The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-26
This Ought TO Settle the Delaware
Case.


The reason officially assigned for tn
Presidents reconsideration Of his pur
pose to reappoint s. II. WICK, the colore'
postmaster at Wilson, North Carolina
is definite and Ineligible. Mr.. Wei
was originally appointed by president
MCKINLEY. He is turned down and Mr.
PERSON gets the Office. not because PER
SON is white and WICK is black, but be
cause the President has learned that last
summer WICK bolted the party nomina-
tion and ran for Congress IA an lnde-
pendent in the Second district OF North
Carolina.
Speaking for Mr.. ROOSEVELT, Post
master General PAYNE bulletins the negro
postmaster's political offence and pun
ishment in this brief but sufficient state
ment:
Mr.. WICK had not supported the Republican
ticket and consequently. had forfeited his claim
10 party recognition
This decision and precedent will prob
ably govern the Presidents future action
in the case Of WILLIAM MICHAEL BYRNE
OF Delaware. BYRNE's case affords an
almost exact parallel TO that of WICK,
except in the non-essential matter of the
quantity of pigment in his epidermis.
Like the disloyal VICE. Mr.. BYRNE was
appointed to Federal Office by President
MCKINLEY. Like WICK, BYRNE not only
failed to support the Republican ticket,
but actually forfeited his claim TO party
recognition by resignng the Federal
Office he held as a Republican and rum
ming for Congress in Delaware on third
ticket; and this without the remotest
hope Of election, but simply to procure
the defeat Of Congressman BALL, the
regular Republican candidate.
The positive evidence of BYRNE's in
tent to defeat his own party and elect a
Democrat has been furnished by no less
an authority than j. EDWARD ADDICKs.
A short time before the election he
printed in his newspaper, the Whining
ton Sun, the following announcement:
Mr.. AppIcxs authorized US to say that the Union
Republicans would prefer to see a Democ ratio
Congressman elected rather than Mr.. BALL"
On the same day the same authority
was thus reported in the Wilmington
Morning Ners:
The next Congressman from Delaware will be
Democrat. and will then control the Federal
patronage
After the election ADDIcKs proclaimed
the success Of the fractional plot against
the Republican candidate in this tri-
umphant communication to the Public
Ledger Of Philadelphia, printed over his
own name:
we have taken away the temptation Of Federal
patronage by excisng from the situation Congress.
man BALL. Who betrayed our confidence
Thus the first part Of ADDIcKs's con-
fdent prediction before election was
verified. The next Congressman from
Delaware was a Democrat. a fact due
solely to BYRNE's otherwise hopeless
and useless candidacy. And the at
tempe to verify the second part OF AD- |
DIcKs's prediction, namely, that he
would then control the Federal patron
age In Delaware, was seen in the PROMPT |
Of BYRSE himself, the
instrument Of the party treason. to his
former ofice as United States District
for Delaware.
The Republican Senate has never
confirmed BYRNE's nomination, al
thSugh Mr. RoosKvKLT has renewed IL
1t t,s sxtra session; and up TO the present
firns II hAs looked ~ II the President
was determined TO insist upon the realisa-
hon Of tbs Addicks programme In this