Evening journal., 1900-05-12

been working and waiting for eight or
ten years. and to day they are farther
from the goal than ever. Many Of them
have decided that the occupation OF
following Mr. Addicks and being fed on
promises is both unsatisfactory and
improbable. The past is black
and the future is blacker. His
personal ends of keeping the Demo-
Gratis in offices which should be filled
by Republicans are served, but they kAt
nothing in return for the work they
do. The venal voter, the man who
sells his franchise for a stipulated
sum, is the only one who finds profit
under the Addicks system. But even
his profit is bought dearly, for he is
the scorn and by-word of his neighbors.
At The last city election Mr.. Addicks
turned the city of Wilmington over to
the Democrats as he previously had
done the state. That act ended
his career to all intents and purposes.
The wave of Addicksism is receding,
and he eventually will drop out OF
sight, still the plain, untitled, unprinci-
pied citizen that he was when he made
his first break into Delaware politics
nearly a decade ago.
He will be remembered-not as a
Republican, but as the worst foe that a
Delaware Republican. ever had. He will
be remembered-no as a man who IS
worth remembering, but as a man who
sowed the wind OF political corruption
and reaped the whirlwind. He viii be
remembered-not as a public benefac-
tor, but to be held up to American
voters as yet unborn as an object les
son to deter them from attempting to
follow in his footsteps. He will be re-
membered every time the American
student reads in his history that
Robert j. Reynolds defeated Harry A..
Richardson for governor; that An
thony Higgins was prevented from re-
turning to a seat in the United states
Senate, which he had filed with honor
and distinction; that for two years the
State of Delaware was deprived OF half
its representation in the higher branch
of the National Legislature; that for
two years Richard r. Kenney filled a
position never intended for a man Of
his kind; that The First National Bank
OF Dover was robbed of it's entire cap
ital stock and $4,000 OF its surplus; that
William ~ Boggs, spent several years
IN prison for committing that theft;
that Col. Ezekiel T. Cooper died in a
felon's cell; that the names of many
men, high socially and politically,
were smirched in consequence Of the
stealings OF this Addicks lieutenant
that Ebe w. Tunnel, defeated John c.
Higgins for governor; that ewing to a
deadlock In the Legislature the Repub-
lican party was prevented from obtain
ing a successor to United States Sena-
tor George Gray; that Farlow, King
and Clark, three Democrats, voted for
Addicks in the joint assembly and that
two other Democrats came near COM
mitting the same objectionable crime;
that George w. Bush, a Republican,
was defeated for mayor Of Wilmington
and DR.. John c. Fahey was elected in
his stead; and that for ten years the
electorate Of the State Of Delaware was
debauched Systematically and that it
reeked with the corruption of Addicks
rottenness.
Yes, Mr., Addicks will be remember
ed. So viii Benedict Arnold and Others
OF his kind. Good men die and are for
gotten; but the memory OF bad man
lives to serve as a warning to future
generations.