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waging no war of religious proscription, but trying rather to help the missionary efforts of their Church by weeding out a vicious system which had done more than anything else to promote schism among the islanders. Byrne was a Catholic, and could talk to his fellow believers as no Protestant could. He improved the opportunity offered by his electioneering activities to explain and defend the Government's policy. This greatly pleased the President, who, when the campaign ended in his defeat, named him for restoration to his old place.

The fact that he had become a supporter of Addicks and was nevertheless to be appointed to office excited all the uproar, and quite drowned out public consideration of any other circumstance in his career. Complaints of his neglect of his duties as district attorney under his former commission began to pour into Washington; the press rang with the incident for some weeks; resolutions denunciatory of the President were adopted by various reform bodies; and in every way the popular feeling about Addicks and Addicksism made itself manifest. In the midst of the turmoil, which broke out during the President's temporary absence from the capital, Postmaster-General Payne, known

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STICKING TO HIS MAN

as the expert politician of the Cabinet, made the mistake of attempting to explain to the newspapers that the President was only treating Addicks to the same recognition accorded to other heads of regular party organiza

tions.

Far from acting as a palliative, this statement merely increased the excitement. Mr. Payne could not understand why it should. He had all his life been dealing with politicians on the cold business basis of so much recognition for so many votes; and he was aware that Mr. Roosevelt, whether gratified or not by the figures, had been astonished at the magnitude of the Addicks following as revealed by the latest election returns, although nearly every sop of Federal patronage had been thrown to the minority faction on the bare ground that Addicks was Addicks.

The President, on his return to the White House, lost no time in making it known that reasons entirely disconnected with Byrne's factional affiliations would have moved him to make the reappointment in any event. As those reasons still remained potent in his mind, he did not change his purpose. As soon as Congress assembled he sent Byrne's name to the

Senate. The Judiciary Committee voted to report the nomination adversely. A short extra -session of the Senate followed, and in went Byrne's name again, but once more came adjournment without confirmation. The President persisted and made a recess appointment, writing at the same time a letter to the appointee which said among other things: "Keep clear of factional politics. Confine your attention to making the best record as district attorney that has been made by any district attorney of Delaware. Show neither fear nor favor in anything you do. I have liked you and I think well of you, but under the circumstances of your appointment and the way in which it was fought, I have a right to demand that you walk even more guardedly than the ordinary public official walks, and that you show yourself a model officer in point of fearlessness and integrity, industry and ability."

Byrne retained his office only a few months and then resigned without making any publication of his reasons. It is generally supposed that he was tired of the controversy aroused by his case, and did not care to carry it into the Senate again at the next session.

The uproar over Addicks broke out once

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