Evening journal., 1906-08-25
DAY
DRAWING NEAR
DiIigent Search in Kent and
Sussex Fails to Reveal Any
Prominent AddiCkS Men
MARKED FOR REFERENCE
Special to The Evening Journal.

RtIllA 10 ANo LNtNi-I JNAAI4A
DOVER. Aug. 25.-But two more
days will elapse before the Addicks
convention. to he held in Dover. called
as a state convention Of the Union
Republican party. and for the purpose
Of nominating a complete state ticket
and retaining the name and emblem Of /
the Union Republican party. will be
held and Republicans are consumed |
with anxiety as 10 its outcome.
Duigent search throughout Kent
and Sussex fails to reveal any Union |
Republicans Of any prominence or In
huence who are supporting Addicks or
who intend to participate in the con-
vention. If there are workers enough |
to hold the primaries called for in |
Addicks' newspaper. The Sentinel, un- |
der an official State call Of the Union |
party II such can be taken as official
with the name of Addicks, who is not
the State chairman. signed TO II as
"vice chairman" they have certainly
not shown their clors in ad-
vance. The places for holding the pri-
maries supposed to be in progress to-
day. or the inspectors who will re-
ceve the ballots or the persons who
Will Judge the count are not announced
nor is any Republican club or precinct
organization supporting the move
ment.
Must Have Delegates
According TO the rules OF the Union
Republican party. Addioks must have
actual delegates from Kent and Sus-
sex counties, as well as New Castle in
his convention or he cannot either
make up a roll-call or hold his con-
vention. The Union rules do not per-
NIT Of business by proxy" II a dele
gate is not present from the district
which he was elected to represent, then
his alternate must be present and
voting or that district goes unrepre-
scented. Substitutes from New Castle
county cannot. therefore form a
state convention taking the places Of
Republican workers from Kent and
Sussex.
Hitherto II was not doubted that Ad-
q dicks would get sufficient support to
hold his state convention. but the
harmony Republicans have been Wig
s orously laboring to prevent any infiu-
I entail showing.
y Marked for Referee
= Every so-called Republican who
o participated in AddlclSs' primaries on
h Saturday" said a Republican county
leader to-day, will be marked for fu-
ture reference. He knows that there
= will never be a chance for him again
20 rise up and claim himself a Repub-
lican or reach out for any Republican
d favor"
Addlcks, or his advisers. make a
clean breast Of the real purpose Of
Saturdays proposed primary election
e and the subsequent State convention
to-day in the following editorial in the
. Wilmington Sun, Addicks' New Castl,
q county newspaper:
"Our friends, the boilers" doubtless
- meaning the Regular Republicans)'
4 should not comfort themselves toe
4 much on the idea we hear they enter.
8 tain-that the Union Republican move.
i ment is not important.
n "Just now the fact that they. the
boilers, ignore II makes it important
, enough to involve the loss OF the State
= at the November election.
i Those who know Addicks of old ad.
NIT that he must have something tC
:, build on OF he would not permit the
farce TO go on. Whatever he may
- have in the nature Of a legitimate
=, State convention. with five delegates
. or alternates present. from every dis.
trict, however. win certainly be a hid.
= den mystery until Saturday. If not un.
til Tuesday. the convention day
And If the convention should prove
. as bogus as Il looks in advance hf
! viii find when he proceeds to file his
: state ticket and claim the name OF
Union Republican-the party which
81, voted to merge with the Regulars into
= the Republican Party"-he win find
- three stubborn clerks OF the peace
(. whom the courts have already decided
are "the final judges in the matter OF
accepting tickets claimed to represent
. political parties. and from whose de.
cisions there is no appeal"