The San Francisco call., 1896-06-17

but the proposition was defeated by an
overwhelming majority, and the report of
tFe committee vas adopted, with one vote
in the negative
At O'Clock Ex-senator Higgins was pre-
senteG and proceeded to open the case in
behalf of hi, delegation. He repeated
as emphaticAlly as he could that J. Ed
ward AddicRs was no more qualified as a
Republican % SIT and act in this conven-
ton than would be Arthur P German or
David B. Hill.
As recently as 1890 Addicks had given
$1,000 to deeat a Republican candidate for
Governor and elect a Democrat, and the
proofs wire forthcoming in the form of
sworn ststements of three witnesses who
lived in tne same house with him in Phil
adelphis and to whom he boasted of the
facts.
He declared that as result of the con
spiracy between Addicks and the Demo
cratic party in the last election the Repub-
hcans of Delaware had lost a Governor
and aUnited States Senator No question
OF principle was involved, assuming that
this man had any principle. He simply
claimed to own the State.
repertoire. Would the committee give
this man clean bill of health? Would it
condone his crime so that he could go
home and elect himself to the United
States Senator 1t would mean the de-
struction of the Republican party IN Della
ware for this thing to be done.
He begged the convention not to put
upon them this unspeakable shame. As
for Addicks' associates, they had chained
themselves to his political and personal
fortunes, and were entitled to no cousid-
Grafton. Addicks had no moral concAp-
tion, no idea that there was man above
ground that was above being bought.
That was his ethical position; that was
the kind of creature the committee and
the opposing faction had to deal with.
Would the committee give him recogni-
ton? He begged and entreated it not TO
do so
Michael ]. Murray opened for the Ad-
dicks side. He protested against the per
sOnalities that had been indulged in and
insisted that the question should be fought
out on the strict issues in the case. II was
not necessary to take up time in defending
Mr.. Addicks; he needed no defense.
Chairman Fort was compelled to give no
tice that no demonstration in behalf OF
one side or the other would be tolerated.
Mr.. Murray went on 70 say that the
charges that Mr.. Addicks was a Democrat
or that he had given money 10 aid the
Democratic cause in Delaware were abso-
lutely false.
DR.. Caleb r. Layton, one of the Addic&s
delegates and who was chosen chairman
ef the Delaware State Convention, spoke
briefly. He disclaimed having any i'll will
toward Senator Higgins, but declared that
he and the young Republicans of Della
ware demanded the right to meet in con-
vention and elect their own representatives.
DR.. Layton denied emphatically that the
convention which named the delegates
was mob of roughs. He declared that
no gag rule was resorted TO, but that when
the minority resorted to dilatory tactics
he played Tom Reed"
Hiram Burton, an Addicks district del
egate from Sussex County, and one of the
oldest Republicans in the State, made a
protest against the stain that had been put
upon his reputation in this contest by
ex-senator Higgins. who since his boy
General Wilson, the retiring National
Committeeman, speaking to the question
of corruption at the primaries prior to the
State Convention, told the committee tina.
in his own township, who're 396 votes were
cast, there were net more than twenty of
the majority but were purchased by the
friends of Mr.. Addicks, either by money
outright or promises of position.
Il, 81 n bar of
the committee, Mr.. Addicks said he had
lived in Della ware for nineteen years and
had voted for Abraham Lincoln and every
Republican candidate for the Presidency
since.
Ex-senator Higgins closed for the con-
testants. Replying to DR.. Burton, who
himself came within a few votes of being
elected a United States Senator, Mr.
Higgins declared, with his hand upon
his heart, that no matter how long
some of those on the other side
had been his friends, no matter how close
they had been together, when they allied
themselves with Addicks, when they in
do-sed his crimes, he and they parted COM
pany.
At 1O:4O the contestees and contestants
retired and the committee went into ex-
ecutive session.
The resolution to seat the kddicks dele
cation was defeated-2O ayes. % noes.
The committee then voted on the ques-
ton of seating the Higgins delegation.
Ayes 81. noes 81.
At the conclusion of the Addicks bear
ing the committee adjourned until 10
O'Clock tomorrow, when 1t will take up
the Texas contest between the Lilly
Whites" and ''BIack and Tans."
Mr.. Hepburn will present minority re
port on the Addicks case.