New-York tribune., 1903-02-09
"HOLDTNG UP Il STATE. >
George Remnants Expose Of the Al
Ieeed Corruption Of Dela1ca,e.

s m sa sshorzsd sha t. exPerd s Of Mr. de
IN an and T ago ' p layton told
pronent in Gsorgetqwim that up 70 fnai hsd
spent 1000 in Delaware in Sampagn year eeetio
Two or three days before oeboSv ahe acting in his
interest brought into the state of Delaware 1.-TWO Two
w90a Te5 nBeTed and notes no Of e S
tiona Bank of Boston and distributed them i hmjns
districts of Kent and Sussex counties Prior to
bill of that bank in ali Southern Delaware; but five
days later the lower counties were T0odea WIN
we'll known hardware merchant of Dover. took in
s TIVE % o these the b all
nation of five dollars and before the enc OF bod Ide
ing nearly 0oo n this pa rticuar kind currency;
all crisp new five and ten dollar mot notes dn thaf on1 nd4
Although the numbers Of these notes We're We're
that two whole series had been used and that tine the
notes whose numbers were missing IN one snGGp G
another: More than month after the election /
myself @ 96ned IN D9TeG hers It Ta0 0r from rel T to 81
$751; showing the of s12,77o and through the
passed notes Whose highest and lowest numbers in
dcated the distribution on Election Dar OF tn9re in
formation have perfect confidence Informed @ m me
Merchants National Bank of Boston went into the
hanks of Kent County alone immediately tsr aitsI
amount am Was undoubtedly distributed in sqssex
and Of n d9abs s ef depot at
all If the cashier of the Merchants National
the check or checks upon which these new. con-
SeSu S wond be f9 nsed
think IN Ming an Information u4der seG SeG'1f brns
ing somebody before the Superior Court of New
castle County for trial on the charge Of vote buf
purify the political atmosphere Of the state and i
dicks from the field Of Delaware politics will
not undertake 10 say where he would go, put ne
That these notes OF the Merchants National
Bank Of Boston We're paid into the stores yoer ana
there is not the shadow of a doubt In Dover; IN
Se and N in many other towns ard vlages
Southern Delaware the pay Sces OF the n
men were seen going to them from the i polls ii,s a2G m
fds f6er Rands 1ds Oh In meg camden Kent County
ample the cashiers office was small empty oulia.
hundred and thirty negroes who rad voted o9ls me ne
that building Election Day. and some Of them en-
they returned, dropped into stores with tn the m
spection In said to the Clerks Say BOSS is dis yere
counterfeit" The crspness and newness @ Of the the
picion. and led them to fear that the bills had
In Georgetown sussex County, the office of the
Addicks cashier was in a well known general store
paying for Union Republican votes was carried on
ce hsH 50 0Pe 0Pse Of the to eeWsre coa
happened to pass the place on ELECTION Day saw
was so filed With Indignation that he went to the
office Of ex-Attorney General Richards and asked
whether the thing could not be stopped. Mr..
Richards said that he thought Judge Boyce would
S m fully HAY in adng 5 tb back Place fe s aors
burst in the Addicks men and said indignantly;
Y5d befter 'te atop IS it, TSe eashers Office was
then moved to the house of negro in compara-
lively remote part of the town.
The buying Of votes throughout Southern Della
notorious m that the the local ASdicks men did not think
It worth while to make secret Of it. and M the fig
given BY them to personal friends end or intimate "a asTo S
District Of Kent County the chief add Addlcka J5o
voters including 1870 negroes out of the 134 who
R ST. but it ff to aer in IN the
day: Five thousand dollars was sent there hur-
fund with which to buy votes for ]. Frank Alice.
the Addcks candidate for State Senator in the lid
running behind in Dover. The emergency fund
First Precinct of the xth Representative District
Of Kent County is Union Republican @ votes were
District let Of Of the he same s county Vt the Addicks workers
f geerSe sf SO q aece ae ana ABOUT ~
IN the Second Precinct of the I'D Repressntative
ee s @ tne sG Hoeb ns S Of fbe @ IN the
County. they po1led 1SS votes. of which 80 votes
trlct Of Sussex County Cedar Creek Hundred they
bought more than half their voters, including 25s
Sussex County ali of the Union Republican votes
q bought S vdeTf in aFf bs saa Whole % b
boro Hundred In the Nth Representative District
Gddeks WORKERS spent s57o and bought aG7 votes
In the IVth Representative District of the same
county they spent $500 and bought $40 votes, as
shown by their list.
/ might continue this enumeration of votes bought
Southern Delaware if there were any necessity
for doing; but statistics make monotonous read
think TO sustain and justify my general charge.
4 prominent Union Republican leader told citizen
as we'll as throughout Delaware, that Mr.. Addcks
spent III Kent and Sussex counties in the cam
paign of 1902 less than Sl5001. This included.
! presume the cost OF MAINTAINING and running ms
have to be paid year for their services; the
'nfiuence OF locally prominent @ men has to be
Of money given TO local managers for the purchase
of votes nisappropriated or embezzled In
in his behalf put into the hands of two workers in
Csumboro. Sussex County. the sum of $1,000 to be
used in buying votes. The workers stole most Of
the money, and the election district went Demo
cratic So majority, although the corruption
fund of the Democrats was only $E75 It is q
common practice. Furthermore. among Addicks
turn them in to Addcks at the rate of Sl5 or
$50 apiece and then pocket the difference between
fraud Of this kind Mr. Addicks. of course. has no
protection There may be honor among thieves,
but honor does not seem to be characteristic OF
men who are hired to buy votes in Delaware; and
although the employer may know that he is being
robbed he cannot prosecute the robber without ad
mitting that he himself Is particeps crirnins. Dr.
among the Addcks workers in Sussex County there
was nobody whom he could trust with money. They
all stole. ...,
or enbezzled. and for the expense Of running the
Delaware machine Mr.. Addcks probably spent
not less than SS0GG0 in Kent and Sussex counties
last fail in the corruption of the electorate. and
bought seven eieht thousand of the 13,no0 votes
polled for his legislative candidates
BOSTON BANK SENT NOTES SOUTH.