Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-12-06
GOOD MAY COME OFT,


the People of Delaware the Infiiction of
"A Doodle Senator.
New York Times, Nov %.
1t is unfortunate for Addicks, but IL may
be very fortunate for the people of Della
ware in particular, and of the United
States in general, that his wife should have
brought u suit for divorce against him lust
at this time. The impotence of a crude
hustler like Addicks in aspiring to be a
member of the Senate of the United States
isfstill Supplying, after all that has hap
pened to degrade that body. For Delaware
issnot mere mining camp or lumber
camp, where we might expect to see man
running for Senator upon the sole ground
that he had money and was willing TO
spend it. is an old Commonwealth, with
decOrous traditions and corporate self-re-
spect. One OF the traditions of which the
State has right to be proud is of the dis
tinguished and high-mlnded men who
have represented it in the national coun-
ellis, a tradition that has been worthily
continued to our own day by the present
Ambassador of the United States to Great
Britain. II is much more at-Ociuus of
fence TO public decency for u Yahoo like
Addicks to undertake to represent such
State than it would be to attempt to rep
resent community as crude as himself,
though we really cannot affirm, even with
Stewart and Allen and PETER clearly in
mind, that the crudest Commonwealths
have ever sunk so low as to send an Ad-
dicks to the Senate.
These are the conclusions of decent peo-
pie throughout the country, and they have
appealed with peculiar force to the decent
people of Delaware, whose state pride has
been deeply wounded by Addicks' impu-
dence. of course. these Deiawareans have
been bestiging themselves to avert the
shame OF Addicks from their state and to
prevent the carrying out of the corrupt
bargain in virtue OF which Addicks ex-
poets to be sent to the'Senate. When pub
lie opinion reaches certain pitch of
unanimity and intensity, even hired
legislator will not dare to defy it, and it
has been the aim of the decent people in
Delaware to create q sentiment shat the
Legislators of whom Addicks is the mort
gage cannot withstand so that the man
cannot foreclose the mortgage which he
holds.
Everything therefore, which comes ont
to increase and emphasize the djsrepute of
Addicks does good. The fact that he is
jobber in franchises, and has made his
money thereby, ought to be conclusive.
Equally conclusive should be the consi J.
GRAFTON that he proposes to spend the
money SO amassed in buying a Senator
ship. Then. the man is not really Della
wareans and he uses his alleged residence
into the Senate as he might use his resi-
dence in Pennsylvania or Massachusetts or
New York, if he could get into the Senate
as cheaply from one of these large and ex-
pensive States. But all these considera-
tons have been known and operative all
along, and they do not seem to have made
the conten ptuous rejection of Addicks by
the Legislature OF Delaware foregone
conslusion. There are people who can
stand all these things, but who will never
theless be revolted by the prospec. of hav-
| ing man for Senator whose wife will not
live with him and is suing him for divorce.
Into the merits of the matter, which is
| going before the courts, it would be i'm
| proper now to enter. But, whether Adj
dicks is guilty or not of what his wife
| charges him with, her charges are caleu-
lated to increase the disgust already enter
tanned for him on account of his antece.
dents and his effrontery. and to recruit the
number Of the disgusted. So that it is
very good that the charges have been made
and that the domestic troubles of the Ad
| dickses are likely to do valuable public
service by increasing the popular repul.
sion to the notion of the male Addicks as
a Senator.