Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-07-11
DEMOCRATS GET THE PRIZE.

And so the State campaign of 1896
| found four full-fledged political or
ganizatOus in the field---the Repub-
/ lican divisions as distinct and hostile
as two opposing political parties, and
the Democrats divided only as 10 ma
| tional candidates and national issues.
Here was the material for an unusu-
ally interesting campaign. and such
| it proved 10 be.
Addick8 and his chief lieutenants
| returned from the Republican Ma
| tional Convention al St. Louis very
| much disgruntled and deeply disap-
| pointed. They hae expected to gain
/ the favor OF the national authorities
| Of ,he party, on the ground of their
| thorough regularity, but found that
/ this counted for nothing with Mark
| Hanna, the conventions boss. against
the SIX Mckinley votes represented
| by the bOltcrs. And so the latter
came back with heads high in the
air and the stamp IF party regularity
plainly imprinted upot their banners.
However, Addicks went ahead with
his personally owned and conducted
Republican party. undsr tho regular
name and organization. His state
committee issued the call for The lat
er state convention, and nominated
Republican Electoral ticket and can
.liiates for governor aud Representa-
tive IT, Congress. Ills selections for
Presidential Electorr were james O..
Shaw. ID. Eifiin Wilson AMI Daniel
J. Fooks. For governor. John II. Hof-
fccker Of smyrna; for Representative
III Congress. Eev. Jonathan S. Willis.
who had been elected two years be-
fore.
Bolters Nama d Ticket.
The state convention Of the bolters
also nominated an Electoral ticket,
which. however. was subsequently
aiken down ant. that Of the Ajdicks
faction acccpte, There Was one jif-
ference. however, which might have
counted largely haG he presidential
election resulted as closely as lid that
ot 1876. with decision depending upon
a single Electoral vote. Or the Ad-
dicks ticket At the election thc name
uf James q. Shaw had "Sr." attached
to it: OF the bolters' ticket il was
simply James G. shaw" But there
Was no 1oubt~at9ut the result Of the
presidential contest, Mckinley's, elec-
ton being almost overwhelming. and
So the votes for shaw and shaw.
Jr" were combined at tho Official can
rass. The boilers convention NOM
mated John c. Higgins of Delaware
city for governor and Robert q.
Houston Of Georgetown for / Repre-
sentative in Congress.
Another Blow for Addieks.
Addicks' claim 10 party regularity
was contested by the Lolters on the
strength Of their recognition by the
Republican National Convention, not
only by the admission of their dele
gates. but Of the acceptance of their
choice 3f a member Of the new Re
publican National Committee. Ad-
dicks had adopted the name Of Re
publican party, and its original de-
.ice u the eagle for the designation
Of its ticket or the official ballot. The
bol1ers conYt ntion also adopted the
same name and device. and then there
came a contest as 70 which organiza-
tiou should have the device Of the
eagle on tbs official ballot. In this
very important matter the boliers
scored another victory
Under the Election law it IS the
duty OF the clerks of the peace. Whan
the same device is claimed by TWO
organization, 10 decide which one is
entitled to possession. and there Is no
appeal from their decision. These Of
ficiaIc were all Democrats. and as
a a
cided I'll favor Of the b1iters Waller
II. Hays. attorney for the Addicks
Republicans, made strong legal arg
umtnt in support cf his clients, but
without avail. But although appar-
entity straining point in th"ir deci-
sion. the Dera9grat.e judges were at
least justified by public opinion. as
both Democrats and boiling !tepuhli-
cans we're opposed to any recognition
Of the Addicks party, and together
they undoubtedly represented a ma
jority of the qualified voters Of the
state.
Boilers Become Regular.
The boltero. ther fore emerged
from these contests with legal recos-
nition III the ras.ular organization Of
the Republican pert Of Delaware, en-
titled to it's tonne and device. The
Addick. faction adopted the name
Union Republican I.arty, which as
5e have shown. was really the 1fiirial
name of the Republican party arsad-
z,atiou, formally adopted H. tl4 4,
pubilcau state Cos. -EtieE of IA66.
and iever taec =aCter .eats.a. Also.
he Union gtpattI,-.os adopted the
device Of iHe-point star. BIt
hose two lacti3ua, fuliy erected into
80 separate PARTY orl nilsflons.
were generally known thei after as
Unions and Regulars. - re after
wards whensths. came together. af
ter the breaking GoMi ~ Addicka
through the loss af Al his wealth, the
reunited party combined the two sep
ar-4te devices aud adopted the eagle
with star on its breast. da used on
the Republican ticket on the official
i3llots to this day.
And 80 the Republican party in
delaware went tU the election IN 1896
divided into two bitterly contesting
factions ana facing certain defeat as
To all candidates Ipan which they
could not agree The combination OF
thu two Electoral tickets into one was
not agreed upon until a short time
prior 10 the election, but the only other
was up the nomination of
J. Frank Eliason of pcncader hum
dred as Representative in the General
4 sisattl,Is from NeN Castle county