The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1903-09-12
TROUBLES in DELAWARE.

three small counties fOrSOOk the Dem
ocratic party to which, during most Of
the first century Of it's existence. it
unfalteringly entrusted the affairs Of
it's government, it has been tossed and
buffetted about in the whirligig of
politics, a prey of it's own folly and q
disgrace among the states. Until the
last ten years Delaware was an order
ly, conservative and thorough-going
community. About ten years ago j.
Edward Addicks came upon the scene
He is the most bare-faced corruption
list Of whom we have any knowledge.
Tweed asked the good people Of New
York "what they were going to do
about it, when he was confronted
with the evidence of political corrup-
ton. Addicks has told the country
that the procuring Of a seat in the
United States Senate was business
proposition, that he wanted to go to
the Senate, that he had the money
and proposed to get there. He started
out by buying up votes, and has sue
ceeded in prostituting the electorate of
the state. Negroes of the poorer class
from adjoining states have been
brought into Delaware in large num-
bers, so as to overturn the natural
Democratic majority and constitute a
Republican majority. Addicks has
succeeded in electing several Repub-
lican legislatures, but fortunately
there has always been a few Repub-
lican members who refused to vote
for Addicks for the Senate. Last
winter two Republican senators were
elected after the state had been with
out representation in the Senate for
years. One of these senators, Alice by
name, is the personal representative
of Addicks, while Senator Ball repre-
scnts the wing of the Republican party
which refused to support Addicks.
1t seems that one Of the stipulations
entered into by the warning Republic
can factions when the compromise was
effected which allowed Addicks to
send Alice to the Senate, was that
Addicks was to dictate the federal APP
pointments in Kent and Sussex coun-
ties. while Senator Ball was to die
tate those in New Castle county. Sen
ator Alice says this arrangement was
enforced by written agreement,
''signed, sealed and delivered" AT
Greenwood in the county Of Sussex,
until recently Miss Huldah Todd was
postmaster. Her position was wanted
by an Addicks henchman, and she has
been removed This matter, small in
ITSELF has created political scnsa-
ton in Delaware. The Evening Post,
commenting on the case, says:
"Miss Todd had been appointed
served four years, and reapponted
more than year ago. 1t was con.
ceded, therefore, that she had vet
three years to serve before she could
be supplanted by the appointment of
some one else. But Senator Alice
could not wait three years, as he dc,
sired the office for one of his political
henchmen. Therefore, he had Miss
Todd removed. She refused to be sup.
planted without an explanation, and
| carried her case i'll person before
Postmaster General Payne. Then it
was that the postmaster general made
the humiliating admission that she
had been removed simply because she
was particularly and personally OBJ.
noiNous to Senator Alice" She forced
the question as to whether there were
any complaints of her administration
Of the Office, and wrung from the
acknowledgement the reluctant adj
mission that her official record was
free from blemish. Then she retired
from the fight, content with the fact
that she had nothing to answer for
so far as her administration of the
Office was concerned.
"While ordinarily the removal of
Miss Todd to make room for Union
Republican party worker would have
made no impress upon the political
situation in this state, under the cir