Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-05-02
WILL AD0ICKS Be
ELECTED SENATOR P
The Question May Depend Upon the
Issue Of Federal Patronage.
FIELD REVIEWED FROM OUTSIDE
Effect of the Regular Republic
can Opposition.
STILL IT MAY Be "ADDlCKS OR NOBODY"
John NJ. curgon in phIladelphia Ledger.

John NJ. Carson in Philadelphia Ledger.
Wilmington, Del, April 26. will
two Senators be chosen 10 represent
Delaware in the United STATES Senate
before December next? That question
is icing discussed by many people in
the State, and is matter OF concern
to many persons outside of the State,
iucludipg President Mckinley and the
Republican managers. After careful
ard diliReEt inquiry among men repre-
senting all shades Of political thought,
! can see no justification for the belief
that auch result will be accomplished,
although many persons he are more or
less confident that an election would
take place II Mr.. Addicks should be
given that recognition from Washing
ton which, 1t is urged. he is entitled
to by reason OF the recognition given
his faction by the National Republican
Convention Of last year. Those enter
tanning this belief are exclusively OF
the Addicbs faction, and, OF course, 1T
contemplates the choice OF Addicks as
one OF the two Senators. think IL is
absolutely certain, from present indica-
tions, that there can be no election I'M
less Addioks shall be chosen. The anti
.Addioks men are confident that such
40 election is impossible. and for the
reason that the seven Republican mem.
bers Of the Legislature who persisted
in Withholding their votes from Ad-
dicks at the recent session of that body
will not change their attitude should
the governor oonvere the legislature in
sxtra session. Among the mansRars
and leading man of the anti-Addioks
faction the feeling against Addicks is
rs intense, bitter and determined an
when the Legislature adjourned.
Whsthsr the anti ia ddioks sentiment
among the Republican masses ia as
strong numerically az 1t was three
months ago is an important factor IN
the solution Of the Senatorial problem.
1t is claimed on the one hand that it
lis quite as strong as ever, and denied
on the other. The fact that Delaware
is without representation in the United
States Senate is very deprecated by
the people, and ! found number of
Republicans classified as anti Addicks
men, who did not hesitate TO say they
would rather see Addicks in the Senate
than to have the State unrepresented
for period OF two years, with a reason
able certainty that the next election
will result in giving control OF the
Legislature to the Democrats. which
would insure the choice OF two Senators
OF that party.
The Addioks faction is known as the
Onion Republicans. The opposition is
known as the Regular Republicans.
The sole canse Of difference between
these factions Is j. Edward Addicks.
The Regulars alleRe that Addicks
secured bis prominence in the politics
Of the State by notoriously corrupt
I19thods, aud that with HIM money and
morals are Synonymous. They speak of
Addioksism as standing for all that rs
vicious in politics and bad in morals.
Therefore, they contend that his eleva-
tion to the Senate would be- a laating
disgrace to the State, which has in the
past been represented II the Senate by
men Of great ability and the highest
personal character. The fight, OF the
Regulars is entirely against the person
Of Addicks or Addicksism, 10 save
the State from the Disgrace which they
contend would attach to the election of
AddicKs they are prepared to assume
responsibility fer whatever conse.
ouences may follow. Rather than have
Addioks IN the Senate they prefer to
have the State unrepresented, or see il
represented by Democrats OF the type of
George Gray, who sat In that body for
nearly ID years, and was one of its most
prominent and honored members. In
short, the Regulars insist that Addicks
shall be entirely eliminated from the
contest before they will consider terms
for an agreement with the Union Re-
publioans 10 the matter of an election
to the United States Senate The atti.
tude OF the Regulars is so well urder-
stood by persons outside the State.
who have followed the protracted and
intensely bitter contest, that it is I'M
necessary 10 this dispatch to enter
upon discussion Of its correctness or
the rectitude Of the men who are the
responsible leaders in the anti-Addioks
movement. The object of my inquiry
was directed TO ascertain if 1t 10 at all
probable that an election Gao be had
for two Senators before the term of the
present Leg tBlature expires. Therefore
the existing conditions will alone be
considered, leaving the ethics of the
situation ana the responsibility for Its
outcome to the parties Immediately
concerned.
The present Legislature consists OF 0
Republicans and 8 Democrats in the
Senate. 20 Republicans and TO Demo
Gratis in the House. The relative
strength OF the parties on joint ballot
is; Republicans, 30; Democrats, %.
Twenty.ssven votes are sneoessary to
oioOt Obnhtor. Inc Union hepuDll-
:caus elected 16 of their candidates ut
the election of 1900, and during the
progress Of the balloting for Senators
Six votes were secured from the opposi.
tion, so that at the close of the contest,
and on the final ballots, Addicks had
~ votes, or only five short Of the mum.
bsr needed TO give him a majority.
OF the six Republican votes thus
gained two were given by zen who
we're elected as anti-Addicks men. On
the final ballot, however, seven Regulars
refused to vote for AddioKs. and these
iseven, it is claimed, will adhere to the
Discrimination not to support hi i'm under
any circumstances. On the other baud,
It'll Is claimed by friends OF Addioks
there has been such a,change in senti.
iment on the part of the people, and par
.ticularly among Regular Republicans,
THAT there is ground for the belief that
ut least four of the seven who refused
to support Addioks on the final ballot
will be induced 10 give him their votes
IL an extra session of the Legislature
shall be called, and especially IL the
President will give Addioks recognition
to the extent of accepting his recon .
lmendations for appointment of men to
the Federal offices. Recognition by the
President is the main contention be-
tween the factions at this time, both
recognizing its Importance and the in 4.
huenoe It might have oil the issue in
yolved. When the two faotions want m