The sun., 1901-03-26
1.-THE INcREDIBILITY OF IT."


This title we borrow. The Public Led
ger used it over an article defaming tins
State, its politics, its public men, and
incidentally President Mckinley ana
Chairman Hanna of the Republican Ma
tional Committee. The article i'll qucs-
ton was copied, us the Ledger makes Il
practice of copying every defamatory ar
ticle about Delaware from another
paper. 1t is tissue of lies. The incrcd-
lbility about it is the supposition that
any Dclawarean credits these lies, or
that he, or they, as the case may be,
desires that the people of the other
States should hold such opinions about
Delaware. Here is lie first, from the
extract printed by the Ledger:
In Delaware there is an attempt, OH the
part of man who is not even eitizeh
of that State, to foist upon its people Il
United States Senator whom they have
repudiated.
The lie in this is apparent. The im-
ftion to the viii Of the people Of this this
State. There isn't Republican or Dem
ocrat in this State, who has +, sense
enough to eat when he is hungry, who
does not know that what the Ledger re.
prints, and then becomes sponsor for
is lie out of the whole cloth. Mr.. Han
ma has not made any such attempt Ms
IS described; nor have the people of
Delaware repudiated Mr. Addicks. The
contrary of this is the truth. The peo
pie here have over and over again an
proved Mr.. Addicks' Senatorial cand
dacy, and everybody in Delaware knows
hat they have done so.
Now 'the incrediblity of it." 1t i,
in this First that the people Of Della
ware who are supposed to hold the honol
Of the State as dear as their personal
honor, allow such lies to be told fol
their benefit; and that others who profess
10 mold the honor of the State, and the
reputation of its people in high esteem
should let such lies go broadcast with.
out indignant contradiction. Second:
mat newspaper circulating in Della.
ware should persistcntly print, of lis
own accord, and copy from other news.
papers, every lie that is told, knowing
It to be a lie, and when the truth is So
'asily obtained.
For lie number two, we select this;
n boss comes from far away Ohio. but
he undertakes to enter into the politics of
delaware, and dictate to her people what
th"y shall do as regards their Senator
snip lie sends out to them what is.
II effect, illumination, reproaching them
for having failed to elect this man MS
senator, who would have disgraced them
II the Office, and threatening them with
punishment at the hands of the President
Of the United States himself, unless thcy
retrace their steps and stigmatize their
state by degrading its Senatorship.
Isn't it time that the Republicans Of
Delaware, every one OF them who re-
CARDS the truth, to repudiate lies like
this! Is it not incredible that they do
not rcpudiate such lies in self defense ?
1t is incredible that men of honor, iudr-
ment and knowledge of public affairs.
VIII allow such ISLANDERS Of fellow citi-
zen, as Is here directed toward Mr.. Ad-
ticks, to go unanswered and unrcbuked
These men know that there is nothing in
the relations which Mr.. Addicks sus
| talns to the State of Delaware that in
any way detracts from the honor of the
state or the reputation of the people
They know that he is clean, capable and
honest. That he is a good citizen that
his influence in Delaware politics has
been potent in overthrowing a political
fraud and corruption that held the State
as In chains. That he has done for the
State what none of the Democratic lead
erS, not even the ablest and best, dared
to do, and what each and all of the Re.
publican leaders before his time failed
to do. And they know, too, that there
is no good reason for the charge that
Mr.. Addicks would dishonor the Sena
torial office and disgrace the State. What
they know of him as a public man. and
private citizen, is proof positive of
the lie covered up in reprint Of the Led.
ger.
We are speaking soberly and we think
with some appreciation of the State Of