The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-26

freely 10 buy the elections OF members
| VINO would vote for me. that the votes
I Which remained with me o. ine very end
I were mine by purchase and that 1 held
I them by powerful financial pressure All
nose charges are false ! have repeat
I edly challenged any one 20 prove them.
Neither directly nor Indirectly have /
been responsible for the deadlock In fact
| All these charges are Insults TO the republi
can party TN Delaware. and 10 the men
I VINO supported me. 1 know that the re-
publicans OF Delaware want me TO 20 to
I the senate. DEFY any man TO show the
! contrary. II We had an election by the
people now I would be chosen senator"
/ Mr. Addicks spoke strongly and earn
l estly, but he remained perfectly cool and
sell contained. one could not imagine a
/ man Lass likely TO represent a rural little
state. 20 pudge 10y appearances -Adaicks
looks so much Ike man Of the world a
/ cosmopolite club man aud a bon vivant
! Another thing alleged against me-" ne
| continued. is that l am an interloper in
Delaware. That is in this state known
/ 10 be notorious misrepresentation.
/ have been resident of Delaware for eigh-
/ teen years. My interests are here The
| people OF the state have known me Tor a
generation When ! speak OF misrepre-
/ sentation and abuse I am not alluding To
my own state. None OF their lies could
cans OF the state at large know what L
/ have done TO build up and strengthen the
I party organization here But for me the
/ governorship and the legislature would
not have been carried by the republicans
/ When / went into this fight I knew | had
The republicans of the state with me.
| shall get my vindication from them. We
shall begin most aggressive contest from
| this time on. l believe we will be stronger
I in the legislature in 1897 than we now are
] The state Is now republican, and l look
forward with confidence to entering the
| Senate from Delaware"
DO you think" 1 asked the great Ad-
dicks, that the people should eject sena-
tors Of the United States, Instead of the
| legislatures"
mo" replied he. 81 do not You might
! suppose my experience would incline me to
think the other way. Certainly If cleo
lions TO the Senate depended upon the
! popular vote. would now be senator from
! Delaware. But | am I'm favor OF election
by the legislature, because the Senate
| stands for the sovereignty of the federated
commemorative, and the legislatures
| represent the sovereignty OF the respective
| states. The beautiful harmony Of our ma
uonal constitution would be destroyed by
elimination of this principle"
1t is curious fact fact that every public
| man In Delaware agrees with Addicks
| in this opinion. The great moral Of the
/ Delaware muddle would seem to be that
senatorial elections should be popular.
Yet Chancellor Wocott told me he fav-
ored the present system of election by the
legislature Gov. Watson said the same
! thing. So did the state auditor DR. Louis.
and all the members of the legislature
What do you suppose the Senate OF
the United States will do?" l asked Mr..
| Addicks.
We'll, there has been no election" he
I hot
Mr.. Dupont has case. since he received
fifteen votes out of thirty. That Is no
election. l suppose the governor will APP
point man. yet II seems he can't do that
because he is not the real governor. Now,
my opinion is that the vacancy will be
declared to exist. and we must all wait
two years"
So much for Addicks' view of IT,
But the governor meanwhile. had been
looking up the law. l repaired to the state
house and found him immersed in legal
tiles.
1.-THE action of the presiding officer OF
the House in declaring Dupont elected. "
he said, lis absurd He is no more sena-
tor than you are. Where will he get his
commission? All he can do is to 20 10
Washington and say he got fifteen votes. -
The most eager speculation is now in
dulged in. concerning the governors APP
pointee. Meantime the Washington end
of the controversy is being well handled.
1t was said IN Dover. on the last day of
the balloting, that Gov. Watson had been
communicated with from Washington,
and as a result his opinion of his own
right to sit in the joint assembly and
vote had been changed. The general as
constituent when he concluded to take
this step was very great in Dover on that
eventful DAY. 1t had leaked out that Gov.
Watson believed himself Ineligible to vote,
and he did not consent to take part In the
balloting until almost on the stroke Of
noon.
As for Addicks' denials OF the part he
took in the fight, 1t was said in Dover that
his five legislators poor mem had lived at
the hight of luxury In superb apartments
al the Richardson hotel. Addicks' bill for
them at the Richardson was figured out
at $500 1t is also said that he gave
$50, 900 to carry one county out of the three
in Delaware.
1t should not be forgotten that Delaware
lives under a very antlquated form Of
state government. The voting unit is
called a hundred an arrangement which
they like in Delaware, because, as Auditor
Lewis explained to me, 1t was handed
down from King John.
Thus stand matters in Delaware, The
people involved have never given their
views in detail before. All the officials
are divided among themselves. one Of the
most extraordinary and puzzling games
of political chess is only half played.
Whatever the outcome. the imbrogiO Will
figure very conspcuously in the history
of the United States.