The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1901-01-23
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY %, 1901
BUSINESS MAN POLITICS.

BUSINESS MAN POLiliCo
In what is reputed to have been in
terviews with n representative with Col
onel H. A. uu Points organ in this city,
George S. Capelle, ii. w. Cause, John
Bancroft and John j. Satterthwaite, Sc
lected as representative the business
men of Wilmington, give their opinions
upon the question of the pending Sena-
torial election. These interviews are
decidedly interviews OF resentment-the
parties named resented the representa-
ton that the business men of this city
are demanding the election Of two Re
publican Senators including Mr.. Addicks,
because the term business men did not
include them. Four of them assume to
be- and represent all the business men of
Wilmington. That is the same old story,
the minority claiming the majority in
fluence and prerogatiye. 1t has been |
noticeable that in the politics of this |
State certain individuals have always |
acted as il they held a mortgage on any |
and every position of honor or profit to
which they might choose to aspire, and
this because they happened to have been
born a scion OF an old Delaware family,
and there are still people in the politics
of the State who rely ON the record of
their grandfathers to establish their po
litical worth and orthodoxy. The fact
is that with many of these people all
they have and are, in reputation, posi-
ton and property has been bequeathed
them, and the others, those who don't
the courtesy Of those who do. Now we
have the same thing in business. A few
men who happen, by no virtue of their
own, to be connected with the large
business concerns of the city, imagine
that their likes aud dislikes and what
they think and propose as the result Of
these personal likes and dislikes, is
what all the business men think, want
and propose. The folly of such an idea
must be apparent to any ordinary percep-
ton of things polite.
The only remarkable thing about these
interviews is the absence of any reason
for what the interviewed parties pro-
posed. They agree in their opposition to
Mr.. Addicks, and they agree in not Civ
ing any reasonable cause why they OPP
pose him; they regard him as an unfit
candidate; they think so and SO; they
imagine so and so-that this, or that,
might or might not occur If Mr.. Addicks
was elected Senator. There is not whit
more of common sense in the whole
ness mems names, and served up as the
very cream of wise political opinion,
than there is in that nonsensical sum-
ming up Of their interviews. Not one
of these men whose names are paraded
as representing the political wisdom and
virtue, has known enough about the stu
;tion, or about the candidates for SEN
ator to give common sense reason for
their opposition to Mr.. Addicks-they alb
solutely give no reason at all for what
they say or for what they advise should
be done
Isn't It time that this parade of names,
this flow of sentimental words and this
show of mock virtue, was done with :!
persistence in that kind of stuff does
not, cannot alter the fact of the choice
Of Mr.. Addicks for United States Sen
;ttor By majority of the Republicans of
Deaware-a choice four times verified,
That is Il fact that Mr.. Capelle, Mr..
bancroft, Mr.. Cause an. Mr.. Satterth-
waite, one or all Of them, cannot hide
or destroy; moreover, the opinion and
wishes Of each one Of the majority OF the
Republicans who are supporting Mr.. Ad-
dlcks Tor United States Senator, is Of
Just as much account politically as are
the opinions and wishes of either Of these
business men, aye, Of more account in
that their opinion and wishes, being the
opinions and wishes of the majority are
presumably the right opinions. Minor
lly opinions and wishes are, in American
politics, the wrong opinions and wishes
NO position, reputation or possession can
make any opinion or wish the right opin-
ion or wish in politics when a majority
Uf the people declare the contrary.
1t follows the forcing Of such stuff on
The people to deceive them, to bring
about what the people do not want, what
They have repeatedly said they do not
want, is debasing and not purifying pol
itics The Republicans of this State are
tired of politics Of the make believe bust
ness man order.