Delaware gazette and state journal., 1902-11-20
THE VOTE ANALYZED.

Thomas +. Bayard Tells Why Mr.. Byrne
Polled More Votes Than DIR. Ball.
The New York Times printed the
following letter to the editor in it
issue last Sunday:
Sin your issue of the 14th inst.
appeared an article entitled, Mr..
Addioks' Appeal to the Admins
tration,' wherein your Washington
correspondent reported that Addicks
had represented to Mr.. Payne, the
Postmaster General of the United
States and patronage monger Of the
administration. that the vote in Della
ware showed a. Republican majority
for the State ticket of 4,000; t2) that
Byrne, the Addioks candidate for Con-
gress, had polled 13 votes to every 8
cast for Ball, the Regular Republican
nominee.
Based on the face of the returns
these representations appear to be true,
but, looking beneath tho surface at the
real facts, they are fatally misleading.
Il. 1t is not unfair to estimate that
there we're at least 1000 Democrats
who sold their votes to Addioks, SO
that the representation that Delaware
was safely Republican on the State
ticket is really based on Addicks'
pocketbook.
80. The vote in the two lower coun-
ties in this State shows that at the
election on the 4th of November
Addicks had won over by his we'll
known means at least one-half of the
Regular Republican vote. Besides, there
are about 4,500 negro voters in Della
ware, of whom over 80 per cent are not
only purohasable, but vast majority
of whom, although voting only the
Republican ticket, will only do SO for
cash consideration. and most of these
under the circumstances can in all
fairness be placed in the Addicks camp.
So that when we examine Byrne's vote
of 13, 600, and compare it with Balls
vote of 5000, the difference of 5000 is,
to about 80 per cent thereof, easily
explained, and, remembering the pur-
chased Democratic vote, the proof that
the Addicks faction is the dominant
one in the Republican party in Della
ware grows very thin and faint.
Yet on these representations, which
very slight inquiry would have proved
to be false, Mr.. Roosevelt has seen fit
to appoint W. NJ. Byrne the United
States district attorney for Delaware,
although he well knew that Byrne was
traitor to the Regular Republicans
in this last campaign. Moreover, while
Byrne was holding the office of district
attorney, TO which he was appointed
by Mckinley in 1899, he had violated
the Civil Service rule by undue politi-
cal activity in the campaign of 1900,
by stumping New York State for
Mckinley in company with Roosevelt
himself. In other words, Byrne, to
Roosevelt's own knowledge, had, be-
sides thrusting a knife into the Regu-
lar Republican party, which gave him
hrs first appointment as district at
torney, violated the moral political
code which Roosevelt so strenuously
pr aches.
"And what does all this meang 1t
means just this, ami only this, that
Roosevelt has Joined hands with
Addicks, who is striving to the utmost
to dishonor, degrade. and overthrow
the fair name and fame Ct the oldest
State in the Union-to assist in
creating in the United States the estab-
lishment Of the rotten borough system.
The fight in Delaware is now between
the Democrats and the Regular Repub-
licans combined and Addicks, and is
last election the Democrats placed three
Regular Republicans on their ticket for
the Assembly, feeling that the good
name of the State was far greater
prize than party victory.
''All of this could, or should, have
been known by Roosevelt, had he seen
fit to consult with Regular Republi-
can of Delaware, after his audience
with Addioks. But his present peculiar
trend seems to have blinded all ideas
of political morality and caused him to
offer, in Byrne's appointment, a wanton
insult to the people of Delaware.
Thomas F. Bsyard.
Wilmington, Del, Nov. 14th, 1902. -