Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-10-06
DEPRIVED OF HIS SALARY.

DEPRIVED OF HIS SALARY.
A Warning to All Imitators of
Judas Iscariot.
SIGNS OF DEMOCRATIC VICTORY.
Chicago Platform, the Next House
VIII BE DemOcrntic-Straws show
the Winds Direction-AIger "A Heavy
Burden--Teddy's Afidavits.
Especial Washington Letterl
am always for the under dog in
fight, consequently am for Hon. Will
liam D. Bynum, once of Indianapolis,
now of New York, in his tussle with
his employers, the single gold standard
managers of the great Doodle campaign
of 1896.
While it is undoubtedly far cry
from Napoleon to Bynum, when | saw
where his masters had unceremoniously
kicked him out into the cold, cold world
and deprived him of his salary,
couldn't help thinking of Lord Byron
lines upon the great Corsican after the
cataclysm at Waterloo:
IT'S done-but yesterday a king!
And armed with kings to strive
And now thou art a nameless thing
So abject-yet alive!
Without salary, all is darkness and
gloom and misery for Bynum. The Ca
reer of the OK. Hoosier should be warn
ing to all men everywhere who are
meditating an imitation Of Iscariot's
caper They will find it instructive.
The Democrats of Indiana sent him to
congress for ten years, where, truth to
tell, he cut considerable figure.
In 1894 he went down along with
many better man beneath the tidal
wave. Defeat did not dismay genuine
Democrats. / know whereof | speak, be-
cause was submerged myself that year,
but Bynum, being sunshine Demo-
crat, deserted his old friends when dis
aster came and went into the pay of
the Wall street gang. l have studied
Bynum's case great deal, and | be-
lieve that even from selfish standpoint
he lost as much as any man who left
the Democrats, perhaps more than any
other.
Indiana Democrats.
rke iv,r rNOI-
itics, and Bynum's geographical loca
tion was favorable to his climbing high
up the political ladder, and he had tai
ents enough to climb.
Twenty years ago no state in the
Union had such splendid array of
great Democrats as did Indiana. 1t
warns a patriots heart to think of
them even now, though most of them
are in their grayes-Thonias A. Hen
dricks Blue Jeans Williams, Isaac Pu-
sey Grey. William S. Holman, Daniel
w. Voorhees,, Joseph E. Macdonald,
William H. English, Claud Mathews
and David Turpie. OF these giants all
have gone to their reward except David
Turpie, the most finished scholar in the
senate of the United States.
Bynum was the most distinguished
of the younger Democrats of Indiana.
Death fought for his promotion. His
long service in congress had made him
national figure. If he had been faith
ful to principle, if be had possessed for
titude and patience, if he had resolute-
ly stood by his brethren in adversely as
he stood by them i'll prosperity, the way
was wide open for him to high prefer
ment-to the governorship. to United
States senatorship, to the vice presi-
dency-perhaps to the presidency itself.
These things were not impossible to
William D. Bynum had he remained
true to the principles which he advo-
Gated from his youth up, for nothing is
more certain than that the Democrats
will again be returned to power in In
diana and in the nation.
But Bynum was of little faith. He
couldn't wait; he hunked; he was se-
duced-for consideration he went into
the country saving business, and for
many moons held the country up by the
tail to keep it from falling into the
hands of anarchists, silver lunatics and
traitors, but at last his tail hold broke,
and poor Bynum is dead ringer for
Othello, for his occupation is gone The
Wall street gang, having used him,
throw him away as carelessly as they
would sucked orange or squeezed
lemon. Indeed some of them are actual
ly threatening to investigate his stew
ardship of the slush fund. That's a
woeful plight for man who might have
climbed the hill where fames proud
temple shines afar.
Bynum's Day of Glory.
There was one day of exceeding glory
in Bynum's life. That was when, in
the Fifty-first congress, he denounced
Republican misrule and despotism with
such wondrous vigor that the Repub-
lican house voted that he should be
censured, and he was led to the bar of
the house and censured. Wien Speaker
Reed had concluded the sentence, By
mum reared his head aloft and uttered
historic speech. He said, "Mr. Speak
OA, \ cAdA4 WOAA JOul A0pAAlA0Hu tsc .
badge of bonor. That day Bynum S
name rang throughout the land; that
day his star reached the zenith and
hastes now to its setting.
"Giye dog a bad name and every
body kicks him. is a saying of which
Mr.. Bynum now will realize the truth.
Even the goldbugs assail him. While
/ am not of counsel for Mr.. Bynum 1
defense at the bar of public opinion,
submit that they are estopped from
either abusing or ridiculing him.
| The editor of the Washington Post,
who is single gold standard advocate,
ought to be arrested for cruelty to ami
mails for writing the following wither-
ing sarcasm about Bynum In the very
wantonness Of irony. The Post thus socks
its gaffs into him:
The Passing of "a Reformer.
We are confident that the country was
wholly mprepared for the announcement
that Hon. William d. Bynum has severed
his official connection with the cause of
national integrity Engaged with grave
international questions we were not Civ
ing the proper attention to domestic af-
fairs and the retirement OF Mr.. Bynum
comes like peal of thunder from a
cloudless sky Perhaps Mr. Bynum him
self Is in a measure to blame for this UNI
pleasant shock the country has sustain
ed. When he and his colleagues volun-
tarily entered upon the glorious work of
maintaining the honor and integrity Of