Delaware gazette and state journal., 1902-12-04
THINKS PRESIDENT WAS MISTAKEN.

Thomas asF.Bayard Answers His Reasons for
Reappointing Byrne District Attorney.
Letter in New York Herald.
In your issue today is an article
headed "Will Not Try to Crush Ad-
! dicks" in which your Washington
| correspondent undertakes to set forth
the following facts to sustain Mr..
Roosevelt in his appointment of W. M.
Byrne to the office of United States
district attorney for Delaware,
l. That he Byrne1 had been of the
greatest service to the President
(Roosevelt) both before and after he
ran fo- Vice President.
4 2. Doing work for the public good
which need net be reoounted at this
! time.
8. The appointment was not made
4 for tho purpose of rewarding the Al
dicks faction.
4. The result of Byrne's candidacy
was that the Addicks and anita
dicks men went to the polls on Novem-
| Der 4th and for the first time both were
counted.
| 5. The tabulation of the Congress
sional vote meant to show the relative
strength between Addicks and the anti
4 Addicks faction in the Republican
party.
G. That the Congressional vote showed
Roosevelt that while Addiczs had been
using money greatly in New Castle
county and in the city of Wilmington,
it could not be true in the two lower
/ counties.
Z. That to make a good contention
that Addicks had bought the two
lower counties was to hold that 81 per
cent of the Republican party in the
lower end of the State was purchasa-
bic. and the President does not think
this last tan he maintained.
A full and complete refutation of
these several points, taking them up
! In order, is as follows:
/. The greater part of the services
referred to was direct violation of
the Civil Service rule which forbids
undue political activity by Federal
oticeholder. This was well known to
Mr. Roosevelt at the time the services
! were rendered.
2. If this means Byrne's method of
doing his work while district attorney
! for Delaware, statement from Mr..
James Nj. Beck. Assistant United
States Attorney General, would soon
dispel the value of Mr.. Byrne's official
services.
& Iuasmuch as Byrne went into the
campaign and ran for office purely as
an Addicks candidate, and still teaches
and breaches Addicks, it is impossible
for an honest man to divorce him from
his affiiation with Addioks by this
appointment
4. This is absolutely false, as Addicks
had his own andidate-Jonathan
Willis-running for Congrss in 1896
against Mr.. Robert Houston, the Regu-
lar Republican nominee.
8. No allowance is made in the diff
ference of 5000 votes between the two
faptions for the purchased Democratic
vote in the two lower counties, nor for
the gradual and increasing purchase
during the last few campaigns of the
regular Republican vote.
9. ibis is merely wilful and de-
liberate misstatement and refusal to
investigate the true facts.
Z. There are more than 4,000 negro
voters in the two lower counties, at
least 80 per cent of whom vote only the
| Republican ticket, and such has been
Addicks' influence that they now in
sist upon a consideration before doing
even that To any one familiar with
the methods employed by Addick on
November 4th last an assignment of 81
per cent of this vote to the Addicks
faction is absolutely fair.
Thomas +. Bayard.
Wilmington, Del, Nov. %, 1902