Evening journal., 1902-04-14

peared in the Outlook. Below this let
ter lis printed i'm full. IL is interesting
reading, although there are a number
of facts set forth that, while truthful,
are not altogether complimentary TO
our people.
To the Editors Of The Outlook: Your
readers, the country over, have learned
TO expect two things from an Outlook
article-a sound moral note and thorough
accuracy. We Deawareans have there
fore been somewhat bewildered by
"Bossism in Delaware" which, over the
signature of &C. b. s." appeared in your
issue Of February %.
We know The Outlook is not i'm the
least in sympathy with Mr.. j. Edward
Addicks, and that sc. b. s." meant only
To point out. impartialy, the best course
10 be taken in dealing with him. But, in
the effort to be absolutely impartial, the
grave mistake was made of accepting
facts as given by Mr.. Addicks's chief
lieutenant and reasoning from them
the real facts being very different. Nat
urally, there has been much rejoicing
over the article in the Union Republican
camp, while Delaware feels that she has
been wounded in the house Of her
friends. Such an article read by thOus-
ands of outsiders entirely ignorant of the
true conditions in Delaware, cannot but
'NhA Nrt tAAt NNllNi llllu us 10 llit real
issne i'm our State. 1t praises with faint
damns' las the Frenchman put iO the
man who menaces the welfare of Della
ware far more than Tammany menaces
New York and by just so much as The
Outlook stands for accurate knowledge
and high civic ideals to all Of us who
read it, by just so much a mistake of this
Kind hurts the cause Of good government
among us.
"Bosssm in Delaware" Of course. was
meant merely as the lightest of sketches
an impression rather than a serious
study. Its writer was but "a day in Della
ware; its standpoint is avOwedly that Of
an outsider Yet the slightest sketch
surely demands a knowledge Of anatomy
and perspcctiye; and an impression re-
ceived when the artist is standing on his
head would hardly be true to nature. 1t
As this tOpsy-turyiness that strikes the
Delaware reader in perusiug the para
graphs of &C. B. S. who takes the
novel position that Mr.. Addicks is the
candidate of the masses, that the aris-
t0cracy of Delaware are struggling
against the popular WILL and that the Op-
position to Mr.. Addicks is largely a so
cial one. Under other circumstances
such misconcepti0n might be amusing
but Just now Delaware is in a life-and-
death struggle; everything is grim earn
est; we need all the help and encourage
ment we can get. and especially we need
but the truth made plain concerning our
battle with Mr.. Addickss
As a matter of fact and record, Mr..
Addcks is, and always has been. a mi
nOrity candidate. He blocks the way Of
representative government Master Of a
minority, ne dehes the majority. He has
never represented anybody or anything
but himself. lie has taken advantage OF
certain peculiar conditions in Delaware,
which the article does not even mention.
Note-huying in our State has doubtless
been brought into undue prominence by
Mr. Addicks; but Yote-buying alone can
not account for his success (as &C. Il. s."
rightly sees, though he draws a wrong
Inference from iO. No plutOcrat, no mat
ter how many millions he puts into a cor
ruption fund, can buy the majority vote
Of an Eastern State Votes are for sale
as openly in New York State and rural
Connecticut TO the writer's knowledge,
as in Delaware; but the other conditions
~ New York and Connecticut are not
such as TO promise success to q mere
vote-buying candidate for the Senate
Mr.. Addicks came to Delaware lust be
cause his shrewd eye saw there certain
conditions besides vote-buying, which
made success through bribery possible
They We're these:
Delaware has a total vote Of 4f,936, as
shown by the last Presidential election
1S,S5S Democrats, 539 Prohibition, ant
22.539 Republicans The entire electo
rate, it will be seen, is so small that q
trihe over 1000 will give a majority il
the Republican party. When we ado
that there are about 5000 negro voters
and that the negro vote has always beer
ignorant and venal there being no com
pulsory education, even for whites, il
Delaware, no mixed schools allowed, ant
almost no funds available for cOlOre,
schools, it will be seen that, this negr,
vote holding the balance of power, it 1
only necessary for the man who controls
IL to add some three thousand purchas
able white votes tout Of $4,000 TO Civ
such y0te-buying candidate the INA
jority Of the masses" in the Republican
party.
The Regular Republicans, at the las
election, had large majority Of tn
white Republican voters, rich and pOOl
ON their side They always have hat
Mr.. Addicks has the negro masses
solidly behind him, but no others An
those who know the Delaware negr
have TO illusions as TO appealing to ia
heart Of the under classes" las &C. b. s.
advises the opponents of Mr.. Addicks [
dol, as long as Mr.. Addcks appeals /
their pockets Not until the Regular R,
publicans are prepared to outbribe NJ
Addicks can they reach his dusky fO
lowers. We know The Outlook could nS
advise this. Doubtless "C. u. s." nevt
considered the negro vote at all, as
vital factor in the problem, and certail
~ Mr. Addicks's willy lieutenant at ID
yer would be the last TO explain its in
portance to him. If the negro vote wei
suhtracted from Delaware politics. NJ
Addicks would never be heard of agai
If air. Addicks lost bis fortune tO-mo
row. the negro vote would not be
henceforth. These two facts are w,
known and unquestiOned in Delaware.
But that is not all. The two rur
counties of Kent and Sussex, where NJ
- main frs a4Na Ia NJ
have but 1900 votes between them. IN
city of Wilmington has 16,5OO, and
casts "A strong vote against Mr.. Addict
as does also the third county of &
State. New Castle county, in which it
situated. But Kent ana Sussex Ia
thirty members in the State Legslatul
and Wilmington has only seven. a Re
uar Republican Senator from Wilmir
ton has more constituents in his one Sc
atorial district than hye Senators fr.
Kent and Sussex i9 All their distri'