Evening journal., 1898-03-19
THE PROCESS OF SHELVING.


a seat in the United States Senate, and
ne is richer in acquaintance and ex-
perience. II he wants to make trouble
for those Republicans who have de-
feated him in his desire for political
preferment, and who now seek TO abb
eorb that organization which his money
built, he is still In a position 10 do 1t,
and the feeling OF resentment and the
desire for revenge is still strong within
him. II he calls for volunteers to help
defeat ticket set up in defiance Of his
wishes there Will be a response His
machine Is in running order and the
King street company can neither buy
him out nor crowd him to the wall
1t is certain that no combination will
be entered into by the regular Repub-
licans, who are now forming them
selves into a want-to-win party, which
will not leave them in perfect control
OF all the party machinery OF the state
Their design is to serve out a little pap
to certain OF the Addicks leaders, who
are more hungry than faithful, and, af-
pei them TO become high privates in the
rear rank, with no voice whatever in
the formulation OF the partys policy
or in the making OF the party's states.
This want-to-win movement Is mere
ly roundabout way that the old Hig-
gins following has adopted to capture
the Union Republican party organiza-
ton without the consent OF the gas
man and with the full expectation Of
eliminating him from Delaware poll
tics. The plea will be set up that the
Republican party can never win I'm its
present divided state, and that 1t is
about time to get together under new
leaders Those new leaders will be men
who have always followed the Higgins
banner and who have no use for Ad-
dicksites or Addicks excepting to fur
ther their own ends.
Mr.. Addicks holds the key to the
situation. The future OF the Repubh-
can party Is held within his well-hIed
pocket While he is no longer to be
feared as winning factor, he has It
within his power to defeat any regular
Republican or Want-to-Win ticket
which may be set up. 1t will be strange
II he does not do it. for he Is not giving
to trifiing when he has his own ends to
serve. His action in the senatorial
deadlock proved this. He created va
cancy rather than give an inch to the
very men who are now trying to secure
his following. Almost any other man
would have given way TO the great pres
sure which was brought to bear upon
him, but he was as firm in his determi
nation on the last day as he was on the
FIRST day
Did he fllch at the last state election?
Not at all He captured a majority OF
the delegates to the state convention
and the regulars bolted; but It made no
difference to him. He went right along
about his business; forced the regulars
10 take up his presidential electors af-
ter refusing to listen to any and all
talk OF compromise, and had the salts
faction OF carrying down the regular
Republican state ticket to defeat with
his own. He never craw-hshed. All
that was left for the other side to do.
His electors helped to elect Mckinley,
and now the regulars are reaping all
the benefit from the administration.
Mr.. Addicks is a man who has much
TO remember and but little to forgive
when 1t comes TO the consideration OF
the struggles OF the regulars to regain
fresh foOthold under new leaders. He
can do more In a week to get his forces
into line to defeat a Want-to-Win
ticket than the regulars can accomplish
in year in the matter of weaving men
away from him for the purpose of
electing it.
No, we do not believe that Mr.. Ad-
dicks is ready to be shelved. He has a
few debts to pay and some shelves OF
his own to I'LL Men who assisted ma
terially in preventing him from reaping
the advantages Of his action in upset
ting the regular Republican machine
built by Bach, cannot set up that ma
chine again and put II in running order
for their own profit and, at the same
tlme take his machine II cost hin
|. two or three hundred thousand dollars
II was built in the United States min
under the personal supervision Of I'm
Gle Sam. The Higgins men were alway
too poor to operate it or TO enter int
competition with it. It was never de
signed to be used, either in whole or il
part, by the former friends OF Senate
Higgins. It is too rich for their blood
The new club will act as a harmoni
zer, and the new machine will ru
along smoothly until MIR. Addicks @
some walking delegate OF his sees f
to give the word for strike, and the
every Union man in the establishmer
will walk out and follow his old leade
The boiler inspector bill, now befoI
the General Assembly, is in no sens