Evening journal., 1902-07-15

tuition had been adopted increasing the
number of members of the JOINT session
of the Legislature from thirty to fifty
two. OF the fifty-two UhirtyO-one
were Republicans and eighteen were
Union Republicans or Addicks men.
The thirteen others voted solidly
against him to the end of the session.
They went into the Legislature upon
the Addicks issue. which has for twelve
years been the paramount issuein Deb
aware. and they never wavered, but
kept their promises in spite of fortunes
alleged to have been held out before
them. Addicks managed to get three
Democrats to vote for him. but he
never managed to get one of the thir-
teen Republicans.
1t is a matter of record that on the
day they voted for Addicks the three
Democrats had to be escorted out of the
State House by policemen to save Them
from lynching After that there were
no more defections from the ranks of
the Democrats. The session closed, and
one seat from Delaware was vacant.
In 1900 Addicks prevailed upon the
Republican National Convention to seat
his delegation from Delaware, and to
make him National Committeeman
| Thus he secured the cloak of regularity,
but it brought him no comfort. That
I fall he landed twenty-five out of twen-
ty-nine Republicans in the Legislature,
and as kenney's term was about to ex-
pire there were two seats to fill
Addicks tried to trade with the op-
posing Republican faction to elect him
and one Of their choice. They refused,
as they have always pefused, to deal
with him. Then he offered to trade
with the Democrats. to elect him and
a Democrat They spurned his offer.
The Democrats and the Republicans
opposing Addicks might have COM
bined to elect one Democrat and one
Republican other than Addicks. and
this matter was seriously considered
nut President Mckinley and Senator
Hanna, to whom the proposition was re-
ierred, disapprOved it.
They demanded that two Republican
senators should be elected. and the op-
posing Republicans were told that the
Administration would not be sorry to
see Addicks as one Of them. But SEN
ator Hanna had not properly sized I'D
the men who had sworn never to vote
for Addicks. The proposed deal for
one Republican and one Democrat was
the only deal that could ever have been
made. and it was not allowed. The re-
suit was two seats from Delaware va
cant They are still vacant, and Della
ware has but one Representative in the
lower house.
i have only fairly got interested"
This was Addicks statement when he
was asked if he would continue the
struggle after his third defeat. So he
IS firing up his old machine again. and
again has it climbing to the top of the
precipice. 1t may tumble of again. but
unless the Democrats carry the State il
is not likely that Addicks will again 20
down.
He has colonized too. His system has
been to become interested in trolley
building and other construction works.
ana to hire negro voters to do the
work This is done in close districts
and in Kent and Sussex counties there
are already threats that there will be
race war if the game is played too
openly.
over and over again, during the past
Six months has Addicks made al yances
to the opposing Republican factions.
He has proposed a joint State Conven-
tion, harmonious primary, and finally
( an out-and-Out deal to make him short
| term senator and some man of the op-
posing side the lOng-term man. There
has been one answer to these PROPOSE
tions I'VE win not have anything to
do with Addicks."
Addicks is at a disadvantage in one
very important particular-he has on
his side no men of high reputation or
OF considerable power. Secretary OF
State Layton and State Senator J.
/ Frank Alice are his principal lieuten-
ants. and they are the only men of the
slightest Importance who are with him.
Layton is a physician and a dabbleI
in politics. Alice is a man swept uI
on the crest of a wave, and for the mo-
ment he lies exposed on the beach
Very soon he will either be buried il
the sanu or carried back to sea He ha.
neither power nor prestige, but is fol
the nOnce the favorite Of Addicks.
On the other hand, all the notable
? men OF Delaware are fighting Addicks
They resent his intrusion, despise hi.
. motives. and scorn him for his meth
DDS. They are fighting for the peace
honor and dignity OF the State; fight
} ing to keep clean the record Of the
t Commonwealth in the annals of the
e Union, and fighting to save themselves
5 their children. and their neighbor
from the degradation of having to b.
s represented in the worlds greatest leg
e islative body by a bargaining politician
s who has no real interest in the State
e and who cares nothing for it except t.
s disrupt It,
4 These are such men as Colonel Henr.
r A. DUPONT. General James II. Wilson
D leX-Senatcr Higgins, lawyer Samuel Nj
(. Knox, George A. Elliott, Henry j
Thompson. Willard Salisbury, an
b. others. who are OF "the Blue Hens
o lchickens and who hold dear the loft,
e traditions of the Diamond State.
o G. II. c.
tthat nublicitv would be made In abOtl