Evening journal., 1900-12-21
Short Of Voi

From Georgetown Sussex Republican
Political developments OF the week
furnish conclusive evidence that the
Addicks contingent are convinced that
they have not secured sufficient votes
to elect the Gasman. If he had twenty
seven Republicans who would vote for
him, or upon a deal, for him and an
other, there would be no necessity for
the effort to secure Democratic votes
now being made by the ieutenants Of
Addicks. Or if enough votes, either
Republican or Democratic had been ar
ranged for, why the necessity of con-
testing the seats of certain Democratic
members elect for the evident purpose
Of preventing their seating and the
casting of votes in opposition to Ad-
dicks or his plans? These may be sly
political moves but no one resorts to
these or other tricks to help them Sc
cure what they already have for the
asking, so that these evidences of
smartness are further and conclusive
evidence that Addicks has, as usual,
been Shooting off his moth when
he has been claiming his sure election
| to the Senate. Il Is the same old story
that the people of the State have listen
| ed to since 1895. when Addicks amused
everybody in his claims to a sure cleo
ton to the Senate that year, and a.
| though he may have more votes than
| at that time and the selfish support of
| some men whose Repubhcanism is
wrapped in the skin of their own SUI
| preme selfishness-the same kind of
| selfshness exhibited by Addicks in the
past and which has proven the ban OF
the Republicans of this State on more
than one occasion-yet he is no nearer
relizing his ambition than in the past
| Twenty-seven votes he must have tC
| secure an election and these votes he
admits by his action he has not Sc
cured and yet no stone has been left
untumed. The members elect have
been waited upon and sounded, and
Addicks and his henchmen know the
situation which confronts them and il
is far from satisfactory, because defeat
as in the past, stares them in the fac,
and they will make a supreme effort K
buy sufficient votes to make the requi
site twenty-sevem. The members e.ec
have been so carefully canvassed tina
the position Of each and every one i
well-known and the members who ar
known to oppose Addicks cannot re
cede from their announced position
WlLu0ut lay AAk AAthA'NANNo oB'h ~ Ah
suspicion that it was Addicks
peculiar methods which had in
duced them to change thei
minds. So corrupt and rotten ar
his methods that his organization
honey coated with il. and ever sine
{ the election our people have been re
s galed with charges and dcounter-charge
4 Of the theft OF the campaign funds b
Union Republican workers There
already a district in which this COZ
j. ditiOn of affairs does not exist an
T. where one or more of these truste
/. leaders anu workers Of the Addict
organization are not charged by the
fellow workers with having pOcketed
large part of the campaign funds place
In their hands for election day pu
poses And, mark you, these men a
n cused are of such prominence IN Il
p organization as to be trus ed with 4
d. most important business. so is it ar
wonder that men elected to the Legi
% lature in opposition TO Addicks cam
y afford TO take any other position wit
d out laying themselves open 10 Il
b. charge of being influenced by Il
- methods which prevail in this organ
y cation. Addicks may boast that he W
buy sufficient votes to elect him, b
il viii end in boasting These men
IN canot buy, and any Republican wi
q. would vote for him from other al
=. better motives cannot afford to do
~ for his good names sake.