Middletown transcript., 1895-05-11

Higgins,) agreed with the New Castle
county's representatives in that opin-
ion and could not advise them to ac-
cept Mr.. Addicks, and furthermore the
friends Of Mr.. Massey would never ac-
cept Mr.. Addicks and if Mr.. Addicks
controlled his men as he claimed, he
could prevent an election and there
would be no Senator. The anxious
Republicans on the ground retired for
little rest.
On Wednesday morning the senti-
ment around Dover of the men desir-
GUS of making Senator bugan to show
itself. "Higgins, Higgins, give US
Higgins was heard on all sides. 1t
came from the Massey men, from the
Addicks adherents, and was earnest
but it could not be. At least one Mas
sey man had declared he would never
vote for Mr.. Higgins and and Mr.. Ad-
dicks'four men would not, though they
subsequently cast for him, an insincere
ballot to draw and scatter the united
vote then being given to Col. Henry A.
DUPONT.
The joint session began at 12 o'clock
on Wednesday and the efforts OF the
active Republican had been to unite
all the forces outside the Addicks
ranks upon one man. Mr.. Higgins
had withdrawn from the race and
counseled his friends to centre upon
the best man available. They agreed
among themselves that Col, Henry A.
DUPONT was the man. They voted
for him for 80 ballots, and during five
of those ballots he had IA votes or
within one of an election. Handy,
Ball, Brown, G. L. Moore, and Rob
bins stood together for Addicks. Mr..
Money voted with them for eight bal
lots. The Massey men voted for Mr..
Pennewill for four ballots and then
joined the Higgins men for Col. du-
Pont. This drove the AddIcks men
to an insincere vote for DR.. Hiram T..
Burton to d1aW off his friends from
Col. DUPONT. 1t did not succeed. Then
William DUPONT was sprung by the
Addicks men to prevent the election of
his brother. The Addicks forces
Joined the Democrats and took recess,
and the Massey men were urged to
join with Addicks and elect William
DUPONT. He reached 13 votes, or
within two of the election, when on
the 33 ballot for the day, the 166th of
the session, the Higgins men vent to
DR.. Burton and remained with him
to the 42d ballot when Burton had s
and William DUPONT II and a recess
was taken to Thursday morning.
Thursday morning the balloting be-
gan at 9 O'Clock with IL ballots for
Col. DUPONT. William DUPONT had Z
votes: Handy, Moore, J. NJ. c. and G.
L., Ball, Brown, Morgan, Robbins.
On the next ballot j. M. G. Moore
went to Col. DUPONT. On the third
ballot Morgan went to Col. du Pont,
making IA and the others went to
Pennewill. On the fourth ballot the
last insincere move of the Addicks
men was made in three ballots for Mr..
Higgins and they then joined the
Democrats in recess to 12 O'Clock.
At the regular noon hour the ballot
ing began under increased and intense
excitement. Governor Watson had
usurped the chair of Speaker and the
Democrats and Addick's men knowing
that Mr.. Brown would no longer vote
with the Addicks men, Mr.. Watson
had yielded to the pressure to cast a
vote in the last desperate effort to pre-
vent the election of Senator. The
balloting began and for 36 ballots the
vote stood Is for Col. H. A, DUPONT
and A for J. E. Addicks. G. L..
Moore and Robert J. Handy were con-
stantly in consultation with the Deme-
Gratis and the half dozen Republicans
who stood with them in their vain ef-
fort to strike death blow to the Re-
publican party. The four men who
betrayed their trust and their party
are:
robert j. handy,
charles louther moore,
newell ball,
john m. robbins.
Under them and beneath them is
john edward addicks.
Let them die the death predicted by
their patron, and be glad that they do
not live in country where vigilance
committees have done effective work
for less criminal offences.
at fifteen minutes of O'Clock, at
the close of the 217th ballot, when
Governor Watson declared there was
no election, Senator Alrichs arose and
read a protest against the decision of
the chair, insisting that the governor
had no vote and no right to preside
and that of the 20 legal votes cast
Henry A, du POnt had received Is and