The sun., 1900-12-25

in favor of new leadership, have re-
voted in favor of the Democrats. 1t is
for this revolt The Times thanks, COM
pliments and advises the Anti-Addicksite |
Republicans it hopes they may |
betray the Republican party and elect |
two Democratic United States Senators.
That would be understood by any sensi-
BILE person even without its confession to
that effect in the paragraph which we
quote.
There is grewsome truth in the Times
lallusion to the history of Delaware. I'm
fortunately the State has never had any
political history that was not dominated
| by the Democratic party. 1t could just
as we'll have said: The Democratic
party associated with the worst history
Of Delaware. And worst it has been all
the time--the worst that ever cursed
| free State. Wherever the facts have
been known they have created disgust
/ The political history of the State has
been one long chapter of crime in which
the state officiary and congressional rep
resentatives have been participants.
They held honorable positions but did not
honorably fill them-they may have been
able and wise but politically they We're
not honest. There has not been Demo
cratic congressional representative OF
either kind, of Delaware i'll congress for
over thirty years, who represented the
real political sentiment OF the State, OIL
; who represented q majority vote of its
! citizens, and these democratic represen'
| tatives, however able, however respected
they were, knew that their elevation IL
5 Congress had been won by injury <
= their fellow citizens. An injury inflicted
: by perversion of law, by misuse oi
: power, by deceiving the people in thu
Y Interpretation of law, and by wicked ant
!, open Acknowledgement of citizens a.
e much entitled to civic rights and PRIV
t lleges as We're these honorable ~ repre-
y sentatives of the State.
Honorable men can take no pride II
t such record as that. To cheat tn
/. ignorant to rob the poor i'll politics Il
# not honorable business. To rob citizen
d of their rights by unjust laws, to ro
It them when pretending to serve them, !
IS the wickedist kind of deceit and tn
e worst kind of usurpation. That is wha
1t the Democratic political history is a rec
y ord of. If the Times knows any thin
IS about Delaware politics it knows tina
1t what we write here is true. Known
$. chat, it's commentator of the frau
makes it a would-be participant in 1t an
vetiates its testimony. If it does nt
d, know the truth its advice is presumptio
:. and in no way proof of honor or de-
q, ency in politics. 1t is this wilful or il
D. norant defender of political infamy thi
s. advises the betrayal of Delaware IL
~ publicans by the election of Democrat
Of United States Senators. 1t says:
On The small Republican minority hay
re no power to defeat Addicks except
he blocking any election, but they can he
nd the Democratic plurality to restore Del
ware in its once proud position in Il
he Senate of the United States, and i'll don
nm 30 would win the applause of right-thin
y ing people everywhere.
- Mr.. Addicks is complimented by Il
abuse of people who can write such p
:. iitical stuff as we have quoted from Il
- Times. Ignorance is no excuse for
and decent partisanship would refuse
80 stoop low enough to write it.