Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-07-11
WILMINGTON. THURSDAY, JULY n
Addichs Republicans Arc Scared.


From Every Evening. July sth.
Ii is really amusing to note the fut-
ter of commotion that has spread blind
staggers among the Addicks organs
since the publication in Every Evening
OF the Dover, correspondence in which
was detailed the scheme to fill the two
senatorial vacancies by throwing MIR.
Addicks aside and giving the two
Offices to Gov. Hum and some other
Republican =, not Mr.. Addicks-who
might be deemed worthy to be made the
governors colleague The Addicks
organs hardly know what to do. Their
obligations to Mr.. Addicks naturally
incite them to the pretense of loyalty
to his interests-as matter Of earning
their pay, in fsot-and yet there is
manifest an eager desire to be on the
winning side should the deal happen to
be successfully contaminated.
One of the most blatant and serv;le
Of the Addioks organs, the Dover State
Sentinel, gives column Of space to
frantic endesvor to prove that the re-
ported scheme is but Authorization -
lin the mind of Every Evening. We
beg to assure our disturbed contem-
porary, however, that it is nothing Of
the kind. Every Evening knew moth
Ing of the affair until it received the
letter of its correspondent, which seems
10 have thrown CONSERVATION into the
Addioks camp. But, for all that the
State Sentinel claims that the scheme
lie merely "halluoination, - ii proceeds
to denounce it most Indignantly, and
brands as slow, grovelling ingrates''
any UIion Republicans who would even
think of taking the senatorships to the
exclusion of Mr.. Addicks And then
II advances this desperate bluff:
Another fact is, that whenever Mr..
Addicks fails to have majority OF the
votes of the Republican members of
the General Assembly, then and not till
then will Mr.. Addicks retire as candi-
date, in SO far, at least, as the people are
concerned; and SO long as he continues
to represent a decisive majority thereof
Just 30 long will there be no Senator
elected unless he be one of them, This
can be called "Addioks or nobody'' If
il pleases anyone to do it. 1t il far
better to have nobody than that an at
tempt to foist minority rule upon th.
people Of Delaware should succeed.
Tbs question involved is not this man
or that mans candidacy, but whether a
majority in this State shall rule or bs
ruled.
Here's richness, indeed. MIR, Ad-
dicks, we are informed, by inference.
may retire from the senatorial coates,
when he fails to have majority OF
the votes of the Republican members
CT The General Assembly And
yet, at the session OF 1895, when
he started with six and ended with
cnly four of the nineteen Republican
members OF the General Assembly, be
held bis little coterie to himself firmly
to the last. thereby preventing an cleo.
ton and creating vacancy which was
filled two years later by the election Of
Democrat This IS the real ''Ad-
dicks or nobody policy, - which was in.
lugursted in 1895 and continued in 1896
ard 1901.
In some circles, the alleged Hmm
Layton combination to fill the senator
ships to the exclusion Of Mr.. Addick.
is looked upon as really an Addick,
scheme. disguised. 1t is claimed that
notwithstanding the Plan comprises tn,
signed pledges of enough Republican
members to elect two Senators, one q
whom shall not be Mr. Addicks, tn,
special session, II called, would witnes.
determined effort to make Mr.. Addick,
one of the Senators, despite the pledges
This, however, would offer no prospec
OF success unless it could secure tb,
co-opsration of some Democratic mem
bers, contingency too remote to b,
seriously considered. Another sugges
ton is that the pledge might be carried
out by electing to one of the senatorial
vacancies some ''stool pigeon'' who
would promptly resign SO that MIR
Addicks might be appointed by Gov
HUM, or by Lieut.. Gov. Cannon. i,
the event that Gov. HUM should b,
elected to one Of the senatorships
This arrangement, also, is highly i'm
probable. In the first place, the ..atoo
pigeon could not be compelled to re
sign, and might decide to stiok; an,
in the second place, MrAddick's term
under such circumstances, would con
tinue only until the next session Of tn
Legislature, aud the prize, therefore
could be Of too precarious a nature Z
warrant any great expenditure OF none,
end effort tn aecura IL 49,
1t may be accepted az truth, therefore
that whatever there is in the allegel
Humiliation scheme for filing the tw
vacant senatorships comprises the alb
solute elimination of Addicks. N
wonder that some of lis followers ar
scared and his newspaper organs in
delIrious state Of wobbling uncertainty
There 10 mystery in the disappear
anee OF Edward b. Windsor, the youn
man who SO hrutally murdered hi
father at Milford, that makes il Ia
cumbent upon the officers of the la,
to explain II they can. There ar
county. conetables, as well as tow
officers, in Milford, and sheriff of tn
county, to say nothing of the Stat
deteotise, who seems to be making
Debated Investigation nearly wee
after the comroission of the crime. Fu
a murderer to escape, almost anpareptl
without effort under the eyes OF tbj
array of officers of the law is stronpl
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