Evening journal., 1901-03-11
The Responsibility for Addicks

spSctinB the failure Of the DelaWarel
Legislature to elect senator's because of
the dog-in-the-manger policy of Mr..
j. Edward Addicks:
Mr.. Addicks, once a guerrilla skir-
misher outside the recognized party
ranks, has now the credentials oil
regularity. In return for that rscogni-
ticn he does the party the greatest in
jury that is in his power to infiict
upon H."
Every word of the foregoing is true.
ana us lndisputable accuracy naturally
suggests the important question: Who
nave the guerrilla, skirmishing outside
the party, the credentials of regularity.
the rank and power, by means Of
which he has been able to do not only
the party but the State and country.
the greatest injury that he could infict
upon it? Another question which fol-
lows as matter of course is: WhvI
was this political blunder or crime
committed?
The New York Tribune not less
loyalty Republican, not less an admin
istration organ than the Press. answers
the first of these questions, though less
specifically than 1T might have done.
Speaking of the failure TO fill the two
vacant seats in the Senate to which
Delaware is entitled to, the Tribune
said on the 9th instant:
This situation is the direct result
Iof the unexpected action of the Re-
publican National Convention last June
IN recognizing the claims of j. Edward
Addlcks to represent the Republican
party OF Delaware and seating his dele
gates. Four years before, at st. Louis.
he had ben deliberately outlawed as
traitor to the party, and in the mean
time had succeeded in adding some new
chapters to an unsavOry record. Why
that just and necessary verdict was re-
yersed at Philadelphia has never been
satisfactorily explained. but in the
light Of events the folly of reversing
1t has become more and more appar-
ent"
If the Tribune had explicitly stated
that not the Republican National Con-
vention, but the National Republican
Committee, acting under and absolutely
controlled by Chairman Hanna, was re-
lsponsibls for Addicks being elevated
from the position of a guerilla. skir-
mishing outside of the party, to the
rank OF a national committeeman and
leader inside the party, it would have
told the exact truth.
When it is considered that Senator
Hanna is a practical politician, and
that his political principles and meth
DDS are not wholly unlike those of Mr..
Addieks, the reasons for making the
latter member of the National Com
lmittee and for admitting his delegates
TO seats in the convention, will appear
20 be plain enough. Mr.. Addicks' po-
litical tactics and more solid and con.
lUinnfnn .
ator Hanna to be necessary to carry
Delaware for the national Republican
ticket. Throughout the senatorial
fight, which ended on Friday last in
Mr. Addicks' defeat, Senator Hanna
was aggressively active in efforts Il
force the election of his political Co
partner, and, unfortunately, il is not a.
all certain that the national chair
mans interference in behalf of his as
lsociate ended with the latter's defeat
= AS Mr. Hanna eXerts 80 powerful al
influence in the affairs of the nationa
administration. II will be readily per
I ceiyed how mischievously it is likel,
70 be eNerted for the purpose Of con
7 unuing Mr.. Addicks in the field indegf
= nltely as dOg-in-the-mange candi
e dat9 for senator under the familia
Y Warery: "Addicks or nObdy"
. The Boston Herald. a staunch Re
e publican newspaper said as long ag
e as February p, respecting Senate
y Hanna's responsibility for Mr.. Ad
dicks
e The incidents attending this Della
= ware contest should not be forgotten
Mr.. Hanna prostituted the Republica
e party for ]. Edward Addlcks as lon
It ago as last June in the arrangemen.
d He did this by inducing the Republi
Il lean National Convention CT that date [
4 accept Mr.Addicls as the eauthorizedre rer
l. resentative Of the Delaware Repubi
cans.
"The action here was distinctly di.
Reputable. Up to that time Addicb
had had no recognition as a represents
tive Republican outside his own Stat
a. and he had been Odious in it to the me
e in his own party who had the respel
m and coniidence Of their national ass
20 ciates. In the Republican Nations
ID Convention of four years earlier I
ne had been contemptuously voted dow
e. and sent away as the result of his al
IN lplication for admission. Nothing hs
n occurred since then to make Mr.. Al
a dicks more acceptable as a Republ
can.
II There was not one Republican
X prominence in the entire nation tn
he Sustained or defended the action of A
In dicks up to the time that Hanna ma
IF his arrangement with him in the co
~ lvention OF 1900. This rehabilitat.
10 him and officially made of him an @
n thodox Republican. Not only that:
as turned down those Republicans Of d,
,s- aware who had striven to keep the
n party pure in the State. and it nut A
-e- dicks officially over them. 1t cou
"a not change the estimation of Addic
among the self-respecting Republica
of the nation generally; but It reco
nizod him as the representative Of {
Republicans of Delaware. giving n
er that position as a member of the n
ed tinaOl Republican Committee"
Id Indirectly, and also directly. by a
ed ing and abetting Mr.. Addicks to &C
Re- duct his discreditable contest. Ser
ed. tor Hanna is chiefly or altogether
tor sponsible for Delawares two vacs
no seats in the Federal Senate. Had