Milford chronicle., 1905-09-08
Alice Sees No
Hope for AddiCks.
STATE INTERESTS He SAYS ARE PARAMOUNT

AZ AhC tilAG atu iouuu iAEquGuN fOACe II
that portion OF the public press whicl
) was hostile to Mr.. Addicks, to mysel
and to the Union Republican Organiza
tlOn.
AFFECTS THE WHOLE COUNTRY.
81 am willing to confess one thing
however, that since my entry into tn
Senate my point Of view as to the rela
tion of Delaware to the United State
as q whole, and the position Of the Re
publican party in the nation, has verl
materially brOadeDed. 1t was not I
local question, as Mr.. Addicks' friend
have regarded it but a question whOs'
ultimate effect is as wide reaching al
the boundaries OF our country.
1--WE who have followed the banner
Of Mr.. Addicks through good or evil
resort, and through contests the like Of
which were DeveT known before in Oul
history, have nothing with which to
reprOach ourselves, " said Senator Alice.
with great emphasis and earnestness.
We have fought good fight, but we
have reached a point where we must
face the crucial question, shall this con
test go on interminably with nothing
but defeat as the ultimate result? Does
personal admiration and partisan fealty
demand that we sacrifice the interests
Of the State?
"And say unhesitatingly, and with
full knowledge OF the facts that the
interests Of Delaware and of the Re
publican party in Delaware will in
evitably suffer as they have not suffered
in the past unless some definite, final
and harmonious conclusion is reached
in this matter"
From your standpoint Senator Alice
what do you regard as the chief obstacle
in the adjustment of these difficulties ?"
| asked.
1.-The refusal of Mr.. Addicks to view
the situation from any standpoint but
his own. 1t has taken me ten years to
reach this point of view, but would
be doing violence to my experience and
common sense if 1 refused longer to rec.
ognize existing and self-evident facts"
"And what are those facts as you
recognize them ?"
"Just what l have stated that the
people Of Delaware with few exceptions
and the Republicans of the nation, de.
mand a definite ending of conditions
which have existed in our party in this
State for ten years, and the question
that faces the friends of Mr.. Addicks,
If whom count myselfnot among the
east, as ten years of ceaseless strife and
devotion to his cause bear witness, is,
hall we end it?"
"Mr. Addicks can end the situation
O-day, tomorrow, if he sees fit. The
question is will he do it?"
"Of course you are doubtless aware,
senator, the claim will be made, now
hat Mr.. Addicks has fallen on evil
lays, kis friends are deserting him and
dvocatiDg peace within the party"
"Such a claim could only be accepted
y right thiEking men as a selfish plea, !
'r it would be entirely false, mislead- }
ig and unjusti6able, was the instant 2
eply Of the Senator. I
Continuing he said L
"At no time in the past eight years
least, has there been a day when the
olitical opponents and personal enc t.
lies Of Mr.. Addicks have not assailed a
i'm. These attacks were persistent and a
lentless and charges of all sorts were f
led up against him. Yet his friends Il
God by him through it all, defended W
IN, rallied to his support and replied N
IN for gun. If anything the attacks ii
j him have diminished in the past
ar if we exclude one author and one :,
lblicstion. :,
''To claim that his friends are desert W
g him now because Of any misfortune b,
an issue that cannot stand for an in. be
mt because it is unquaifiedly false. m
Dthing in the history of American ell
litics has equaled the devotion of Mr.. tr
idicks' friends to his cause through cf
D years Of recurring disappointment, NJ
defeats innumerable, of hopes blasted; he
d no one knows this, or should know hi
better than MIR. Addicks, " said SEN
n Alice, i'm pressively.
What solution for existing condi-
MS can you suggest?" 1 asked.