The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-11
ADDICKS AND tDELAW ARE.
The Deadlock Leaves the State
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me deadlock Leaves the state
Noiccicss i'm the senate.
DOVER. Del. March 1O.-A long and
memorable struggle ended here Friday
and one from which important results
may flow. ]. Edward Addicks. for twelve
years a claimant for the United States
Senatorship upon the "Addicks or no
body platform. again failed to secure
election. This time, instead of resulting
in 'nobody's' occupancy of one seat in
the Senate, both seats will he so occupied.
Therein lies the Importance of this tight
in its constitutional aspects. Addicks has
merely succeeded in giving the country an
Illustration Of the possible workings at its
worst of the present method OF electing
UnICed States Senator'S
Delaware Senatorial deadlocks have be-
come almost as fixed an Observance as the
country cattle shows. The Senatorial
succession for the last twelve years may
to advantage be reviewed to show how
the present vacancies have arisen:
5lst Congress. Higgins Rep), Gray (Dem.)
"a congress. Higgins tRep.l. Gray (Dem)
sd Congress. ..... Higgins (Rep), Gray tDeml
3lth congress, Vacancy; Gray tDem)
55th congress. ..... .Kenney (Dem.), Gray tDem.)
both Congress............ Kenney (Dem), vacancy
The Senate of the Fifty-seventh Con-
gress, which met for the first time last
Monday, contained no member from Della
ware Mr.. Kenney's term having expired
at noon on March 4, and the Gray vacancy
still remaining untitled This was an I'M
usual situation; even Nebraska, where
the Legislature is still in deadlock over
two senatorships. has one Senator in the
person of Mr.. Allen. serving on the Gov
errors appointment The Constitution is
10
terms. but the officers of the Senate have
decided that he is entitled to remain until
the Nebraska Legislature either elects
somebody in his place or adiourns with
out action. Then he would have to de-
part from the chamber of the Senate.
Were that body in session
But Delaware had last week not even
such hold-over representation. The first
State to ratify the Federal Constitution
has been without representation in that
body for which the Constitution was. so
specific in guaranteeing the smallest
States equality of rights and making that
guarantee practically unamendable, cX-
cept by unanimous consent.
The party history of these Delaware
vacancies is interesting. The Democrats
regularly carried the State and elected
the Senators until the Harrison campaign
of 1888 In that year there was a consid-
cradle free trade scare among the
factory workers of Wilmington, which
contains about half the population of the
State. The members of the Union League
Club, of Philadelphia. also took a hand in
the contest, subscribing to a small fund
which a man named Knowles, afterward
Consul at Bordeaux, iudiciously employed
in selected districts of the southern
counties of the State. As result, the
Legislature chosen was Republican by
one majority, and Anthony Higgins was
sent to the United States Senate. 1t will
be recalled that Senator Hoar. in a pub
lie address, referred to Delaware in doing
this. as looking toward the rising sun,
or words to that effect. For an old slave
State to send a Republican Senator was
deservedly notable.
Four years later the Cleveland sweep.
of 1892 served to re-elect George Gray.
Democrat But in 1894. as Higgins term
was about to expire, the Republican wave
that passed over the country carried
Delaware along with il. but instead of
giving Higgins another term, Mr.. Ad-
dicks got i'll his work. and there
no election. Two years later. in 1896. the
Democrats carried the Legislature. and
sent Mr.. kenney to Washington to fill
out the rest of the term. He served the
remainder of the Fifty-fourth and
through the Fifty-ifth and Fifty-sixth
expired on March T. 1899. the Republicans
were again in control of the State, but
We're unable to elect Senator. This va
cancy has remained untitled.
In all these troublOus times Mr.. Addicks
has been the principal element of dis
turbance. He arrived in Dover on Jan
uary l. 1883, when the Republicans had
carried the Legislature which eventually
elected Higgins. He had just returned
from Europe. but claimed to be "A Della
warian and to have a residence at Clay
mont, in the northern end of the State
Although wholly unknown in Delaware
politics, he expressed his desire TO go to
the Senate. At first he was regarded as
a joke but he was soon found to be
a good fellow and dressed in a style
quite unknown in this region, following
the latest cuts of the New York tailors.
As soon as higgins was elected fac
tional cleavage began to appear in the
were being ''snubbed. Addicks took UP
their cause. The assessment and regis
tration laws Disseminated against the
poor. Addicks championed reforms in
the Legislature, and, If accounts may be
did much to relieve the reputed
discomforts of poverty among individual
voters. His adhereDts claim that he |
has made the Republican party of Della |
ware. which is now regularly carrying the |
State. At each campaign he asks the Re- |
publican candidates for the Legislature. |
according to the 81 DRY they tell here, how |
much they need an their respective dis |
tricts: they get any reasonable sum. and |
this. it is believed, finds it's way around |
to the individual voters In these circum- |
stances 1t seems TO a great many men |
only the fair play Of politics to send Ad- |
dicks to the Senate. and the seven ''regu- |
lars" who have held out against him are
severely CensuTed i'll many quarters.
The pOpula ton of Delaware that lends
Itself to such an attempt on the part Of |
an outsider to come in and buy up the |
State Is a peculiar one. The southern |
in places away from the rail-
road contain some of the least civilized
white people to be found east Of the noun
aims of North Carolina. They have at
Oak Island. In August. an assemblage
which visitors declare to be a sociology
al study worth going miles to see. Four
lr five thousand peopde come in there to
amp for three four days. a certain
big Thursday being the climax. They
.omc for recreation and sociability. and
lot for camp-meeting, grange. or other
purposes. Bare-footed men.
,ftentimes far advanced in life. dance on
/ raised wooden platform till they almost
all in exhaustion. Young men march
lbout with their best girls, each man
ARRIVING whip with which to attack any
ival who attempts to challenge his rights.
cree fights become plentiful.
FOUND NO PIRATE GOLD.