Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-05-31
The COMMENTATOR.

T. ii'lni Aue uulN imposed upon llCin pN ]
the Constitution. They meet now TO
elect a Senator after a session of Con-
gress m which that Senator should have
participated has almost expired. And
Yet criticism of the aggregation Of men
responsible for this delinquency is re-
sented and comment met with epithets
After il is all over everybody will be
eager to declare 81 told you so. but we
doubt whether anybody knows Just.
what is likely TO be the outcome Il |
may be possible for Addicks 10 20 to
Washington as Senator, the choice of
Delaware Republicans And as Re I
publican sentiment has expressed itself 1
in the last few yeaS in our turbulent I
iltile commonwealth, we are not certain 1
that Mr.. Addcks wouldn't be a pretty /
iair representative OF this sentiment. /
or u may be that at last Col Henry A. |
du font viii realize his ambition. but II /
So u means a compromise which may
prove the most disastrous Of any of the |
series Of compromises which have been |
arranged between the factions For a
o dozen years Mr.. Addicks has been suf- |
hciently powerful to keep Col. du Pont
out Of the Senate. and II the colonel is
elected now it will be because Mr.. Ad-
dicks steps forward and tenders him
his support. In other words, if Col
du Pont receives the honor, he takes it
from the hands Of Addicks.
No reader should get up in the air"
over that statement until he weighs all
the facts and decides whether the con-
clusion isn't inevitable. For there is a
future that we must prepare for, and
coming events will take shape from this
latest proposed compromise. The
glorious compromise which resulted in
the election Of Alice and Ball had an
aftermath, and we are yet enjoying the
fruits Of it. Now all this is merely call
ing attention 10 the fact that the har-
vest follows the seed time, and that
thistles do not produce Old Nixon
peaches. II is true that the historic
compromise referred 10 bore an imme-
diate crop which certain favored ones
enjoyed. There was a marshalship and
a battleship, but the real and lasting
fruits ripened later and we are tasting
them yet.
So It is perfectly proper for US to speou-
late and surmise and to endeavor to dis
count the future and see what il has in
store Tor us Logically It would seem
that one OF several things must happen.
Either that Mr.. Addicks will 20 20 the
Senate next winter as Col du Points
colleague, or that he will be the recipient
Of as great treachery and ingratitude
from du Pont as he has from Alice; or
that Providence will in the meantime
call the gas man home to enjoy the re-
ward prepared for him, and thus relieve
the party from paying lis debt to him.
1t isn't altogether idle to speculate on
the caucus OF le07-for 1907 will surely
roll around and somebody will be In the
race for Senator. II Col du Pont shall
be elected New Castle will already have
her choice in the Senate and Kent and
Sussex will demand and have a right
to demand-the man of their choice.
Suppose, then, the two lower counties
have a majority for Addicks, what will
the New Castle delegation do ? STAY
out of caucus Or will they Join the
minority from Kent and Sussex and try
TO defeat the choice of those counties ?
You see there is future and the acts of
the present mortgage It; and il the Regu-
lar Republicans are not careful they will
place themselves in a position where
next winter they will either have to re-
pudiate their stand OF dozen years or
appear before the world as ingrates.
But does anybody imagine that
plan down to the smallest detail hasn't
been worked out, even including a
foreign appointment for Horace Greeley
Knowles Does any human being Of
even mediocre intelligence imagine that
Addicks hasn't had assurances for the
future that he deems adequate ? The
business man " in politics is feature
that we must reckon with. Gas means
business and powder means business,
and we remember that John Wana-
maker said there is no sentiment in
business Now sentiment takes into
consideration the personality Of men,
but business does not. Mark Hanna
was primarily a business man and in a
room at the Walton he informed the
Delaware delegation that the personality
OF Mr.. Addicks had nothing to do with
the matter of his recognition. This is a
business age. When /. Heisler Ball
failed as candidate for Congress to poll a
majority of Republican votes the Presi-
dent did not fail to speak his mind freely
to Henry B. Thompson, the Regular
chairman, for It WAS good business to
get more votes. Addicks had en-
ployed business methods to get a ma
ionty, which seriously reflected on the
business ability OF Mr. Thompson's COM
mittee. So it is fair assumption that a
business era opens before the Republi-
can party-an era when mere senti-
ment shall be put aside and the per-
sonality OF candidates avoided. But
there is just one fly in the ointment
the anti-bnbers may mean business, too.
Down in Sussex the knife that is to
be plunged into DR.. Hiram's ribs is now
receiving It's polish on the grindstone.
Dr. Hiram early sought security under
the wing of Alice, which means that he
had Layton for company. Now every
body is aware that the Doctor received
his nomination for Congress against the
strenuous opposition Of Layton. but the
Congressman is a very forgiving man.
especially as another nomination and
election has to be won, and the First
Auditor Of the State Department is a
very plausible and hypnotic individual
and in the front seat Of the smoking car
on the trips TO Washington is invincible
So the Congressman readily found his
| place. which was as torch bearer to his
/ former antagonist. But down in Sus-
sex there is a growing sentiment that
the Sam Fishers and the Isaiah Brasures
are infinitely to be preferred TO Layton
and Burton; and this opinion may be
confirmed by postenty. Any way, if
Or. Burton goes back, II will be over
| pathway Of thorns that will make a bed
Of Sussex sand burrs seem like velvet.
But we should not be satished until
Horace Greeley Knowles gets some
thing. He needs something and de
/ aar,-oa II We ara not certain what II