Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-11-16
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to study letaslalsse forms and proc
esses. but TO become intimately ac-
quainted with the public men Of the
country.
1T would be an easy matter to show
from the record that wherever the
people have taken this Maine view
of congressional representation they
have greatly profted. Those states
which upon proving mans worth In
congress have kept him there have
had both their own and the country's
business the better attended to, while
those which have put first one man
forward and then another. according
to ftful currents in local affairs, have
lost In the scale of reputation and
recognition
The esteemed Philadelphia Record
makes the following remarks, which
should furnish a good deal OF food for
reelection:
Twelve months ago few people
would have predicted that By this
time such Republican leaders as John
Sherman. George F. Hoar, George F.
Edmunds, Thomas B. Reed and Eu-
gene Hale would be utterly without
influence or recognition in the supreme
councils of their party. While Senator
Mason of Illinois has been completely
ostracized Senator Foraker of Ohio
is hanging on the ragged edge of the
party. and his osTacism is only ques-
tion of little time. Shakespeare says
the times have been that when the
brains were out the man would die,
and there an end and the question
now is whether the Republican party
can survive such loss of brains as
will result from the repudiation Of
some of its ablest former leaders,
suIking In Their Tents.
Those unsOphistieated and overcredu-
Hlous persons who are always prating
about the Kilkenny cat fight going on
perpetually among Democrats and OF
the perfect and heavenly harmony
which prevails amsng Republicans
would do well to read the above quota
tion several times before they dismiss
ii from their minds The Record might
have added many other fIlustrious Re
publicans who are either sulking In
their tents or in open rebeIlion-such,
for instance, as General John B. Hen
derson of Missouri, Senator Billie Ma
son of Illinois, General Washburn and
others too tedious to mention The
truth is, as I have frequently asserted,
that the Republicans are really as
much split up as the Democrats. They
conceal it better.
In their appearance of harmony they
remind me of an incident In my youth
full career down in Kentucky When a
boy. my little sister and happened one
day at house in the neighborhood
where the husband and wife were hay-
ing a knockdown and drag out fight.
We retired TO the front yard while the
worthy pair were settling their domes-
tic differences with their fists Right In
the midst of the battle my sister ran
into the house and announced to the
belligerents: The preacher is coming!
He's at the stile blockr' And by the
time that worthy gentleman reached
the door the warning couple had
smoothed their wrinkled fronts,
smoothed their towsIed hair and greet
ed Brother Smith with warmth and
unanimity which went straight to his
pious heart. To have seen them grin
ming and smirking one would never
have dreamed that they could by any
possibility have fought and ciawed each
other They were prototypes of our
Republican friends. who below har-
mony at the tops of their voices in pE5-
lie and smite each other vieiously un-
der the fifth rib in private. The recall
citrant Republicans on the question Of
Imperialism fully equal In numbers
and capacity those who kicked over the
traces in the Liberal Republican move
ment which eventuated in the election
of Samuel ]. Tilden in 1876