The times., 1901-03-24
ADDICKs AND THE PRESIDENT.
The solemn Accusation of an Inde-
penienf Organ.
lc New York Fvening Post.

(From the New York Evening Post)
For number of years j. Edward Ad-
dicks a rich. vulgar, and INSCRIPTIONS
speculator has been trying to buy seat
in the United States Senate from Della
ware Three times in succession he has
failed. because an honorable element IN
the Republican party considered him
disgrace to the State which he sought 10
represent and preferred that the seat
should remain vacant, or even be hlied
by the opposition. rather than that II
should be occupied by so disreputaoie
person.
During these three contests Addicks mas
secured no help from the national Admin
istration. When he spent $4,000 in the
election of Republican members OF the
Legislature in 1894. and then early in 1895
demanded from them his pay in the shape
of the Senatorship. Democrat sat in the
White House. At his next trial, in 1S9s-99.
and again when he attempted the same
trade in 1901 two Scholarships now be-
ing at stake), there was a Republican
President but MIR. Mckinley gave him no
help in the disposition of the Federal
patronage.
A fortnight ago the Delaware Legisla-
ture adjourned seven Republican mem
bers having stood out to the end against
all of the influences which We're brought
to hear in behalf of the man who is de
bauching their State. 1t is hardly possI-
BILE to exaggerate the power of these IN
huences A man who has millions OF DOL
lars. and who is willing 10 spend money
reckIessIy in a small Commonwealth. can
bring pressure TO bear upon poor legls-
lators in variety of ways hard to resist.
Addicks also had the open support or the
Chairman of the Republican Natlonai
Committee. with all of the resources at
Hanna's command. The head of the par
ty organization had Addicks recognized
at the Philadelphia Convention last sum
mer, and he insisted that Republican
members of the Delaware Legislature
should follow that example.
So much was open to the world. we
have said that in the third as in the second
of Addicks struggles the Administration
at Washington refrained from giving him
any help i'll nrthe allotment of Federal pa
tronage But the President did not keep
his hands of" throughout the recent
struggle. Ii is part of the hitherto un-
written history of this contest that recall
citraut Republican members of the LeSiS-
Iature after Hanna had failed TO move
them were summoned to the Nhlte
House and were importuned by Mr.. Nc
Kinley 20 send two Republican Senator's
20 Washington, even If one OF them must
he the man whom their consciences had
prevented them from supporting. 1t Is
refreshing to know that these plain men
Of honor did not hesitate 10 tell the Pres
ident of the United States that the price
was too high.
Mr. Mckinley now abandons conceal
meut He has just made an appointment
of an Addicks man TO a poStmaSterShip.
and when the opponents OF Addicks pro-
tested he informed them that he had
made this appointment iii full knowledge
of its bearings. 1t is now universally
understood that the President has decided
openly TO help Addicks, and ii is feared
by those who have kept up the good hght
against corruption all these weary years
that this influence will at last defeat
them The general expectation Is that
Addicks will now succeed IN perSuadlnS
enough of his Republican opponents to
abandon the struggle so that majority
of the Legislature will agree TO elect him
and somebody else at an extra session,
which will be held as soon as the neces-
Sary arrangements are made.
1t is nothing short of a national humili-
alton that the Government of the United
States should be thus employed to pro
mote the oebauchery of a State and the
decentralization of political standards in
the Republic. Addicks is the most open,
fragrant, and successful corruptionist We
have ever seen In national politics. The
system which he has developed III Della
ware is the most elaborate and pervaSiVe
ever applied anywhere. He secures the
influence of men of local consequence
THROUGHOUT the SJdIt-Ine country
yer. the village doctor, the rural store
keeper-and rewards them for working in
his behalf. He is always ready to pay
off the mortgage of a poor farmer who
will recognize the obligation at the polls.
He gives positions as directors in his gas
company to men of Importance. He buys
votes at the polls through his agents by
the hundreds at every election. SO being
a common price for ballot, and even
$40 being sometimes obtained when the
competition is keen. This work of de-
moralization has been going on so long
and so successfully that a leading Jurist
of Delaware, III discussing the situation
last year was constrained TO say that
the very foundations of morality are
being steadily undermined in our State.
All decent people throughout the coun-
try reioiced fortnight ago, when IL ap-
peared that Delaware still retained suf-
ficient principle and conscience to thwaTt
for the third time the impudent attempt
of an open cOrruptionist to make traf-
tic of a Senatorship which has been so
often filled by a high-minded statesman
There must be equal indignation now
against the proposal of Mr.. Mckinley to
help on this outrageous scheme. Public
sentiment should be pronounced, and or
2aniZed, and brought TO bear at the White
House. The President must be made TO
feel that the people of this nation Will
not endure the prostitution OF the FEEDER
al service in aid of a man who is de-
bauching a State