Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-01-07


draw your editorial. The only man
who can sneak for Deiaware Repsitl-
cans is the Chairman Of tue Union Re-
publicans AS private citizen Ipro
test against your unfairness In failing
to fully investigate.
j. Edward Atldickss
The Tribune. however, takes very
little stock in Mr.. Addicks' late denial.
II points out that the interview was
printed In reputable newspaper, and
that Mr.. Addicks bad full opportunity,
had he felt so inclined, to deny it be
fore the appearance OF the Tribune's
severe editorial structures. It might
have gone further, had 1t known, and
told how the Addcks programme to in.
stitute bogus contest in Sussex
county, with view of setting up a
trump" Legislature that would confer
farcical Senatorial title upon Mr.. Adj
dicks, was agreed upon at meating of
his State committee held In Dover a
few days after the election. And the
Philadelphia Ledger, in noting the tele-
gram of denial, said;
4 Mr.. Addicka' letter to the Tribune
lacks in two essential particulars the
elements of accuracy. First. 1t is not
accurate to say that the report OF the
interview of the Ledger's Delaware cor
respondent with him, published in the
Ledger OF December 2Sth, is "fake;n
on the contrary. it IL bona fide; second,
it is not true that sit was edited by
Willard Saulsbury.' That gentlemen
never saw nor heard Of it until it was
published. Precisely what was in
tended by it's communication to the
Ledger's correspondent by it's author
Mr.. Addioks should, Of course, best
know, as he knew to whom be was
communicating IT.
All this goes to show how little force
there is in the denial by Addicks of tine
correctness OF the published interview.
1t is only another instance OF too much
talk and discovery OF the fact after II
was too late That the denial had no
| effect upon the Tribune ia shown by the
following extract from an editorial
written in reply, which appeared in
Thursday's Issue Of that paper:
Mr.. Addicks' protest against the
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menting upon the interview without
fully investigating the facts may be
dismissed with the simple statement
that the interview had been published
by Philadelphia newspaper of excel
lent repute, high standing and large
circulation several days previously,
and, though it must have fallen under
his observation, had never been ex.
planned or its authenticity denied by
him. II he has been treated with IN.
fairness. ii is solely because of his own
remissness in not at once correcting
at their source the misrepresenta
, OF which he complains. AS to tbs
Tribune's comments thereon. in so fai
as they related to MIR. Addicks' uu
fitness for the office to which with
ii vulgar and brazen audacity be
a6pires. We SEES no reason to Withdraw
, nor qualify them. They may have
, been Immediately provoked by the pub
lished interview, but they were. we be
, lievs, completely justified by the gentle
, mans public record. about which ther,
, can bs neither question nor doubt
!, Even il he had any recognized qualifi
: cations for the place, the coarse anc
, vulgar methods by which be has thrus
himself forward, the shameless indie
l cency with which he has pursued hi
/, purpose, and the utterly demoralizin,
effect of his candidacy, warrant uR ii
saying that his election would he
n disgrace to the State of Delaware AM