Middletown transcript., 1898-10-08
WHAT AND WHERE NEXT

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dicks - Addicksism. The par ttisan
imagine it bill bring them votes, vile
they are responsible above all others 70
the continuation of Mr.. Addick's in
f1uenCe 10 Delaware. For selfish par
tisan purposes they have encourages
him TO 'tdown his facLional opponents,
and the Democratic party conspire(
with him to defeat th5 nominee of hi
party's caucus for Senator. Like |
pack of hypocrites hey cry "bribery
briberyW and clai !. the way to stop il
is to vote the Democratic ticket. Hon
est Democrats must read their political
slush with contempt. There are Demo
clats as well as Republicans, hundreds
and thousands Of honest citizens, who
want t. crush out bribery and who
stand for honest elections and econimiC
government. All these hold the servile
party organs in contempt.
Occasionally Democratic paper OF
moie or less prominence will acknow.
ledge tie sins OF commission of his
parry, and this gives gleam Of hope
flr the future. The "Smyrna Ca!l''
speaks this week from knowledge aud
TO the point. Read it:
ut is row more than four yea sinue
he force and blight of Addicksism fell
full and fat on Kent County. We are
mainly an agri :ulLulal people Of COM
palatively small means. This society
had been politically dabauched to some
extent before Mr.. Addicks' appearance
heie. The soIdid voter had had a taste
of bribery in the Democratic quarrels
and feuds extending back numbor of
years. This unhappy condition was
observed by Mr.. Addicks and duly con-
sideled. lie did not introd uce bribery
here. He certainly found it in some
Ijgor. He merely remodeled it and
placed it on business basis.
The first election after the Addicks
methods were introduced here was held
in '9A, and Democrats were startled by
the result. Mr.. Shaw. the Republican
candidate for sheriff, and Mr.. Fleming,
a Republican candidate for the assem-
bly,, we, elected. The balance Ct the
Democi attic ticket escaped with the
skin of its teeth. 1t was virtually a
81 eat Republican victory. A little
more business and little mLre money
would have doEe The work. Nj. Ad-
dicks and lis friends reasonably looked
forward to the next election as the end
of Democratic ,rpremacy in this coun.
y. They began the campaign of '96
as soon as the polls of '94 we're read.
They got ready 10 appeal to the necess-
tiles and avarice Of the voter with force
that could not be esisted. The Demo-
cratic party foolishly and unequally
Irving to NEE them on the same
ground. The Democratic fund was
Delaware money obtained in any sums
u at could be begged. Mr.. Addicks,
On the contrary, planking down singly
and alone, it is said, a hundred thous-
Ind dollars for the use of the county.
Of coulse the community was swept |
IF its feet. The darkies, to their Gre
lit, got nothing, and the huge purse
vas scattered Though the Democratic |
oarty. Farmers and store keepers sold |
It taeir own price and put their Demo-
'racy away in keeping.
They carried the election such as it
vas. 1t is not worth while to haggle
ver that now, or to recount the mis-.
rable ballots. Of all the votes dropped
n the boxes in '96 Mr.. Addicks had
lurality. The question then was
hould the goods be delivered. Mr..
Volcott on the floor of the returning
DOM said that the remedy which was
eing applied was desperate one, and
0 it was. In any other circumstances
would have been revolution, and it
7as bad enough as it was, but it was a
emedy and nothing else was. The
!ourts of law were slow and mad
uate and Mr.. Addicks had money to
~ and dolly with them.
1t was possibly a case of thief cut
lief and might is right, but we do not
link it was. We think the election
as SO corrupt as to make it illegal.
he closing Of the polls in Duck Creek
illed or annulled the free and equal
lection which the Constitution pre-
;ribed. But we have not space here
argue inciden al points. OF course
the ell elton were not legal nobody
as elected, and individually we should
e sfould have preferred that dispo-
tion. 1t might have been a happier
'lution had new election for Assem-
ynen baen held and the others have
I'D over as Sheriff Shaw has do. @.
Law ard justice were as much out 4
ged on election day as on the return
~. Mr.. Addicks had no moral or
gal c'aims which anybody was bound
respect The law was dead letter
ON the beginning to the end Of the
eeti WGuever got in was in and
th sides knew it. 1t was one of
ose supreme occasions for which there {
no law. Just as there was no law
r throwing the tea overheard in Bos-
n. The animal arose in his might
What he believed was right. Our
hers outraged law when they re-
He'd against England and our chill
en will trample on law again and
aim; -
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