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Show ADDICKS GETS THE COLD SHOULDER FROM THE REGULARS IN DELAWARE - i - r - publicans in a general conference .as Indicated above. ' Meanwhile the regulars decided by acclamation ac-clamation upon Col. Henry A. Dupont and former United-States Senator An tbony Hlgglns as their nominees for the long term and short term, respectively. Finally it was decided to appoint two conference committees, one to meet the Democrats and ask for further time to consider their proposition and the other committee to Inform the Unions that their proposition will be refused as long as it includes Addlcks. i ii i r t .' " . ' DOVER Deli Jan..20.nTbe Union Republican Re-publican .caucus, last rUht placed J. Edward Addlcks in nomination for both, the short and long term in the United States 8etiate,.botb seats having been vacant for some time. The caucus then appointed a committee to consult with the ten regular Republicans who are opposed to Addlcks and endeavor , to unite men in a general Republican conference con-ference to make two nominations for the United States Senate, one to bd made a Union Ttepublican and the other a regular Republican. While the Union Republican caucus was at work In the SUte house nominating nom-inating Addlcks .the Democrats were caucusing in the - Statebouse parlor, and the - regular Republicans - at the Hotel Rlchsrdson. . . It took the Democratic caucus but twenty minutes to nominate State Chairman Wlilard Baulsbury for the ' short term' at Washington, and former United States Senator Richard E. Ken-pey Ken-pey for the long term. - - - ' - State Senator Harrington, the presiding presid-ing officer ot ' tbe caucus, then dispatched, dis-patched, a committee of five Democratic Democrat-ic Assemblymen to tbe regular Republican Repub-lican caucus, submitting directly to the regulars the proposition of the Democrats Demo-crats to help elect a regular Republican for tbe tour-year term, in exchange for the help of the regulars to elect a Democrat Dem-ocrat for the two-year term. - At 11:89 the regulars took a rote on the appointment of a committee to confer with a committee of the Demo crats. The vote stood eight to 'two in favor of the appointment of a commit tee, ..... . . At this point in the proceedings tbe Union committee arrived and urged the regulars to unite with the Union Re- ' -: |