Evening journal., 1900-10-15
HANDY AGAIN
SCORES NUDELL
Says Latter BetrayS His Party
By NOmhatinga Sand
bag Ticket

Former Congressman /. Irving
Handy has sent the following as his
final answer to Harold sudelI. OF Phil
adelphia, a leader Of the Single Takers
Of Delaware:
Wilmington, Del, Oct. II. 1900.
Mr. Howard Sudel. Philadelphia. Pa.
Dear Sir: Your letter OF yesterdays
date is here. / have 10 Intention Of en-
tering a long epistolary contest. Life is
too short and too much earnest work is
az hand. ! cannot afford TO waste nme
by an endless controversy with any OF
Mr.. Addicks' political employees. But
viii sake time to reply to your letter now
before me.
Your letter, like Gaul in Gmsar's time.
Is divided into three parts. In the first
part, you stick your head in the sand like
an ostrich and attempt 10 show that you
do not belong to Mr. Addicks. In the
second part You attempt 10 give an ex-
planation OF how Mr.. Addicks happened
TO get possession OF you. In the third
part you attempt TO excuse Mr.. Addidlls'
methods OF doing political business.
snail take you up in the one, two, three
order.
l freely and gladly ailmit that the wot-
ers in Delaware who believe in Single
Tax DO not belong TO Nh Addicks. On
the contrary they are patriotic and un-
purchasahle citizens and believe in JEFF
fersonin Democracy, in such DAmoc-
racy as Bryan stands for to-day. / no.
quit them of responsibility for what your
committee Is doing. But as for Mr.. Har-
old Sudel, OF No 5000 Hazel avenne.
Philadelphia, and Mr.. Frank STEPHENS.
Of No. l34i Arch street. Philadelphia.
and the committee controlled by the tive.
evidence that the whole outfit belongs to
Mr.. Addicbs, boot and baggage, is over
whclming In Sussex county you have
put ON your ticket every Republican (Ad-
dicks candidate for the Legislature ex-
cept one. ln Kent county you have put
ON your ticket four OF the Republican
lAddicl<l candidates, and in two other
districts YOU have nominated Independent
candidates In the hope Of electing the Adj
dicks candidates therein In New Castle
county. you start out with the proposition
that Hushebeck and Ewing must be on
your ticket in any event. ana It happens
that they are the only two avowed men
in the county who succeeded in securing
the Republican nomination. Your ticket
cuts of the Democratic State ticket and
gratihed Mr.. Addchs by attempting TO
defeat DR. Ball and Mr. Burris. two anti
Addicks Republicans on the Republican
State ticket against whom Mr. Addicks
has shown personal spleen. Owned by
Addicksf Why You are so deep down in
his coat tail pocket that it IL with great
difficulty you climb nigh enough TO stick
you little head ont and, in thin falsetto,
shout Infamous political tricks OF
Democratic leadersw
Your explanation Of how Mr. Addicks
happened to get possession Of you, may
10 amuse but it can hardly deceive the
Single Tax voters. Almost everybody
that Mr.. Addicks gets IN n political way
has plous explanation OF how it all hap
pened. Even Farlow, King and Clark
gave utotrance to top-lofty sentiments I'm
explaining why they took shelter in Nr.
Addicks' pocket. / believe the avowed
explanation is that Mr.. Clark was driven
there by his opposition to the single gold
standard, and DR. Farlow by his opposi-
tion TO the railroad: but really / have for
gotten Mr.. Kings explanation 1t was,
however. no doubt equally good. 30 tell
the truth Mr.. Addicks' pocket. in which
he carries the odds and ends OF his polit-
ical baggage, is evidently n very attrac-
tive one. and your committee is not the
only body Of sky gazing patriots tucked
away in les capacious folds. When I see
man going into Mr.. Addicks' pocket,
always accept his own explanation 0f
why he goes, and ask no questions. II is
enough for me to know that he has Slip
ped in there and will probably stay there
so long as Mr.. Addicks desires to keep
/ him. In your case my sole object is 20
call the attention Of Single Tax voters in
Delaware to the fact that Addicks' coat
tail pocket is the regular meeting place
OF the committee which Is now engaged
in getting up the spurious cut throat
ticket intended 90 masquerade on the Of
fetal ballot as a Single Tax ticket.
Now, lnstly, ! come to your excuse for
Mr.. Addicks' methods. 1t is the same
old excuse put forward by all Of Mr.. Adj
dicks most faithful employees. What you
say is what Mr.. !. Frank Alice says: it
is what Dr. Caleb r. Layton says; it il
what Or. 4. c. Maore says it is what
every fellow in the pocket with you says.
1 and / would not for the world cast any
reflection upon the sincerity Of any one of
the faithful Addicksites who believe that
\ Addicks' sins are to be forgiven because
Addicks was not the first sinner even
though he be the worst
The attention Of Single Tax VOTERS has
now been attracted to the Addicksism
you are trying to palm off on them in
stead of genuine Single Tax. and I am
content 60 leave you and your committee
and your sand bag ticket to the tender
mercy Of men you are seeking to betray.
/ am, yours, ETC.,