The sun., 1900-03-14

THE Anti-Addicks editorial parrot mas
resumed its perch in the Morning News
Office. Its chatter is again heard in the
accustomed places, and the dear old par
rot is safe beyond the search OF the bird
hunters and possible sacrifice upon the
altar of cruel fashion.
The air in the vicinity OF the News
office is full OF the old-time mournful
chatter about that Senatorial vacancy
caused by the failure of fifteen men to
elect mugwump to succeed hon.
Anthony Higgins in the United States
Senate. In this matter as in almost
everything else political the News par
rot is careful to avoid the truth. 1t rep
sesents the sfour men," against whom it
never fails to proclaim its anathema, as
traitors to the party that elected them.
That s.not true. In that case as in every |
other similar one occurring since then,
the partisan friends Of the parrot have
been the traitors. In no instance have
they, the parrots friends, acted in good
faith. They have deliberately planned
TO violate their own pledges, Just as they
planned to make representatives in the
General Assembly of 1895, who had been
nominated and elected under circum-
stances and pledges which, in all
honor and decency, demanded that they
should support J. Edward Addicks for
United States Senator, to violate their
pledges and disregard their obligations
The process by which this was accom-
plished is the most heinous in politics.
Men were caioled, abused and threatened
with all manner of persecution; were
threatened with loss OF employment,
with financial distress and social ostra'
cism; were told, and the columns OF the
News will prove it, that their wives and
children should suffer for it If they per.
sisted in voting as their reason and honor
dictased; the wives of some OF these men
were told that they would be driven out
of the communities in which they lived
that their re atves and friends woulc
desert them, AMI that their children
weuld be branded as social and politica
outcasts, if they did not induce or com
pei their husbands to vote as thest
political conspirators demanded.
This is the process by which the fiji
teen men were brought together to vot'
tor the parrots mugwump candidate 10
United States Senator. Some of the mel
who were so Influenced are today suffer
ing the pangs of remorse for what the
acknowledge was political treason whic
has brought defeat to their party am
damage to the State. There is nothin
more true in political history than tha
the fifteen men about whom the News
parrot chatters, did not vote to represer
the majority vote of the people VIII
elected them to the General Assembly @
this State in 1891. That has been prove
in every general election of the Stat
since 1894. These later elections hay
vindicated the four men whom this ed
torial parrot abuses, and have COZ
demned the fifteen men whom it laud
these four men haye been represented h
Republican majority in every Generi
Assembly elected since then and by
majority OF that Republican maiorit.
and Notwithstanding the fact that tt
News parrot has continued to denount
the s'foGr men" who first incurred i
dislike, the number of like-minded re
reeentntiyes Of the people have increase
with each succeeding general electio
In the last General Assembly the pa
rot's friends were in the minority al
were forced to join with the Democra
as they did in 1896, to prevent the Unic
Republicans-the successors Of the il
mortal four OF iS95-from controlling Il
General Assembly and electing Mr.. A
dicks to the United States Senate. L
political crime which blots the histo
of the State and which has brought d
aster to the Republican party, was Il
committed by the 'four mer" who
fused to be ceerced into betraying t
people who voted for them in 1895. I
Senatorial vacancy occurring in th
year was a deserved rebuke of the pcoI
who deliberately planned to thwart t
will of the voters. The crime Of is
was like that Of 1895, except that {
cOnspirators driven to mora despt rs
measures, allied themselves with t
Democrats, in pan of wholesale pol.