Evening journal., 1900-02-07
the republican candidate for governor
and his estimable father).

1895, page 66. New Castle county
gave a republican plurality in this cleo
tion of 5S1 votes.
In the state convention Of 1894, act
ing under the time-honored rotation
rule, the Sussex county delegates Sc
lected Joshua II. Marvil for governor,
the Kent county delegates selected Jona-
than S. Willis for Congress, and they
were thereupon nominated by accla-
nation.
The party under the management Of
the state committee and its chairman,
General James H. Wilson, gained a
notable victory at the election. Mr.
Marvil was elected by a plurality of H.
O1S votes, and Mr.. Willis was sent to
Congress by a plurality of ,109 votes
the first republican representative
since 1872.
The party carried New Castle county
by an average plurality on the legisla-
tive ticket of ,120 votes, and Sussex
county by an average plurality Of 215
votes
The Legislature which met in Janu-
larry, 1895, to choose a successor to Sem
ator Higgins was composed of nineteen
Republicans and eleven democrats. An
attempt was made to hold a caucus ac-
cording to the party custom, but this
was frustrated by Mr.. Addicks.
The members OF our party voted
j throughout the session for various re-
lpublicans and exhausted every effort
1 to elect a senator. The candidates
tried by every means at their COM
mand to secure an election, and all.
excepting Mr. Addicks, finally with
drew in favor Of Colonel Henry A. Du-
Pont, for whom, on the last day Of the
session fifteen votes were cast-four
so-called republicans. at the behest of
Mr. Addicks, refused to vote with the
:. fifteen. In addition, Mr. Addicks con-
spited with the democrats to prevent
an election, by entering into an agree
lment with William T. Watson, a demo-
lcrat to take part In the joint assembly
=, Of the two houses and vote for a sena-
ter, notwithstanding that the said Wat
son, heretofore a state senator and
speaker Of the Senate who. by virtue OF
lsuch office became governor upon the
death of Governor Marvil, on April 8,
1895. had previously relinquished his
right to participate in the proceedings
lof the. General Assembly and joint as
/ lsembly.
Mr.. Watson, although governor Of
the state and not entitled to a vote on
that day appeared in joint assembly in
pursuance Of the aforesaid compact
with Mr.. Addicks. and voted; making a
vote Of thirty, of which Colonel Du-
b Pont received fifteen.
When Colonel DuPont's contest for
his seat in the United States Senate
was pending, Mr.. Addicks by his lobby
lists made alliance and was in league
with the democrats and populists at
Washington, with the result that Colo
mel DUPONT received thirty-one votes
{ in the Senate and thirty-two votes were
cast against him. Every republican
United States senator either voted OF
. was paired in his favor, and every
democrat and populist either voted OF
was paired. against him.
In August, 1895, after the adjourn
ment Of the Legislature and before
Congress, had convened. Mr. Addicks
added TO his record for disloyalty tc
the republican party by telegraphing tC
Z Senator Washburn. OF Minnesota. that
The republicans will carry Delaware
, next year pledged to Addicks for sen.
ator. l made Delaware republican. II
4 the republican party is the party oil
h treachery, / will help bury it ten thou
0An4 A0Aulllc uttDs
a In 1896, Mr. Addicks secured by his
' peculiar methods, an apparent and sub
: servient majority in the state conven-
4 ton, called to choose delegates to the
: national convention.
n The republicans in that convention
| fought with vigor and desperation tn,
attempt of Mr.. Addicks and his follow
q ers to throw the customs Of the party
Nr hr do -
n its rules and time-honored traditions.
Il MIR. Addicks overruled all precedents
/, lrules, customs and traditions; refuse,
/, to allow the delegates elected in
u county to select its members OF com
mittees, and caused his chairman OF tn
q convention to arbitrarily appoint
L committee on credentials, whicl
i promptly seated all the Addicks dele
d gates, who had been elected by fraud
Intimidation and bribery, and unseate
v our duly accredited delegates.
: Mr.. Addicks also applied the odiou
10 unit rule and afterwards elected hi
v delegates to the national convention.
a Notwithstanding the formal contes
q made by your organization in the Re
n publican National Convention. held a
" St. Louis, our delegates were seated o
70 the evidence submitted.
a. In the campaign Of 1896 we desired {
secure a common ticket for delegates [
70 the Constitutional Convention, whic
n was frustrated by Mr. Addicks insistin
v upon naming second ticket in Ne
l0 Castle county, which resulted in tn
election of six democrats
v We wished the republican party I
,el control the convention in order ths
Nv the new state Constitution should Or,
N scribe just methods of election and a
equitable and fair legislative appo
al tionment.
ne This was defeated by your refusal
m act. with our party, and the democra
u, obtained a majority In that Constitl
no tional Convention and gerrymandert
IA the state.
10 The result OF this legislation was
- deprive our party Of It's proper, repr
re sentation in the Legislature, and thu
m enable MIR. Addcks TO beneht by Il
gerrymander
nd AS an illustration-The total vote f
,r Republican state senators elected
1898 was 5.4e4 The total vote 4