The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-11-20
HERE'S ADDICKS UP AGAIN.
TIE a. NAV STILL TRYING TO GET
THAT SENATORSHIP.

llenns Who Won't Have Him -Te
Years Struggle to Get Into the ssnat,
WILMINGTON. Del. Nov. 1e.-It will be jus
ten years on Jan. l next since ]. EdwaTd Ad
dicks 0rst Injected himself into Delawar
%pulitics. When the Norfolk express trait
reached Dover shortly after ! A NJ. on Jan. ]
: = a party OF three or four strange men. we
dressed and carrying satchels. got of and wer
driven at once 10 the Hotel Richardson. In tn
corridor there. three or four natives wer
gathered, Including \ newspaper correspond
eht. Tho party entered and registered. on,
nj the names placed upon the hotel record be
Ing J. Edward Addicks.
In a few minutes the man who had thu
signed his name was introduced TO the hote
loungers. He woro a fashionable suit o
clothes. a fur-trimmed overcoat. and a high
Rilk hat. He at once started In by remarkinG
that he had heard that the Republicans were
In possession Of tho General Assembly and
would probably have some difficulty In SO.
curing a man for United States Senator. He
added that II the Republicans could not agree
upon a mar he would be willing TO assume the
burden. He was not. he stated later, a can
didate Just then. believing that those who had
borne tho party's burdens 10 the past and had
been In tho heat OF many campaigns should
FIRST be considered. He thought that Della
ware Republicans had been long oppressed.
and he had come to Dover direct on his re-
turn from Europe to enroll himself as a mem
Der Of the Republican party. Later he gave an
official interview through a man from Boston.
and that was tho introduction OF tho Gas Man
to Delaware.
Who is Addicks?" was the prevailing ques-
ton on the streets VI Dover on Jan. l. and In q
abort time the entire voting community had
either glanced at or had shaken hands with
NhA r-n l-Aa.zI
Delawarean. This last statement was news TO
the people. but 1t was accepted as a fact. No
one had ever heard OF him before. though.
That afternoon the Gas Ma and his friends
left for Philadelphia. Anthony Higgins was
elected to the United States Senate, but Mr..
Addicka and several Of his l%ieutenants from
somewhere lowered around Dover. making
new friends and becoming acquainted Gener-
ally. From that time on the name OF Ad-
dicks has been heard far and wide. The Re-
publican party has had n continuous tussle
with the man who thus suddenly dropped into
Dover. 1t was a part OF the game OF the new-
conner to make friends. His voice was low
and melodious and his language refined. and
his po!iteness was noticed by those with whom
he came in contact. Soon. from being an I'M
known man. the man from Claymont became
the most widely known and the most discussed
man in the State.
As the months went on II began to crop out
that the unselAsh Republican from Claymont
had assumed that he had some sort OF right to
Delaware In the United States Sen
ate. and he became a frequent visitor to Will
pinRton, where he had consultations with the
self mostly to the two lower counties and In a
short time had plenty Of admirers In both Kent
as the head and front of the great Bay State Gas
company. land as the years went by Bay State
gas stock found its way into the hands OF Della
w~areans. Then came many suits in the United
States Court here and a gas plant was built In |
Wilmington after the General Assembly had
Wilmington authorities would not grant the
permission to open the streets. and |
me gas plant has never sent out q cubic foot Of
gas.
During the campaign of 1892 Mr.. Addicks
BAD many friends working in his behalf, but
and George Gray was sent to the |
unitei States Senate to succeed himself. The
A l65 sS wing OF the Republiea9 party in Kent
the Gas Man became the out-and- out candi-
date for the senstorship., Anthony Higgins
campaign OF 1894 the Addicis c%ontingent in
The lower counties worked hard for legislative
the patron saint down there. He was
Welcomed with far more enthusiasm than a
big peach year and he declared that MIR. Hig-
tion held in 1894 gave the Republicans a ma
|ority IN the General Assembly on Joint ballot.
III III nv bObblpu dIu DtIOTe Tne voting ha- |
gan 1t was announced that It was to be "Ad-
safiss q tbG nobody" The kepubIiSap member
fused to 20 into It and 1d' it Inc non nHnlfsS ne B re-
gins without them. The AddicEss' men de-
clared that they would elect their man or that
The Republicans had 10 members and the
Pbe n, 81 II; and the fret ballo: showed 10
H hssHInca and io 5 for IoF Ge MT; a1Hg y Ms:s 8 for mr. Mr.;
on Jan, is. Addiefs held his SIX v Taes
Jay after Gay: and the thirteen other men
Bey. There were several attempts to unite on
some, dark horse. and during the proeress Of
but the AAddiieRRs forces held Arm mer once Sse or rWfse;
jumping to other candidates who they knew
codG nc not Gst enough votes: Efforts TO STAN
body ,o Fi3%S aI on May & the Higgins men
Dupont, the 6olonels b I1s came Once Gr ~i theFe
Dupont. but Hdd il s'f ksid h ne six 70 m w1ll iSs.
In April Gov. MaFyii died. after serving only
nor. That left the Democrats only ten mem
adjournment. The artst Ballot t that d iSy
s shotSsl y T votes so for SodI.;Dp Dupont and FOR his
md 5 Tor James Pe%nnewiii. on that ballot Iot1 one
the Addicks men weakened and voted Tor
1ol. Dupont On the next ballot Col. Dupont
1oted for Mr.. Higgins and expressed a willing.
hess to elect him. but the others did not trust
HON. and held TO Col. Dupont.
Then came a recess. during which Gov, Wat
ION was persuaded to take his seat as a mem.
Der OF the Joint assembly. This action fol-
owed the announcement that one OF the Adj
men was to drop out after the recess.
When ballotiug was to be resumed Gov, Wat
on appeared for the first time since he had
ucoeeded Gov. Marvil. The 1890 ballot
howed Is for Col. Dupont and 4 for Addioks.
Zth II Democrats voting for two candidates
lad Watson kept out. the is votes for Col.
Dupont would have elected him beyond ques-
ion. but .Watson'e presence made 10 q ma
ority OF the joint assembly instead OF 10.
Thirty-six ballots were taken without change
nd then the fall of the Ravel Of the presiding
announced that the General Assembly
vas adjourned sine die. 1t was declared that
% successor to Senator Higgins had been
lected. but the Republicans caught their wind
I the last moment and filed a protests declaring
hat Gov. Watson had no right to sit as a Sem
tor and that fifteen votes constituted a legal
majority OF the joint assembly. thus e~lectipR
lol. Dupont. The fight over the eligibility II
Watson to sit as a Senator went Oh and the
United States Senate declined to seat Dupont,
Tor two years Delaware had only one United
'tates Senator.
In 1885 tho Democrats captured the Gem
raj Assembly and Richard X. Kennsy waa
lected to the Senate for four years. Kenney.
will be remembered. was recently tried here
N a charge Of helping misapply The funds OF
he First National Bank OF Dover. which con.
ern was robbed of $lO7. 600 BY its having
RllAF kannayi ia IN hA rAtiraA thI. oaa,L