The sun., 1900-07-05
so WE DARE SAY.

SO l dare say that there Is not-outslde
OF Mr.. Addicks-a single Senatorial can
didate in Delaware who is able to obtain
seat in the United States Senate by
purchase, and do not believe that one
of these candidates would be willing to
accept the honor on such terms, ASSUME
ing that the necessary cash was in hand
and could be spared for such a purpose.
Senatorial candidates in Delaware here
tofore have usually depended upon edu-
cation, upon party or public services,
upon personal reputation, upon their
knowledge OF the State and OF
its interests. Doubtless some of them and
perhaps all Of them, have from time to
time given money to their party, but
none of them, SO far as | know, has ever
made his contributions contingent upon
party promise to elect him. Mr.. Ad-
dicks, therefore, as against the others, is
playing card which none of them holds.
1t does not seem quite fair, even from
the point OF view of an outside observer.
For If Mr.. Addicks could play dis
tinguished reputation, or wide learning,
or persuasive eloquence, against them,
then he would be on the common ground
and his rivals for the United States
Senate would have nothing to say ex-
cept that the State had had due
regard to its own interests in choos-
ing man who was eminently fitted
to represent it. All the others would
have failed on their own ground-and
square men do not complain of tnat, how
ever much they may regret it. Every
man who aims at high office takes his
chances of being beaten, and if he is de-
feated fairly he puts up with it. Butwhen
the question is to be determined by so
much hard cash, which they would not
use in such manner if they had it, as
they have not, the men of scholarly at
tainments, of political sagacity, of trained
Judgment, may we'll feel that their
high gifts have not been declined by their
fellow, citizens in the ordinary sense
of American politics, but simply have
been swamped under pecuniary circum-
stances like to those of market where
sufficient money commands everything,
and no question of fitness or character
comes into play.
have nothing but feeling of disgust
and contempt for those demagogues who
seek to make the possession OF we alth in
itself proof that the possessor is bad
or dangerous man, because | know
that mans real nature and character
are not materially effected by the con-
tents of his pocket-book. r. S. in
the Morning News.
The Hon. Watson R. Sperry of Dres-
den, Germany, returns to the discussion
Of the Delaware Senatorial question in a
letter two columns long, to the Morning
News, from which we quote the above
paragraphs. We have read Mr.. Sperry' 8
letter very carefully and have chosen
what we have quoted as fair summary
Of his exhaustive treatise. In it the
reader will find two assumptions OF fact
which we dare say are not true; are not
borne out by the facts of the case, and
which, Notwithstanding Mr.. Sperry's
evident attempt to appear fair in his dis.
cussion, are unfair and lead him away
from the real question at issue In Della.
ware politics.
The suggestion upon which Mr.. Sperry
has based his conclusions is that OF re.
Gently published letter, signed Union
Republican, in which the writer asserts
his belief that to award an election to the
United States Senate to Mr.. Addicks in
return for an alleged money considera.
ton would be good politics. From this
conclusion of Union Republican, Mr..
Sperry assumes that Mr.. Addicks' posi-
tion in Delaware politics is that of a
totally unfit candidate for the important
office of United States Senator trying to
buy his way into that Office, and that in
Delaware United States Senatorships
are to be disposed of at auction.
Neither of these assumptions is trne. To
dispose of them we dismiss them, as they
deserve to be, with emphatic denials.
The asserted belief of Union Republican
as to what is good Or necessary policy in
Delaware politics is in no way important
or decisive in the matter. It proves
nothing except what one man with very
little judgment about such things has
chosen to express as his personal opinion