Evening journal., 1905-03-27
Addicks Is Aasin Left.

From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
<lhe failure Of the Delaware Legisla-
sure to fill the seat in the United
states Senate vacated by DR.. Ball, at
the expiration Of his term on the 4th
Of this month, has not been unexpected.
At the beginning Of the session Of the
Delaware Legislature the threat was
made by the thick and thin followers
Of Addicks that If he should not be
elected nobody else would be. IL was
p repetition OF the same cry OF "Ad-
dicks or nobody" that had prevailed
when the first deadlock that the Leg
islature failed to break resulted IN an
empty seat
The only way by which this dog-in-
e-manger policy OF Addicks could
have been prevented again from work.
ing out this effect would have been
through a combination Of the Demo-
Gratis and the antl-Addicks or Regular
Republicans. But the Democrats have
steadily refused to have anything to
do with a Republican candidate and the
Regulars have been equally obstinate
in refusing to have anything to do with
a Democratic candidate. In this con-
dition Of affairs all that has been me-
cessary for Addicks to do has been to
hold together a small body OF his ad-
herents and thus make It impossible
for anyone else to obtain a majority.
or course, so far as the decent sem
Itlment Of the country at large is con-
cerned. there will be general satisfac-
ton that the outcome OF such an al
ternative as "Addicks or nobody" is
nobody. just as the unoccuped chair
OF Delaware In the Senate from 1901 TO
1903 gave credit and distinction to her
TO the extent that II represented his
failure TO compass and bear down the
honest forces in Delaware that were
opposed to his greedy and desperate
lambltion. SO Il win now have the same
lsienificance from 1905 TO 1907
But while Add'cks has again failed in
his inordlnate aspirations to break into
1.-THE Senate at any cost and although he
lis now az the age OF slxty-four, il will
mot do to assume that he will hence
forth abandon his attempts. So long
aH he has enough money left to hold to-
lgether the Union party concern he will
lbe pretty sure to keep up the old game
(which he has sworn TO follow while he
hives II will not be surprising there
fore, n he shall make another dash
for the Senatorsnip. although the con-
Editions which will prevail in the course
Of the next two years are likely to be
lmuch less favorable to him and his fac
ton than they have been in previous
years.
In the course OF his numerous cam
lpaigns Addicks has spent a fortune
lie has exhausted his ingenuity in ev-
cry trick or bargain by which II might
lbe possible to capture a majority of the
Delaware Legislature. Today he is nc
nearer the object of his frenzied system
Of politics than he was at the begin
ming. His enemies have succeeded II
baming him at every point. His name
has become a synonym throughout th'
country for mercenary and disreputabl'
lpolitlcs. He has gained absolutel,
nothing out OF II which can be Sc
down to his credit or from which h
can derive any particular personal sat.
llsfaction. While he has prevented
lanybody else from securing the Sena'
ltorship there is certainly no glory II
THAT. 1t looks on the whole as II II was
a good deal Of a fool game that Ad'
dicks has been carrying on these many
years so far as It concerns his own per
sonal interests. The people that seen
Ito have prohted most by It are tn'
lmain chance politicians who have takeE
his money. They have gotten the oys.
Ter and Addicks still has only the shell