The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-21
ADDlCKS GIVES
Up LONG c I |GH|.1.
Delewarc to Have Fill Represen-
tation III Senate Alter
Many Years.
THE STRUGGLE VERY BITE
Suggested, However, That Gas
Man May Have String Tied
sr,,,tto Offer.
THE STRUGGLE VERY BITE
fspcclal to The 1,imes-D ispatch,)

4 "a
DOVER. DEL, May 2o-For the first
\ time in many years Delaware now seems
4 In a fair way to have her full quota OF
representation in the United States sen.
\ ate, and q bitter, long drawn-out ana
shameful factional war appears to be
IS at an end.
The senatorial fight In Delaware. pre-
cipitated by j. Edward Addicks, has
/. never been duplicated in any other State
( OF the Union. and the disgrace of 1t VIII
long cause Delaware to bow her head IN
Il humiliation.
Governor Lea will issue n call on Mon
day for n special session OF the Leglsla-
Z ture for the purpose Of filling the vacancy
which now exists in the Senate.
This action will he taken as the result
4 Of decision reached Friday night and
4 Saturday by the followers Of 4Addicks and
Senator Alice, that they would go into
caucus with the regular Republicans, and
that they would abide by the decision,
whatever It might DO.
There can be little doubt that Colonel
H. a. dupont will be the man elected He
which. as the result Of deaths since the
! last Legislature, will give him ma
jorty,
sss Fight Twenty Years Old.
The history Of the outrageous fractional
fight in Delaware has been written time
and again IN newspapers. magazines and
even books. It began nearly twenty years
ago when Addicks, the Gas Man, descend-
ed upon the Diamond State as suddenly
and unexpectedly as an epidemic of chol-
era, and announced that he was going to
the Senate from Delaware.
It was not until 1894 that he succeeded
In creating a deadlock. which left one OF
isthc two seats vacant. From 1900 to 1902.
there was no senator at al from Della
ware, and since that time there has been
4 one senator j, Frank Alice.
The whole country has looked on aghnst
at the temerity of a man who has dared
to rob sovereign State Of its proper
representation in the upper branch Of
have the honor himself 1t is an example
( of unparalleled seishness and of long
J, continued political tyranny.
81 But now Addicks has surrendered and
The first time in nearly two decades. adj,
q nlits that despite the power Of his money,
4 he Is beaten. He gives as his reason for
2faVoring the calling OF an &extraordinary
y session OF the Legislature, pressure from
Washington and the fear that the State
n would go Democratic,
"And then" he said. call my work
would have gone for nothing
( Similar reasons are supposed to nave
prompted the change Of attitude Of Sen
ator Alice and Caleb r. Layton, who
have hitherto held the ground that It was
impossible impracticable and unwise TO
force the Republican senator's INTO filling
this vacancy at this time, or the Very
oeYe Of a general election combat with
hostile and wel-organIzcd Democrats.
% An hddicks Trick?
Especial to The Times Dispatch.)
DOVER. DEL. May e0.Like Red
Saunders dog, United States Senator J.
Frank Alice Is searching his soul for
sounds to tell how scared he Is The an
5nouncement made In Philadelphia Friday
night by j. Edward Addicks to the
effect that he is ready to efface himself
as a senatorial aspirant and that he has
written to his political lleutenants urging
them to enter into an agreement for
q, special session Of the Legislature 10
elect United States senator. has cut
Allees feet. He is face to face with
situation that means his speedy eHtinc-
ton as political factor, and he Is
forced TO realize that Addicks, the man
who made him and the man whom he
betrayed, has at last found way to be
revenged.
The reason for all this. is that II
special session Of tho Legislature Is
called now and Colonel H. "a dupont
As elected EHited States senator by the
laid of Addlcks. some sort Of bargain
34ion of Adhcks as the successor Of Alice
tat the regular session, beginning on
January 1st Hxt. Thus Addicks mag.
unanimous de,la;sa uort' that he has given
I'm his dream OF the Senate hns string
to #; but for all that the willy old gas
mar has worked trick that Is pretty
rertain to put Alice out of business. al