The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-15
DOWN AND OUT.


 at least temporarily. and 1t is to be hoped for all time. If Addicks can ever again become power in that State. it is not now apparent. For years he has been a shame and a disgrace tc Delaware politics, but the shame is noi altogether on him, for much of 1t is on those who have to all intents and pur- poses been his paid servitors. If he has shown moral turpitude by using money to control politics. what must be said of those whom he bought anC held in chains7
 J. Edward Addicks never really claimed consideration for anything else than his money. He was wealthy and could afford to p-y liberally. for what he wanted. He wanted seat in the United States Senate and looked on it as bit of purchasesble property which was for sale to the highest bidder. He saw other rich men in the Senate and had good ground for believing that their money carried them there. so why should he not buy a place also9
 This was the theory on which he based his hopes and on that theory he conducted his operations How much he has spent cannot certainly be ascer- tained. but 1t probably reaches into the millions of dollars. He was liberal with his money and bought support wherever 1t was for sale. He declared some years ago that the fight to keep him out of the Senate was a fight O incompetents to save themselves"
 Perhaps it was, but that did not pre- vent him from buying up any of those same incompetents who were for sale The great difficulty was that his thralls refused to stay bought As usua with purchasable political elements, they were his only as long as they found it to their interest to be faith full Then they were for somebody else with pile,. as any one might expect
 Yet with all his lavish use of corrup- ton funds, with all his buying of leg islatures. and with all his paid hire. lings to assist him he was never able fully to accomplish his purposes. For years he has been able to deadlock the Legislature and by that and other means I0 pIGVenL du etcCtiOH SO lHdt tue 0tdte had but one Senator. It has but one now and that one is Alice. tool of Ad- dicks and no better than he. The Re- publicans of Delaware have for years been divided into Addicks and anti Addicks factions. and as they had con- trol of the Legislatures, they have pre- vented the election of a Senator. Now they have cast Addicks overheard and elected Col. Henry A. DuPont to fill the vacancy. Addicks has spent all his money and his late followers threw him over. Another case of Acteon devoured by his own dogs. The most unkindest cut of all'' to him is the fact that the man who has been chosen over his pro- tests is the man who has furnished the money to keep up the fight against him. DuPont has been financing the op- position all along. 1t is stated
 The whole business can only be re- garded at disgrace to the Republicans Of Delaware. They have had control of the State for ten or twelve years. They knew what manner of man Addicks was and is. His connection with a great gas monopoly made him wealthy and brought him into contact with the people of Delaware. He was genuine carpet-bagger when he set out to buy a seat in the Senate They knew him, yet they allowed him for years to con- trol their actions so that no Senator could be elected save Alice, and he was piece of the same kind of timber Now t.az t1 oII -a,.. their contempt for him by throwing him over. Ii Is the proper fate for him, but Delaware Republicans have not covered themselves with glory by their course
 As to the man just elected. Colonel DuPont, he will probably not be much else than an ornamental Senator. He is honest. So far as we know, and veal thy, having made a fortune manufacr- uring gun powder. In 1895 he was |. candidate for United States Senator ant claimed to have been elected, but thu Senate refused to seat him on the ground that he had not been properly elected ,as we now recall the matter He is not of the Addicks and AlleO class, at all events.
 But it must not be understood that Adicks has entirely given up all hope o reaching the goal for which he has been striving, spending and bribing for so many years, for he has not. Tht term of Alice will expire next year and it is given out that the great gas man ufacturer will try for the succession but there seems little chance that he can succeed. With his money practic ally gone and his machine smashed, there would seem to be very slim chance indeed for him to secure sum- cient following to land him in the Senate, even If the Republicans con tinue to control the Legislature. Ii looks as if he is out for good, and cer- tainly the State will be improved by his absence.
 WILL BLAME THE UMPIRE.