Evening journal., 1902-02-24

(which Is ATTRACTIVE 10 tnOSc WHO no not
Judge men according 70 their moral
standards"
"Addicks is intensely democratic inl
his intercourse with men. The hum
blest and most disreputable Of his
party wal receive from him the same
consideration and courteous treatment
as a national committeeman. He is at
all times generous in his use of money.
He is easily approached, and, II he
does not really care for his fellows,
he gives every external manifestation
of so doing. Those things have been
carefully kept out of the public press;
but the masses know them by heart,
so that nine out of every ten Of the
masses are violent personal partisans
lOf Addicks."
There are several things TO be said
on this score: First we have the ad-
mission that he is corrupt, which saves
trouble. AS to his being democratic,
we are unable to see how anyone play
ling his role could be otherwise Tweed
was democratic. and so is every scamp
who Is more intent on getting votes
than on doing the decent and proper
thing AS to being generous with his
money, there is plenty of evidence in
Wilmington to show that his generos-
itv does not extend to all obligations
but is terminated in politics.
That statement that mine out OF
levery ten Of the masses are violent per-
sonal partisans of Addicks," is almost
too abusrd for repetition. When it is
Remembered that almost one half Of
this vote is Democratic the claim goes
Ito pieces. But assuming that it applies
Ito the Republican masses, how does 1t
happen that on every test of strength
in this city the Addicks ticket is over
lwhelmed? hTe writer must have had
his theory and yielded for a moment to
la rich imagination.
The writer goes on to make further
remarks regarding his interview with
Dr. Layton. and has something 10 say
of the Voters Assistant act which is of
Interest:
Or. Layton's defense of Mr.. Addicks
only made the more vivid truth of the
lcharges brought against him in the
matter of vote-buying DR.. Layton, il
is true. charged the Republicans and
THE Democrats with using sums almost
as large as those contributed by Mr.
, Addicks but he admitted the use Of
money by his own faction to an extent
! such as no political manager in the
Z worst wards of any of our great cities
would ever think of admitting. He
, furthermore spoke as if opposition to
this sort of thing was the hypOcritical
p opposition of those unable to carry it
on. Talk about the use of money in
Ielectionsl Who would have been
elected in 1896 If it had not been for the
use of money? Then what is the use
of talking against it? 1t was neces-
! sary. he believed. 1t was what emf
nent responsibility had welcomed when
it had helped them, and only COM
, planned about when it was turned
! against them. All of his statement
showed the exact truth of what my
! friend in Wilmington said, that it was
) the brazenness of Addicks' corruption
= that aroused the opposition to him.
) In the late Legislature Mr. Addicks Sc
= cured support for his system of eorrup-
e ton from legislators who were unwill-
D ing to vote for him as a candidate
= THE preceding Democratic Legislature
10 realizing that the wealth of the State
r was now. for the first time in a gener-
S ation. against their party, had passed
t a ballot-reform law. which prevented
n the vote-buyer from going into the
polls with the man he bought. to see
- that the corrupt contract was fulfilled
e The Adoicks faction in the last Legis-
e lature secured enough support from
8 the ranks of their supposed opponents
n to pass a Voters Assistant law, by
r which corruption could be sure of sue
r cess BY this statute every voter can
t take an adviser with him into the poll
o ing booth When l asked DR.. Layton
how many of his party would take the
f assistant with them into the booth
S he replied, All of them Will you?
1 asked. Certainly he replied, I shall
Y do it as a matter of party discipline
d In other words. even the well-to-do and
, intelligent leaders of the Addicks fac
IF tiOn will take a voters assistant witt
l. them into the booths in order that the
t. men who have been bribed may be as
e signed without proclaiming the fact II
d their purchase. If any worse law has
e been passed in any State, not except
il ling Pennsylvania, the writer has neve
D." heard of it, and in the passage Of thil
II law the Addicks supporters got hell
Il from outside of their own ranks"
1t The article is an admixture of trutl
" land error, and perhaps this is unayoid
l. able with one unacquainted with tn
situation in the attempt to master tn
le question in two or three interviews
n He has been led into the mistake o
n constituting the contest into a war be
IN tween Addicks and the plain people oi
he one side. and the aristocracy on tn
q other 1t is a moral question fror
at beginning to end. and if more respecta
pr blp norgOng are in one class than in tn
re other. that cannot be avoided.
in conclusion we quote the following:
IN Nevertheless. it is to be said in con
IN clusion. the revolt against Addicks is
Sc revolt against conscience, and the RegI
al. lar Republicans who refused to vote fo
a Mr.. Addicks for the United States Ser
IS ate even at the cost of losing tw
it., United States Senators for their part
ed and for their State. are deserving of a
In praise MIR. Addicks. as the illiterai
nd farmer had told me. had shocked tn
rs State by using for his own advance
nd ,,,ovt tbo oNrrurf mot hodc tbof hu