Evening journal., 1902-11-22
ROOSEVELT AND ADDIoKs

President Roosevelt is in Philadel-
phia today. and will participate in the
dedication of the new High School.
While in that city 1t is just possible
that he may read the following able
editorial from the Public Ledger
The Baltimore News, speaking of the
Presidents concessions TO Addicksism
in Delaware, notes with admiration
that not merely the Democratic or in
dependent papers have criticised the
President for his extraordinary action
but that the strong Republican organs.
whose devotion to the party and its
chief cannot even be suspected, con-
denim it unreservedly. That is truef
the leader in the cause of political re-
form may have temporarily fallen
away but the principles which he
has taught early and late all through
his career have followers still.
The politicians who are disposed 10
defend the Presidents course make
much of regularity" and attempt to
Justify the recognition of the Addicks
faction on the ground that it polled a
larger vote than the honorable pa
triots who have been trying with the
applause of the nation and the sympa-
thy of all right minded men of all par
ties TO preserve the States honor from
an odious attempt to debauch and cor
rupt its citizenship. In other words,
there are some politicians, though not
many. who Justify recognition on the
ground of success, without regard TO
the means by which IL was achieved
however abhorrent and dangerous TO
the country II is pertinent to recall in
this connection the Presidents earnest
words, spoken November IL at the
Chamber OF Commerce dinner in New
York city:
There are very different kinds Of
success. There Is the success that
brings with It the scared soul-the sue
cess which is achieved by woltish greed
z, and vulpine cunning-the success which
makes honest men uneasy or indignant
in its presence. Then there is the other
,Nnd of success-the success which
comes as the reward of keen insight
of saeacity. of resolution. of address
combined with unilinching rectitude OF
behavior, public and private. The mrs
. kind of success may, in a sense-an'
s a poor sense at that-baneht the indi
: vidual. but IL is always and necessary,
a curse to the community"
Here is Roosevelt against his owl
. action. and II there is any lingering
= doubt in any ones mind about III
e methods by which the Addicks factio
q has won followers, it is only necessar
to recall the closing scenes Of the Dela
ware LEGISLATURE in 1893; how afte
Il two Democrats had deserted 10 Addicb
IS amid the execIations of their associate
Ie thew escaped mob violence onl
"a through the Intervention of the Officer
n, of the law. and how five other Dem
Gratis who had been fixed were pr
is vented from selling out" by a 10
l. tunate adjournment and threats
q. lynching.
ne The Addicks contingent went to q
he Republican National Convention at
40 Louis in 1886 with a majority of q
vote in the ReDumlican State conNe
ton back OF the delegates; but the Co
We vcntion. which makes no great profe
li- sions of morality or devotion TO {
ms higher ideals. rejected the Addic
ev crowd, on the ground that they we
- political freebOOteTs, who had w
their apparent success by odious meal
Here we have the peculiar phenomen
ant of a cold-blooded purely political ,
ar ganization, whose primary aim is 81
Ia cess. without much regard TO metho
ho- actually taking higher ground than
President; not higher than his p
heu cepts but higher than his practice
or the Delaware case.
MY We use the word preach" becal