Evening journal., 1903-01-10
ADDTCKS CASE COMPARED
WITH DREYFUS AFFAIR

has been notorious He has met with
opposition so persistent, so unflinching.
in his own party as to produce a dead
lock which keeps the two Senatorial
chairs OF Delaware vacant year after
year. There is a truly eloquent silence
in the representation Of Delaware in
the United States Senate. Those va
cant chairs have proclaimed the facts
of .Addicks' brutally mercenary assault
and of his opponents dogged resistance
to the four quarters of the country. and
have evoked. from practically the en-
tire press of the nation, a chorus of
condemnation and disgust for his
methods. But this is not enough. The
corruptionist, year by year, gives one
more turn to his screw. The ranks Of
his opponents are still firm. but he
hopes to break them by the remorseless
and untiring pressure of his machinery
of corruption. He knows that. once in
the Senate, once the seal of success has
been placed upon his long campaign OF
Generalization, he will have nothing 10
fear No such rejection Of his preten-
sions, no such distinction between his
case and that of honorable aspirants To
a Senatorship, has been made as would
interfere in the least with his own sat-
isfaction if he shall but succeed in win
ming the prize
The battle is not yet lost. On the
contrary, there is reason to hope that
the latest exhibition of Addicks' cyni-
cal debauchery of the electorate-thst
in the special election in Kent county
will intensity the determination Of the
little band OF men who have so long
been fighting the good fight against
him. 1t is very shallow view which
sees in that fight nothing but a strug-
gle over a chair in the Senate, nothing
but little Delaware affair. It is the
affair Of us all, because it is the affair
Of right against wrong, Of the powers
Of light against the powers Of darkness.
That President Roosevelt seems 10 ba
wholly unmoved by the inner signif-
canoe Of such a struggle is by far the
most discouraging feature of the case.
He applies the miserable little irch-rule
of practical politics" to 4 situation
which involves issues that never yet
have been capable Of subsection to
such measurement. II was thought, a
short time ago that he had "recog-
nized" Addicks in an important Fed
eral appointment. To the credit of the
American press be it said, this report
brought out a loud and universal pro-
test. Mr.. Roosevelt thereupon dis
claimed any suoa intention. But the
disclaim was feeble, and it continues TO
be well understood that he has no SYM
pathy with the Republican opposition
to Addicks. In occupying this attitude.
he shows a most lamentable Limitation.
He fails to rise TO realization of the
true values of things. He brands all
his professions OF high ideals with the
stamp of the mediocre, the mechanical.
He shows that he lacks the thing which.
in the last resort. is to any nation the
one thing necdful. For the one thing
needful is that the nation shall pos
sess somewhere a fountain Of pure and
mcompromising devotion to the ideals
of Righteousness. OF indignant and un-
compromising hostility to that which
is corrupt and loathsome. IF the salt
have lost his SAVIOR, wherewith shall
/, IL be salted?"