The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-18
SATURDAY, JUNE 1s. 1904
ADDIcKs ON TOP

There is no more pathetic story in
the history Of the conquest of corrup-
tion over decency in this country than
that which is brought to practical COM
pletion by the unanimous decision Of
the Republican national committee to
seat the Addicks delegation for the
state of Delaware. Delaware has been
Unhappily conspicuous for some ten
years now as the seat and center of the
most persistent assault ever made by
wealth upon the virtue of a commu-
nifty. During all this time the people
of that little state have stood out nobly
against the invader. Men have thrown
their fortunes and their very lives into
the balance, and there has never been
stand for political decency than that
which the anti -Addicks faction has
made.
- This story has been told often enough
through the public prints to be familiar
to all. The New York Evening Post
has written its history, and in one of
the popular periodicals the details have
been presented with ample circumstan-
tiality of evidence. Addicks is a vul-
gar gasman who, having made mill
lions by promoting, deliberately set his
heart on buying a seat in the United
States senate. Having failed totally to
break into politics in Massachusetts,
where he belongs, he selected Della
ware as a state not too big to be pur-
chased and went to work. He has
bribed and corrupted right and left.
No mans business was safe against his
enmity, and no mans honor was secure
that was open to purchase. Year after
year relentlessly he has followed up
the game without one single qualifica-
ton save his money, and with the open
record of the most general and un-
blushing system of bribery in his be-
half ever. organized in this country.
The Republicans of Delaware have
made noble fight. There were enough of
them proof against the gold of Addiclzs
to prevent his success. The Democrats
would have nothing to do with him.
Again and again he has ordered his
mercenaries in the legislature and at
the polls to defeat the party rather
than permit the faction opposed to him
to control Every anti-Addicks man in
the state was marked for the knife.
Never did he meet with single sue
cess until he began to have the counte-
nance and support of the administra-
ton. 1t is this man. stewed in corrup-
tion, vile offense in the nostrils Of every
decent voter in the United States,
whom Theodore Roosevelt has coyly
decided to favor.
The national committee seals the
tomb of the anti-Addicks movement in
! Delaware. The Republicans as a whole
could not stomach this man, and he
had no national party standing what
ever until his cause and his political
methods appealed to, Senator Hanna
while managing the Republican cam
paign. He synpathized with Addicks.
He endeavored to have .Addicks recog-
nized. and through him the Addicks
people first got even shadow of rec
ognized party standing. Now with Mr..
Roosevelt, so-called refor1ner, substan-
TALLY in charge of his own campaign,
the committee votes unanimously to
recognize Addicks as the Republican
party of Delaware.
Thus ends the noble fight of the hon
est Republicans of that state. They
have no choice hereafter but to bow
down to the golden calf or join Their
fortunes With -ths Democracy. The Re-