The times., 1901-03-11
ADDICKS AND .DELAW ARE.
The Deadlock Lenves the state
SOiceless I'm the senate.

Inc Deadlock Leaves the state
Soiceless I'm the senate.
DOVER, Del. March I0.-A long and
memorable struggle ended here Friday.
and one from which important results
may flow. j. Edward Addcks, 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 fight
in it's constitutional aspects. Addicks has
merely succeeded in giving the country an
illustration of the possible workings at its
worst of the present method OF electinS
| UuiJed States Senators.
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 (RepD, Gray Dem.)
52d Congress. Higgins tRep). Gray tDem.)
o5d Congress ........ Higgins (Rep) Gray tDem.)
54th congress, Vacancy; Gray (Dein)
both Congress. zee. .Kenney (Dem.), Gray tDem.)
both Congress. s............ .kenney tDem.}, 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 un-
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
ernor's appointment. The Constitution is
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terms, but the officers of the Senate have
decided that ne is entitled to remain until
the Nebraska Legislature either elects
somebody in his place or adjourns 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, eX-
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 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 small fund
which a man named Knowles, afterward
Consul at Bordeaux, iudiciously employed
in selected districts of the southern
counties Of the State As a 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 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 70 send 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 ii, but instead of
giving Higgins another term, Mr.. Ad-
dicks got in his work, and there was
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 f'ifty-fourth and
through the Fiftv-fifth and Fifty-siXth
expired on March I, 1893. the Republicans
We're again in control of the State, but
were unable to elect a 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. 1889 when the Republicans had
carried the Legislature which eventually
elected Higgins. He had just returned
from Europe, but claimed TO be Della
warian and to have 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 champlOned reforms in
the Legislature and, if accounts may be
did much to relieve the reputed
of poverty among individual
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 10 the story they tell here, how
much they need in their respective dis
tricts: they get any reasonable sum, and
this il is believed, finds it's way around
to the individual voters. In these circum-
stances il seems to 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 Censured in many quarters.
The population 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 |
counties 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 soCiolOgi- |
,aI study worth going miles to see. Four |
lr five thousand people come in there to |
amp for three or four days certain |
big Thursday being the climax. They
.ome for recreation and sOciability, and |
lot for camp-meeting, grange. or other
purposes. Bare-footed men.
,ftentimes far advanced in sfe. dance on
/ raised wooden platform till they almost |
all i'm exhaustion. Young men march
about with their best girls, each man
arrying a whip with which To attack any
ival who attempts to challenge his rights.
cree fights become plentiful.
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