The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-12
ADDICKS NO LONGER AFACTOR.
PENNEWILL OR RICHARDSON TO
BE DELAWARE'S SENATOR.

Dur ont, SenstOr-Elect. Said to Favor
Pennewtn for His CoIesx Richard
son Not an A>owe ed Candidate Senator
AIlee's Defeat seems to He Assured.
WILMINGTON, Del, Nov. 1.-THE next
United States senator from Delaware will
be either Judge James Pennewill OF Dover
or Harry A.. Richardson, a wealthy man
OF the same town. Both are prominent
Republicans.
An announcement to this effect was made
to-day by a leader who il close to the Du-
Points and who knows whereof he speaks.
While both men were named, the statement
was also made that the chances favor the
Judge because the DuPonts look upon him
with favor az a collea que for Col. Henry A.
Dupont, the Senator-elect
1t is probable that the friends OF Messrs.
Pennewill and Richardson will make a can
vass OF the Republican members-elect Of
the General Assembly within the next fort
night. This may be informal. but 1t will
III the exact situation, nevertheless.
Mr.. Richardson will not conduct an active
campaign. On previous occasions he has
refused to become an outspoken candidate
for the Senstorship. and it is expected that
HE dtLlluiV INV Will NC NhN bahC.
One Of the results OF the election OF an
overw helming Republican majority In the
Legislature-the Republican strength will
be thirty-six. including three holdOVer
Senators, out OF a total membership Of
ffty-twO- will be the failure of Senator j.
Frank Alice TO succeed himself. Alice is
working hard 10 be elected and il
being aided by DR.. Caleb r. Layton OF
Georgetown, Auditor of the State Depart
ment at Washington. but il ia declared that
his efforts will be in vain. Alice. who was
defeated in his own Representative district
in Dover al the legislative primaries, sought
to restore himself 10 favor by working
~valisntly for and helping 10 elect the ticket
in Kent county
While the DuPonts, who are now undis-
puted heads of the Republican party in
Delaware. appreciate the election day
efforts OF Alice, 1t is declared that the Sens-
tor stands no chance OF being supported by
them a. his own successor.
Another and an important result OF the
slectiop is the final and complete slimina-
ton of J. Edward Addicks from the politics
of Delaware. What the harmony Republic
can State convention Of September 5 at
Dover failed tO'do the voters themselves
accomplished.
Addicks, it is said entertains a hope
tina he may he in the Senatorial running
DplAlNs Oh All NfTHthuulIl Nldb Nv TlhI
with Congressman Hiram r. Burton when
he agreed 10 the %latter's denomination and
also because Of the help that he gave the
Du Points in carrying. the election. The
Burton proposition = based on a staten ent
Of the Representative that he would support
Addiok's friends for election TO the Legisla-
ture from Sussex county.
Ii can be authoritatively stated. how
! ever. that Addicks will not he a material
factor in the fight. or the ~thirty-six Re-
publican legislators. il was to-
dsy that he has only three, state Senators
Moore of smyrna and Conner OF FELTON,
and Representative Messick of George
town. Should there be more than one
ballot in CAUCUS, il is likely that one or
more. OF this trio would desert him and 60
on the winning side.
The defeat of Democratic nominees for
Representatives in Democratic districts
will probably cause a war in the ranks Of
that party. Although the Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Representative districts Of New
Castle county are strongly Democratic,
the party OF from 90 to 125, Nathaniel W.
Van Horn and Andrew J. Wright. the Demo-
cratic nominees for the House, we're both
defeated.
The strangest part of the whole affair
Ia the fact that Edward Hart OF Townsend,
a Democratic Representative in the last
Legislature. was elected as State Senator
Hart lives in the Fourteenth Representa-
tive district, and the Senatorial district
embraces both the Fourteenth and Fiji
seenth REPRESENTATIVE districts. The friends
of Van Horn and Wright allege that they
were cut by the friends of Hart, although
they supported Hart for Senator.
II is very likely that the affair will cause
a breach in Democratic ranks that will be
diricult to heal. Senator-elect Hart and
his followers, including Levy Courtman and
William A. Scott, a member OF the State
committee, are opposed 10 Willard Sauls-
bury for United States Senator, whereas
Van Horn and Wright are Salisbury men.
This is the real cause for the cutting.
Inasmuch as a Governor, who will sp-
point an entirely new judiciary for Della
ware. will be elected in 1903, the cutting of
Van Horn and Wright will seriously en-
danger Democratic hopes unless the mat
ter shall be matched up. 1t is also alleged
that Dan NJ. Cochran, the Democratic
| nominee for Representative in the Thir-
teenth Representative district of New
castle county, was cut by party dissen-
terr. He was likewise defeated.