Evening journal., 1901-03-22
NEWSPAPER OPINION
Die sIgnlfcant Warnlrg Of a Frlend

The Significant Warning Of Friend
From the Philadelphia Public ledger.
The New York Sun, under the cap
tion Of Beware" yesterday said:
What iS this talk about lend
ing The power of the adminis-
fratiOn, through the Federal
patronage i'm Delaware, 10 en-
able j. Edward AddicEs 10
break down the barrier which
the unpurchased and unpur-
chaSabIe Republicans of that
state have interpOSed between
his private ambition and the
vacant seat in the United States
Senate!
It was Ieiegraphed yesterday
from Washington that PreSi-
dent Mckinley has decided TO
delegate TO AddicISs the cAecu-
tive function Of selecting Fed
eraI Offices during fIe next four
years, so far as Delaware is
concerned.
To AddicIsS---J. Edward
a ddicISS!
Ht is much easier to suppose
that this information is false
than to believe that yHr. McE&in-
ley ana Var. Hanna have gone
crazy in company.
There will be glory To spare
in the pages that record The
history OfPreSident McnKinIey'S
two terms Of splendid public
service: but not enough glory
10 absorb and neutrnIize the
black, indeIibie stain on the
name Of Mckinley that would
be fixed by this single trans
action.
The Significance Of the foregoing de-
| lliverance is enhanced by the high
character of its origin. Since Mr.. Nc
Kinley was first nominated by the Re-
publican party for president, neither
he nor his administration has had any
more consistent, loyal or able sup
porter than the New York sun, the
Republicanism of which is of the most
radical kind. But the Sun is to self
Prospecting and too public spirited a
newspaper to approve or to receive
without manly and indignant protest
he intelligence that the president and
Senator Hanna should turn over to the
disposing will of j. Edward Addicks
for the next four years the Federal
Offices in Delaware, which State Mr..
Addicks. aided and abetted by Senator
lama, has selhshly and improvidently
deprived for the next two years of
senatorial representation.
That Mr.. Hanna should sympathize
With Mr.. Addicks is not unreasonable,
s. like Mr. Addicks, he is an extreme
y practical politician, and not always
so particular as to the means employed
as to the results to be achieved. But
hat President Mckinley, with his
political record. should sympathize
with Mr. Addicks' political methods, OF
with his purpose to obtain a seat in
the Senate of the United States, de-
spite the opposition of the majority of
the people OF Delaware. is unreason-
able and unnatural, as the president is
a man who considers not only results,
| but the means to obtain them 1t is,
consequently, most improbable be-
cause it should be impossible, that he
will consent to strengthen the hands
Iuf Mr.. Addicks and to weaken those of
the most reputable Republicans OF
Delaware by making him the dis
penser of the Federal patronage in
that State. The Ledger still doubts,
Notwithstanding apparently we'll au-
/ tthenticated reports to the contrary,
that the president has actually yielded
his own shrewder judgment and'better
principles to those of the chairman OF
the National Committee. The Ledger
Onfidently believes with the Sun,
that it is easier to suppose that this
Information is false than to believe
hat Mr. Mckinley and Mr.. Hanna
have gone crazy in company"
If this information should unfor-
ltunately be confirmed, the chances are
many and great that in order TO save
the personal and political fortunes Of
lMr. Addicks the president and Senator
Hanna have turned the Republican
Estate Of Delaware over to the rule Of
! he Democrats. f