New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-11
IS Mr.. ADDICKS DOWN AND OUT?I
JNDTC ATOMS THAT HE Has GIVEN UP HOPE or
CAPTURING THE DELAWARE SENATORSHIP.

tive head OF the Du Pont family and, Incl
dentaIly, a cousin OF Mayor Tom L. johnson.
not unknown to political history. with whom 7.
Coleman Du Pont received his early training
was raised" as he phrases il. Du Pont has
been in Delaware four years but he describes
himself frankly having only been on earth
politically for six months" He achieved po-
Iitical birth at the last State convention. when
he succeeded in bringing peace out of turmoil
and victory out OF defeat by uniting the Addicks
and regular factions. The election OF Demo-
cratic State ticket and legislature seemed in
evitable until Du Pont brought the two factions
together first to talk business" and then to DO
business" or course, the election of Demo
cratic legislature and State ticket would elm
Inate the Republican party in Delaware for a
decade. for the first bill passed by the new
Democratic legislature would be grandfather"
act, DISTINGUISHING the negroes of Delaware.
This has ever been the hardest element In the
fight Of the men who, while loyal Republicans,
were opposed to Addicks. 1t has served to keep
the party lines intact.
When 7. Coleman Du Pont brought about a
compromise by deity suggesting that the regu-
lars name half a dozen acceptable candidates
and the Addicks people select one of Them there
were regulars that walked out Of the conven-
tion men like Henry B. Thompson. who op-
James H. Wilson, who have fired upon every
white flag that the enemy had sent suggesting
an armistice But T. Coleman Du Pont car
ried with him that great band Of regulars, who
are correctly denominated the want to win
bunch" This party acknowledged ex-senator
Anthony Higgins leader until Du Pont ap-
peared. The stalwarts who stuck to their guns
kept their regular candidate in the field and
gave him Just 800 votes.
It was this compromise that elected Preston
Lea Governor, and Governor-elect Lea Is by
utilization an anti-Addicks Republican. Now,
the question that interested Delaware was about
the terms of the bargin. Governor-elect Lea
seemed to have been selected by the Addcks
people with suspicious readiness, and men Won
dered what agreement had been reached with
Senator ]. Frank Alice and Uncle Gale Lay
ton Presently 1t was reported that Governor
Lea had agreed TO reappoint Layton Secretary
of State This evoked denial that was more
prompt than convincing. If Layton should be
appointed, all Delaware would believe that there
was an understanding. Indeed. they would read
in it the end of Mr.. Addicks. Something like
the same result will be achieved If Walter H.
Hayes a Wilmington lawyer, also inside the
Addicks camp, who had no small share In the
selection of Preston Lea, lands the job. only
the naming OF an out and out Stalwart Regular
Will actually allay suspicion, and the general
belief is that Layton will be appointed, since he
is satisfactory TO all the Addicks followers.
When the legislature meets Mr.. Addickss
name will appear yet once more. He Will lead
the list Of asprants: but IL his "bar'F is empty,
Mr. Addicks Will presently learn that his friends
can no longer keep the boys together" Then,
IL Layton is taken care of, the prize will not
impossby go to Colonel Henry A. Du Pont,
who came near enough to it years ago to carry
the fight to the Senate, or. more possibly. to T.
Coleman Du Font, "everybody's friend" poll
ticaI pupil with Tom L. Johnson in earlier days,
the man whose political birth is so recent that
he has had no share in the ten years Of bitter
ness. But If Uncle Gale" has not been pro-
vided for, he may go to Washington himself,
thus shutting the Senate doors against Mr..
Addicks for four more years. and In all proba-
bility forever; but all concede that Layton
would prefer to stay in his present berth, where
another term would make him Independent, so
large are the official fees. The day his "bar'r'
runs dry Mr.. Addicks's doom is sealed In the
opinion Of political wiseacres. he has already
ceased to be a monetary factor. and his political
securities in Delaware are once more on the
market, but behind him Mr.. Addicks leaves
legacy SO limitless and enduring that his de-
parture raises not a cheer-a legacy unweakened
by the removal Of Addicks
So much has been written of Delaware cor
ruption in the past that It is hard to find In the
story of the latest election details unlike those
that have been so often told. But it is not in
incidents, but in the actual tone and moral at
titude. of lower Delaware that the final seal of
Addickssm is to be recognized. A few days
ago there met in a hotel lobby in Dover a half
dozen school teachers of Kent County who
came to attend an educational conference. They
were representative teachers: they were met
to consider problems of education but between
lectures they discussed politics. and their con-
versation was indicative Of the relation of the
school to the political world
We'll, we had the State for thirty years"
began a Democratic teacher in the Delaware
dialect, which is ininitable Then we got to
quarrelling among ourselves. and Mr. Addicks
cams down and put up the money and then the
Republicans carried the State, but we had the
constitution and we stayed on"
You mean you stole the State" suggested
second. who showed signs of the Addicks per-
suasion.
81 mean we stayed on" was the answer
tinged with mock dignity
How many regulars have you got in your
Hundredp' the Democrat asked blandlv
I'VE used to have thirty-eight back in the
time OF the rural free delivery. We only have
four now. and one is coming over to US. You
Democrats carried our Hundred by only four
this time and one of niggers was chal-
lenged. He was registered under one name and
tried to vote under another, and of course he
couldn't. which was pretty hard after our pay
ing to get him registered. Then there was a
Democrat who worked for a hostler, and when
he lost his Job he left town. When he came
back 10 vote on Election Day I challenged him
for oP but+
Democrat and he swore in his vote and this 20
the oath he gave him