The Delawarean., 1900-09-01
ARE PREACHERS DOING
THEIR WHOLE DUTY I?
A Contributor Says they are Certain
ly Not Unless they Teach That
Bribery is Iniquity
Most Vile.
Editor the Delawarean:


know that there are serious OBJ
jections to preachers in politics. but
though we may admit that politics is
something apart from religion, it is
not inconsistent with it, and immor-
ality in policies as well as any whers
else, should be rebuked by the pulpit,
That immortality in politics aboiinds
IN this country no right minded person
will deny 1t is admitted that the Re-
publican States of New England are
carried by the corrupt uses of money.
while the condition of the Middle
States is only too we'll known, and
here in our own State of Delaware the
traffic in ballots lis recognized and APP
proved of as a legitimate business.
Leckey in his dissertation ON Demo-
cracy and liberty says that ''No feat
lire in American life strikes a stranger
so powerfully as the extraordinary in
difference with which notorious frauds
and nefarious corrputions in the
sphere of politics are viewed in Ameri-
ca" ]. Edward Addicks boasts that
he owns three-foruths of the Republi-
can votes in this State and has pledged
himself to THE Republican National
Committee ito procure as many more
Republican and Democratic voters as
'nytiYa Cafta
supporters of the imperialism of Han
ma. Mckinley G Co., which the Hon.
John J.. Lenby has truly said is the
beginning of dry rot and means
eventually the prostitution fevery
American sentiment" Dared Mr.. Ad-
dicks have given such a pledge if the
morals of the community were mott
corrupt? for the politics % fthe State
are never worse than the average
morals of the community, and who,
Mr.. Editor, is responsible for our
morals? Think ye, had the preachers
nthis State done their duty as min
listers of their flocks so many of our
citizens would be lured to Mr. Addicks
by the music of the bank notes
rustic or the hypnotic power Of goldv
Mr. Addicks is regarded ais a public
man as inadequate and mot fitted for
leadership. AS Thomas Jefferson said,
when a man has cast a longing eye
on an office a rottenness begins with
his conduct. And certainly since the
inception of Mr.. Addicks in Delaware
politics his political course has been
characterized by rottenness. Mr..
Editor, it is APPEALING Ito think that
in Dover where, under Democratic in
tluence, independents citizens rallied
round alt political conventions yertu-
GUS and honest leaders, who loved the
free expression o Thought, that two
or more conventions of delegates cleo
\ ted by citizens o fthe State could be
assembled to do the behests of a die
tator who knows nothing of personal
predictions lor antipathies, nothing
of hesitation or sacrifice, but only that
Il want it, What think YOU. Mr..
Editor, must be the standard Of POI
itical morality and the ideals of pat9 :
tism of lhe puppets and maptonettes
chat composed the Two Uni9n Republi-
can conventions hsld this m3nth in
Dover. And jus here allow me to
say that in attrNbreing culpability tc
the preachers in the State for the
4 present contention tof things / wish to
except the two lsadings preachers in
the State, Rev. Joseph Brown Turner
and Rev. Dr. Alfred Smith, for they
have not been silent on the matter.
The latter in May, last year. preached
a memorable sermon from 'the text,
BE We, therefore, partakers with
them. and have no fellowship
with the unfruitful walks Of darkness,
but rather reprove them" In that
sermon the Reverend Doctor denounc-
ed the corruption found in politics,
and said that ''to receive the emolu-
ments even i'm the least degree that
came from a corrupt use of money in
politics makes us partakens of the sims
of the 'bribers." And oh how strange
is the irony of fate. for I am told that
some of the leading automlatous in the
/ Addicl1s conventions are members of
the Reverend Doctors congregations
If it be so, then say THAT it is more
than probably true that there are
lower hopes of men who are affected
by reason or restrained by morality.
Butt if Mr.. Turner and Doctor Smith
have warmed their fbocks regarding
this great iniquity, other preachers in
the State have mot, but have been
somewhat like in reference to lit Ito
THAT OF the voter whose position I'm
politics as Ithe story lis told his wife,
graphically described to John MI
Clayton. But mo matter what may
have been dome i'm the past there mus'
now be no warming or toadyir
The day of conflict is ait hand, am
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