Milford chronicle., 1905-09-15

F. published on Wednesday, September
Of otn' aud he was very bitter, as his ian
or guage will show. He said
,is ''There is nothing the people Of Della.
or ware scorn and despi,e as much as thew
"a DO treachery. For the traitor there is
p. nothing but the contempt of all the
people of the State.
=, Frank Alice has at last revealed
81 himself in his true colOrs; but he will
- not know the awful price he must pav
o Tor his treacherY to me until he gees
\ out to face Stateful of people, all of
\ whom will despise him for the traitor
that he is"
r 'Allee's treachery is sim pie ofexpla.
? nation to me-" he said. "For two Years
] and more reports have been coming TO
f me that he intended to make himself
Benedict Arnold. 1 never paid anv
attention to them until just recentlv.
he had been loyal and faithful as a
county and State chairman, and I had
never had reason to complain of his
fidelity. When these reports came to {
me put them aside, and refused TO {
believe them. Finally, a few months {
ago, these reports of Allee's determine.
ton to be a traitor became so insistent
and specific that made up my mind V
to smoke him out. A
II set about it deliberately. I have
kept away from Delaware, and have n
not been mixing in politics there.
wanted to give him all the rope he II
needed to hang himself with. l had pj
editorials printed in Wilmington and o.
Dover, all for the purpose of driving d.
him to show his hand. All this while
[ refused to believe the reports of his ho
my only object was to dis Sc
cover whether he was as two-faced as wi
.eople tC Id me he was. III,
1.-The game has been played out now. be,
md the world knows that J. Frank mo-
Allee is the traitor that / refused to .
elieve he could be. In smoking him mo
ut and in clearing the political atmos bee
here IN Delaware the newspapers have Re
me the only service I have ever nm
OF out of them. They have exposed hin
io 't@i'oI III lne camp and IN doing den
lat they have armed me for the fight. %
lat Will be more vigorous from now Sta
than it has ever been in the past.U and
"You say you can explain Allee's rino
7aeneiy' 'he reporter stated "What to Il
your explanation oft, Mr.. Addicks?n nav
'Its simple. "the gas man responded. riny
frank Alice never had the slightest Den
lim to the United States Senatorship. cans
ave nin ms seat IN the Senate just ava
l gave him his horses, his bank kim
ck and his silver inlaid hall.pieee. nubJ
was not qualified for the place uT
her Intellectually or politically, and cam.
gave it to him simply because the ,ion
~ ~ oueu niieI' that
1t was under these circumstances ct
It Alice went to Washington. He cans
his son get 81, 200 year out of his nartv
mp anu Win the other rela- be alb
. 'n"' ne haH iaHueu IN Federal tax.
'es ene Allee Iaihily Is now drawing fight
ut $4,000 year out of the govern. as 7
- 'ie"9ulS' success
Frank Alice and his relatives need paign
money, they need it to live on. whom
e cannot face the prospect, after the tn
-erm in the Senate ends, of again up $40
ming the poor Dover jeweler. Reput
md, then, there is Preston Lea. the pay th
ernor of Delaware. oaveTeotho 81 {
just as 1 gave Alice the ever d.
tOrship. The morning of the day oauch'
! Lea was made the connroro;so did wa
idate, 1 went into his bank, and planne
at down and had thorough un- the 81
anding. told him that proposed cratic
Ike him the Republican candidate made r
overnOr, and he consented to ae. Ole, an
he nomination. honest,
went from Lea's office to the room OHsis'
: we were trying to reach an agree.
with the Regulars as to the can =, az
:. Sitting there in that confer t' Iione''
with more than a dozen available "o'T =
'efore us, l tOppled this one over. --'' - -
1shed that one aside until only Eno,.,.
and then I seid to the -IGHI "AII
% 'ii'' u lucy were '"lslled selves t,
Lea We were ana IN M 'ent could hi
Tue canuluate. nay ends
W, Lea wants to go to the SeD&'e OF treacI
Delaware and he has cooked up old and
heme with Alice Alice needs tation, |
atorship for the sake Of the bread al goinl
litter he and his relatives must frcn Del
and because he wants to hang on GovEk Nc
Sl2, ,0O0 annually that the Alice 81
is drawing in salaries, he made Govern
with Lea to throw me, hold on ment den
wn job, and help land Lea as the dicks as
enator from Delaware. That's had any
lanafion Of II y tho ,,os ,,,c ~, 49,. a,,, Ii.