Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-12-06
REPUBLICANS and ADDICKS

The Regular Republicans OF Della
ware have been endeavoring for ten
years to save their State and their party
from the disgrace that the election OF
j. Edward Addicks to the United States
Serate would bring. In their spirited
and successful resistance tboy have had
the moral support of that public senti-
| ment outside Of Delaware which is
best worth having. The struggle against
| the crudest, vulgarest and most 1mnu
dent methods OF political degradation |
has been maintained not leas for the |
| honor of the State than In the interests
of good Repubicanism and good citi-
Zensnip throughout the land. 1t was
\ more than the cause of Delaware; 1t
was the common cause; for the little
commonwealth is not responsible for
Addicsa, or for the unsought evils in
tiioted upon 1t when that political ad-
Venturer and nondescript deliberately
chose Delaware as the feld OF his
operations for no other reason than
that it was small and, as he believed,
easily vipcibls.
The difficulty of the present situa-
tion. as it concerns the resolute up
holders of Delaware's honor, has been
Increased greatly by the circumstances
of The recent Presidential election, and
somewhat by the surprising and dis.
c,editable detection Of the Wilmington
Morning News, Journal which hith-
erto has consistently opposed Addioks
, and fearlessly denounced, his practices.
The next Legislature Is due to meet
ct Dover on the LIST of January. 1t
will have TO elect two United States
Senators, one to fill the vacancy that
! has existed for two years. on ACCOUNT
of Addicks, and the other to succeed
: the Democrat Kenney, who owes his
. seat to this same pernieions influence.
In the CANVASS Of this fall Addicks
! has profited by the opportunity to cover
g his intrigues with q provence OF zeal
4 for the national ticket. The Regular
a Republicans, for ms ance, united with
the SO called Union Republicans or Ad,.
dicks faction In common primaries AID
q nrun a single county ticket In New
Y Castle county. Addicks thereurcn
II ei her called upon the Republican can
n didttes for the Legislature who had
Q been Nominated at the common prlm'
/, aries, or sent his personal representa-
IL tiyes to them, demanding that they
NJ should pledge themselves to vote in
d January for him, Acdioks, for United
r States Senator.
The editorial article in which the
,r Morning News announces Its surrender
"a to Addicks deserves place among the
=. curIosities of Journalism. Mr.. Watson
10 r. Sperry, the editor of that news
& paper, after years of honorable insist
is ance upon the odious character OF Ad
8, dicks schemings, and upon his uttel
unfitness to repI resent Delaware 10 tht
,e Senate, has amazed his friends by ad
IN vancing the proposition that the AID
8. from the Addicks Of the past ten years
IN and, m recover that "expediency il
about all there ispIn politics, in the las
analysis, if you stop short OF illegalit!
and crime. The News says:
"In our deliberate judgment Mr.. AID
20 dicks has won his election to the Unite'
States Senate by his behavior as
as member of the Republican party o
no this State during the recent presideni
er tial and State canvass. His fight al
nr through, from his political babyhoo
40 in 1883, down to a week ago yesterday
ny has been distinguished by a magnih
no cent tepacity OF purpose and effort,
e tenacity which was most unworthii
IT. used while be was simply working fo
We himself, but which after the lapse {
aS these years was most worthily an
IN honorably used In our recent canvas
go in support Of that slowy ripening but
we we hope, enlarging conception Of hi
80 that political parties exist for publ
lat uses and not as private luxurie!
ire The simple fact is that th
OK whole matter has been threshed OF
re- and fought out for long and paint
eIn years and unless we are going to kee
'c' on fighting and thrashing ,ne anoth'
y. for years longer. in this futile and orr
~ pling family quarrel, 1t must end viii
nss some sort of a hair-and, half arrang'
a ment at some time. Why not end
" now, and so continue as we are today
~ shoulder to shoulder
ng Shoulder to shoulder with Addick
ng Shoulder to shoutder with Capt. Kit
'ns il he were alive and invading Del
ware will, a view to political prefe
,ey meut under the same circumstances
IN obtain in the present case? The 81
re- phistry, not to say the cowardice,
we the arguments by which the Whining
=. OF ton Morning News attempts to justi
lne its course has been promptly EXPOSE
'ai. by many OF Mr.. Sperry's arievir
rs friends, but nobody has done it mo
sse effectively than Mr.. Howard Pyle, Il
i'm author and artist. Writing in spin
of genuine sorrow, Mr.. Pyle says 10 M
Sperry;
"You urge that this man is di
WIN ferent man from what he was some t.
AS years ago. What are your proofs up
em this point? Do you, with your expel
nla ence If men and manners, really b
'ine lieve that such change 10 such IN
Use is possiblsP Ten years ago you public
iul proclaimed through your newspaI
ie9. your belief that Mr.. Addicks was
ure bad and go interruptions that he W
me. utterly united for the position
'ur, coveted. Do you really believe th
ana because Mr.. Addieks has twice be
!, isn disappointed in obtaining Seaatt
MS ship he has become so ohastened
l'ln defeat that he las now in your opinl
,9 OF become good and scrupulous?
ne "No; il Mr.. AddicKs were so b
les. and interruptions ten years ago it
gt.t impossible that he has now beco,
lelr better or more scrupulous. The pro-
CT are all to the contrary, for only t
,ale years ago hs not only again de eat
r ~. The election of United Stat Selat
inc whe, Republican majority sat in t
rem, Legislature of this State, but it v
ne asserted by many who were we'll
iicI formed that he debauched and o
itul rupted the very Legislature itself-tl
we debasing and defiling the very fount,
Ute head from which our laws are deriv,
held aha,.nter. he bas mmvhe learned in
she more secret, more subtle, mure ounni
in his nature, and hence more dang
Gus, but that is ALL
Tint NJ Meanwhile Addicks is Roasting
n tor Delaware not only that his own ei
''e' ton to the United States Senate
| ,,an,al hut al hat n