The Topeka state journal., 1903-02-05
ADDIcKs THE UNIQUE.
His Peculiar Position Just Now in
Delaware.

Addicks has attracted the attention of
the whole country. and his name has
been coupled with all the injurious ex~
pressions in the dictionary. '7Corrup-
zionist" boss" bully" supstart' and
buyer of votes and legislatures are
few Of the milder epithets. There
ought to be an impression, if there isn't,
that that redoubtable financier and
statesman is covered with piratical
scowls and whiskefs. goes armed, swigs
nightly from the leather bottles.
smokes gunpowder and roars double
damns in d way to shake the steeples;
yet, they say he is a human sort of per-
son whose principal vanity is d nous
tache like a pair of wings; that he shud-
derS before a cocktail or a cold bottle,
that he neither smokes the weed nor
eats it, that he is tempera tie in most of
his virtues, giver of glad hands and
moderately attentive to business thar
keeps him in northern cities on many
days when he is supposed to be crack
ing the whip of authority about the
wincing legs of Deiaware-the state
where they still whip for wrong-doing.
They say, also, that, having achieved
a fortune in gas. Mr.. Addicks said to
himself: I am now a millionaire. Go
to- 1t is not enough I VIII be
ruler" And noticing the unprotected
condition OF Delaware, he hurried from
Boston and became lord of its hun
dreds- You have to stop here to have
it explained to you that, instead of
calling it a township, Delawareans call
1t a hundred. The name comes down
from Alfred the Great in whose days
the hundred families, or hundred
househOlderS, were a sort of political
unit, the fine for a crime being asses
Sed on the hundred among whom it Oc-
80 of the lot into policemen But there
are not police enough in Delaware to
keep people from voting for Addicks.
Nor is there a detective in the whole
state who mas discovered people taking
money for doing it.
The awfulness of De1awares corruption
grows more awful as you get away from
It. w hen you go through the state-it
doesn't take long-it isn't awful bit. 1t
is one of the United States, and consists
principally of grOunds but to read what is
said Of it one would surmise that it was
one of the provinces of hades and consist
ed mostly Of dishonest coin. It is a bash
ful state intruding public notice to
the extent Of only couple of thousand
square miles and a population of 1S5.000,
halls of its capital. you do not see printed
reminders like these on the walls: Pub
lie office is not a private snap Jones +
The senate's the most select club in
the country Lloyd. Some things can
be done as well as others. Patch
If the muse of history undertakes to
write the history of the twentieth CEN
tury her pan Will go smoothly over the
chapters relating to Bath-House Cough
lin, Hinlxy-Dink Kenna. Best Chief Ever
Devery and Patriot Ashbridge. but it
will spatter some when it comes TO the
biography of J. Edward Addicks. Other
men have had their hopes. their doubts
jail. others have written dramas that
entitled them to go to Jail: but Mr. Ad-
dicks is not only unique. but unreaeha-
Bile Nobody can be found who appears
to know more than few facts pertaining
to him, and if any Of these facts are de-
terrent to his advance they are exploited
for all they are worth--Broollyn Eagle.