Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-06-27

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The shame of Delaware.
The Republicans shall carry Della
ware next yenr pledged to Addicks for
Senator. | made Delaware Kepuhli-
ON. If the Republican party is the
party Of treachery, i will help bury
IL 10000 fsthoms deep. =. Edward
AddicKs,
III has robbed me of $50, u.
Edward Addicss.
Would the Republican party have
been able to carry Delaware had it not
been for my work aud expenditures?
Have | done anything which it was
not absolutely necessary to do, II the
old Bourbons of the State were to
be driven out Of powerful. Edward
Addicks
Ny conduct in these Delaware cam
palgns has been simply that Of practi-
cal man. / wanted my party to win.
! found that the eneuy was desperate
one The Democrats could be dislodged
only by practical methods, ! believe
that, when you Eight the devil, you
Instead of being condemned, should
To commended as the pioneer that
hlazened the way for the Republicans
II. Edward Addicks.
shall be candidate for the United
States Senate aH long ns live, or until
am elected. u. Edward Addicka.
/ will be elected az sure as the sun
shines ID. Edward Addicks,
My wife prefers Mr.. Hilles.-J,
Edward Addicks.
Pick yourselves mp, get at than and
prepare to wipe the earth up With
them i am with you to the last ditch,
and have only fairly got interested. II.
Edward Addioks,
The above are utterances of man Of
whom ex-Mayor Nathan Matthews, Jr.,
of Boston, said; "You could search all
the combinations and trusts that infest
our land to-day, and you could not
find sharper, brighter, more acute
and more successful corporation wreolter
than j. Edward Addicks. /" And We
might add, you could not find more
successful demoralizer OF public morals
than this same j. Edward AddioEs.
This mans complete history is given
In the July number of Ainsie's Maya
zine, by Mr. Edward p. CLARK, and
IL constitutes record Of personal
offronteiy and political dehauchery I'M
equaled In the annals of any State in
the Union. No ono can read ii without
realizing that 1t Ia disgrace to the
moral sense and o reproach upon the
intelligence OF not ouly the people OF
Delaware but of the county at large
that man of his character has been
ahle 10 prevent u representation In the
United States Senate OF one of our
Oldest States. 1t ia almost beyond
belief that an unprinoipled promoter
OF gas companies, an unblushing de.
baucher of individual political morals,
person who publicly announces his
belief that every man has his price,
can lind a single supporter, not idsnti
fed with the criminal element, in tht
Stats Of Delaware. The very fact
which is pointed out by Mr.. Clark
that "The determination formed b,
]. Edward Addioks long ago to buy I
seat from Delaware IN the Unitet
States Senate has resulted in the mos
prolonged, open and audaoious attemp
TO debauch commonwealth which ha
ever been seen in the history of thi
nation, y ought, at the present moment
TO arouse such storm OF righteou
and patriotic public indignation as t.
oause this Spectator in gas stocks
to fear to show his dastardly fac
within the boundaries of the State
AZ we write this his slick, smootI
oountensnce lies before US, along witt
similar vissges Of his dspraved politica
lieuteEants, and We can we'll imagin
how AptIy tho following description
from the pen Of Mr.. Clark fitted tn
'checkbook statesman" bsforo he en-
gagsd in the industry of tamperin
with the right Of suffrage:
lie seems to have boon an excellev
type Of the drummer" as that Del
sonsge was known generation age
before he had been refined into th
commercial traveller Of today-a
individual bpbbling over with a
surance, hail-fellow- well-met wit
everybody, possessing ''gift OF gab
which won over conservatism, and
fund of impudence which finally in
pressed even those whom at first
ofIenae1-8 unique figure 10 our con
merciai life for the period durir
which he hourished.
1t was precisely this type of man wi
would adopt the means that he did
make money and later use his skilful
gotten gains to buy State. He quick
became 'wreoker" Of the first orde
sharp, shrewd and unsorupulous. Rel
what his New York biograrher furth
says of him:
The rising speculator operated
other cities, and sought charters
other States He became q well-kpoy
speculative figure in New York and
Brooklyn, in Philadelphia and
Chicago. He learned the characteristic
Of CITY aldermen and State Legislator
He employed lobbyists, he retain
lawyers, ne mastered all Of the wa
by which during the past quarter Of
century INSCRIPTIONS operators ha
: secured valuable franchises for a sor
de became convinced that oyery M
has his price. and that there "
nothing which one might not get IL
were willing TO pay enough for il.
was about dozen years ago that
conceived the idea Of buying a Senat
ship. Why his fancy took this bel
rather than that Of great raci
stable or the fastest yacht in the wor
nobody but himsalf can tell. The 81
aud solemn routine of proceedings
the Senate could not have fascinnt
him. Nor, even since the lowering
the standard of membership, could
have considered many Senators O,