Delaware gazette and state journal., 1902-11-20
Sew York Evening Posi-.

sCorrespondence New York Evening Post.
3. Wilmington, Dell, Nov. 13-If J.
Edward Addicks, speoulator, gains for
himself by this election place in the
United States Senate. his success will
be owing largely to Theodore Roosevelt.
1t will be owing to the man who, seven
years ago, wrote about American ideals,
and declared: 1.-THE constituencies
stock speculator. who acquires wealth
by swindling his fellows, by debauch-
Ing judges and Legislatures, and who
ends his days with the reputation Of
being among the richest men in
America, exerts over the minds of the
rising ger .ation an influence worse
than tP average murderer or bandit,
because his career is even more daz-
zling in its success, and even more dan
PNrous in its effects upon the COM
Munity. Hard, brutal indif-
ference to the right, and an equally
brutal shortsightedness as to the in
evitable results of corruption and in
justice, are baleful beyond measure.
These two passages are regarded here
as characterizations first of Addicks,
and second of him who wrote them.
The outcome of the appointment OF
Addicks' man, William Michael Byrne,
TO the office Of United States attorney
for Delaware, depends entirely upon
how the Presidents action affects the
Republicans elected to the Legislature
of Delaware. To be endorsed by the
President of the United States is no
small favor. Any one familiar with
the run of men sent to Legislatures can
guess what influence that endorsement
would have in ordinary circumstances.
They would say: "Well, il Addicks is
good enough for the President, he is
good enough for u.s." In spite of the
freedom with which criticism is made,
in this country, of those in power,
something of the king-c -do-no- wrong
idea prevails among the party asso-
ciates, at least, of the man in the
White House. 1t is to such men in the
Delaware Legislature that Addicks will
appeal. Apparently it is true that this
time he cannot hope even to buy with
money any Democratic member.
But the circumstances are exJraordi-
nary, and the prestige of the office may
not avail. Delaware knows this man
Addicks, and it knows that Roosevelt
knows him. Out of dozen influential
citizens who have been always Demo-
Gratis or always Republicans, taken as
found at their homes or Offices, one
finds that the impression is that what
President Roosevelt has done will not
influence the outcome. For example,
Washington Hastings, who remembers
when, as he says, the Democrats for
many years "cheated the Republicans
out of their rights at elections" until
the new Constitution was put through,
declares that the effect upon him per-
sonally, and every Republican he has
spoken with, is that he will be driven
to support the Democratic ticket in
1904. He represents the higher type oi
Republican, however-higher in intel
ligenoe and moral perception, that the
4 average legislator. Perhaps one should
select uninfuential citizens to get the
popular feeling. But they do not know
they are slow to arrive at decisions.
The appointment Of Byrne is all toe
recent to get at the effect upon even
the seven or eight Republicans who
were relied upon to stand firm through
every sort of influence against permit
ting Addicks to be Senator. Many anti
Addicks Republicans would prefer tt
see two Democrats sent to the Senate.
Many Democrats would prefer, rather
than Addicks-whom they recognize a.
4 their strongest opponent, as we'll as a
N disgracing person, to aid in the cleo
A tion of two anti-Addicks Republican!
Il | to the vacancies. Still the probability
III of combination to bring about eithel
~ of these consummations is remote, or
ii account of the fact that there are thre,
d Democratic candidates for the twt
II Senatorships, and no one of them is
\ willing to step out and let the othe
two step in, or arrange oompromis
whereby one of them and one anti
J Addicks Republican shall get the vote
of the Legislature. Only for thi
human nature obstacle, anti -Addick
men and Democrats might not unite