Evening journal., 1905-02-09

] WeuSleIldn ionei Let the Ddnu now
play" In the course Of the campaign
the opponents of the Republicans took
advantage Of the opportunity which
this injunction offered to poke fun at
them for lodging this or that embar-
RAISING question by exclaiming. Let
the band now play" until whenever
the chairman appeared in public il
came to be the fashion for time to
associate it good-humoredly with his
( supervising and paternal mien.
And now 1t is not difficult to fancy
it falling, although in a much different
tone, from the lips of another John
/ T.. Addicks-the son who yesterday
| opened in the Delaware Legislature
lanother contest in the extraordinary
series Of fights which he has made
at Dover to land himself i'm the United
States Senate. The junior Addicks, or
/ J. Edward Addicks, as he is known,
was chiefly regarded here as a DASH
ing, buoyant business man and specu-
/ lator before he went to Delaware; he
had no close connection with local
politics, and when he appeared in the
neighboring state he was not credited
with as much sagacity as his father
had politically in even his limited field
of activity as a subordinate to the
| Philadelphia leaders. But the second
Addicks time and again has shown
lin the past fifteen or sixteen years
that he has at least as much persis-
ltence, for every time a Senatorship is
at stake in Delaware, he has been in
the forefront OF the fray. Moreover,
levery time he has gone down he has
been ready to come up again with a
fresh barrel and something like the
old sentiment OF the elder Addicks,
Let the band now play"
Indeed il may be doubtful whether
there has ever been in any State a
lmore remarkable example of stubborn
laudacity in prosecuting an ambition "a
get into the United States Senate than
has characterized AddicSs. He has
spent the best years Of his life, between
the period of middle age and IN,
period Of the early years of decline
as we'll also as a considerable portion
of his fortune, on one effort afte
another to compass a majority OF th'
Delaware Legislature. Now in hi
; sixty fifth year he is beginning to talk
on externally some of the aspects o
a veteran. and when he sat down a
the recent Roosevelt dinner of th'
Union League. ne looked as If he Nigh
lbe we'll entitled to place among IN
lsilver-headed seniors of the club. Blu
there is hardly any sign that he is no
. as quick and alert I'm his head piec
. as he has ever been, or that his hid
is less toughened in its resistance {
the volleys of sarcasm and rdicul
O. and denunciation that have long bee
, shot at him. Certainly It may b
questioned whether there has been an
\ man in the United States who, dur
: ing the past decade, not even except
! ling Quay or Croker. or other familia
" targets Of the press has been the oh
p iect Of the amount Of contempt an
scorn and invective that has bee
lheaped upon Addicks. In what may
called the vocabulary of hard-hittln
O political epithets, there Is scarcely on
e that has not been used upon him frol
n one end OF the country to the othe
Ie To that extent he wll' long hold
monumental record.
80 six years ago Addicks came to Phils
36 delphia one day with several OF n
% followers to enter his protest again
30 what he considered TO be an unfa
5i editorial article on the campaign whiC
- he had then been carrying on
90 Dover. He had already become know
as a standing aspirant for the Senat
Sc He wished TO demonstrate by n
90 presence Of his associates that Il
0S followers whom they commanded wou
SO stand by him thereafter in spite
e7 the prevailing sentiment that his pol
- teal race was run, that ne was MS go,
so a Republican as anybody and that ]
was entitled 10 the highest credit 4
having delivered Delaware from DEM
N cratic rule long before or WHIT
lAnthony Higgins had carried off Il
n usufruct. When he was told that or
OF the objections against him w
that he was spending more money tn.
some people thought that the rul
Of the game allowed he frankly insist
III that II was necessary in order to be
Ne the Democrats at their own tricks.
n as he put It. when you fight t
ny devil. you must fight him with his o,
na fire." But nothing which he said
'le his vigorous give-and- lake fashi
IL struck me moro than the inter
NJ Iearnestness with which he finally @
'al claimed. "They may beat me now. I
they can't beat me all the time I
In the fight to stay. Mark my wor
I'D sir. l shall go TO the Senate. for
II mean TO keep up this fight as long
b. live" And all the rest Of his wol
led and all his manner were such
ar might have been expected OF n m
zen who really felt that he had been ba,
used, that he was a sort OF mart