Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-08-03

exceedingly fond of Watterson and have
a great deal Of admiration and personal
friendship for Warner On the Fourth of
July the latter delivered speech in
Brooklyn, in which he took occasion to
make some rather pointed remarks
about McHanna and McHannaism He
ripped them up the back and down in
front, scalped and tomahawked them in
the most approved fashion of a wild
and woolly westerner. lie did not de
clare for Bryan and Organism, but he
did declare most emphatically that he
was most thoroughly sick Of Mckinley
and McKinleyism Jerry Simpson in
his worst estate never gave them such
drubbing as Warner did As there is
no sort of hope for repentance on the
part of the Mckinley gang ara "a
Warner, like Collins ram, is most en-
phatically a man Of his own head, l
take it that his Brooklyn performance
is really his first long step toward rec
onciliation with genuine Democrats.
| fervently hope that this is true, for
John De Witt Warner is man of splen-
did capacity, perfect integrity, great
courage and in the very flower Of his
years. He is honestly a single gold
standard man. He il ;;lso honestly an
out and ont free trad hope that in
the end he loves his country and his
kind better than he does the single gold
standard and that he viii return to his
first love. heard very wise Repub-
lican say once, and I believe it to be
true: Democracy is constitutional
disease. If man ever has it once, it is
liable to break out on him again at any
time . In my Judgment Henry Waiter
son and John De Witt Warner were so
thoroughly inoculated with Democracy
in their youth that they must in the
very nature of things, nolens yolens.
return to the Democratic party They
must forever feel like strangers in the
Republican camp.
Tammany's Cheers.
And Byran is dead. is he? And free
silver is dead. Is it? If so. will the wise
men Of the east please inform us how it
happened that one James S. Hogg erst-
while governor Of the imperial COM
monwealth Of Texas. managed to create
such terrific uproar at Tammany on
the Fourthl How Hogg. who was down
for "short speech, just to fill up the
programme, don you know, happened
in FIVE minutes to get more applause
than all the rest l,ut together? If Hogg
had been ON for long speech. no tell
ing what would Isave happened. How
did he do itY Simply by declaring in
the Tammany lair for William Jennings
Bryan-who we are solemnly told is
dead-for president and for free silver
at 16 to 1 as the issuel But let the
aforesaid Jeemes not jump at the CON
clusion that Tammany cheers mean
Tammany votes. They cheered me lust
lily once upon a time-to w.t. July 4,
1898, when made a free silver speech,
very much to their surprise, in the teeth
of Cleveland and his new administra-
tion, and nearly every Tammany CON
gressman has been voting for every
goldbug measure ever since But Hogg
did well to thus serve notice on the
goldbugs of what we intend to do, and
that is torenominate Bryan ON the Chi
cago platform with such new planks as
are deemed proper and elect him wheth-
er TaInmany likes it or not. Having
cut our eastern leading strings and
kicked off our swaddling clothes at Chi
cago in 1896. we. the genuine Demo
Gratis, propose to run the circus to suit
ourselves. AS those eastern Solomons
never read western and southern papers
so as to know what is happening, Hogg
did right to knock the scales off of their
eyes.
New Hampshire's Warning Senator'S.
I have never been employed as either
the spiritual or legal adviser of New
England philosophers and reformers,
nevertheless l make bold to suggest that
for few moments they cease from
their efforts to make the Cubans and
Porto Ricans give up bullighting and
expend their surplus energy and piety
on New Hampshire. Most assuredIy, if
the public press is to be believed, that
ancient and rock ribbed commonwealth
is in bad way, which ] regret exceed
ingly for Daniel Webster, fondly called
''the godlike' at one period of his ca
reer and wrathfully dubbed "Ichabod'
at another, was born there, and the
spot where that intellectual Titan first
saw the light must forever remain an
object of intense interest everywhere
Not long since the governor of New
Hampshire Republican governor of
reliably Republican state -astonished
the world by declaring unequivecally
in print that religion was ON the decline
in the old Granite State-in fact that
it was entirely played out ausgespielt
in many parts thereof That startling
proposition was denied and affirmed
vociferously, Such as uproar was Great
ed that movements We're set ON foot in
the mining camps and upon the ranches
of the wild and woolly west to send mis-
sionaries to New Hampshire
The other day an event happened in
Concord, the capital of New Hampshire
Concord, mark you, which means
peace, white winged peace-that can
scarcely be duplicated in modern rlmes
in the element of the unexpected.
Hon. Jacob H. Gallinger, senator of
the United States from New Hampshire
"a Republican, of course was being
prosecuted ON charges preferred by Gov
ernor Charles H Busiel another Re
publican for violating the civil service
laws Oh, heaven Think of that, my
countrymenl A Republican New Eng
land senator in hook for violating civil
service laws when New England in
general, and Republican New England
in particular, has not yet let up on poor
old Andrew jackson for being ''spoils-
man They consider the awful tanning
he gave the British at New Orleans
small credit ON his account, when ON
the debit side is recorded the fact that
he bounced a few score or few hun
dred New England federal offieeholders
because they were anti-Jackson men
If jackson had thrashed all Europe com
bined, it would not have atoned in the
eyes of Republican New England for
beheading offensive Federalists Now
comes Senator Galiinger and shocks
rudely shocks New England conscience
and wickedly Jars New England ego
ism by cavorting round in such an m
godly and Andrew jackson manner that
the governor Of New Hampshire ysnks
him up to answer for his sins Of conn
mission That bad enough, but in the
words of popular hymn. Yet there's