Evening journal., 1904-06-18
REcooNlzINe AppIcKs.

The Philadelphia Ledger comments
on the placing OF the Addlcks delegates
on the temporary ron OF the national
convention as follows:
The unanimous vote Of the Republic
can Natlonal Committee TO seat the
AddiclSs delegation to the Republican
Convention aud TO put the Regular and
reputable Republicans out OF court Is
spectacle which should make runians
and rogues dance aud sing with glee.
There Is yet a chance, sadly remote,
that on the floor Of the convention there
may be contest, that the convention
itself and It's committee on credentials
may possibly refuse TO recognize the
Addicks crowd; but anyone who has
watched the trend of politics and the
progressive downward path OF polti-
clans and statesmen" in their attitude
toward freebooters who happen to win
the votes, by whatever means, viii COM
clude, though mournfully, that the con-
vention viii place the Addicks crew on
the plane of complete regularity.
I'm order 10 understand the degrada-
tion into which Delaware and the
national committee have fallen Il is
necessary 10 call the imagination into
play When Addicks appeared on the
scene with his grotesque proposition
that the State should elect him to the
United States Senate, he was greeted
with derlsion. When he went to the
St. Louis Republican National Conven-
tion in 1896. the committee on creden-
tails reported that, Notwithstanding
his possession Of the votes In Delaware.
he al N.
methods of political highwaymen" F;
that they had defeated DUPONT, a Re-
publican for the Senate deliberately;
that they cared nothing for the fortunes
OF the Republican party and were not
worthy OF recognition. The report was
read by Chairman Fort. of New Jer-
sey; it was greeted with tumultuous
cheers, and the national convention
threw Addicks and his followers out.
Then the national committee. under
Hanna. began TO play politics with Adj
dicks made a deal with him; admitted
him at Philadelphia, and finally after
many thoroughly aggressive. venal
campaigns, the Addlcks faction, COM
posed of all the riff-ran Of the State,
which nt one time was despised as a
noisome, dangerous, unspeakahle mem
hit 20 tue NNnul OF n commonwealth
and TO the country, has got itself re-
cognized quite naturally and readily
as a regular and inevitable thing In
American politics; for what, forsooth
can a national committee or a national
convention, i'm the present condition Of
political morals, do but extend the
hand of fellowship TO the people who
get the votes? Delaware they argue.
chooses 70 vote FOR these cattle. and
it is their lookout; we cannot "go be-
hind the returns" and the returns
show that the Addlcks people, even
IL they did defeat Republican Con-
gressman and elect "a Democrat. polled
more votes than the decent Regulars.
And so the progressive demoraliza-
ton goes on; the Addicks contingent
force a compromise In the election Of
one Of their creatures as United
States senator; the national committee
and convention extend TO them the
hand OF brotherhood; the State of Dell
aware, Mortified at first by vices MEN,
at last accepts and embraces IL; and
worse than all, the American people
begin TO look upon corruption. II it be
deeply enough gilded and successful as
"a part Of their system.
What win their fate be IL the system
extends, what win it deserve to be?