New-York tribune., 1896-12-31
Mr.. 4DDTCKS or DELAWARE.
The following telegram has been received at
his office:

The following telegram has been received AT
this office
Philadelphia. Penn Dec. 30 lSoH.
Editor NewYork Tribune. New-York -.
The alleged interview in The Public Ledger
upon which YOU based your editorial is a fake.
and edited by Willard Salisbury. 1t was
intended to prejudice the country against Della
II is in order for YOU to withdraw your
editorial. The only man who can speak for Dela-
ware Republicans is the chairman of the Union
Republicans. As Il private citizen | protest
against your unfairness in failing To fully IN
vestgate. }. EDWARD ADDlCkS.
If the interview referred to above was n
"fake," as Mr.. Adlicks alleges he certainly has
reason for complaint He is represented in il
as saying that. unless he was elected United
States Senator. there would be another vacancy
for two years: also as threatening 10 organize
a rump Legislature in certain contingencies
which would proceed 10 elect him Senator upon
a certificate from which he would carry the fight
10 the United States Senate, where he had as
surances that no Democrat elected by the regu
lar Legislature would be admitted TO a seat
also that he would pay all the expenses of the
contest aud fight it to the bitter end. He was
further represented as describing in detail the
methods by which he proposed TO secure the
payment of his own men by the Republican
his opponents These methods as set forth were
not honorable nor honest, but were indecent
and dlsgraceful. Whether or not 'it was in
tended to prejudice the country against Della
ware as he says. that was certainly the Of
feet for it could not be otherwise than that n
State that submitted TO the sort Of control i'm
piled in the interview should suffer in the es-
,imatiOn Of the whole country little less than
the man who boasted that he owned it, In the
article Of which Mr.. Addicks complains The
Tribune said 1t seemed incredible that he should
ever have made public such a programme.
We hasten 10 give him credit for his denial.
though It would have seemed more direct and
timely had he addressed it TO "The Philadelphia
Ledger some days ago. when It first appeared
in that paper. We take leave TO say. further.
that his disclaimer of the interview would have
had greater weight and added force If he had
taken the pains 10 say that he had not now and
never had any such purpose in his mind as was
imputed to him. His denial that he ever said
he intended to do certain things in certain con-
tingencies must, Of course, be accepted, but 1t
would have been much more satisfactory to the
public and more credltable TO himself If he had
distinctly and unequivocally discaimed any in
tentlon TO carry ont such programme.
Mr.. Addicks's protest against the "nnfairness'
Of The Tribune in commenting upon the inter
view without fully investigating the facts may
be dismissed with the simple statement that the
interview had been published by Philadelphia
newspaper of excellent repute. high standing
and large circulation several days previously,
and, though It must have fallen under his OBJ
seryatOn had never been eXDlainpd or its all-
thenticty denied by him. 1t he has been treated
with unfairness. It IS solely because Of his own
source the misrepresentation Of which he com
plains. AS TO The Trbune's comments thereon.
in so far as they related 10 Mr.. Addicks's unfit
ness for the Office 10 which with such vulgar
and braZen audaciiy he aspires, we see no rea-
son 10 withdraw or qualify them They may
have been Immediately provoked by the pub
lished interview. but they We're. believe.
completely justified by the genteman's public
record about which there can he neither ques
ton nor doubt. Even II he had any recognized
qualifications for the place, the coarse and vul-
gar methods by which he has thrust himself for
ward. the shameless ndecency with which he
has pursued his purpose, and the utterly de-
moralizng effect of his candidacy. warrant us
in saying that his election would be a disgrace
10 the State Of Delaware and her people