Evening journal., 1902-11-19
|ADD|CKS' CASH
HIS ONLY POWER
Long Reviews of the Gasman
Case and His Absurd
Contention
|MAGNATE DID NOT CHANGE POLITICS

NA6hAlt DlU hUl CHANGt PUllllCSI
former United States Senator Thinks
That President Roosevelt Has Made
a Severe Mistake--Possible Results
OF His Recognition
Former Senator Anthony Higgins
has issued a statement in which he
gives his opinion of Addicks and a re-
view of Addicks part in Delaware poll
s tics
He repudiates the assertion that his
election 10 the United States Senate
s was secured through the personal in
fluence Of Addicks, and denounces as
absurd Addicks' contention that to the
latter is due the change N Delaware
politics He says that in his opinion
President Roosevelt made grave mis-
: take in recognizing Addicks, and ayers
that if Addicks lost his money he
would at once cease to be a factor in
Delaware politics.
The statement in part follows:
my attention has already been
brought to Mr. Addicks' interview in
he World, and, though reluctant to
break the rule, | have adopted since
I leaving public life Of keeping out of
print, l feel compelled to say some
> thing for publication in respect of this
stalements and misstatements of Mr.
Addicks in this interview, particularly
hs he bases his Eruption into Delaware
politics upon its lack of adequate Or
ganizatiOn at the time when / was in
direction of the affairs of the Republi-
ean parity of the State
Mr.. Addicks' movement was not a
popular reform movement, as he al
Ieges, but simply and solely on his part,
1ne TO make himself United States sem
ator. Mr. Addicks harps on his old
heme when he says: In 1889 the Leg
q slatme elected Mr.. Higgins to the
.United States Senate by a majority of
one vote. 1t was due to my personal
influence that Stath Senator Moore cast
his vote
Addicks a ided Democrats
"In that campaign Mr.. Addicks part
was to contribute, according to his own
confession, $4,000 to the Democratic
fund of Kent county. He says he come
nto parity activity in 1899 10 ray taxes
and furnish organization in place OF
iisorgapization. The fact is that he
was brought into our affairs but short
before the election Of 1892, after our
axes had been fully paid and thor
Dugh organization of the parity in the
state had been made. Aftc- the taxes
had been paid and a party had been
organized, he came into snatch for him
self the result, hoping to succeed to
Senator's Gray's seat, then becoming
vacant. But this arrangement was
made with him while Senator Frye was
;himping the three counties, and at the
ime Major Mckinley made his speech
n Wilmington, and also while
throughout the country affairs were
turned hopefully towards the Republic
,ans, and before the Cleveland wave
hat set in from ten days to two weeks
before the election swept over the
country engulled Delaware and carried
AN three counties by a small Demo-
cratic majority amounting to but little
over 500 in the State. For what was
favorable IN this result, Addicks was
lnly in the least degres responsible.
"Mr. Addicks claim that this vital
result to which is due the repeal OF the
ak qualification for voting and the dis
.ranchisement worked upon the h-pub-
lean party Hereunder was due TO the
part he took in the campaign is sim
Jly preposterous. Delaware changed its
majority because of popular convic-
ion. sharing fully in the like change
han appeared in Maryland, New Jer-
ey, Pennsylvania and all over the
ountry. 1t is a malevolent libel on
he State to say that it was due TO pur-
hase; it is simply false to say that ii
was due to any organization for which
Addicks was responsible. His friends
ontrolled the organization in Kent
bounty and they lost the county in 1894
he organization in New Castle county
md Sussex county, for which l was re-
ponsibe, carried both of them.
"In 1896 Mr.. Addicks carried nomi-
nal majority OF the Republican State
convention to send delegates to the
National Convention at St Louis. The
National Convention. because of his
avish use Of money at the primaries,
efused to scat Addicks' delegates or tc
ecognl.ze his organization. Thereupon
le proceeded to form new and schis
natic party, and being required by thu
tatute of Delaware to give a name il
order to get its ticket upon the ballot
le called it the Union Republican
PARTY. and thus resulted through Ad
iicks' participation, not only two fac
ions of Republicans in the State, bu
wo parties with different names anC
With different organization. That con
ition has remained until today. II
ent Senator Kenney. a Democrat. tC
8he Senate for four years. II has other
Msise kept Delaware unrepresented in
Hhe United States Senate to this day
M elected Tunnel governor Of the Stat
hi 1896 for four years. and sent MIR
HANDY to the lower house of Congress
fr. Addicks deliberately refused tC
4lace upon his ticket the Republican
,amlas for the Constitutional Conven