Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-13


 evidence elielted in the Dupont contro-
 versy before the United States senate
 and declared that it exposed a state of
 affairs unprecedented in the history of
 any state republican party in the coun-
 try.
 Addicks, he said, had been proven a
 traitor to the cause of republlcanism.
 When that party had forty-four senators
 in the capitol at Washington and but
 one more was needed to give it the ma- jorlty of the votes over the populist- democratic element, 1t was Addieks who, by the aid of a democratic governor, brought a deadlock and prevented Dela-
 ware from receiving proper representa-
 ton in the senate.
 ''Talk to me of honor and decency in politics." said the senator. q tell you
 here and now that I would not vote for
 J. Edward Addicles if his vote were
 needed to make the next president of
 the United States, and if the necessity
 demands. l. will repeat the statement
 upon the floor of the next congress"
 The first demonstration of the kind
 that had marked the proceedings of the
 committee followed the Nebraska sena-
 tors declara tion. When the rival dele
 gations headed respectively by Higgins
 and Addicks were ushered into the com
 mittee room the excitement of the com
 mitteemen was intense, and they moved
 their chairs forward until they formed
 a semi-circle about the contestants and the presiding officer Without prelimi-
 nary Ex-Senator Higgins plunged into
 the cases in behalf of himself and his associates. MT. Addicks sat close behind him and at the time it looked as though the two men might come into personal
 collision, especially as MT. Higgins de- nounced Addicks as the principal of a conspiracy against law and honor and as man who regarded neither. MT. Higgins was followed by Wash ington Hastings who was equally em- phatic. Turning to Addicks, who sat with a sarcastic smile on his face, Has tings shook his finger under Addicks nose and ejaculated "This man is gov erned by a base and selfish ambition. I say it to his face as I have said it before His name is Addicks. Little as he under stands the language of gentlemen, he doubtless understands what l say" Addicks made no response. The principal address on the other side was made by Caleb R. Layton, chairman of the convention which nom- irated the Addicks delegation, who en- tered protest against the washing of the dirty linen of the Delaware repub- icans before the committee. He made a bitter attack upon the motives of Ex- Senator Higgins. whose political for tune, he said, had been made by Addicks Then MT. Addicks made a brief address on his own behalf. He claimed that he had been indorSed by the people of Dela- ware and had destroyed the worst ring
 that the republican party had ever known.
 Mr. Higgins replied. He alluded to Ad- dicks as that creature" and said that his speech showed him to be the moral 1 idiot" that every one in Delaware knew 1 he was.
 R. c. Kerens moved that all of the Ad- | dicks delegation, with the exception of Addicks himself be put upon the tenn | porary roll.
 Senator Thurston declared that on the | floor of the convention he would speak | and vote to unseat the entire delega- | tion.
 | Numerous speeches and motions were | ordered, all taking the ground that Ad- l dicks was not republican and would | not be recognized as such.
 Finally Senator Carey of Wyoming l moved that the Higgins delegation be | placed on the temporary roll. The vote 1 was 10 yeas to to S9 nays. Then the com | mittee, on motion of MT. Sutherland l voted Al to that it was not willing | to place either delegation on the tenn | porary roll and refers the entire mat 1 ter to the national convention. | At Il 80 the delayed contest from the | Fifth Alabama district was taken up I Benjamin W. Walker, the solitary con | testant has a preference for Speaker | Reed while the regular delegate | Douglass Smith is McKinleyite. The | latter was seated by 19 to IS. At mid
 night a motion to adjourn was carried.