Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1898-11-16
THE sENArORsaIIP.

IS the nat which mas gone forth from
the highest quarters of the Repub.i-
can party of Delaware, and It will be
adhered to strictly and without any
notifications. Addicks may give his
enemies more or less trouble before
they succeed in electing a senator. He
may even prevent it altogether But,
come what may, he cannot and will not
be elected. The Regular Republicans
and want-to-win men have used him
and his forces to elect Legislature.
Now they are through with him, and be
fore the legislative session is far ad-
vanced he will discover that he has
been miseraIbly duped, as he was four
years ago. Certain members, IN
whose fidelity and fealty he at present
has implicit confidence, will prove as
false to him as did George Fisher
Pierce, John M. c. Moore and others In
1895. He will begin the session with
the long end OF the stick in hand. He
will end 1t with the short one, for one
by one his men viii be weaned away
from him until he will be fortunate,
indicted, II he succeeds in holding the
FIVE votes necessary to prevent an cleo
ton.
The new General Assembly will con-
sist OF fifty-two members. OF thie
number thfrty-one Yill be Regular Re
publlcans and Union Republicans and
twenty-one Democrats. On joint bal
lot It will require twenty-seven votes
to tlect and but FIVE TO block an cleo
ton.
No doubt, on the start, Addlcks will
have majority Of the thlrty-one and
be anxious 10 go into caucus. Fol
lowing a precedent established by him
four years ago, the minority members
will refuse to go into a binding eau
Gus, although they Will doubtless con-
sent to become parties to a conference
designed TO solve the senatorial ques-
ton This will result in nothing con-
elusive and thetfight will be carried TO
the floor OF the Assembly because there
are five or more Republicans, like John
Pilling, who will never vote for AID
dicks, and five or more Unicn Repub-
llcans who will never vote for any
one else. Then Will come a repetition
Of the voting and waiting game OF
four years ago. N Addicks should give
up and get out, there win be an eiec-
ton. II he stays in and keeps FIVE OF
his men well in hand there will be no
election No matter what he does, he
will not be elected senator.
Already his agents are canvassing
the members-elect carefully and syste-
matically, and guaglng the situation
His enemies also have men in the fed
strengthening the legislators in the
conviction that the election OF AID
dicks would be suicidal TO the party
and therefore not to be thought OF Sc
riously. Men OF a practical turn o.
mind, who believe that the Addicks.
ties will use money to influence votes
are going over the list OF members
elect and passing Judgment on thos'
who can and Those who cannot b
bought to sacrifice their conviction
and vote for Addicks. Taken alto
gether It is a shameful condition an'
one which must lead to a revulsion c
public continent towards the RepubA
can party I'M the election OF two year
hence.
Now that affairs have taken the tur
which they have. the trial OF Unite
States Senator Richard r. Kenney be
comes more OF a political issue wit
Regular Republicans and Union Re
pubhcans than ever before. His retria
will commence on December 8, an
both Republican organizations are hOT
ing for a conviction, for in such an ur
likely eventuality they see a solutio
Of the troubles which are impendin
over them. The conviction Of Senate
Kenney would mean the election OF tW
United States senators by this Gener'
Assembly. It would afford the Reguls
Republicans and Union Republicans
basis OF compromise on the mathemat
cal rule OF short division, and by q
election Of one Regular Repul
lican and one Union Republican q
differences would be adjusted. Bot
ex-senator Anthony higgins and ]. "a
ward Addicks must have given IN
contingency serious thought, a,thoui
we are sure that neither would pro
by its realization-for the two sen
tors elected Would be men OF mo
conservative mold and with less pc
sonal antagonism and fractional btu,
ness existing between them.
1t is exceedingly unfortunate for Sc
ator Kenney that political conditio
are such as they are. He has be
hoping for and expecting an acquitt
To draw a jury which is not mixed
practically a matter OF impossible
and we are afraid that the fight I
tween the Regular Republicans and
Addicksites over the senatorship v