Evening journal., 1903-02-11
ADDICKS NOT RESIDENT
OF DELAWARE WHEN HE
LAUNCHED HIS BOOM
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were always good.
His next step was 20 get legal counsel
to advise and help him i'm the matter
Of the Bay State Gas charter. Select
ing one of the most eminent lawyers in
the Statehe called at the latters office
introduced himself as j. Edward Ad-
dicks and said: Mr. D-, am inter-
ested in a number of matters in Della
ware with regard to which / may need
legal advice. and l have called upon you
for the purpose Of retaining you as my
leading counsel i'm this State. wish to
say to you, at the outset, that the fees
youll get from me will amount to more
than all the rest of your business put
together"
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A careful perusal Of the proposed
charter convinced Mr.. D. that it
was thoroughly bad in form and in pur-
pose, and when Mr.. Addicks called upon
him again, few days later. he said to
the latter: Il don't want to have any
thing to do with this charter. Mr.. Ad-
dicks, for the reason that it seems to
me improper inconsistent with the
public welfare, and opposed to what
regard as a sound public policy. .
.. Mr. Addicks shortly afterward
endeavOred to secure the professional
services Of another eminent lawyer in
Dover, who is we'll known both in and
out Of the State. This attempt also
failed and so far as l have been able
TO ascertain, it was not until 1898 or
1894 that he succeeded in retaining as
counsel a man in the first rank oflthe
legal profession. Mr.. Herbert II. Ward,
the present Attorney General of Della
ware acted for him i'm the divorce suit
Instituted by Mrs Addicks, on statutory
grounds in 1894 and has since been
his counsel in the Bay State Gas cases.
Mr.. Addicks probably had little ex-
pectation of being elected to the Senate
in 1889. His first contribution
o "a campaign fund was made in 1890,
when, IL is alleged, he gave the sum of
$4,000 to the Kent County Democratic
Committee, with the understanding
that the Democrats, or some Of them,
should help him with his Bay State Gas
charter.
The Legislature to be elected in 1890
would not have a United States sem
atorship to dispose of, so there was no
particular object in trying to obtain
control Of it; but in 1892 Mr.. Addicks
made one OF his Enthusiastically
adroit attempts to get hold of the Re
publican nominees to the Legislature
from Sussex county by giving them
money for their campaign expenses. A
well-known citizen of Wilmington.
Nhom Mr.. Addicks had already secured
went down into Sussex county that fall
With satchel containing ten thousand
dollars or more in cash. one senator
ana seven representatives, were to be
elected to the House of Assembly from
Sussex county that year; and to every
one Of these eight Republican nominees
the agent of Mr. Addicks Of
fered the sum of $1,000 for personal
campaign expenses. All but
three Of the candidates took the cash
and used it-for legitimate purposes. /
sincerely trustl Three of them con-
sented TO take it, but refused to spend
sented to take il, but re-
fused to spend it, and event.
ually turned IL into the general county
fund. one of the three, whom / shall
call Mr.. L., gave his thousand dol
lars to the chairman of the Republican
County Committee, in the presence of
witnesses, and took "a receipt for it,.
some months later. after the election,
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Mr.. Layton and Mr.. Alice i'm the office
of the fourth assistant Postmaster Cen
eral in Washington. AS the Delaware
trio left the room, Mr.. Addicks turned
to Nir L. and said, loudly enough
for all to hear: l., you'd better
send me your check for that thousand
dollars of mine." This was to give Mr..
Bristow and others who pere present
/ q laf
taken thousand dollar bribe from Mr.
Addicks and had then refused TO de
liver the goods" or return the money
How much Mr.. Addicks spent i'm bri-
berry and vote buying i'm 1892 cannot
with certainty be stated; but such in
formation as 1 have been able to get
taken in connection with semi-publiC
statement made by him personally il
1894. indicates that the sum was not
less than $4,000. This amount, more
over. does not include $4,000 used IN
setting through the Legislature his Ba,
state Gas charter In 1894 he told 3
prominent Republican politician O
Sussex county, in whom he had conf
dence, that it had cost him $4,000 e
get that charter, but that he had clean
ed up S2,O00.00O in the Boston ga
IDEAL" Precisely I'm what way the twen
ty-five thousand dollars had been use
he did not explain.
o
In 1894, however, there were NANTES
signs OF a reaction in favor of the Re
publican party, and Mr.. Addicls, seein
that there was an excellent prospect q
again getting a Republican majority i
the Legislature, determined TO use
very considerable part of the none
cleared up I'm the Boston gas deal"
securing the election of legislators VIII
would vote for him as United State
senator
one of the first things that he az
: tempted TO do was to get. as chairma
OF the Republican committees in Ker
r and Sussex counties, influential and eS
=. rcrienced men. who might be truste
to put his money where il would do III
most good. Upon looking over his 'in
ventory" for that year he found th
name of a man i'm the southern part
the state who had had some politics
Experience and training, but who wa
poor. and who at that particular tim
was rather hard pressed for none
with which TO educate his three son