Evening journal., 1901-04-29
NEW WSPAPER OPINION
The Presidents Name on the Back of Ad-
dicks Paper
From the New York SIM.

ulChS Fdper
From the New York Sun.
President Mckinley will probably
start on his Western tour without hav-
ing satisfied the Addicks factionists
in Delaware that they can count sure
ly upon the administration support
through the use of the Federal patron
age. This is to say, the president has
not made up his mind to commit him
self TO the policy urged upon him by
the friends of Addicks in Delaware.
but viewed with sincere alarm by
friends OF his own in most other parts
of the country
Nobody is better able than the presi-
dent TO understand the size and shade
OF the stain that will disfgure the his
torical record of his second term if he
now interferes in behalf OF such a man
as j. Edward Addicks. Responsibility
for Addicks' presence in the United
States Senate is not likely to be incur
red by Mr.. Mckinley except as a per-
sonal sacrifice reluctantly made in or
der to secure for the Republican party
a benefit Outweighing all other consid-
.erations.
The president is in a position so diff
cult and delicate that hesitation is a
virtue. In this case the personal sacri-
flee demanded of him on one side is
nothing less than his own Identification
for all future time with Addicksism.
and whatever of Odium and disgrace
chat unpleasant term implies. The
brazen ambition of Addicks, thwarted
for years, to the honor OF Delaware by
the self-respecting Republicans of that
State, asks that it be crowned finally
by the hand of the president.
On the other side, appealing strongly
70 the presidents sense Of duty to his
party, is the theory that yielding to Ad-
dicks means the filling OF Delaware's s
two vacant seats in the Senate with
two Republicans If we reckon Addicks
as such, and he is now nominally and
for his own purposes a Republican in
regular standing. This side of the
question, the purely practical side from
the point Of view of party manage
lment, is perhaps not affected by the
circumstance that IL is Addicl1s him
self who has kept Delaware unrepre-
sented by two Republican senators. His
lavowed platform is "Addicks or No
body" The alternative before the
president, therefore, is one which de
mands his most careful consideration
and most deliberate action.
Those who are urging the president
to write his honored name across the
back of Addicks impudent draft, are
apt to assume, as we observe that the
present situation would thereby be
lresolved. The assumption is that If Mr.
| Mckinley should conclude TO nay the
price and make the sacrifice, the Object
Of that sacrifice would be attained. The
political effect OF the recognition of Ad
dicks by the appointment, for exampl,
OF his candidate, Colonel ID. p. Barnard
for collector at Wilmington. would b,
such as to insure the election Of Ad
dicks and somebody else at an eXtr,
session Of the Legislature. In Othei
words, it Is alleged that the admins
tratiOn's acceptance of Addicks as an
evil for the sake of good would settl,
the unfortunate Delaware question.
Is that certain? Is II not far NOR,
likely that if the Delaware Legislature
should be reassembled after the presi
dent had committed himself to Ad
dicks cause by making him the dis
lpenser of Federal patronage, the sever
| Republicans who held out to the en-,
ofthe recent regular session against tn
unworthy candidate for senator w0ul,
be found as inflexible as before? II
that case the humiliating price de
manded of Mr.. Mckinley would hav,
been paid, the personal sacrifice re
quired Of him would have been made
and yet the situation would remail
exactly what IL is to-day with regar'
to the two Delaware vacancies.
In that case II would be the endorse
that paid-not Addicks.