Evening journal., 1901-12-09
Lying From Habit

From the Milford News and Advertiser.
When lying becomes necessary toI
make out case, there is something
wrong. Addicksism has been one enor-
nous falsehood from start to finish, I'M
general and i'm detail. Someone has
said that it is impossible to argue over
one of the commandments; it is equal
ly impossible to argue with those who
will admit no premise. Certain facts
OF Delaware history we supposed were
accepted as absolute, but when these
come between Addicks and his desires
they are set aside with unblushing ef-
trontery. The teachings of religion
are as naught when they operate to-
deprive the great despOiler of his prey.
1t would seem inconceivable that an
editor could be found so devoid of
moral sense as to give utterance daily
&c State falsehOods and to originate
new evasions for each issue. But in
conceivable or not, it has been done
We are not sufficiently narrow to ask
everyone To accept our opinions,
neither are we sufficiently lax as to-
allow untruth uttered purpOsely and
maiciously to pass unchallenged. We
hciieve we may say conservatively that
there has not been an issue of the Will
mington Sun in years, but that its
editorial utterances have contained a
great deal Of wilful misstatement.
There are falsehOods direct. and false
hoods by Implication We do not read
many articles during the past twelve
month in which there has been a really
honest endeavOr to present truth as it
Is without warp or bias This is a Sc
we're arraignment, but certainly il is
warranted. To prove our statement
1t would only be necessary to publish
its editorials in their entirety; this
we cannot bring ourselves to do. Some
time, after our people have returned to
reason and sanity. what an interesting
and curious exhibit the files of the Sun
viii make
Here is a sample of prevarication:
MIR. Addicks did not defy the obh-
cations of majority rule in 1895. either
by his own act or by the action of
any one or more members of the Legis-
lature of 1895. The four men who voted
continuously and finally for Mr.. Ad-
dicks in that Legislature did so OF their
own volition entirely. Assertion to the
contrary is not disprOof of the fact as
we here state IL"
Now that is a matter about which
There can be no dispute. Addicks pro-
claimed from the housetops that if he
was not elected no one else should be.
1t was than that the cry of "Addicks
or nobody originated, and Addicks
himself was the author of It. It was
Addicks who secured an agreement in
writing signed by his four supporters.
pledging themselves to vote for no
one else THAT document is now in the
possession of Ex-Governor Watson. MI
merous persons went to Addicks i'm
ploring him to release Robbins from
his agreement in order that he might
cast vote that should elect a senator
Robbins himself pleaded for release.
The present Secretary of State tod the
writer recently that he begged Mr.. Ad-
dicks to yield and elect a senator, but
/ he stubbornly refused. A Wilmington
lawyer urged Addicks to allow him to
release one of the four men from his
pledge, and Addicks said: mo, / will
not release him, and / won't trust YOU
to carry the message" Then he called
one uf mis- henchmen and sent him
with a message commanding the four
to stick to him TO the last Another
Wilmington lawyer went to urge him
not to defeat the election of a Repub-
lican senator. saying that Robbins was
anxious TO be released. Addicks re-
piled, mo, Robbins shall stand to his
agreement till the end of the session
That is a part OF the evidence. and
The clipping we quote is as base a false
u hood as was ever uttered It's author
whether he be the nominal editor Oi
the paper or AddiclCs himself uttered
the falsehood wilfully and deliberately
And this Addicks is still a candidate
X for senatori