The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-07-26

recognizing the insurgent government in
Cuba is now admitted almost unanimous
ly The insurgents have yet to prove
their fitness to be at the head of new re
public, created by the arms of the United
States
There is consensus of opinion among
well-informed Republican politicians in
Washington, that Foster M. Voorhees,
will be nominated for Governor and that
Mr. Pitney will reconsider his determine
tion not to run for Congress again.
Colonel Sam Dickinson, of Hudson, a
long headed and influential Republican
leader, says Voorhees, will probably be
nominated by reclamation. -Neac Bruins
qoick Fredonios
Garcia is not dead. He is only disgust
ed He don't like the way Shafter plays
the game and he won't play any more. He
is Just going off into the mountains to
fight all by himself. This may be best
His Cubans are now well armed and have
been fed up to an extent that should en-
able them to live on mangoes for the rest
of the summer and they will enjoy them
selves more in the freedom of the woods.
hanging on Pando's flank and picking off
stray Spaniards, than looking on while
the Americans boss the job. Garcia him
self is brave old soldier and though he
may feel himself sighted, he will come
around all right.
President McKinley's administration
will add to the United States many thou
sands OF square miles of territory, many
hundreds of thousands of inhabitants, and
many millions of dollars worth of new
commerce. He will leave the United
States much larger than he found it when
ne became President, and in much better
condition and with much greater influence
among the nations of the earth, and every
citizen of this great Republic will have
cause to be proud of President Mckinley
and proud of the greater United States.
Under these conditions nothing can keep
them from electing him for second time.
Elizabeth Journal.
1t is announced that ex-senator Rufus
Blodgett is a candidate in earnest for the
Democratic nomination for Governor and
the story goes that he has intimated to
James Smith that if he expects to have
the Monmouth delegation in the next leg
lslature vote for his reelection to the
United States Senate he must aid the ex-
Senator in his aspirations
1t is bold bid by Blodgett to ask fol
the Democratic Gubernatorial nomination,
for as things now seem the men whom he
stlgmatized as the same old gang" will
run the State Convention, and to ask q
favor at their hands smacks of illimitable
cheek.
And yet it might be good stroke OF
policy for 1.-THE same old gang" to nomi
nate Rufus, as it would give them an op-
portunity to be reyenged upon him by
contributing to his certain defeat at thu
polls. Camden Courier
Every incident of the war is proving the
eternal rightness of the President on eyery
one of the controverted questions that ag-
itated the public mind prior to the formal
declaration of it.
when passionate statesmen pleaded the
cause of suffering Cuba with pathos not
unwet by tears the President listened, but
would not be moved to take precipitous
action to plunge the country into war.
lie knew of the suffering in Cuba, and
what caused it, and by whom it was
caused, and he would not be stampeded
into doing what his conscience revolted at.
The wisdom of the President in being vim
Dictated every day What the public did
not know of the insurgents is being made
known by the march of events. And the
public is sensibly grateful to the President
that his sagacity and farsightedness fore
stalled an action by Congress which would
survive to curse us for years to come. The
country has been ruled by men who were
great in war and in peace and beloved for
their many sided virtues, and among the
most honored of them will William Nc
Kinley rank in future history. Detroit
Journal
Spain is now in the uncomfortable po-
sition of the man who held vicious bear
by the tail. 1t is extremely dangerous
to hold on and extremely dangerous to let
go. Spain has lost two thirds of her navy
and the only army with which we have
come in contact. In addition she has lost
the Philippines, the Ladrones and the
Carolines in the Pacific; has lost Cuba in
the West Indies and is likely to lose Porto
Rico within week
There is but one way that peace can be
ACCOMPLISHED The nrOnosition must