Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-29
They are Fully Responsible for the
Trouble; We Lock to Them for Relief.


Edward Charles 0'Sulhyan Addicks
probable, The duty is incumbent upon
them and them alone to find proper
solution Of the situation and to save
Delaware from further ignominy.
1t Is not possible for them to plead
that the situation comes as surprise
after the election when their hands are
tied. They knew all about it before the
election. Those who did not understand
the situation were simply those who
shut their eyes and would not see,
stopped their ears and would not hear.
They had abundant warning from
Democratic sources. THE GAZETTE
told the whole story two months before
the election. Every Democratic paper
repeated it. Democratic orators dis.
cussed it on every stump. Democrats
on the street and in the stores where
men meet and talk, tried to arouse the
conscience of their Republican friends
on the subject.
The Republicans met all that by
shrugs of the shoulders, by weak coun-
ter charges, or by saying it was "all
Democratic lie"
Only the very forgetful could have
really had any confidence in the talk
that it was mere campaign falsehood.
The facts of the previous election testi-
fed loudly to the truth of the matter.
Addicks had been standing candidate
for the Senate for six years, He was
outspoken about it. In 1892, he had
given SAC, 900 in an attempt to carry the
State in his interest. To all who had a
memory capable OF going back two
years, experience gave warning of the
danger as emphatic as that gwen by the
Democrats.
A warning not to be misunderstood
was given by the conference of twenty
leading Republicans of Kent and Sussex
over which Addicks presided in the
Douglass House at Rehoboth in August.
Who could be mistaken as to the situa-
ton after the Kent and Sussex county
conventions put Addicks' legislative
tickets in the field?
Intercourse is not shut off between
Republican politicians in New Castle
and those in the lower counties. 1t is
impossible to suppose thatthe politicians
up this way did not learn during the
course of the long and hot campaign
positively and directly the plans and the
purposes of their political brethren
down the State.
The warning came again in the fight
that the friends of Addicks made in the
primaries for representation on the
legislative ticket in New Castle county
Handy in Brandywine, Clarkson in
Christiana and Harry Whiteman in Mill
Creek, were plainly Addicks' candidates
for the nomination.
The plea that they did not know al
about the Addicks business long before
the election can not be accepted from
intelligent and well-informed Republi
cans, They must have known it.
Yet they made no earnest protest
against it from one end of the campaign
to the other. Their newspapers treated
Addicks respectfully, almost tenderly
whenever they mentioned him ut all
which was not often. Now Castle
Republicans, including Senator Higgins
himself, spoke allover kentand Sussex.
They never said one little word to war;
the people and caution them agans
Addicks' corrupt invasion. A few suct
ringing declarations as they are bold te
make now, might have saved Delaware
from her present disgrace if they had
been made in time before the election.
Here in New Castle county, the,
swallowed Robert ]. Handy, Addicks
avowed representative on their ticket
without SO much as grimace of dis
gust. He received Hall votes 70
State Senator. Alrichs, the other re
publican candidate for State Senator, re
ceived only IL, 425. So it appears Ina
out of the 11,425 Repu blicans Of Me-
Castle county only IA were unwilling I
vote for State Senator who propose
in turn TO vote for Addicks for Unite
States Senator
We have every reason to believe thu
the Republican managers were not onl
willing, but actually anxious to hay
Addicks put in his money to corrup
debauch, and buy Delaware for the
party. In conferences held between RI
publican and Democratic leaders o
other subjects, some Democratic leRdel
made frank proposition to form o
anti-Addicks combination of both pa
ties SO as TO shut him out Of the poss
bility of reaching the Senatorship an
thus eliminate him from the campaiL
The Republicans present were strong
opposed to Addicks for Senator, but the
must have been equally opposed
eliminating his money from the car
paign; for they not only refused to cor
bine against him, but also prompt
notified him of tine Democratic propos
aud of their refusal to agree to it al
thus destroy his Senatorial chances.
Delaware Republicans are thereto
fully responsible for the present stu
ton, and Delaware Democrats are n
in the least responsible. They ha
fought AddCNs and his corruption fro
the beginning and they are fighting hi
still. The Republicans must lind vi
out Of the disgrace they have broug
OH the state or suffer the consequence,
They can rely upon the Democr.
continuing their patriotic opposition
Addicks. No Democrat in the Legisl
ture will vote for him. Five Repub