Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-02-09

men stuck To him. but he was not
elected. But after the session ended
Addicks is declared TO have gone to
one of the leaders of the fight against
him and said holly:
"'You have robbed me of SIS 600
AT the same time Addicks sent a
telegram to Senator Washburn, of
Minnesota. saying:
II made Delaware republican. If
the republican party is the party of
treachery, l will bury it 10000 faith
oms deep
In 1896, 1898, 1900 and 1902 Addicks
has made the same fight Ii is declar-
ed that he has spent from $4,000 to
S130,OO0 in each campaign. and that
together he has spent since 1899 more
| than $1.O00,000 in his efforts to secure
a place in the upper branch of con-
gress. After his last defeat, in 1901,
he declared; Il shall be a candidate
for the United States senate as long
as l live. or until | am elected Today.
after thirteen years of persistent eff
fort. he is apparently as far from his
desire as ever. The Delaware legis-
lature is hopelessly deadlocked for
the fourth time. Addicks has 81 votes.
| He has been unable to find more.
Thursday he withdrew from the con-
test. conditionally, but his followers
| continued to vote for him, and the
regular republicans refuse so far to
accept his proposal fora joint caucus,
a majority to elect. two candi-
dates for the senate. Today at Dover
| the regular republican leaders de-
nounced his letter of withdrawal as a
trick. by which he expects to secure
the election of two of his followers
to the senate, and then to compel one
of them to resign in his favor
George Remnants article in this
weeks Outlook. already referred to.
outlines some of the many proofs of
the manner in which Addicks has
spent money in an effort to secure
majority in the Legislature. Mr.. Ken
nan says in part:
Two or three days before the No.
vember election Mr.. Addicks or some
body acting in his interest brought in
to the state of Delaware two whole
series (fves and tens) of crisp new
consecutively numbered notes of the
Merchants National bank of Boston
and distributed them among the union
republican workers in all the election
districts of Kent and Sussex counties
Prior to Nov. l there was not "a
single new. unworn bill of that bank
in all the southern part of Delaware,
but five days later the two lower
counties were flooded with them.
'On the day after election G. W.
Lord. a well-known hardware mer-
chant of Dover, took in over his coun-
ter in the ordinary course of business
twenty-eght of these bills all of the
denomination of So. and before the
end of the week the First National
bank of Dover was holding nearly So
900 in this particular kind of curren-
cy. all crisp, new s. and $40 notes.
that had never been creased or that
had been folded only once. More
than month after election ! myself
Iobtained in Dover a lot of $40 notes
of this bank. whose numbers ran
from 33,4l4 to "a .691, showing that the
sum of S12.77O had been used. and
through the hands of single bust
ness man in Milford. there passed
notes whose highest and lowest. num-
berS indicated the distribution on
election day of more than $4,000. \
man in whose sources of information
have perfect confidence informed me
that no less than $4,000 in crisp, new
bills of the Merchants National bank
of Boston. went into the banks of
Kent county alone Immediately after
the November election. An equal. if
not greater amount. wa undoubtedly
distributed in Sussex county. and
thousands of dollars passed from
hand to hand without getting into the
banks of deposit at all.
That these notes of the Merchants
National banI. of Boston were paid
into the stores and banks of Kent
county by union republican voters
there is not the shadow of doubt. In
Dover, in Camden, in Georgetown
in Dagsboro. in Bridgeville. and in
many other towns and villages OF
southern Delaware the pay Offices OF
Addicks' cashiers were perfectly wei
known. and scores of men were seen
going to them from the polls ano
coming out of them with new, crisE
bills in their hands.
I'm Camden, Kent county, for eX.
ample. the cashiers Office was small
empty, building. One hundred and
thirty negroes who voted the union
republican ticket went from the polls
to that building on election day. and
some of them as they returned drop
ped into the stores with the money
in their hands. and holding it out fol
inspection said to the clerks, Say
boss, is dis yere counterfeit?' The
crispness and newness of the I'M
; worn and increased notes excited
their SuSDiciOO and led them to fear
that the bills had been manufacture
ed for election purposes only.
I'm Georgetown. Sussex county, the
office oflAddicks' cashier was in wei
known general store on Main street
The business of paying for union re
{ publican votes was carried on there sc
openly as to become public scandal
: Justice Boyce, of the Delaware su.