Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-11-07
WILMINGTON, TnURsDAr. Nor.s.
Admission Of Political Corruption.

Admission Of Political Corruption.
As a rpls, the .Addicks Republican
organs in Delaware repudiate. with
hypooritioal indignation, any suggestion
oven thas their PARTY uses money to
carry elections in this State. They
girtuously make the claim that victory,
when it attends any campaign in which
their party IS concerned, Is the result
OF the confidence of the people in tho
principles and candidates of the Ad-
dicks Republican party,
But occasionally tho truth will slip
out. even in the columns OF an Addiclss
Republican organ. For example, tho
Union Republican OF Georgetown, in
its issue Of Saturday, in an editorial
designed to REID lecture to Republic
cans who refuse to endorse Addioks,
makes use of this expression: "They
tell us that j. Edward Addicks uses
money to purchase votes with, but the
very men that are saying il the loadest
are the VERY MEN THAT HAVE
ACCEPTED HIS MONEY AND
THEN SOLD OUT TO A HIGHER
BIDDER" -&
Nothing could be rlainer than this
language, employed in the editorial
columns of psper that is an aoknow.
: edged organ, Of the political party of
which Ny. Addicks is the head aud
front snd absolute master.
Tbs AddicKs Republican organ says,
iUeffect, ''Mr. Addicks bought men AZ
elections;'' and then adds the oom-
plant that they "sold out to higher
bidder What price the higher
bidder must have paid.
But it is to the admission of political
corruption, the admission that money
is used In the purchase of votes for the
Union Republican party, that we wish
to call to the attention of the people of
this State. Not that it will create any
surprise as an item OF news. for it will
not 1t has been notorious to all good
citizens that the Union Republican
party maintained its organization only
/. by the use OF money, and expended
money layishly at the polls in the cor
ruptiou of voters. Only by this means
was it enabled to make showing at
elections. and without this corruption
it would not have a corporal's guard
upon the voting lists of any election in
Delaware.
This significant and unexpectedly
frank admission upon the rart of a
leading organ of the Addicks Republi-
can party strips that organization of
the last pretence of political morality.
1t lays bare the framework Of Union
Republicanism, from foundation stone
10 pinnacle, and shows that it is a
structure of fraud built upon the cor
rupt use of money. Take away the cor
rupting money and the entire structure
would topple over in ruins.
What will the honest people Of Della.
ware think of the shameless iusolence,
the brazen infamy, OF this confession
of political oorruption9 No longer can
any respectable element make even a
pretsnce of utilization with this or.
gsnization without deliberately shai ing
10 the iguominy of disreputable assooia
tion. All pretence Of decency is aban
doned, and the organ of n corrupt
political party brazenly admits that
party's shame and its dependence
upon corruption of the suffrage for it's
existence.
Hereafter there can be no evasion, no
misunderstanding, no clouding OF the
issue. The Union Republican party
Of Delaware ia the party of political
corruption, by the confession Of enc of
its chief organs.