The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-27
ROW IN DELAWARE
They Still Wonder There Whether the
State has Elected q Senator.
WHAT IS SAID ABOUT 1T
The Leading Legal Light of the
State Says There Was No Elec-
ton = Something About Ad-
dicks Who Made the Trouble.

snee,ai corresnondence OF the standard.
Dover. Del. May 25.-The most OK
traordinarv senatorial election in the
history Of the United States and one
which exceeded in dramatic tensity and
the attention bestowed upon IL any
struggle of the kind yet recorded has
entered upon a new stage ana from an
absorbing state battle has become an
important national one.
The case OF Delaware is unprece-
dented. Thirty men pailoleo -FOUR
ing whether they had elected a senator
or not All parties TO the struggle are
by this time in a bitterly determined
mood, and Dover is the scene OF active
preparation TO make out a good case
in Washington. - 49,. -
ernor of the state TO the left" Ad-
dicks. was interviewed for the purpose
Of this narrative. 1t appears from
what they say that the breakdown OF
our senatorial election system could
not be more complete. Inc very COM
ments of Bryce in his American COM
monwealth" received a new conhrma-
ton.
sThere has been no election said
Governor Watson TO me when 1 saw
him at the state house. delaware has
one senator. Mr.. Dupont was not elect
ed"
Then who will be senators?
"The man appoint
Whom will you appoint!
II shall think that matter over.
These words Of the governor show
a decided change OF opinion on ms
mart II has not yet leaked out that
IN to the last minute he was very un-
willing TO take part in the balloting. He
thought he had no right TO do SO. On
Thursday. May last, the day the leg
islature adjourned, he was called upon
in the audience room of the state house
at Dover by Chancellor Wolcott and
numerous distinguished democrats.
They found Governor Watson at 10
o'clock in the morning-the balloting
was 10 begin at noon and the republic
ans had Is votes concentrated on Du-
nont-and assured him that as he was
only acting governor not the real gov
ernor, his functions as speaker of the
senate had not ended. Therefore, he
was bound to preside in the joint ses-
sion and vote. making the number of
votes cast 80 and the contest a tie. 1t
took four men more than an hour to
talk the governor into taking the step.
The government of the state OF Della
ware resembles nothing 80 mucn as the
mechanism Of an ole Dutch clock. The
man who is looked up to as competent
to make the complications of the pres
ent situation clear is Chancellor VOL
K.
about Delaware law, end he says there
was no senator elected. Chancellor VOL
colt is the highest judicial authority in
the state.
There was no election" said he.
when l asked aim about IL. Mr.. Wat
son, under our constitution, is not goi-
ernor OF Delaware He Is only acting
governor-a different thing entirely
He is still speaker Of the senate. and
in that capacity bound to preside over
il and take part in all it's proceedings
as a member of the legislature. Della
ware is in reality governed according
TO a constitution framed in 1891. Its
date is 1882, but the instrument adopt
ed that year was really the one OF
1891, with a few important amend
ments, and we are practically living
under that constitution now. That ex-
plains some unusual features in our
state government"
HAS Mr.. Watson a right TO appoint
a senator to succeed Mr.. Higgins?"
81 think not" said the chancellor.
thus putting himself in opposition 10
the governor. Il should say the state
has now but one senator and must run
along (until the legislature convenes
two years hence with only half its rep
resentation in the senate"
Addicks is the central figure of this
fight, soon destined 10 put TO the Sc
verest test the legal acumen of the
United States senate. ]. Edward Adj
dicks brought this whole muddle about
His followers said il would be Addicks
or nobody, and they are all prepared
10 swear that since II is not Addicks
IL is nobody. Nobody has really pre-
scented Addicks' side of it-what he
thinks himself, whether he feels that
he did wrong, how he excuses his con-
duct and finally the moral Of the whole
episode On all these subjects he spoke
very freely with me.
I'm the first place." he said, there
has been no election. The senatorship
from Delaware is vacant. The next
thing l have 10 say is that / am GO
ing to be senator from Delaware. / am
in this fight TO the bitter end. Two
years hence, when the legislature con-
venes, ] shall be a candidate for sena-
tor, and, what is more, believe l shall
be elected"
a very extraordinary man is John
Edward Addicks. He has made 100000
600 IN II years. and has the money
now, not TO speak of what he has made
in the way Of money that he hasn't got
now. In physique he is tall, neither
slim nor stout, very erect in his bear
ing. His features are not handsome.
and there are many crows feet about
his eyes, and yet he has both an at
tractive and young look in his face.
he IS always fruitlessly groomed and
irreproachably dressed. He always
looks cool and unfiurried When he
speaks he leans deferentiallv forward
and fixes pair of deep, beautiful blue
eyes upon his interlocutor. and the low,
facile utterance habitual 10 him makes
even commonplaces from his lips i'm
portant. His chief characteristics are
genial, yet dignifed affability. and an
extraordinary personal magnetism
which would make one like him in q
mistrustiu' way Even his opponents
acknowledge this. Chancellor Wolcott
said to me, speaking OF Addicks:
He is most extraordinary. / disap-
prove OF his methods, his policy and
his record. and yet am not surprised
at the innuence ne has welded. His
personal magnetism is wonderful. Fv.