Evening journal., 1903-03-05
EDITORIAL OPINION
Ropulsed, Not Defeated.


The formal admission on the Sd In
stant, Of the two senators from Dela-
ware to the United States Senate was
p spectacle which the country should !
have been spared. It represented that |
cowardly and forbiddins spirit which |
so commonly underlies schemes Of !
compromise. DR.. Bah has been fairly |
good representative, and Mr. Alice has |
been most loyal and aggressive |
henchman of j. Edward Addicks; 9TH
erwise he is unknown. He has long |
been the most active aggressive and !
plant creature of Addicksism, which, |
las it has been exploited during the last
decade in Delaware, has proved itself
to be one of the most corrupting and
| pernicious influences in American
politics.
The men who have their quarrel
Just, who are right IN their conten-
ton. can never wisely nor well agree
to compromise with those opponents
IN whose quarrel there is no justice,
and whose contention is viciously
wrong i'm whole and in part. In this
lquarrel the Regular Republicans We're
the men who were right, and the Union
Republicans the men who We're wrong
The former represented high political
ideals, the latter the lowest political
lpolicies and practices. Between two
lsuch widely separated bodies there
should have been no room for compro-
mise, and whatever may be the re-
spectabilty or the ability Of the two
r new senators no intelligent citizens of
, Delaware can successfully maintain
: that the high honors and responsible
ties conferred upon them could not
5 have been more wisely and justly con-
8 ferred upon men more conspicuously
+ endowed than they for the duties of
1 the senatorial office.
1t is now given out by apologists Of
d the Regulars that they were compelled
e to the act Of compromise by the irre-
sistible pressure eNerted upon them
+, by the National Republican Commit
tee. one Of its members having been
70 sent 10 Dover to induce or coerce, the
ie acceptance of the AddiclSs plan of set
+ tlement of the protracted contentious
y OF the factions. But why was the pres
sure OF the National Committee irre-
Il sistible, or what had it to do with the
N question, which was one of high prin-
Is ciples against low political scheming
!. and practice? No doubt DR.. Ball and
Mr.. Alice will vote loyalty I'm support
- of every Republican measure which
p. may come before the Senate; no doubt
l. the sanctity OF the Dingley schedules
-, and opposition to any genuine anti
q trust legislation win be sacredly up
10 held by them; but such Republican
ID measures did not need their votes the
ri majority would. have been sufficient
without them. Even If Delaware had
chosen two Democratic senators. the
lr strength of the senatorial Republican
r. ma ajority would have been, like Mer-
"a icutios wound, enough
When Mr. Addicks' man, the repre-
10 sentative Of his debasing and forbid
he ding political methods, was sworn IN
lt- his master was the most conspicuous
% spectator in the galleries OF the act
Regarding 1t as his own personal and
ih political triumph, he stood up in the
presence Of the august Senate and LED
al the applause. his iubilant henchmen
!, by the scores. Loyalty supporting him
His victory was not complete. IL was
not he that was sworn in. but it wat
gs his man Alice and even though th'
ID latter may not resign his seat 70 Mr
III Addicls. Ii Is stli the latter's victory
as the man win continue 70 follow an'
ny obey the win Of the master
is Certainly Mr. Addicks hands hav
w. been strengthened in Delaware by tn
:. election Of the man Of his choice. an,
ias fight. that he has two years in whicl
be TO scheme and win X. With the large
nj part Of the Federal patronage at hi
=. command he win be a more formidabl
~ senatorial aspirant in 1906 than he ha
me ever been. and should he succeed, a
he now seems likely to do, there wi
,l,- be two AddiclSs senators instead of on
u In the Senate. Rather than that ma
tional calamity should occur, Delawar
ho1 should have been willing to go withou
the senatorial representation indenntel.
in The honor OF the state should hay
rs, been valued higher than the office.
The wrong which the Regular RE-
ee9 publicans have done by making the
; TO cownrdly unwise and improvident SUI
q q render to the forces of Addicks is OF
ont against not only Delaware, but again
the whole country The issue was bl
sSu tween corrupt. venal politics. an issi
bad. which is broader than Delaware an
more important than the three electo
al votes of that state which the nj
~, tional Committee sought TO secure
the surrender to the opponents Of A
ness dicksism.
had