Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-12

| with favor on it. He quotes one man
who said that there was a lot of money
about since Addicks took hand, and it
had been great help to the farmers.
Tho Il democrat himself, he thought
that when a man spent money as Adj
dicks did he was entitled to the office.
So much has been spent in rural COM
munities, where money is scarce ana
offers such temptations to farmers and
others of respectable standing, that
public sentiment is utterly demoral-
lied Mr.. KEENAN, quotes farmers
wife saying to a husband who objected
to selling his vote Il can't see why
you talk like that. why shouldn't you
sell it? We need the money bad enough.
Other people sell theirs, and l don't see
that they're thought any the worse of.
You're not the first man that's done it.
Look at the men who have taken Adj
dicks money. and see where some of
them are now" A great many people
have come to feel like the German of
Camden. Kent county, who sold the
votes Of himself and two sons. Hold
ing up the money as he passed an ac-
quaintance on the street, he said, sig
nficantly: 1t would take good many
drops of sweat to make that seventy
five dollars"
The prevalence of this feeling does
not seem strange when the size of the
corruption fund is considered. Mr..
KEENAN, says that Caleb r. Layton, one
of Addicks' chief lieutenants, told a
prominent lawyer in Georgetown that
Addicks had spent 100000 in Delaware
in campaign years alone. Others of Mr..
Remnants statements follow: In 1894
Addicks gave the Sussex county conf
nittee $1,000 for an election precinct
containing only $50 votes. Last fall. in
Kent and Sussex counties, Addicks
spent $4,000, some of which stuck to
the hands of middlemen, tho not less
than $4,000 reached the voters and
bought 1000 or 5000 of the $4,000 votes
cast in the counties. Just before the
last election two whole series Gives and
tens) of crisp, new, consecutively num-
bered notes of the Merchants National
Bank of Boston were distributed to Adj
dicks workers in Kent and Sussex, and
Immediately after election the shops Of
the two counties were flooded with
them. Within week the First Ma
tional Bank of Dover was holding near
~ $4,000 of these new bills. The num-
bers of the bills showed their distribu
ton from common source, and their
range in that and other banks indicat-
ed the spreading of not less than 500
600 over Kent county. Expenditure on
a similar scale in this state would mean
a corruption fund of S2000000 used not
for preliminary campaign work. but
sent into the districts on the eve OF
election. Bribery on such scale was
never before known in this country.
Even If Addcks could get to the senate
it ought to make his reception there
impossible.
Mr.. KEENAN, also gives an account of
Addicks' republicanism, which. If nos
new, is useful at time when party
loyalty is invoked to prevent nom
partisan combination to beat him.
Congressman Ball. who had opposed
Addicks, was tricked into coming TO
New York to conference. In it Adj
dicks offered to make him one of the
senators If he would give up his oppo-
sition. He declined. The result, as de-
scribed by Mr. KEENAN,. was:
"Addicks then became irrltated in
won't? All right! I'm going to reiteratc
now what / said years ago: I'm either
going to be senator or I'll sink the re-
publican party in Delaware 10000 faith
oms deep!"
CA man who talks in that way re-
joined Ball, hotly, is no republican,!
Such speeches, and action in accord
ance with such speeches, have kept you
out of the United States senate thus
far. and will keep you out always He
then took his hat, left the room and re-
turned that night to Wilmington
by the terms of the compromise
agreement between the union republic
cans and the regulars. made in 1900.
DR.. Ball was equitably entitled to re-
election as the congressional represen-
tative from the Delaware district; but
when he refused to make the deal sug-
gested by Addicks the latter determine
ed to punish him for his obstilacy,
and therefore put up United States Dis
trict Attorney Byrne to defeat him.The
result Of Byrne's nomination on the I'M
ion republican ticket was the election
of democratic congressman; but, as
one of Mr.. Addick's lieutenants after
Ball whatever happened: we preferred
a democrat to him." Byrne resigned
the office of United States District At
torney, and thus became the instru-
ment of Addicks vengeance, and when
he had been defeated by the democratic
candidate he, was re-appointed TO his
old place. 1t is not improbable that
Blyne really expected to be selected:
but, whether he did or not, Addicks
seems to have used him as means of
furnishing a man against whom as he
admitted he had nothing personally,
but with whom he had failed to make
corrupt deal.
Il have cited this case as a charac-
teristic illustration of one of the many
and varied methods by which Mr.. Adj
dicks endeavors ito secure the help or
support of men to whom he dares not
offer cash. He knew that he could not
buy Dr. Ball, but he thought he might
tempt him with the United States SEN
atorship. He held the temptation in
one hand and club in the other, and
when he failed to entrap he smote."
Mr.. KEENAN, reminds us that Addicks
first made this declaration that he
would be senator or sink the republican
party in Delaware 10000 fathoms deep
in a telegram to Senator Washburn, of
Minnesota, shortly after the adjourn
ment of the Delaware legislature in
May, 1895. 1t is impossible to see how
any honest republican should hesitate
about preferring an honest democrat
in the senate to such a political pirate.