Evening journal., 1898-04-19


declaring that if the regulars and the
Addicksites could only get together
and occupy more friendly ground, all
hindrances might be removed and help
given, and pity be substituted for
blame on the part Of the regulars:
If we knew the cares and trials,
Knew the efforts all in vain,
And the bitter disappointment,
Understood the loss and gain
Would the grim, external rOughness
lem, I wonder, just the same?
Should we help where now We hinder?
Should we pity where we blame
In plain, everyday English this
means that II the Addicksites are ready
to be forgiven the regulars are ready to
forgive them. 1t is dead opeH-and-
shut invitation to the Addicksltes to
make advances. II it is not. then we
do not understand Georgetown hundred
poetry. We have held, with great in
sistence, that If the Addicksites would
only keep up their organization and be
good, that something would happen,
but we never supposed that II would
be OF such a radical and gratifying ma
ture Brother Houston has opened the
door to the Addicksites, and the ques-
tion is, VIII they grasp the golden op-
portunity offered?
We do not believe that the conclud-
ing verse expresses the unanimous
opinion of the regular Republican
State Committee, and yet it is unrea-
sonable to assume that the poet would
make such public Overtures without
having previously submitted them to
the state committee for its approval
or disapproval. He could not be ex-
pected TO take the initiative in a matter
Of this kind without having talked 1t
over with Chairman Browne and Sec
retary Head, to say nothing of Wash
ingtOn Hastings and Henry G. Morse.
It may have been another case OF
Yours In absolute confidence" as Mr..
Bach would say in sending out a con-
fidential circular about the Lincoln
Republican Club; or the motto, with
charity toward ALL and malice toward
none" which Mr. Bach has recently
enunciated, may have inspired Brother
Houston with the belief that he was
perfectly justified in making any sort
OF oYertures calculated to restore ihar-
mony. Be this as 1t may, the first four
lines of the concluding verse are emf
nently complimentary to Mr. Addicks,
expressing, as they do, the conviction
Of Brother Houston that things are not
so corrupt and turbid up around Clay
mont as is generally supposed, but that
the corruption is more marked farther
away from the fount OF action, pre-
sumably down in the pelghborhood
frequented by Chairman Alice and
DR.. George w. Marshall, who have been
Leading poor, innocent Mr.. AddiclIs into
doing all sorts OF bad things and al
most ruined his reputation for politi-
cal probity.
| All, we Judge each other harshly,
| knowing not life's hidden force;
| Knowing not the fount OF action
Is less turbid at its source.
Seeing not amid the evil
All the golden grains OF good
Oh, we'd love each other better
II we only understood.
We think that Brother Houston has
made a mistake in admitting that there
are some golden grains OF good in the
tares Of Addlcksism before he conclude:
his peace negotiations and has then
safely recorded in the Court House 4;
Georgetown, but his liberality of ex-
preston and prodigality OF admission
are indicative of feeling that he IL
reasonably sure OF his ground and SAT,
in carrying the regenerated Republican
politics Of Delaware into the selec
realms OF polite literature.
We now suggest that the regular Re
publican State Committee request Bro
ther Houston to reduce the party rule
to poetry, and send an autograph cop.
to Mr.. Addicks, of Claymont.
4 Nj, I a. 4