Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-22
THE MAN FROM NOWHERE.
He Asks the Delaware Republicans to
Allow Him to Fix His Residence Among
Them for Six Years.

He Asks the Delaware Republicans to
Allow Him TO Fix His Residence Among
Them for Six Years.
New York sun, Now smber Goth.
Suppose that Mr.. j. Edward Addicks,
the Man from Nowhere and Every
where, who is now trying to make the
Republicans in the Legislature of Della
ware elect him Senator in Congress
from that State, were a pauper instead
OF man of substance, where would he
claim a settlement What parish or
township would have to open its poor
house to him and give him the run of
the town farmg Does he belong in
Boston, Providence, Brooklyn, or
Brookline? We appeal to the Overseers
of the Rich. He has houses, apartments
and offices at various stations of his
migratory and wandering life, but
where is his homer Has he home
anywhere2 Is he not homeless man, a
Man from Nowhere and Everywhere !?
Has he any better right as far as resi-
dence is concerned to be Senator from
Delaware than to be Senator from New
York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, or
New Jersey? In gaseous, elusive, and
highly odorous qualities, the citizenship
and local habitation of Mr.. j. Edward
Addicks are suggestive of the sources of
his wealth; but as u gas leak can be
traced, so the locaizing of this peri
patetic gasman can be accomplished by
following the leak in his wallet, and
that leak leaked into Delaware.
There are only nineteen Republicans
In the Delaware Legislature, and they
make a majority of that body on joint
ballot. MIR. Addicks must have seen
| that it would be easier and cheaper to
| fill nineteen men with gas than larger
number. We can conceive no other
reason for his choice of Delaware as his
| field of political Investment. He must
have looked for quick returns when he
invested in delinquent taxes in 1893.
| Quick returns and large profits, for,
apart from the honor, the salary of a
United States Senator is five per cent or
more year on the amount said to have
| been put into political investments in
Delaware by the Hon. Gas Addicks in
1892 and later. Besides, he feels weary
of wandering. He wants to know what
State he comes from and where he
belongs. He wants to cease to be
gaseous and to become fixed. He wants
to cease to be The Man from Every
where and Nowhere, and become
known and recognized as the Gasman
of Delaware.
We are far from attributing to Mr.. j.
Edward AddiclSs any intention of pro-
curing his settlement or election in
Delaware by means that he regards as
dishonorable. lie has simply made an
investment on his own account, and he
asks the Delaware Republicans to let
him fix mis- residence among them fol
election purposes, and to guarantee the
investment for six years, If he has
political or social lambitionsin connection
with his investment, they are doubtles,
worthy ones. 1t may be conceived thai
he has high respect for the Senate, anG
is anxious to add lustre to it by adding
to its roll the name of gentleman
geographically so uncertain and flnan
cially so solid. Genius is above direc
tories and maps, and if the Hon. j
Edward Addicbs of Everywhere aue
Nowhere has not q genius for gas, VIZ
| should like to know who has.