Evening journal., 1900-11-19
NEWSPAPER OPINION
The One Way out
From the Sunday Star.


fronts thekpeople Of this State is the
defeat of ]. Edward Addicks for the
United States Senate. No other ques-
tion that ever came before the citizens
of Delaware is comparable to this one
in the pregnancy Of its possibilities
for harm TO every interest that is dear
to the respectable and reputable ele-
ment of all parties throughout the
State No other question-in the hope
Of its rightful decision-ever appealed
with such force to that sense OF civic
duty which is supposed to animate the
respectable citizen in the exercise of
the political function incumbent upon
every freeman. One by one the bull
warSs of public virtue and private de-
cency have been undermined and top
pied over by the insidious approaches
OF the gasman's corrupting influence,
I until the alarming question may we'll
be asked. How many are there now
left to resist the final fruition of his
ldebased and debasing ambition?" The
latest detection from the ranks Of
those who recognize the danger that
threatens us, and on whose courage
and fidelity we had hoped to depend
for continued resistance to the politi-
cal leprosy that Addicks would inflict
upon the State, Is The Morning News.
The detection of The News came as a
surprise to every one; to its friends it
was a shocking revealment of the
gasman's seductive power to gain the
mastery over men who have been re-
garded as securely beyond the reach
of his crafty and corrodlng influence.
How has 1t been possible for The News
to be guilty of such apostasy? On
every side we hear only words Of
amazement and indignation tempered
here and there by the ultra charitable,
with expressions of regret at so sad
a fall. Even the men who glory in the
dishonor of being the plant tools of
the man for whose benefit The News
has sacrificed itself speak Of the paper
only in terms of contempt, explaining
its course by the pregnant phrase 1T
had to do It." Why did it have to do
it? For years The News stood with
shining SHE'D and uplifted lance in the
very forefront Of the heroic struggle
to preserve its party and the State
, from the fell effects of that deadly po-
litical virus known as Addicksism. II
was the rallying point around which
the friends of good government in the
: Republican party gathered to resist the
encroachment, from within their own
! ranks, of men and methods whose sue
cess would have been destructive Of all
| that is worth striving for in civic life
But now, with one stroke of its pen
The News skaters the honorable repu-
tation Of lifetime and makes it's name
5 by-word and a reproach to all reput
4 able men. Only yesterday 1t stooj
4 high In the esteem and confidence o
q the best men of it's party and it hat
the respect also OF its opponents. To
2 day there is none so poor as to do. j
r. honor.
But the cause of honesty and de
cency is not lost yet. There ar,
enough honorable, high-minded, pa
triotic men in the General Assembly L
3 defeat Mr.. Addicls, and we believ
s they will do it. The defeat should no
g go merely to the extent of keeping
o Addicks out; it should be emphasize
I and accentuated to the last degree b,
o electing two clean, able and honorabl
Il Regular Republicans to represent Della
n ware in the United States Senate-tw
i men as far removed from Addicks an
Addicksism as it is possible to name
l. The Democratic members of the Legis
IS lature will have an opportunity TO dis
l. tinglish themselves upon high plan
OF citizenship by serving the State
a manner that rarely falls to the lot c
! legislators to adopt. By sinking, 70
y the time being, their partisanship an
- rising to the exalted dignity of hig
2 duty they would command the warn
" est thanks and the unstinted praise {
the reputable people of the whole Stat
:, and from none, we believe, would TIL
y commendation come more earnestl
"a and cordially than from the rank an
file of the Democratic party. We hay
10 been at some pains to sound publ
v sentiment upon this question, an
3" among all classes, irrespective
he party. there is a unanimity Of feeliT
as as to the rightfulness and righteou
ness OF the course here suggest,
which gives hope Of an early and fin
10 deliverance from calamiy, the eXte
as and nature of which could be full
Id measured only by its fatal realizatio
ng In the supreme crisis now upon
nd ordinary party considerations shou
u be forgotten in remembrance of Del
y wares desperate need In this hour
her extreme peril.
The one fact that crystalizes a
makes clear the course to be pursu
at this time is that there will
In enough men in the coming Legis
lde ture opposed to Addicksism, not OF
in to defeat J. Edward Addieks for
,ts seat in the Senate Of the United Stat
- but to fittingly and effectually rebu
Ut the insolence and arrogance of his p
tensions to the most honorable of
in within the gift of the State upon
ire. sole plea that he has bought It.
=, surest and most effective way to
this-as we have pointed QUITS
art elect two high class Republics
the who stand unalterably opposed
ar everything in public life that Addi
in represents and typifes. The Repu'
- leans won the State election; they
iiOn fairly entitled to the two senators.
Tor they should have them. It will
the glory enough and honor enough
80 tho nou,ocrafs M this time to kI