holding Of a separate conven-
. ton and making separate nominations af-
4 ter which a compromise ticket should be
made
lAllee Did Not Know Of It.
4 Senator Alice when he heard Of th'
f coup declared that the action was H.
legal. that all the members of the com
4 mttee had not been notified and that un
der the rules no meeting could be called
f by anybody, but the chairman; or at hi
refusal. by the vice-chairman upon tin
written request Of five members.
Walter II. Hayes of this city declare
most emphatically thai Saturdays meet
ing was illegal.
Thomas A. d. Hutson Of this CITY, VIII
is a committeeman. says he received II
a notice Of the meeting. Il wish it know
that I received no notice and that hav
4 no sympathy with anything that wa
supposed TO have been done I am fc
" harmony anu party AN-DA HelAlAelANANAA ga
so expressed myself at a meeting OF tn
Union Republican county committee o
Monday night last No politics like Ad
a dicks and some of his iieutenants AZ
playing for me-"
4 No Joint Conference Likely. .
This latest move Of the Union Reppt
4 leans makes it almost certain that thel
House on Wednesday TO arrange the d.
tails for the primaries on September
The Union city and county COMMITTEES
have already refused to "go along" an
should Alice and his following decide q
anything at that meeting 1T is likely thi
st would all be repudiated by the Addict
supporters.
Notwithstanding this it is eNpectC
tho Regular Republican executive con
mittee will name one-haif Of the elo'
tion officers from their own ranks al
select the remaining half from the UniC
Republicans and conduct a primary op'
TO all Republicans Of the State und
the primary election law. The outcon
will be that the Republican party will
re-organized in the September conve
tion.
A Only Three Men Present.
It was learned to-day that only thr
persons were present at the meeting, A
dicks, Groves and Wilson. Of Dover. II
greatest number of proxies which the
members could possibly have held givii
Addicks the benefit Of the doubtful
wavering members of the committee W
1--WE. making total Of eight votes inste
Of eleven, which is a quorum.
Not only was Senator Alice in the Sta
when the meeting was held. but vic
chairman Addicks was not in the sta
and the meeting was called from I
Waldorf-Astoria, New York, and on tn
hostelry's letter head. These two fac
have an important bearing on the Leg
ity Of the move taken by Addicks.