Middletown transcript., 1916-11-04

lawfully QepOSlCeQ IN the DdlIOI DOA
! by Republican voters, and they issued
! false certificates to the organization
| delegates who had been defeated. is
NOT THIS PARTY WRECKING?
"Other districts: Outrages equally
disgraceful and un-Republican were
committed upon the voters at Leipsic,
Dover and at Milford, and all these
things were done by the organization
to save itself from inevitable defeat
/ and to thWart the will of Republicans
and rob them of their franchise, for
! the purpose of forcing upon the Re-
I publican state ticket at the convention
only those candidates who had been
hand-picked by a small coterie of pol
iticians in control of the organiza-
ton.
Do You Approve of This?
What effect did these outrages
have upon the state convention held
at Dover on August %? And how
were the threats of the county chair
man further carried into execution
at that convention?
1.-The Committee on Credentials at
the convention headed by State Sen
atcr John M. Walker as it's chairman,
refused to even hear or consider
contests against the Kent county delo-
gates of the organization who held
false certificates and eight members
of that committee, controlled by the
organization including the chairman
and including Mr.. John w. Herring,
of Milford, who is a member of the
State Committee, reported to the con-
vention that the organization dele
gates from Kent county holding said
! false certificates should be seated.
''The other. four members of said
committee, however, protested to the
convention and demanded fair hear
ing of these contests on their merits.
Whereupon che committee was order
ed by the convention to re-assemble
and to hear and determine these cases.
Yet, in defiance of the mandate of
the convention, the eight organization
| members of that committee without
re-assembling, without retiring from
| the convention, without hearing any
| evidence whatsoever and without in
| viting the other four members of the
committee to confer with them, an
| nounced to the convention that the
anti-organization delegates in the
Third and Eighth Districts should be
seated. This left the contests in the
| First, Second, Fifth and Tenth Dis
tricts entirely unheard and undeter-
mined by the very committee whose
sole duty it was to pass upon the
merits of such contests and to report
its findings to the convention.
The Organization members of that
committee therefore not only def1ed
the Republican voters of Kent coun-
but also refused to obey the mandate
of the state convention and as to the
contests in the Third and Eighth dis
triets they put themselves in the
ridiculous and impossible position of
having decided these contests in two
different ways on the same day and in
each case without hearing a particle
contestants. IS NOT THIS PARTY
| WRECKING?
Do You Approve of This?
These things were done by the Or
ganization to save itself and to force
IFS candidates upon the Republican
ticket. Is this your plan for 1ominat-
ing a Republican ticket?
who is the Organization Senator
4 DUPONT is said to be the head of it
and it operates in his name and for
his benefit Mr.. A. r. Benson, state
chairman; Mr.. James A. Hirons, Mr..
John L. Bradley and the men around
them who agree with them and their
methods are the Organization in Kent
county Are you for them or against
them? The principal issue before the
| Republican voters, not only Of Kent
| county, but of the whole state, at the
recent primaries, was to determine
whether or not this Organization
should continue in command Of the
Republican party for the benefit of
Senator dupont. Without the aid of
4 their defeated delegates from Kent
county the control of the state con-
vention would unquestionably have
passed from the Organization and into
the hands of it's opponents, and Sena-
tor dupont, who was not the choice
of majority of the Republicans of
Delaware, could not and would not
have been renominated.
"Any candidate for the high office
of United States Senator who fails ut
were used in his behalf, and the men
1
acquiesces therein, is unworthy of the
support of true~Repubhcans. To re-
elect Senator DUPONT will be to con-
tinue in power Mr.. Benson as state
chairman, and Mr.. Hirons as county
chairman, to encourage the Organiza-
tion to commit further outrages in the
future, to repudiate the decent Re-
| pubIicans who have stood against
Il
of approval upon fraud and political
treachery by which hundreds of hon
est voters have been robbed of their
franchise and his reelection will
make decent politics impossible in
Delaware for the next six years.
Do You Approve of This?
IF you do not approve of this, the
Independent Republicans of Delaware,
who desire the election of Hughes and
Fairbanks and who wish to see the
Republican party re-established in
Delaware upon the solid foundation
of honest majority rule and local self
| government, have offered you an op-
pOrtunity to express your Indignation
and to register your protest at the
polls. by placing upon the ballot an
independent ticket, which appears
under the name of Progressive
Party
This Independent ticket endorses
the Republican electors and the Re-
publican candidates for governor, at
| torney-general and state treasurer,
none of whom participated in OF
profited by the frauds committed by
the Organization; and in lieu Of the
repudiated candidates of the Organi-
zation, men have been placed upon
the Independent ticket who have been
life-long Republicans, who are of high
character and who are eminently fit
tod IN norforno fho drfioS of tho of