The sun., 1900-04-28

OF Mr.. Addicks. Colonel dupont is not
popular and has no personal following |
except among few people to whom
aristocratic lineage and social position
count for more than ability and political
fealty, and few federal office holders
whose favor he has bought and holds as
the purveyor OF national patronage.
Among other people, those whose practi-
cal experience in politics gives value to
their opinions, Colonel duPont's pre-
tence of political leadership is laughed at
as farcical. This is fact that can be veri-
fed on the streets of this city any and
every day of the week.
Politically Colonel du Points record is
that OF a traitor and party wrecker. He
is Icharged with voting the Democratic
ticket in the most important elections in
this State. In 1895 when everybodysin
this State knew that the one dominant
question at issue in the preceding cam
paign, had been the election oil United
States Senator, and that Mr.. Addicks
had won the fight at the polls, Colonel
du Pont allowed himself to be made the
tool of George V. Massey, to defeat both
Mr.. Addicks and Mr.. Higgins in the
Senatorial fight OF that year. THE meth
ods by which the defeat OF Mr.. Ad ticks
was achieved were the most disgraceful
that ever inarred the record OF this State.
Without a shadow of reason for it
Colonel du Pont claimed a seat i'll the
United States Senate and was rejected
He had scarcely been heard of in politics
before that. He has displayed no ability
forensic or otherwise since then-every
effort OF his in that line being rated
funny and farcical by those who have
witnessed them; and yet for four or five
years he has been affecting the airs of a
political leader.
In 1896, when despite the open trea.
son of Colonel DUPONT and hs Anti-Ad'
dicks colleagues, this State was carried
for the Republican ticket in national
campaign, Colonel dupont as leader, and
the Anti-Addicks boilers who followed
him out OF the Republican State Conven
tion at Dover, by their alliance with the
Democrats, became party to the most
outrageous political fraud and crime thai
ever blackened the history of State. Tt
prevent the election of Mr.. AdLicks fol
whom the people had voted for the thirt
| a al 6np
:, his followers winked at the theft OF thu
:. State Legislature, and helped the Demo
Gratis steal the constitutional convention
The theft OF the Legislature inflicted
! Senator Kenney upon the people Of tn
State and upon the Senate of the UniteC
:, States, as the fruit OF fraud that was no
denied, and is now generally acknowl
. edged. In the theft Of the constitutions
convention Colonel dupont and his fol
lowers put back into the constitution Q
the State the OF ie .tionable featares OF til
:, old one, and tried to put into the hand
i of the Democratic party the means t
/ disiranchise Republicans at will fer TIA
=, sole purpose of defeating the will OF tn
i people OF this State in the election OF
a Edward Addicks to the United State
4; Senate
4 These are the facts Of Colonel du Pont
J, political record, contrasted with that {
70 Mr.. Addicks. And now, with Pres
q dental campaign approaching, Mr. AZ
IL dicks and his friends are ready to win
y Republican victory, to give the electors
"a vote of the State to the Republican non
: inee for President, to elect Republics
10 Congressman and send two Republca
of Senators to Washington to reinforce IL
"A Republican party in the Senate, and
. elect for the people of this State r
publican government of their own choo
o. ing. Colonel du Pont says it shall n
= be done il he can help it--that is h
r. last exhibition OF his peculiar publ
tn spirit.
ic. In defense OF this proposed betrayal
IN the Republican party in the State al
,is nation, Mr.. Davis, for Colonel du Por
IA. characterizes a proposition made by Il
nd President of the United States as a
he "fithy bargain"
or The people OF Delaware will send M
nd Addicks to the United States Senate.
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