The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-12-14
READING ADDICkS OUT.

Of New Castle county, Delaware, have adj
dressed petition to the Republican Com
mittee of that county, declaring that State
Senator Handy and Mr.. J. Edward Addicks
are no longer entitled to recognition as
members of the Republican party, and
asking that they be expelled from the
committee.
While we have no sympathy with the
political methods of Mr.. Addicks, and
believe his advent into the Republican
party of Delaware is great misfortune to
it, yet we do not see how the "formality"
of reading him out is to help the situation,
or to increase the prospect of Republican sue
cess in that state.
Conceding Mr. Addcks to be the bold,
bad man his opponents declare him to be,
and that he has corrupted the politics of
Delaware by the lavish use of money, the
question is pertinent:-Who were the
agents through whom it was used?
Evidently Mr.. Addicks could not and
did not come down to the personal level of
the men he corrupted. He must have had
intermediary agents or middlemen among
the Republicans of Delaware to have accom-
plished his designs.
Through the use of his money Sussex
county was carried by the Republicans,
and a majority secured in the Legislature.
As we understand the situation, the con-
sideration was the vote of Sussex county
70" Addicks as L. S. Senator. But enough
Republicans could not be found at Dover.
from the other two counties of the State,
to ratify this corrupt bargain, and Addicks,
while not strong enough to secure his own
election, was strong enough to prevent a
clear majority being thrown for any one
else
Now in all this political melee at Dover,
Addcls was simply demanding his pound
of political flesh.
The leaders of the Sussex Republicans
had accepted his money, and at Dover
failed to deliver the political goods. Nat
urally Addicks and his coterie OF political
and personal followers waXed wrothy and
were magnicently mad
Now while this political circus was
going on at Dover, and Dclawarc's name
became in the meantime The synonym OF
political dcpravity of the Addicksonian
type, where were the hundreds of prom
nent Republicans who now come To tine
front to read out Mr.. Addicks, but keep in
the ranks the benciiciares of his corrupt
political work
These same prominent gentlemen GER
tainly, had they taken the pains, could
have protected the Republican sheep fold
of Sussex against the insdious attacks of
the Claymont political wolf.
But it seems that they did not.
They laid supinely by, and allowed
Addicks to make his corrupt bargain, and
after the mischief was done, they found
themselves impotent to defeat him.
Now they turn about to read him out of
the party, for becoming party to Il corrupt
political bargain, which there is no evi-
dence they took any pains, or personally
pttN w plcNtlt'
The fact is, that this unwelcome condi-
ton in Delaware is the result of indifferent.
not to say incompetent, leadership.
If the influential men, whose names
appear to the communicating paper pub.
lished, had been some few months ago,
half as Jealous in keeping Addicks out OF
Delaware politics, as they are now Jealous in
driving him out of the Republican party,
there would have been no necessity for
such extra judicial ~ acts.
The State Of Delaware, although a small
State, ought to be large enough to hold a
Republican party big enough to hold even
Mr.. Addicks, and reading people out is il
dangerous pastme for any party
In political parties there is a place for
every man however pure and virtuous,
however ambitious or INSCRIPTIONS.
Asa contemporary forcibly says: "The
United States is not IL government of the
good aud the wise and the virtuous alone.
1t is Il representative government of all
classes in which every citizen, unlesss he
has violated the laws, has voice, a right
to he heard and right to bear his share.
Nor is Nh Addicks alone responsible for
the failure to elect Il United States Senator.
For that the Republican party of the State
and its leaders are responsible. They should
have united upon new man not connected
with either side in this struggle between
Higgins and Addicks. The sooner the
Delaware Republicans recognize that only
by retiring the incompetent leaders who
have led the party into its present unprom-
Using situation, and who in fact have kept
it there for twenty years, can the party be
placed in good fighting trim, the better
CENSURING MR.. BAYARD.