The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-31

be unjust to the state of Delaware.
No man who could neither read nor
write has ever been elected governor
of any one Of the United States OF
America.
Addicks is the central figure Of this
fight. soon destined to put to the Sc
vs-eSt test the legal acumcn Of the
United States senate. d. Edward A6-
dicks brought this whole muddle about
His followers said it would be Addicks
or nobody. and they are all prepared
to swear that since it is no. Addicks II
is nobody. Nobody has really present
ed Addicks' side of it-what he thinks
OF himself, whether he feels that he did
wrong, how ne excuses his conduct,
and finally the moral of the whole
episode. On ali these subjects he spoke
very freely with me.
''In the first place" he said, there
has been no election. The senatorship
from Delaware is vacant. The next
thing have to say is that l am going
to be senator from Delaware. l am in
this fight TO the bitter end. Two years
hence, when the legislature convencs.
l shall be candidate for senator, and.
what is more, l believe l shall be
ELECTED"
A very extraordinary man is John
Edward Addiclls He has made s10,-
000,G00 in twelve 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 ne Is tall,
neither slim nor stout, very erect in his
bearing His features are not hand
some and there are many crows feet
about his eyes, and yet he has both an
attractive and a young look in his face.
He is always faultlessly grooned and
irreproachably dressed. He always
looks cool and unflurried. When he
speaks he leans deferentially forward
and fixes pair of deep, beautiful blue
eggs upon his interlocutor. and the low.
facile utterance habitual to him makes
even commonplace from his lips i'm
pOrtant. His chief characteristics are
genial yet digniged affabilty and an ex
traordinary personal magnetism which
would make one like him in a mistrust.
full way. Even his opponents aclnowl
edge this. Chancellor WOlcott said &c
me, speaking of Addicks:
He is most extraordinary. I disap
prove OF his methods, his policy and his
record, and yet L am not surprised a
the influence he has welded. His per
sonal magnetism is wonderful. Every
body likes Addicks personally. Ant
the more you like him the more YOU
mistrust him"
Addicks certainly knows how to make
people like him.
when this contest reaches the sen
ate, asked him, do you not think the
republican party throughout the natior
will hold you responsible for the loss o:
the fruits of victory in Delaware and
for jeopardizing their control OF the
United states senator"
NO" be replied, Il do not think so
L have too much respect for public
'nninion to SUPPOSE that. 1 am not sur
prised, however, if people are inclined
to misjudge my motives. / have been
maligned all over the United States.
have been made the victim OF astound-
ing misrepresentation. 1t i4DchargeG
against me that | deliberately entered
Delaware politics with a corruption
fund; that l used the money freely &c
buy the elections of members who
would vote for me; that the votes
which remained with me to the very
end were mine by purchase, and that ]
held them by powerful financial pres
sure. All those charges are false. ]
have repeatedly challenged anyone te
prove them. Neither directly nor in.
directly have been responsible for the
deadlock. In fact, all the charges are
insults to the republican party in Della. |
ware, and to the men who supported |
me. l know that the republicans OF /
Delaware want me to go to the senate. !
defy any man to show the contrary, |
If we had an election by the people |
now 1 would be chosen senator"
Mr.. Addicks spoke strongly and |
earnestly, but he remained perfectly |
cool and self-contained. One could, not /