Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-02-13
ANOTHER ADOlCKS MANIFESTO.


The sun, AdulCkS fellublchh DIPdH
Why not drop such tommy rot as
personal abuse of Mr.. Addicks, and
the disgusting nonsense of questioning
his character and fitness, and show,
if IL is possible, why all the Republi
cans of Delaware should not unite in
one party organization for the defeat
of the Democrats at the next election?
The man or woman who questions
Mr. Addicks' personal character, or his
fitness for the senatorship, or any other
official position to which he would as
pre, has long ago been voted fool
Why SHOULD any one persist in adver-
Using themselves as that kind of Il
fool? Is it because they regard the
people of this State as fools generally,
and that the people do not know that
all this stuff about character and lit
ness, coming from sources of pretended
civic virtue and ability, is rot of the
worst sort! The Republicans of Della
ware, If they arc awake to the import
ance Of the political crisis that is i'm
pending, have no time to waste in the
consideration of such fools vaporing as
the anti -Addicksites have been doing,
and they know, too, that there is not a
single anti Addicksite senatorial can.
| didate, that could he elected, who would
not accept u senatorial election as the
colleague of Mr.. Addicks. Ii there is
such q senatorial aspirant he is either
too big fool ever to be elected, or is
a coward who is afraid to brook the
affected horror of some sDcifl idiots
who imagine that fools born in their
clans, and of their blood, are the only
| folks whose character and fitness"
cntitle them to support for public
| - ,.rtE
patriotism and courage that has made
this country was. not derived from any
such source: and it is true that the
fol de-rol fools who yell themselves
hoarsc about character and fitness
in public men, have slandered and
maligned every hero born of the people
every one raised up US by providental
appointment and whose character and
fitness for tho work given them, were
manifest only in the doing of that
work. 1t is the province of the people,
in the aggregate, to judge of the char
acter and fitness of their official repro.
sentativcs; and upon that basis there
is not single anti Addicksite sena
: torial aspirant in this State whose
popular endorsement equals that of Mr.
Addicks. That is fact that gives tn,
!, lie fiat, to anti Addicksitc organs foo
questioning of anyhody's character anc
fitness for the public service.
Another thing about it. That is no
the question before the people. Tha
question is, why shall not all the Re
publicans Of Delaware unite in on
party organization for the defeat o
( the Democrats2 The senatorial ques
u tion can be settled after the State cleo
j. tion: and settled as the Repuhlical
Q voters Of tho State decide. If the anti
!. Addicksites are afraid to submit thei
h cause to the people, and that is abou
+ the phase of the present anti Addicksit
! condition, they should he honest enoug
d and frank enough to say so. Let tn
o people know where they are, and no
d attempt to deceive them by lying abou
:. other folks.
Drop tho tommy rot' and tell u
why the Republicans of Delawar
should not unite in one party organize
7, ton, settle all party matters in o cor
% vention, nominate one ticket, in I'll
State, in the counties, and in the di
d tricts, in order that all Republica
k may vote for the same candidates
thus insure their election? If there
& any good reason for not doing that,
D. people ought to know it; and If tl
2, is no good reason for not doing i
say there is is to lie about it. Til, |
70 no time for Republicans to lie tn
Al another. No time for them to q
g. one another.
Why should there not be one F)-
y lican party organization includlll
~ Republican voters?