Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-10-06
WOODBURY., n J, THURSDAY, OCTOBER s. 1898

ms apoue IN rne CIssc- % CSurcnes aliu
baby cabs, Situated near the base of
supplies, this tireless champion of the
national honesty continued to do gallant
service to the cause so near his heart AT
first the opposition tried to break the
force of the Bynum logic by quoting the
speeches in which the ex-Indianian had
sung the praises of the white metal, but
this had no effect whatever. Wise men
change their minds when they find they
are wrong, and Mr.. Bynum made i'm
portant discovery In his own case when
the Indianapolis people declined to send
him to congress for another term. With
his changed mind and his love of his
country's good name he soon became
terror to the men who would have foisted
the wicked dollar upon us. Now, after
having saved the nation from this calam-
ity, Mr.. Bynum, without the least warn
ing as to his intentions. steps to one side
and permits US to totter along with an
impaired steering apparatus.
Perhaps the most startling feature of
Mr. Bynum's retirement from the cause
of national probity Is the harsh and vul-
gar announcement that it may have been
superinduced by the fact that the man
ayers of the National Democracy have de-
cided to cease paying salaries. According
to the report of the treasurer of that or
1896 found him with surplus of $4,000 on
hand. Mr.. Bynum's long experience in
politics reminded him that a cause with
$33, 900 to the good should not be deserted.
and again. according to the treasurer, he
remained true and tried to the extent of
$500 and few incidental personal ex-
penses. But we decline to accept the sug-
gestion that Mr.. Bynum quit on account
of the suspension of salaries.
At the DrODer time and the nrODer Dlace
Mr.. Bynum will undoubtedly take the
country into his confidence and explain
his action. He will not be coerced by
threats of Investigation and in case 1t
will not be derogatory to the good name
of the country, perhaps he will entertain
workings of a campaign for honor preser-
walton. Such information would be highly
interesting.
Trounced by Lafe Pence,
have always believed that Lafe
Pence, the brilliant Populist from Col
orado, broke Bynum's heart in the
Fifty third congress by the awful
trouncing he gave him for deserting the
bimetallists. Lafe pulled an old Denver
paper on Bynum containing rantan-
kerous silver speech the Indianian had
1lIdQO IA 0CANCI anu d4cO a
picture of Bynum with dollar Of the
daddies for breastplate. That was a
great day for Lafe and decidedly bad
one for William. 1t was an awful ex-
coriation-most righteously admins
tered. Bynum in reply endeavored to be
humorous, but it was the sickliest at
tempt at the facetious that | ever heard
in all my born days. All his friends
felt that it was fiat failure. He tried
to explain away his silver speech by
giving as an excuse that he was drunk
when it was delivered. Lafe Pence must
chuckle when he reads the announce
ment that Bynum has joined the Re
publicans, and the newspapers intimate
that even the Republicans don't want
him. Poor Bynum
The signs of the times indicate that
the Democrats will elect the next house
of representatives, provided they fight
everywhere on the lines of the Chicago
platform.
1.-The conscience Democrats of Yer
mont" readopted the Chicago platform
and recommended Bryan to the Demo
Gratis of the country as their rightful
leader and won a splendid victory
True, they did not carry the state, but
they made net gain of 10 per cent Of
the vote.
In 1910, if the campaign song of that
year can be believed,
Maine went
Hell bent
For Governor Kent,
and it appears to be still "hell bent, .
but not SO much SO as in 1896 If any
where between the two oceans any SGT
of Republicans should be entirely salts.
fed with the conduct CT the Fifty fifth
congress, one would naturally conclude
that the Maine Republicans would--for
the Maine delegation. though only four
in number-come very near being 'the
whole thing in the present house.
Maine Republicans Unhappy.
Is not my brilliant and masterful
friend, Hon. Thomas Brackett Reed,
speaker? Is he not most emphatically
ringmaster of the Republican circus?
Doth he not bestride the house like a
Colossus? And is not the good Governor
Ding1ey chairman of the great ways and
means committee? And has he not
skinned and sheared and feeced the
many for the benefit of the few? And is
not the bounding Boutelle chairman of
the naval affairs committee--which in
the present congress, from the peculiar
circumstances of the case. was one of
the greatest and most influential of all
committees? Did not these three Maine
Republicans run the house to suit them
selves and mold legislation according to
their will? So that if Republican meas
ures can satisfy any people it would
really appear to "looker on in Wen
na' that the Maine Republicans ought
all to be happy as CLAIMS at high tide;
but, alack and alas, they are not. They
had an election up in the Pine Tree
State lately, and, 10 and behold, not
withstanding Speaker Reed and Gov
ernor Dingley and Captain Boutelle and
Governor Burleigh, the Democrats,
standing squarely on the Chicago plat
form, pulled down the beastly Repub-
lican majority 20 per cent.
These elections in Vermont and
Maine are straws which indicate which
way the wind is blowing.
The voters are at last waking up to
the fact that people cannot be enriched
and made prosperous by taxing them
within all inch of their lives. Finally
it is percolating-slowly, but surely
that man cannot lift himself ever the
fence by tugging at his own boot straps
let him tug ever SO hard. That's Will
liam Mckinley s theory, and Mckinley
ism is doomed on this continent. It's a
fraud, delusion and a snare, and is
destined to go, like McGinty, to the bot
tom of the sea--a consummation de.
voutly to be wished.
Lashing Republicans.
Let it be remembered that the Demo.
Gratis are not the only persons who are
lashing the Republicans for their scan
dalous and inhuman treatment of our
soldiers during the Spanish war. Dis
tinguished Republicans are busy and
earnest in their denunciations Not
only that, but the soldiers themselves
are busy in expressing their private
opinions in public places, and they are
doing it with such emphasis that they
cause the cold chills to run up and down
the spinal columns of the Republican
Dolitioians. Not long since on train