Evening journal., 1897-01-05
SAD DAY FOR ADDICKSITES.
MUST PAY COSTS OF THEIR LAST
CASE WITHIN THIRTY DAYS.

MUST PAY COSTS OF THEIR LAST
CASE WITHIN THIRTY DAYS.
WHEN THE FOLLOWERS OF THE
GAS KING TOOK THEIR SEATS
IN THE CONSTITUTIONAL CON
yENTION THEY GOT THE
MARBLE HEART"
Special Correspondence Evening Journal
DOVER. Jan. 5.-Yesterday was a
sad day Tor Addicksites. and last even
ing the sun went down on q detected
lot OF the followers Of the gas king. La
The first place. the Court OF Errors and
Appeals. consisting Of Chancellor Mich
olson. Judge Grlbb and Judge Marvel,
upset the action OF the Superior Court
Of Kent county which commanded the
Board of Canvass to rcassemble and
make a fun count OF the Kent county
vote. The case was taken up by the
Democrats on writ of error, and the
decision was reversed on the point
raised by the Democrats that the in
spectors could not make a full count
without the returns from West Dover
hundred, which were never made. This
leaves the case exactly where 1t was
before the special session of theSuperior
Court was held. The Addicksites were
ordered to pay the costs within thirty
days
If the Addicks men do not decide TO
abandon their effort to upset the will
of the people of this county, their next
step will be to ask for another special
session Of the Superior Court and a
writ of mandamus compelling the
board Of inspectors of West Dover
hundred to meet and canvass the vote;
then, after that has been decided, to
mandamus the Board of Canvass Of the
county to meet again and make a full
count, and finally, at the end of several
months, land again in the Court of Err
rors and Appeals and stay there until
IL is almost time for another election to
be held.
Judge Grubb's decision is regarded
as a masterpiece by the lawyers here in
Dover He spent all day Saturday and
Sunday preparing It, and did not even
have time to have il typewriter before
its delivery
Addicksites who have been so loud
in praise of the Superior Court are now
bitterly critcising the Court of Err
rors and Appeals, but they are getting
no sympathy outside their own ranks.
The second Knockout they sustained
was in the Constitutional Convention.
H. will be remembered that the Demo-
Gratis and regular Republican delegates
to the convention cut the Kent county
gordian knot by seating five Democrats
and five Addic1sites from the midland
county. The Addicksites demanded
ten or nothing and when they could
not get the ten they bOited. Tor over
two weeks the five chairs were vacant.
Then one OF the boiling delegates came
fn t4H Ia fa NJ,
fatted calf killed in his honor, and the
other four remained out. The conven-
tion threatened to on the vacancies
but they ran the risk and held indigna-
tion meetings among themselves until
at 2.l5 O'Clock yesterday afternoon the
four. William T. Smithers, David s
Clark. Dr. Paris r. Chandler Jr, and
Mr.. Herring walked in quietly and
took their seats. There was no demon
Stration when they entered. Instead
of getting the glad hand they got the
marble heart Some say that they were
actuated by fear that the convention
would carry out its threat of filling
their seats: and. indeed, rumor of sucf
intention was current all over town
There are others who declare that Mr.
Smithers and his colleagues wer,
moved by the decision of the Court O
Errors and Appeals in the Kent county
mandamus case. and that they will us,
their votes and whatever influence they
possess to abolish the courts as "a
present constituted and help along The
one-judge system movement.
BE this as il may. their reception b,
the convention was chilingly Cour
teOus. At the earliest opportunity Mr.
Smithers arose and made what wal
taken to be an ofl-hand address. bu
which was, in reality. n written state
ment expressing the views of the fOu
prodigals It reflected upon the con
vention's action in refusing to seat tn
ten Addicks men and stated that tn
reason they had not taken their seat
sooner was because they would thereb
be condoning a great wrong perpe
trated upon the Republican party.
He had no sooner concluded thar
one Of his colleagues moved that "th
paper be spread on the journal.
Then the convention became awar
that the speech was in reality a writ
ten communication. Mr. Donaho
asked that it be read by the clerk.
was handed over to that official an
he read it. Mr.. Martin moved that il
laid on the table His motion was los
by a viva voce vote
Mr.. Spruance, regular Republican
stated that he would vote against
being spread on the journal, becaus
IL was not an especially weighty ma
ter and the stenographer had il in hi
notes OF the proceedings.
Mr. Bradford and Mr.. Richard
regular Republicans declared that
contained reflections upon the cor
vention and they would vote against /
Mr.. Hearne, Democrat. said that
was not only reflective in characte
but embodied a misstatement. .inasmuC
that 1t termed the Addicks party RI