Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-12
DELAWARE NEEDED
Queer Politics Played in the
Diamond State.
FACTIONAL TROUBLES
MAY LOSE THREE ELECTORAL
VOTES FOR REPUBLICANS.
Anti-Addicks Crowd Says Addicks
Must Garry Roosevelt is
Unable to Interfere.

The republican managers are not alto
gether satisfied with the outlook in Dela-
ware The diamond state has only tlEee
votes in the electoral college, but the re-
publicans don't want to lose them, and are
especially solicitous that they should not
be lost through a peculiar combination OF
circumstances for which the national party
is not responsible.
The trouble, it is said, grows largely out
of misapprehension of the Presidents at
titude toward Addicks. or perhaps from
determination on the part of the anti-Ad-
dicks people to punish the President for the
action of the national convention which
put him in nomina ton. 1t will be remem--
bered that at Chicago this year and at
Philadelphia four years age the party in
national convention assembled recognized
J. Edward Addicks and the delegates be-
hind him as representing the republican Or
ganization Of Delaware.
This years decision was regarded by
Colonel Dupont and other anti-AddickS
leaders in the nature of fnality, and
some of them have not hesitated to say:
LET Addcks carry the state, then" with
the suggestion, more or less openly
pressed, that he would have to do it with
out their help. simultaneously the Ad-
dicks people are storming Washington
with protests against the way federal Of
fcers in that state are allowed to oppose
| the Addicks organizati ton. The President is
thus attacked on both sides; by one of the
factions because of the decision of the ma
tional convention and by the other for his
personal attitude of resistance to the in
roads OF Addicksism in that state.
Before Mr.. Roosevelt became President
the national party leaders had become very
weary of the Delaware situation since it
| was depriving the republican party of two
votes in the Senate which it was justly en-
titled to. In Delaware the Addicks peo-
pie had the votes and the Dupont faction
the respectabilfty and conscience. In these
| circumstances it was very hard to effect a
compromise.
Addicks Recognized.
| Senator Hanna had sent letters under
| the direction of President Mckinley to a
| number of Delaware people letting it be
| known that the administration intended to
| recognize the Addicks faction by giving to
| it the federal Offices. President Mckinley
| wanted two republican senators. The Offices
| had begun to go to the Addicks' faction, in
reversal Of what had been President Nc
Kiniey's original policy, when his successor
| assumed the appointing power.
Mr.. Roosevelt devised plan of saving
| himself from having to recognize Addicks
as the preceding national convention had
done. He decided that as there We're no
Delaware senators, Lewis Heisler Ball.
then the republican representative in the
House. was the ranking republican from the
| state, and with him, an ardent anti-Addicks
| man, the President conferred on appoint
| ments. The collector of customs, named
| Houston, appointed on Balls recommenda-
| ton, was the editor of the leading anti
Addicks paper in the state. The only Ad-
dicks man whom President Roosevelt ap-
pointed was William Michael Byrne, who
| was made district attorney, and this ap-
pointment came about wholly without refer
| ence to his relations with Addicks. Byrne
| was an old friend of the Presidents and
| devoted nprSOnal adheranf n bo bad
gone to New York to stump the state for
| Roosevelt.
| Byrne afterward removed to New York
| city to take up the practice of law in
| larger field. The President appointed al
his successor John P. Nef1ds. who is
| young man said to be of the highest char
| acter, long identified with the anti-Addicks
| faction, recommended for the position al
| most unanimously by the bar of the state,
| and having the special personal indorsa-
| ment of George Gray. Both Neids and
| attitude of opposition to Addicks. They
| are the officers who stand before the people
| of the state for the federal administration.
When compromise was reached year
| and half ago, and Alice and Ball. repre-
| senting the two factions. were made sena
| tors. they adopted a plan for harmonious
| action regarding the minor appointments,
and this has been carried out by the Presi
| dent. The most serious disagreement which
| they had was in the district attorneyship,
and then the President decided for the can
| didate whom Ball, the anti-Addicks sena-
| tor, recommended.
A Glimpse at the Record.
This brief record shows that there has
not been any single appointment now held
| in the state OF Delaware which was made
| for Mr.. Addicks. Every single appoint
ment in which there was contest be-
| tween the factions-when the two present
| senator's have not been able to agree-has
been made for the anti-Addicks side, and
this includes all the prominent positions.
Some party men in other states have been
| very much displeased with Mr.. Roosevelts
1 resistance to Addicks, at the same time
1 that many Of his eastern opponents have
| assumed that he was yielding to the dis
| credited leader. The anti-Addicks people
/ are not exhibiting much loyalty at the
| present time to the republican national
| ticket, such is their absorption in the local
! fight, and the President has been seriously
criticised by party leaders in other states
I for not preventing Houston. for example,
/ who is the collector Of customs, from TAX
| ing the stump against Addicks. The Presi-
| dent is said to have felt that In the peculiar
condition OF affairs in Delaware he was un-
| willing to do what he should do in any other
| state in similar circumstances where,
public officer acted in such a manner. He
has refused to interfere in the facuonal
| quarrel in any way, simply stating that
/ to their official duties, and that the election
| In the state must take care Of itself.
| The practical question arises, who Is
going to carry Delaware for the republican
ticket this autumn? Is Addtcks going to
carry 1t, when the federal employees of the
administration which his supporters must
be asked to re-elect are openly hghting
him? Are the anti-Addicks people going to
carry the state when they claim to have
/ been badly. treated by the republican ma
tional cOnvention?S
ROUSSEAU oBsEQUIES.