Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-06
Retort to tho Statement Of
Addioks of Delaware.
WHAT OPPONENTS SAY
POWER IN THE STATE DECLARED
TO BE BROKEN.
It Is Asserted That He Will Never
Become Senator-His Charges
Contradicted.

WILMINGTON. DEL. September s.-There
| is apparently a general belief among regu-
lar and union republicans alike that the
statement made In Philadelphia last night
by J. Edward Addicls. perpetual candidate
for the senatorship and for seventeen years
the biggest political factor In the state. was
the swan song Of the Delaware boss.
When Addcks was first informed about
August l. by Senator Alice. who has been
Addcks' chief lieutenant in his many sena-
torial campaigns. that the union organiza-
ton would not again support his candidacy
and hereafter would act without regard to
his wishes, he found 1t hard to believe the
news. Senator Alice is chairman OF the
union state committee, and he told Mr..
Addtcks that the eighteen members OF that
organization were as a unit in indorsing the
stand taken by their chairman. But for
seventeen years Addicks had been the most
important factor in republican politics In
the state and he found 1t hard to believe
that he had finally been thrown overheard
for the sake OF party harmony.
Since his rupture with Alice, Addicks has
been doing some active campaigning
through the state In an effort to win back
the support of the country leaders, but has
met with slight success. The general i'm
preston Is that he will never again play
an important part in state politics.
Effect on State Politics.
The result of the severance upon the flu
ture politics of the state will undoubtedly
mean the merging of the two wings of the
party and the election of two republican
senators in 1907 If majority of the legis-
lature to be elected next fall Is of that
faith. This latter condition seems practi-.
cally assured. United. the republican party
in Delaware should have no trouble In max
ing clean sweep.
AS a matter of fact. the regular and union
factions combined on nearly all the Offices
last fall. selecting candidates in common
primaries and but for Addicks' persistency
in the contest before the legislature would
have elected a senator to succeed Ball,
whose term expired March T.
What the republicans of the state speak
OF as Addicks' swan song" was on Its face
simon pure defiance. In the interview in
question Mr.. Addicks is quoted as saying:
Il am sixty-four years old. but 1 am going
to the United States Senate from Della
ware"
In Wilmington, the stronghold Of regular
republicanism. this statement Is not taken
seriously. For seventeen years 1t Is pointed
out, Addtcks has been fighting for the SEN
atorial toga. He has been strong enough
to send his lieutenants to the upper house
or the national legislature, but never strong
enough to secure the prize for himself. And
the leaders OF the party in the state say
that he was never further from the United
otdtcS SENATE imam ne IS TO-DAY.
In his interview In Philadelphia last night
Mr. Addfcks spoke bitterly and sarcasti-
cally OF the act of his former lieutenant,
Senator Alice
Denunciation Of Alice.
There Is nothing" he said, "the people of
Delaware scorn and despise as much as they
do treachery. For the traitor there Is moth
ing but the contempt of all the people Of the
state Frank Alice has at last revealed him.
self in his true colors, but he will not know
the awful price he must pay for his treach-
cry to me until he goes out to face state
full of people, all of whom will despise him
for the traitor that he Isl
When I took up Frank Alice he was a
poor jeweler IN Dover" Mr.. Addicks con-
tinued. II gave him wealth. power and po-
sition. and now he pales before the posi-
blity of defeat and exposes himself for the
traitor that he is
"Alee's treachery is simple of explana-
ton to me-" he said. For two years and
more reports have been coming to me that
he intended to make himself Benedict
Arnold. 1 never paid any attention to them
until just recently"
Frank Alice never had the slightest claim
to the United States senatorship. l gave
him his seat in the Senate just as l gave
him his horses. his bank stock and his sill
yer inlaid hall piece. He was not quail
fed for the place, either. Intellectually OF
politically. and l gave 1t to him simply be-
1T was in these circumstances that Alice
went to Washington. He and his son get
81 200 year out of his senatorship, and
with the other relatives that he has landed
In federal places, the Alice family Is now
drawing about $4,000 a year out OF the gov
eminent treasury. Frank Alice and his rel
atives need that money. they need 1t to live
on. Alice cannot face the prospect. after
his term in the Senate ends, OF again be-
coming the poor Dover 5eweler.
nc.h>noa NooLad TYnV
Now Lea wants to go to the Senate from
Delaware, and he has cooked up this scheme
with Alice. Alice needs his senatorship for
the sake of the bread and butter he and his
relatives must have; and because he wants
to hang on to the $4,000 annually that the
Alice family Is drawing in salaries he made
his deal with Lea to throw me. hold on to
his own job and help land Lea as the other
senator from Delaware.
That's the explanation of it, the gas
man continued. This fellow who drives my
horses votes my bank stock and hangs his
hat on my s!lver-inlaid hatrack can't face
the possibility of losing his job, and turns
traitor In order TO hold on to a place to
which he was never entitled.
What thing 1t will be for him in the
Senate this winter Addicks continued,
speaking now with whitening sarcastic con-
tempt. When Alice went to Washington
to sit in the Senate chamber he went there
with my tag on him. Every man in the Sem
ate knew that Alice was there merely as
filler and through my generosity. He has
never been anything but filler since he
went there.
Next winter he must go back to Wash
inaton and walk in among the senator's
Every man with whom he comes In contact
will look at him, and, while he may not say
II out loud, he will think: There is Alice
the man who has tried to sell out Addicks'
Despised as he will be in Delaware, he will
be even more thoroughly despised in the
Senate chamber. which Is fielled with big
men. every one of whom knows just how
thoroughly God Almighty hates gutter
TITS sorry sight and an awful prospect
but Alice has only himself to blame He
didn't have the manly courage to be straight
and he Will have to pay the penalty for his
treachery. and 1t will be a penalty of de-
rision and contempt visited upon him
wherever he goes"
What Will be the effect of Allee's bolt
upon Delaware politics?" Mr.. Addicks was