The sun., 1901-02-15

lay, said.
Now, Every Evening contended ut the
time, and still contends, that acting
Iiov. Watson, us Il member of the Sen-
ate, and filling the office of governor only
by virtue Of his position as
Speaker of the Senate, had an undoubted
regal right to 20 into that joint session
and vote for United States Senator
whenever he chose to do 50. But this
act upon his part was not responsible
for the vacancy. That act was the result
of the four Republican members who
voted for Addicks, ut his dictation, to the
very end, and thus prevented constitu-
tional majority of the Legislature voting
for Colonel du pont.
The act of these four men was the act |
Of Addicks, and he so acted solely be-
cause he could not be elected himself, |
And because he could not be elected |
Senator, he deliberately created va
cancy TO be filled by Democrat
We didn't dispute acting governor
Watson's right TO do as he did; we
merely asserted that he did certain
thing which resulted i'll the defeat OF
Colonel du pont, and which Every Even
standing its former allegation that Mr..
.iddicks had defeated Colonel du Pont.
rhe fact of the case is that when Mr..
.Addicks' friends i'll the legislature had
been beaten and the election of some
other Republican was imminent, acting
governor Watson, after consultation
with his Democratic friends, decided TO
resume his seat in the State Senate i'll
| order to defeat the election of Repub-
lican to the United States Senate. That
is just what he did, Every Evening con-
fesses it and attempts to dodge the re-
sponsbility by saying that he had
right TO do it. That we concede, his
right, and hold to this one essential fact,
he did it.
Now what We're the circumstances!
Senator Watson had not taken part in
the deliberations of the Senate since he
had assumed to exercise the office Of
Governor, and with him absent, and
apparently permanently so, the joint
iconvention Of the House and Senate in
cludcd only % members, of whom 10
were Republicans, four of whom were
voting for Mr.. Addicks, and Is for other
candidates; the fifteen had agreed TO
vote for Colonel du Pont, giving him the
[ t,,a ,,;t of +ba INF -
80 members; and that is just the way
he vote Of the Republican members of
the Legislature stood on the last bal
lot--Mr. Addicks 4, Colonel du Pont Is
when Mr.. Watson voted with his Demo
cratic colleagues increasing their vote
TO eleven aud leaving Colonel du pont
one vote short of the necessary majority
. Of the convention. Now it is evident
that If Mr.. Watson had not interfered il
, the voting Of that last joint convention
IT the legislature III 1895, Colonel du Pom
. would have been elected fact tha
forces the conclusion that Mr.. Watson
' vote, increasing the Democratic vote, de
| lraltl the lblDIel.
3 What folly, III the face Of these facts
:. that are beyond dispute, 70 say that MI
: AddickS defeated Colonel du Pont in 1S9
Il and left vacancy to be filled by
{ Democrat But what Is more foolish
i the last paragraph which we quott
and which seems like positive proof q
= the mental arrangement 10 which "
. called attention few days ago. W
!. quote il again:
The act Of these four men was til
act Of .Nddicks, and he so acted solel
x brcauSe he could not be elected hin
self And because he could not be elcc
i I'd Senator, he deliberately created Il V;
cancy To be filled by Democrat"
How was it possible for Mr.. Addick
who was not member Of the Legisl
:, iurc. to do what the four members
n question Were required 70 DO, and whit
: no one else could do? And if Mr.. \
~ lirkS did it, why does Every EyeniI
4 ay tho four inrn did il: Or if the fol
~ ,nsn did it. a~ Every Evening declar,
Is. Why. in the same breath, does il 81
Mr.. Arlliclis did il? Every Evening
vc self contradictions make its fulminato
by about the "crime of SO" absurd.
~ The whole issue Of that controyrr
IT, hung upon acting Governor Watson
Nv act. npon his having resumed his e
uy in the State Senate, voting rs a Senat'
clt ana whether Id had legal right 10
c"- what be did. His vote alone was
Y. mcStinn, is there waS no doubt about t
eh right of the ''fonr men, or Of any Of t
Of other fifteen Republicans aud ten De
~" ocrats. q vote ~ they did.
tou Acting Governor Watson's Dcmocra
'"E vote III the State Senateof 1895, sustain
a by Democratic United States Sena
,rD prevented Colonel In Points election
a<t the United States Senate from De
onk ware.
Iun Tie election Of Democrat in Is
,"d. to the vacancy Watson caused in Is
uu- was made possible hy the Dcmocr;
ar theft of the State. aided by Colonel
M Points friends, in 1ss6-the genisrs
.lmt Development If the crime Of '9j.
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.nn- IhySio=nmny. nor vet 10 personal
had ncnrnrcn 'Thara .ra mental troifS i,