Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-03-17
NUMBER 80

upon beauty s OK, ana WITH a sgln OIL
which ancient and ambitious alohemists
only dreamed and with politeness which
Chesterfield nigh have enyied he trans
mutes brass trinkets into golden Jewels
when worn by members of a subscrib-
er's family.
He is the greatest and most ingen-
ious of manufacturers. for while others
manufacture perishable stuffs he is en-
gagged in manufacturing immortal states
men out of raw--sometimes very raw
materials, an industry which even the
Dingley tariff cannot protect. He is
To our virtues very kind,
And to cur faults little blind.
We are all more or less-generally
more-his handiwork, and the creature
should not be ungrateful to his creator.
Without his generous and enthusiastic
labors most of US would never have been
here, and when ho tires of us most of Us
will return to private life amid rural
scenes propitioUs for secret meditation
and silent prayer.
Working night and day during the
campaign, often without money and
without price, when the election is over
and the time comes fer the distribution
of the loaves and fishes-now vulgarly
called "pie''-by some strange lapse of
memory he is generally forgotten.
Greeley's Letter to Seward.
Horace Greeley was certainly one of
the greatest editors the world ever saw
His letter to William II. Seward in
1854 "to announce the dissolution of
the political firm of Seward, Weed &
Greeley by the withdrawal of the Junior
partner" is one of the funniest, most
caustic and most pathetic epistles in
American literature
Horace's wrathful statement, part of
which l quote, would easily fit many
another rural editor. After stating that
in 1887 Weed and other friends of Sew
ard asked him to run campaign week.
ly paper be continues: t'They asked me
to fix my salary for the year. named
1000, which they agreed TO, and did
the work required to the best Of my
ability. It was work that made no fig
ure and created no sensation, but loved
it, and I did it we'll When it was
done, you were governor, dispensing
offices worth SO, 600 to $40, 600 per year
to your friends and compatriots, and
returned to my garrett and my crust and
my desperate battle with pecuniary Oh
legations. -
commend that entire letter to poll
ticians and to editors. It is what Greeley
himself would have denominated
mighty interesting reading" lin light
of Greeley revenge by aiding to defeat
Seward for the presidency at Chicago
six years later. "The junior partner"
eyened up the score on that occasion.
refuse utterly to be particeps Grim
inis in robbing the country editor of
any privilege he now enjoys. would
rather confer new ones upon him, there
by multiplying his power and augment
ing his prosperity.
His Perfect Fidelity In 1896.
He is faithful to the people as the
needle to the pole. 1 can never forget
how can any man on this Side of the
chamber forget so long asmemory holds
her sway, SO long as gratitude finds a
lodgment in the human heart?-that in
the momentous campaign Of 1896, when
the vast majority of the great Democratic
metropolitan dailies-not all of them,
mark you, but vast majority basely
deserted their colors and went bag and
baggage, horse, foot and dragons, into
the camp of the enemy, the country
weeklies, with rare exceptions, stood by
the cause of Bryan, Democracy and hu-
manity with unshaken fidelity, superb
courage and heroic self abnegation,
thereby vindicating the patriotism, wis
dom and independence of the American
press.
Upon this same country editor we
must depend largely for honest, fearless,
patriotic press service in the campaign
now impending as we'll as in that of
1900, and surely upon the Democratic
side of this house we would be acting
with unspeakable folly to deprive him
of any of his prerogatives.
CHAMP CLARK.