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MARCH 13, 1903.
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i UNSPEAKABLE DEGRADATION
he New York Evening Post, liko
many another newspaper that reflects
the sentiment of right-thinuing citi
zens, is profoundly disappointed by
reason of the fact that Mr. Roosevelt,
not satisfied with selecting Payne and
Glarkson as his political advisers or
with indorsing the Quay "machine"
in Pennsylvania has at length leaped
to the support of the corruptionist
Addicks in the latter's "attempted rape
of Delaware." "With a great shock
of mingled sorrow and anger," the
Post is "compelled to accept the evi-
dence which is tantamount to an
official notice that Theodore Roose
velt has decided to 'recognize' Ad
dicks. The first step," continues the
Post, "is already taken. Mr. Roose
velt has appointed an Addicks man
United States district attorney. To
do it, he had to pass over the name
of the temporary incumbent of the
office. Mr. J. P. Nields, who was in
dorsed for the position by nearly ev
en' lawyer in the state, irrespective of
parry, by both of the federal judged
and by the entire judiciary of Dela
ware. The Addicks tool named by the
president, Mr. W. M. Byrne, was a
niun whose appointment is conspic
uously unfit, quite apart from his po
litical affiliations. During his first
term in the office which he resigned
at the word of command from Addicks--he
had a notorious record for
inefficiency. He had to undergo the
humiliation of being rebuked in open
court by Judge Bradford, for having
neglected his duty. It would be, a
shame to appoint such a man, even
if ais political sponsor were a saint.
To take him at the behest of Addicks
is an unspeakable degradation. His
confirmation ought to be fought and
defeated. We sincerely hope that the
judiciary committee of the senate,
with Senator Hoar at its head, will
show a more scrupulous regard for the
honor and purity of federal justice
than the president of the United
States has displayed in this case."
Continuing in this vein, the Post
says:
"But even if Byrne were a Story and
Webster rolled into one. his appoint
ment ought not to be thought of so
long as it could be of the slightest aid
NEVEE TOO LATE
To Try A Good Thing.
I am fifty-two years old and for forty yenrs of
that lime I have been a chronic catarrh sufferer,
rays Mr. James Gieshing, of Allegheny C ty:
with every chang" of weathrr ray head and
throat would be stuffed up with catai rlial mucus
I cou'd not breathe naturallv through the
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Finally my hearing began to fail and I realized
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I tried inhalers and sprays and, salves which
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Our good old family physician, Dr. Ramsdcll,
laughed at me a little, bu' said if I was deter
mined to try patent medicines, he would ndvise
me to begin with Stuart's Catarrh Tablets
because he knew what they contained and he
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The next day I bought a fifty cent box at a
drug store, carried it in my pocket, and four or
five times a day I would take a tablet; in less
than a week I felt a marked improvement which
continued, until at this time I am entirely free
from any traces of catarrh.
My head is clear, my throat free from irrita
tion, my hearing is as good as it ever was and
I feel that I cannot say enough in praise of
Stuart's Catarrh Tablets.
These tablets contain extract of Eucalyptus
bark, blood root and other valuable antiseptics
combined in pleasant tablet form, and it is safe
to say that Stuart's Catarrh Tablets are far su-
Ecr'or in convenience, safety and effectiveness
the antiquated treatment by inhalers, sprays
and douches.
They are soldUby druggUts everywhere in the
United States and Canada.
to Addicks in the commission of his
political high crimes and misdemean
ors. The postmaster general explains
the president's position, juat as our
Washington correspondent states it,
and just as wo know from other
sources that Mr. Roosevelt himself
puts it 'Why,' he says, 'the election
returns show that Addicks has 12,000
votes behind him, while his republican
opponents have but 8,000. How then
can I deny him recognition?' When
however, .did the moral law begin to
depend upon a sum in arithmetic? Can
we not speak our mind about the out
rages of a notorious political criminal
until ve have worked out a problem
in proportion? We understand, of
course, that the president attempts to
throw thq whole thing back upon the
electorate of Delaware. He cannot,
he maintains, interfere in a factional
quarrel within the party. He is forced
to make a, rule that he will deal with
any leader whom the majority of the
party voters send to him, and, there
fore, he will recognize Addicks just
as 1 e has recognized Piatt and Quay."
The Post points out that even
though there be a "rule" which com
pels presidents to embrace brigands,
when they go to him with a party la
bel on their backs, yet this "rule" of
Mr. Roosevelt's does not excuse him
for striking hands with Addicks.
"That colossal corruptor," says the
Post, "is not yet senator. He is not,
like Quay, a successful pirate, in
charge of the captured ship; ho is still
fighting and the beleaguered crew is
still hoping to beat him off. But Mr.
Roosevelt observing that the piratical
assailants outnumber the crew 12 to 8
decides to aid the buccaneer!" Re
specting this feature of the case the
Post wisely says:
"A party president may be compelled
in some strange way to aid a man who
has actually broken his way into thu
senate, like Piatt, but how can he be
bound to go to the assistance of a
man who has not yet completed his
burglary? What Addicks says to Mr.
Roosevelt is, in effect: 'See, I have
sandbagged the policemen on the beat,
I have gagged the night watchman. I
have got my jimmy, m drills and my
dynamite all ready, and if you will
only help me up to that window I can
break in and make a good haul.' Anl
Theodore Roosevelt offers his broad
back to help the burglar up!"
It is idle in the president to explain
that "something must be done in
Delaware," that the policy of the anti
Addicks republicans is one of pure
"negation," that they deadlock the
legislature and prevent Addicks from
being elected, but are unable to elect
any one themselves. Mr. Roosevelt
thinks that an intolerable kind of
inefficiency. "The same," comments
the Post, "might be said, however, of
a woman struggling to prevent her
honor from being violated. That, too,
is a policy of 'negation.' AJ1 she can
do is to fight to the limit of her phy
sical strength, and the fact that she
is weak is not usually adduced by a
bystander as a reason for going to
the aid of the ravisher who is strong."
In closing what is an admirable ex
ample of vituperative writing, the
Post says: "The loathing which the
honest people, not only of, Delaware,
but of the whole country, have come
to have for Addicks, in both his pri
vate and his public character, cannot
be unknown to President Roosevelt
The facts are beyond dispute. A po
litical highwayman is trying to rob a
sovereign state, and now boasts that
he is getting aid and comfort from
the chief executive. The situation is
one that calls for strong words and
wo do not know where to find strong
er ones than in the writings of Theo-
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I
dore Roosevelt He, out of office, ia
the author of the following senti
ments ,and he cannot blame us if we
hold him to them in office:
'"We cannot trust those base be
ings who treat politics only as a
game out of which to wring a soiled
livelihood.'
" 'The real atid dangerous foe is tho
corrupt politician.'
'"No man who Is corrupt, no man
who condones corruption in others,
can possibly do his duty by the com
munity.' "
"Is Mr. Roosevelt," inquires the
Post, ."going to eat all these and the
other burning words of his in which
he has expressed his hatred of the
men of whom Addicks is the perfect
type? Is he going to invite, by 'recog
nition' of the greatest political male
factor of the age, such a comment
upon his administration as was made
by .the Roman historian upon the
reign of Nero namely, that by his acts
he persuaded tho people to admire
the vices of public men as much as
formerly they had respected the vir
tues?" Evidence is not wanting to prove
that Mr. Roosevelt, the reformer, has
been displaced by Mr. Roosevelt, the
spoilsman. Payne, Clarkson, Piatt,
Quay and Addicks are all in one line.
Mr. Roosevelt is among them and is
of them. This is the truth, and though
it may not be the whole truth it cer
tainly is nothing but the truth. New
Orleans Times-Democrat.
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