The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-04
THE DELAWARE CAMPAIGN.
Hints and Accusations of Corruption
Heard Everywhere.


NEW YORK. Oct 3.-The Evening
POST prints the following from Whining
ton, DEL: AN evil and ominous smell or
money peryades the present political cam
paign in Delaware. Wherever men meet
and talk politics there are hints and ac-
cusations OF corruption. Nobody can
prophesy the result of the election, be-
cause nobody knows just how many voters
are open to bribery. Few doubt that there
viii be money to buy all who can be
bought.
1.-The situation in the Legislature to meet
in January next viii be worse than ever,
because the fact that there are two Sen
ators to be chosen doJbles the chances of
corrupt bargaining. TIE union which the
two Republican factions are striving so
hard to bring about has IN it perilo Is pos
sibIlities. Republicans who for years have
denounced Addicks and his measures, nov
either hold their peace or intimate the
party is not to blame, if. after years of
resisting the Establishments Of an ambitious
millionaire, it now. at length, yields to
him. The sentiment of some seen % be,
Give him the Senatorship to gee id OIL
him.
Quite as ominous as the silence or &C
quiescence of the regular Republicans is
the change of tone in the Republican
newspapers that have long denounced
Addicks. The chorus of denunciation
has In large measure ceased.
THE nature of the temptation present.
ed to the regular Republicans is suf-
ficiently patent Should the Legislature
have a Republican majority. difficulties
win be in great art smoothed away If
Addicks and the regulars can agree to
division of the spoils. 1t seems hardly
probable that Addicks can have both
himself and one OF his own men elected
to the Senate. but Democrats freely pre-
diet that a Republican Legislature will
elect Addicks and some regular Repub-
lican. The most conspicuous and ablest
candidate of the regulars is ex-senator
Anthony Higgins. whom Addicks has no
reason to love and who has no reason
to love Addicks; but politics has made
stranger bedfellows than Addicks ard
Higgins.
1T seems impossible now that Addicks
should make any bargain looking to the
election of himself and a Democratic col
league. for such a bargain could not with
safety be carried out. The Legislature
will be under the closes. scrutiny, and
whatever it does in the matter of the two
seats in the Senate will be done in the
presence of a suspicious crowd gathered
for the very purpose of watching the con-
duct of legislators.
Meanwhile, whatever results as to the
legislative ticket, the Democratic Presi-
Dental electors ara likely to receive a
considerably larger vote than was cast for
those of 1896. a Delaware Democrat hates
the scent OF irregularity and is thoroughly
uncomfortable when not acting cordially
with his own party. This feeling and the
absence of third ticket bearing the Demo-
cratic name will bring back into full party
afflliation many men WHO refused to vote
for Bryan four years ago. In fact. the
Democratic party in Delaware, despite the
jealousy and mutual suspicion of its lead
eTs. is much mare compactly held together
than it has been fUs some years. and only
the boldest ana freest use of money can
seriously reduce its strength"