Show I I TilE THE G GS S OJ S. I Probably the ho most interesting story tOI in Th The Tho n Republican pub pub- lican of Monday fo lla was that tf recounting countIng the tho downfall and md extinction of John Edward some Romo time millionaire million million- aire alre manipulator of oC tato legislatures aspirant for or the lie United United States Slates senate and dIctator dictator in tho ho field fieM of ga gas speculation John Edward says rays U hos Who ho was born horn In Philadelphia in ISH became interested in building build build- i lug ing gas R-as plants and later In gas gaR companies organized In 1884 and mcl became pre president of ot na Bay State Gas com company pan Boston hou bought ht majority Interest an and became president Brooklyn Gas company also at head of oC other gas companies received the the- largest est vote voto for United States Stats sc senator from rain Delaware In 1890 1899 but hut failed tailed of or election n W candidate for or United States senator 1901 and 1903 aside from rom that chill chili data there Is abundant reason rca rea son for tho the statement that Gas was the Yer very worst man who has over ever sought election to the senate 1 of the the United State Ho lie was vas so perfectly frank in his policy of ot corruption that c even en n Delaware refused to in- in jb S him and while he ho had following enough to pre pre- election of Jf a a. senator time line after time he ho never n I could quite get tho num number er of votes otes requisite for hi his I o own n success Ho lie must have havo carried his campaign rl right ht to the tho j ier verge e of ot his po poverty for he was again a factor In the the senatorial election In 1906 when Henry A. A Dupont was elected and received one vote ote n against that thal new aspirant f for orthe the h honors of or tho the upper house How utterly must he ho have havo fallen Here was a a. man manthe whose c sole t o title to was notice the lavish use of or hl his money oncy land T f whose v sole method was a the r and Ln corruption of legislators egis rs How man many hundreds of ot thousands of or dollars dollars dollars dol dol- dol- dol lars I Ga spent in his str struggles s to land Jan the sen will IlI never be bc known But nut Delaware will not forget et the he stain put upon that little state b by the manipulator manipulator lator of gas stocks am and tho the purchaser of or freemen I From the handling of or millions to abject poverty Isa Jsn is Js isa a n tremendous ous descent From Irom the luxuries of ot a a. palatial home to preparing his his own meals of ot hr bread ad and milk Ina in ina ina a three room fi flat flat and t and d compelled to escape from It by bya byway byway a way of or the fi fire e. e ladder when constables and collectors presse pressed him too closely Is closely Is a reversal re o of fate tate that is not often oCten witnessed essed even in the land of ot marvelous things And Anti U it Is not often oCten that disaster is so completely deserved de de- served ed Here was a man who hO had absolutely no faith In human nature no confidence in men no ideal of honor no aspirations of or manliness He lie knew no god but money one and now that It is gone there there- is nothing but hell i for tor him whether him whether he lives or dies An And tho the longer he helle lives ll the in 11 more ro hell he will have ha He lie ha has made It for Ho lIo has shut hut nit out all hope of heaven hea Ho Ito has made peace happiness and joy impossible Ruining tho the men who played the market stock game with him was only an nn incident Ills His own ruin was after all the great gnat work worl that engaged engage him And toda today there Is not nota a starving widow bereft of or the little investment she had made malic In In the companies he controlled who would trad trade places s with him There is 15 not nota nola a man that he ever er bought no now o ba base e as ts to do him reverence rC He lie had everything money could bu buy buy and an and nothing else And now there is isn n nothing left him hint for even en his monc money is gone It is a n pleasure to record the downfall of a man like Gas of oC Delaware |