Evening journal., 1903-02-05
STORY OBJ
ADDICKS CORRUPTION
Continued FROM TIrat Page).

the new crisp bills In their hands. In
Camden, Kent county, FOR example, the
cashiers office was a small empty
building familiar TO everybody in the
community. one hundred and thirty
negroes. who had voted the Union Re-
publican ticket went from the polls TO
that building on election day, and some
of them as they returned dropped into
stores with the money In their hands.
and holding IL out for inspection. said
to the clerks: Say, boss, is dis yere
counterfeit The crispness and new
ness OF the unworn and increased
notes excited their suspicion and led
them 60 fear that the bills had been
manufactured for election purposes
only.
| In Georgetown. Sussex county the
office OF the Addicks cashier was In "a
well-known general store on the main
street OF the town. The business of
paying for Union Republican votes was
carried on there 80 openly as to become
a public scandal. Justice Boyce, Of the
Delaware Supreme Court, happened to
u pass the place on election day; saw ne
groes coming out with money in their
hands; and was 40 filled with indigna-
tion that he went TO the Office OF ex-
Attorney General Richards and asked
whether the thing could not be stopped.
Mr.. Richards said that he thought
Judge Boyce would be fully justified In
raidlng the place personally. The judge
thereupon went back to this store,
burst In on the Addicks men, and said
Indignantly: Gentlemen, this is dis
/. graceful It's scandalousl You'd better
b stop III" The cashiers office was then
moved to the house Of a negro IN a
comparatively remote part of the town.
The buying of votes throughout
southern Delaware, IN last falls cleo
ton, was so open and SO notorious that
the local Addiclxs men did not think it
worth while to make a secret OF 1t, and
/ the figures that ] am about TO quote
We're I'm most cases, given by them 10
personal friends or intimate associates
among the Democrats and Regulars In
the Camden precinct OF the Seventh
representative district of Kent county
the chief Addicks worker whose name
/ have, bought more than 200 voters
Il including 1870 negroes out OF the 13i
:. who We're registered. The market price
e of votes I'm the morning was SIS. but II
' advanced TO S25 later I'm the day. Fly,
thousand dollars were sent there hur'
rledly IN the afternoon, as specia
emergency fund with which TO bu,
votes for j. Frank Alice, the Addickl
= candidate for state senator I'm tn,
Third senatorial district. when Il wa,
found that he was running behind II
Dover. The emergency fund savet
him, but he had only ninety eight plu.
e rality. In the first precinct of tn,
Ninth representative district OF Ken
county 175 Union Republican votes
were paid for out of 225. and IN tn,
Fifth representative district Of tn,
same county the Addicks workers
= bought SO votes at $50 apiece, anC
about 100 votes (of negroes) at 81
q apiece.
In the Second precinct of the Secon,
representative district OF Sussex count!
Northwest Fork hundred) the Addlclx
men spent between $4,000 and $4,000
and bought SO7 OF their 40l votes II
the northern part OF Nanticoke hun
dred, Sussex county. they polled 10
votes OF which 40 votes We're pur
chased In the First representativ
, district OF Sussex county Cedar Creel
=. hundred) they bought more than hal
al their voters including 25S negroes ou
Sc OF $50. In the Dagsboro hundred, Sus
be sex county. all of the Union Republican
sc votes were bought except 16. Their
~ lre said to be less than 80 unpurchas
IN able votes I'm the whole Dagsboro hun
in dred In the Fifth representative dis
e. trict OF Sussex county Qittle cree
hundred) the AddiclSs workers sper
$500 and bought 4O7 votes. In IN
Fourth representative district of IN
? same county they spent S4.500 an
bought 24O votes, as shown by the
list
sss se@
- In 1894. for example. Mr.. Addicks, {
~ an agent acting in his behalf, put int
II the hands OF two workers in Gun
boro, Sussex county, the sum
Id $4,000 TO be used in buying votes. tn
n workers stole most Of the money, an
IL the election district went Democrat
by sc majority, although the corruI
ton fund of the Democrats was on
$275. II is common practice, further
more, among Addicks workers to bu
4. negro votes at the rate of S5 or s.
apiece, turn them In TO Addicks at Il
rate of SIS or $50 apiece. and the
pock t the difference between the re
price paid and the listed price. Again
fraud of this kind Mr.. Addicks,
course, has no protection. There ms
be 'honor among thieves:" but honl
u does not seem to be a characteristic
men who are hired to buy votes
Delaware; and although the employ