Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-29
SOME QUESTIONS FOR ADDlCKs.
why Does lie Wish to Become Senator
From Delaware ?--ue Has Begun Too
Quick and Too High.

why Does lie wish to Become Senator
From Delaware lille Has Begun Too
Quick and Too High.
New York Sun, November %
Why does the Hon. Gas Addicks want
to be elected Senator in Congress from
Delaware? We pass over as secondary
his desire to get return for the money
he has expended in Kent and sussex
counties in 1899 or Mt other times. What
induced him to lay out that money in
expectation of getting n Senatorship in
return? What was the causing cause OF
his determination to become Senator?
Ii middle-aged man should develop
sudden fondncss for sprinting or throw
ing the hammer, and without any bodily
fitness or attempt at training, should
aspire to championship honors in
athletics, he would be regarded as u
promising candidate for chairman OF the
paretic ward. If he should give hun
bred thousand dollars made out of
gaseous or solid enterprises to the Uni
Yersity of Pennsylvania and then de-
mand to be appointed professor of
mgteria medica, although unable to tell
a bolus from football, trained nurses
and experts in insanity would mark him
for their own. Ii he should try to drive
four-in- hand, simply because he had
money 10 spare to buy one, or try to
steer six abreast as an eccentric Ameri-
can citizen used to do in Florence, he
would be sure to turn up in
the police courts or the coroner's
office. and he would be guyed or cursed
by everybody on the roads that he in
tested. In short, the Hon. Gas Addicks,
prosperous and able to indulge in new
avocations and amusements, could not
| go Into any of them heedlessly and
| without preparation; OF if he tried to
| do so, he would come to grief and to
damage, physical or pecuniary; and he
would BIO regarded as triple expansion
idiot, in the bargain. He could hire
competent sailor men to manage yacht
for him, but he couldn't get a pilots
| license for himself; and ne would butt
into d breakwater, or drop in on Davy
Jones mighty quick if he essayed to be
| his own captain and steersman. OF
course, we assume, for the purpose of ar
| gument, that he is as ignorant of various
accomplishments that would help him
burn his gas as he is of politics.. He
could hire persons to play golf or tennis
or the banjo for him, singers to MARBLE
for hiEi, cooks to charm him into
eupepsy, poets to write triumphal odes
in his honor, or in celebration of his
gaseous ubiquity, hardheaded men to
drink fol him. pugilists to fight for him
football professors or Capt. Bebe Arson
to kick for him, Taral to ride for him
Doble to drive for him, Edgar Murphy
to shoot for him, perhaps Herbert
Spencer to think for him, but he cam
do these things himself, and he would
make himself very uncomfortable II he
tried to do them.
Now whatever the Hon. Gas Addicks
knows about other things, it seems cleal
that ne has had no time or opportunity
to know what a Senator of the United
States ought to know. Set down in al
assembly of many talents, among mer
conspicuous or reasonably proficient ir
parliamentary or constitutional law, il
the history OF the United States, in vari
Gus branches of financial or economi,
inquiry, an assembly of picked men
what could the Hon. Gas Addicks do
Would he not feel as costermonge
might who had intruded into meeting
, of the British Association? And wha
would the Senate, so proud of its ira
, ditions, so tenacious of its privileges
think of man who had made his wa,
) to it solely by n iudIcious investment ii
> delinquent tax bills? No doubt he is
l collected as well as collecting person
; but he would have to have the compos
ure of the Great Pyramid to be undis
turbed and unabashed in the Senat
4 chamber, should he go there as interes
on his investment. Or does the Hon
Gas Addicks mean to hire somebody I
represent him in the Senate, double.
! wrath, a phantom of gas? At any rate
the causes that make man choose
Z career for which he has absolutely n
fitness, are worth study. While the
!. are getting studied, we should advis
Y the Hon. Gas Addicks to begin his az
f premiership in craftsmanship. LII
4 MIN settle in Delaware and become a
u inspector of gas meters, or in Massa
Z chusetts and become fence viewer
!. and SO work up, if he can, to the Senate
He has begun too quick and too high,