Evening journal., 1900-11-16

munity believe him to have deliberately
debnuchcd and corrupted by wholesale
bribery at least two OF the three counties
Of the commonwealth in which he lives
Either the belief upon these points, as
held by many Of the people is cruelty in
accurate, or else Watson 4. Sperry must
have vastly changed his views upon such
points, that he now and after ten years Of
strife against political dishonesty advises
his fellow citizens TO give to this man
Addicks such reward as a seat in the
United States Senate.
You urge that the man is a different
man from what he was some ten years
ago. What are your proofs upon this
point? Do you. with your experience Of
men and manners really believe that such
o change in such man is pos
sible? Ten years or SO ago you
publicly proclaimed through your news
paper your belief that Mr. Addicks
was SO bad and INSCRIPTIONS that
be was utterly untitled for the position
he coveted. DO you really believe that
because Mr.. Addicks has twice been dis
appointed in obtaining a senatorship he
has become so chastened by defeat that
he has now in your opinion become good
and honest and scrupulousi Bad men
are not usually cured of their badness by
being denied that which they covet
Knowing you, as | have known you-as
Il man of high powers and OF great integ-
rity-I cannot believe that you have be-
come obtuse upon such points. | choose
rather 10 believe that you in your long
absence from this country and from the
community in which you stll. / under
stand, retain your citizenship. have lost
touch with events. and that in your hasty
return you have not regained 4 true and
clear knowledge of the situation.
Mo- II Mr.. Addicks were SO bad and
INSCRIPTIONS ten years ago il is impos-
sible that he has now become better or
more scrupulous. The proofs are all to
the contrary, for only two years ago he
not only again defeated the election Of
United States senator. when a Republi-
can majority sat in the Legislature of this
state, but it was asserted ny many who
were well informed that he debauched
and corrupted the very Legislature itself
thus debasing and detiling the very
fountainhead from which our laws are
derived. No Mr.. Addicks has not chang
ed his character; he has maybe learned
to be more secret, more subtle, more cum
ming in his nature, and hence more dam
gcrous, but that is all.
Even yet it does not seem to me to be
possible that a man of honesty and integ-
rty like yourself, can publicly declare
man of such rcpute TO be worthy OF so
high an honor as Il seat in the United
States Senate.
Wrong is wrong and right is right, and
| cannot believe it is possible that l stand
alone in this view. / feel that there must
be and are many others. both in private
life and in the Legislature, who believe as
| do. Those who have political axes to
grind, those who believe in "expediency," +"
the weak-kneed anu timorOus, the vacil-
lating and the uncertain, may fall away
from us and leave MS tat least for a time)
a small minority, but | believe that we
shall close up our ranks and stand shoul-
der to shoulder. And though we may
even be outnumhered many to one, be-
lieve that there are at least a saving few
in our Republican party standing for hon
esty, honor and integrity. who shall re-
main strong TO say that Addicks, after
ten years Of party treachery, reputed as
he is to be a briber and corruptionist,
shall not in the end he rewarded with the
gift of the United States senatorship.
Howard Pyle.
Wilmington, Del. Nov. Is, 1900.