The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-06

nounced the candidacy of Addicks, whereupon the latter shook hands with everybody within reach. The visit and It's incidents must have been exploited by a most clever press agent, for the next day the entire country read all about it at the breakfast table, and be- fore the day was over both Delaware and the rest of the country were ea- gerly asking. Who is Addicksr'
 It wasn't long before the same clever press agent let all the world into the secret of Addick's identity. Not much was done toward pushing him for the Senate that year. The one vote in the Legislature which he was said to con troi was cast for Higgins. and the lat ter was elected.
 But when the next vacancy in the United States Senate from Delaware came along J. Edward Addicks came with it. Meantime he had become a legal and actual resident of Delaware; had interested in his game a clever jeweler of Dover, J. Frank Alice by name, and now himself a United States Senator. and they two had planned an elaborate campaign.
 From that time till last March Ad- dicks has had little Delaware in almost continuous uproar. He began by pay ing the back poll taxes of lot of vot- CTS disfranchised by reason of theii non- payment. of the same. When cleo. tion came around they all, as a matter of course. voted for those Legislative candidates who were pledged to support him for the Senatorship.
 Most of the Addicks work that year and, in fact, all through the long con test, was waged in Kent and Sussex the lower counties of the State. New castle County, in which Delaware's only city. Wilmington. Is located. was ap- parently not thought good ground for the Addicks propaganda.
 Nobody outside of Delaware can have any idea of the intensity of the Addicks contest for the Senatorship. Sundry glimpses were gained by the whole country from time to time as the fight went on, however, like lurid lightning g flashes from behind a murky cloud, when correspondents of various news papers and periodicals. ranging in prom thence from that enjoyed by such men as George Kennan, who first exposed the horrors of Russia's prisons, to that of the $25-aweek reporter, were sent by their managing editors to report and investigate.
 The tales these writers told and the differences they drew were shocking to the uninitiated and those who dislike to think evil of their fellows They in cluded tall yarns about the banking in a single day by thousands of individual depositors of whole series of crisp new national bank notes from Boston. They included accounts of the unexpected rise to comparative financial ease of voters who had been chronically broke" for ye6rs.
 None of them, however, was quite so hatfooted and direct as the charming romance of the suit cases full of money told last fall by Mir Lawson in his eel ebrated "Frenzied Finance" articles. Lawson boldly declared that bales of currency were taken to Delaware to further the Addicks cause, and added that plot which failed was q scheme to get away with the money. This part of the stocy was denied, but no legal actiln was brought to disprove 1t, and the details don't matter.
 In 1894 Addicks was pitted against Du Pont, the powder manufacturer. No- body was elected, and from that time till 1903 Delaware was without her full representation in the Senate-part of the time without any Senator at all. The matter became a national scandal. At St. Louis in 1896 1t was carried to the floor of the Republican National Convention, where recognition was re- fused to the Addicks delegation and a
 
 the Addicks supporters.
 That same year. through the division of the Republican press" the Demo- crats elected K. B. Kenney to the Sem ate. One day in 1898 Addicks came within five votes of winning when the Legislature was in joint session. amid cries of Traitor! Traitor" Lynch himw But he wasn't elected. In 1901 and 1903 the fight was just about as lat fn n day of the compromise, Addicks had 21 votes out of the 52 votes on joint ballot, the Democrats 21 and the regular" Re- publicans 10.
 It IS doubtful whether the compro- mise which was effected on March 2. 1903, by which Alice. Addicks's mana ger, and Frank Ball, a regular" Re- publican, were elected. would have come at all, had not a man distinguish ed above most In his party's counsels intervened and begged the Republicans of Delaware to get together and "do something;" but he dId. and the scandal was apparently brought to an end.
 Last year, however, Mir. Addicks came to the front again, determined, as of old, either to be chosen a Senator him self or to prevent any one securing the place As in 1894. his opponent was Du Point. the powder man, and also as in 1894, the contest wound up, on March 23 of this year, with this decla- ration by the President of the Senate at the end of the legislative session:
 "A majority of votes not having been cast for any candidate for United States Senator. I hereby declare the position still vacant"
 It is not believed that Addicks will ever renew the fight His long drawn out contest has given the cynicaIly minded much comfort, but its outcome, though unconscionably delayed. must he taken as proof that at least in Dela1