The Washington times., 1905-05-22
ADD|CKS PERSISTS
IN STANDING PAT
Comes to Town and Denies
Any Delaware Deal.
PARTY DEFEAT IF He QUIT
Determined to End Malicious Comment,
He Orders Filing of a Libel
Suit for 100000
PARTY DEFEAT IF He QUIT

j. Edward Addicks. the busy man of
Delaware is in Washington on a short
business trip. He hadn't been here
long this morning when he denied with
utmost emphasis that he had agreed
upon a political truce with Col Henry
~ Dupont, leader of the Regular Re
nslblicans, by which both should with
draw from their long deadlock over the
United States Senatorship. The report
printed this morning was to the effect
that Senator Alice and Gen. T. c.. Du-
pont would be agreed upon as the two
Senators from the Diamond State
Their is absolutely nothing in it,
said Mr. Addicks to The Times. Della
ware was Democratic when l took hold
Of politics there and 1t is Republican
now. II win be Democratic again if 1
let go. Reports like the one printed to-
day are inspired elsewhere-they do not
ceme from Dover at all
Tired of Misrepresentation.
Mr.. Addicks. in addition to his political
denial, had a very positive announce
ment to make about himself and his af-
fairs. He said he was determined to
put a stop to malicious gossip reflect
ing on him in the newspapers, and that
az evidence of this determination had
teIegraphed his Philadelphia attorney
this morning to institute libel suit
!. against Philadelphia morning paper,
claiming damages in the sum of 100000.
1t seems some people aren't satisfied
unless they are always saying some
thing derogatory about Addieks,'' said
the Delaware man to The Times. There
are certain papers which appear TO take
delight III attacking me on every pos
sibie pretense, and even when there is
no pretense One New York paper used
TO do it. until I personally informed the
owner that I would make him prove
his statements, and then the paper let
up.
Here is what a Philadelphia paper
said about me yesterday. There isn't
a word of truth IN 1t. and I have in
structed my lawyer to enter suit for
100000 damages for libel. I have deter
mined it's necessary to make an ex-
ample Read what it says
Explains Dispatch.
Mr.. Addicks drew from his pocket a
clipping which read as follows:
Execution on Addicks Note-Judg-
merat Was Given Originally to Bay State
Gas Receiver.-(Special Telegram-)-I
Wilmington. May 56-In the Office of the
prcthonotary of this county Mrs. Ida
Shaw has entered execution on a judg-
nent for $50, 600 given by J. Edward Ad-
dicks. The judgment and bond were
originally given to George Wharton
Pepper. the receiver of the Bay State
Gas Company, IN payment of sum
ordered returned in payment for stock
of the company sold by Addicks.
In explanation MIR. Addicks said the
bond had merely been recorded in addi-
ton TO the mortgage, and that the
terITing of that action as execution
was malicious n2issstatemeIlt calculat-
cd 10 inJure him N rhe eyes OF the pub.
lie. He declared the article only one OF
q number recently put into circulation
in the same manner.
Has Legal Basis Now.
Most of the other stories have just
been gossip and the source hard to dis
cover In this case. however. I have
the proper legal basis for pressing a
suit for damages. A court record has
been twisted about in a manner cal
culated TO injure me and I am going TO
force the thing To issue.
Some time ago the papers published
a story that an execution for a large
amount had been issued against Mr..
1Addicks' yacht Why. L own no yacht
and never have. Some years ago I char
tered for one month the yacht Ilderim,
and that was all the basis there was
for the story.
Politics Just the Same.
There is no change IN the political
situation in Delaware, he said. The
Union Republicans had made their last
play when Senator Alice offered to re-
sign If the Regular Republicans would
agree to elect the leaders of the two
factions-Dupont and Addicks-to the
two seats III the Senate. The Regulars
had refused and things political are
now quiescent until the State election
a year from November.
Mr. Addicks referred to Dupont as
the perennial candidate" winch is the
appellation his political opponents have
always bestowed upon Addicks himself.
He is as clipper and. active as II he
had not spent a decade and Il half in
the quest of the Senatorship. He said
he was always ready TO play tennis
with the best OF his political friends or
foes, if they wanted a test of endurance
TO show who was best fitted physically
for undertaking the burdens of pub
lie life as the representative OF
sovereign State.