Evening journal., 1902-04-14

put together. Mr.. Addicks. in Kent
county, has some $500 negro votes and
1900 white votes Each OF these votes
outbalances five Of the. workingmen OF
Wilmington; and thus a minority follow
ing multiplied fvefold by these complex
conditions (Which il is no wonder an out
slider did not understandl. allows Mr..
Addicks TO pose rs leader of the
'masses;' but the pose deceiyes no one
here in Delaware.
As for the "aristocrais. it may be in
teresting 10 note that tne Delaware ave
nue. district OF Wilmington. the most
aristocratic spot in the state so TO speak
sent "A representative TO tile last Legis
lature who voted for Mr.. Addicks. No
show, however. how misleading surface
facts can be, it Is only necessary TO ex-
plain that the said representative was
elected on his pledge that he would Op
pose Mr. Addicks. He was an uphOl-
sterer, working by the day at the car
works (Which shows how aristocratic our
most aristocratic district is, and how OBJ
stinate is its failure to represent or uu-
derstand the massesl. and after he got To
Dover he voted for Mr.. Addicls. against
the indignant protest OF his cheated con-
stituents, explaining the change by tell
ing one of his friends that "he was tired
Of working all day with his mouth full of
tacks." Mr.. Addicks cannot buy the ma
loritX or the white voters but whenever
possible, he buys their representatives
and thus adds TO his popular strength. ="
lie knows no party lines. either. but buys
Republican and Democrat alike, as was
seen in the passage OF the infamous
Voters Assistant Bill. OF which &c. b.
). says that ''the Addicks supporters
gothelp from outside their own ranks. 8"
Ihis Is true, and yet misleading until
more facts are added. Farlow, the Dem
ocratic State Senator who helped to vote
it through, had been. as Delawareans re-
member, corrupted by Addicks at the pre-
ylous session, and nearly tarred and
feathered in consequence by his cOnstit-
uents, while his colleagues read him out
OF the party. He held over Though re-
election would have been impOssiblel and
voted, of course, with AddcSs again. But
this would not be explained by Mr.. Ad-
dlckss chief agent-and, by the way, DR.
Caleb Rodney Layton, Of Dover, is dis
tinctly an aristOcrat in town circles, and
not i'm the least one Of the under classes.
The situation. then, in brief, is this.
Mr.. Addicks has some 5000 negro votes
and some 5000 or 1000 white votes in an
electorate Of over Al 600 His minority
vote, obtained by open bribery in the two
sparsely settled rural counties. Overbal-
ances large majority of white voters
against him in the most populous andin-
dustri0us part of the State-rral New
Castle and the city OF Wilmington. We
know that &C. b. s." writes out OF al
genuine sympathy with popular democ-
racy, and yet that very sympathy mis-
leads him when he quotes apprOvingly
the remark that "nine out Of ton OF The
masses are violent personal partisans OF
Addicks." If that were so, allowing one
thousand ''aristOcrats" TO Delaware
(which is more than she ever had or ever
will have, then Mr.. Addicks ought TO
control twelve thousand white votes at
the very least, which, added to the ne
groes. would give him the unQuestioned
supremacy of the State Instead Of this,
he has not one-third of the white vote of
his party; and his assumption that he is
a majority candidate imposes ON no one
in Delaware.
A Native Dcawarean.
Wilmington, Del.