Gloucester County Democrat., 1894-08-30

The Republican Congressional Conven-
tion at Cape May last Thursday, was un-
doubtedly fairly representative of the Re-
publican party of this district, and SO far
as we have learned was orderly and the
business conducted in obedience to par
liamentary usage. 1t assembled to re-
nominate Mr.. Loudenslager in accordance
with the two term rule of the party, and it
did it.
But in its dellverance the Convention
must be disappointing to the enlightened
: portion of the party it was supposed to
represent, and this condition was not i'm
proved by the candidate in his speech of
acceptance.
Both the party and its candidate in this
District haye learned nothing by the ex-
periences of the last four years. The twice
discredited prohibitory tariff is the burden
of the ten rusty planks of the platform,
varied only by a weak condemnation OF
the very Trusts which thirty years of this
!. discredited legislation has builded and
made so powerful as to be a menace to
government by the people.
The Convention deliverance on the money
question is fearfully and wonderfully
builded. Here it is:-
We believe in honest money and demand that
the currency coined and stamped by the United
States Government shall be received at par In
any market of the world and we protest against
any legislation that will create diherentlal cur
rency, while at the same time we favor the use OF
silver as far as the same can be circulated with
out disparagement OF itself.
II any body can tell how the Republican
party is going to make the currency for the
world. we would like to hear from them,
and at the same time we would like to
know how the party that made the Sher-
man Silver law can be trusted to again
legislate to make silver money. As con
seryators of honest silver money they are
historically dismal failures.
To cap the climax the candidate in his
acceptance makes of himself common
scold and calamity howler. Nothing in or
out of Congress has commended itself to
this budding statesman of ours whose
most distinguished services in Washington
have been performed in furnishing lists OF
names to the Bureau of Agriculture in dis
tributing farm and garden seeds. The future
seems to him dark and foreboding, and the
only rays of light visible above the hori-
zen is right oyer the First Congressional
District of the State of New Jersey, whose
voters he confidently expects to give him
two years more of luxurious Congressional
life.
How much just such political clap-trap
as this conventions platform and Mr..
Loudenslager's speeches, are responsible for
the degree of depression which followed
four years of prohigacy and financial inca
pacity of the Harrison administration, was
well told by the Public Ledger yesterday
"Whatever could be done or said by these
partisan promoters of calamity to alarm and
ado. to the distress of the community OF
business they did an6 said; if by what they
said and did they could discredit the Ad-
ministration. no matter how much injury
they inflicted On the country, they were
more than satisfied. 1t is especially to be
regretted that those reckless persons who
put party expediency above the popular
welfare continue to play the part of alarm
lists, and to cry calamity to the people who
should. instead Of abandoning themselves
to their fears and regrets, be, one and all,
up and doing. The Mckinley act is back
member; the Wilson law now makes the
game, and whatever it may be, every man
of business should play it as best he can
and with the determination to win it"