Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-11-16
CI|AhP CLARK LETTER
Comment on the Result of
the Elections.
PRACTICALLY A DOG FALL.
Bryan and Mckinley Will Be the
Candidates.
HANNA's NOTORIOUS DEFEAT.

frodden Underfoot and spat Upon
In His own City-PresidentiaI Con-
test VIII BE the Warmest Ever
known Strange SCENE In wash
ington = General Joe Wheeler ON
Manila Observation-Disclosures of
Great benefit to Congressman.
Especial Washington letter.
Twas a dog fall. That's all that
can be made of the late elections.
Bryan is lnyincible in Nebraska and is
the predestined Democratic presiden-
tial candidate. Mckinley is still a
name to conjure with in Ohio and will
be renominated by acclamation, barring
accidents Maryland swings back into
the Democratic column. South Dako-
Ia returns to her Republican vomit.
The Republican majorities are reduced
in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania in
a ratio which in about a quarter of a
century would make those common
wealths Democratic. Goebelism played
smash in Kentucky Nobody has much
ground for growing. And yet out of
the confusion worse confounded comes
one delicious consolation, and it is this:
Mark Hanna was deposed. knocked
out trodden underfoot and spat upon
in his own city of Cleveland in his
own county of Cuyahoga, fact over
which all decent people without re-
gard to age, sex, previous condition or
party affiliations can jubilate, for
Mark represents openly and brazenly
the worst features of American politics
-buIIdozing and corruption. McKin
ley carried Ohio in spite of Mark and
not by reason of him.
The net result of the elections is that
neither party has a dead sure thing
on the next presidential election, and
we will have the hottest and fiercest
contest in the history of American pol
itics
Mystifying Phenomenon.
The night of the election | witnessed
what appeared to me a strange sight.
With about 10000 other curious people
stood in front of the Washington
Post for about four hours. shivering
with cold, reading the bulletins and
listening to the megaphone reports. l
had always supposed that the popula
tion Of Washington was Republican at
least two to one, and the thing that
surprised me was that when a bulletin
showed Democratic gains about nine
tenths of the crowd yelled and when
Republican gains were shown only
beggarly one-tenth howled in delight
This was particularly noticeable as the
returns from Maryland came in As
Democratic success grew certain the
crowd became deIirious with joy. 1t
could not have been more so if we had
swept the land from sea to sea in a
presidential election | leave to phi
losophers to explain this mystifying
phenomenon that i'll the Capital Cityef
the nation, whose population is largely
composed of federal officials under a
Republican administration, most of the
cheering was done by Democrats. when
Republicans had fully as much to jul
bilate about as had the Democrats.
Great uneasiness is felt here at the
seat of government as to the where
abouts of General Charles Henry Gros-
venor of Ohio His friends are coming
to the conclusion that he is dead, kid
naped or tongue tied. for he has sud
denly and completely abandoned his
great and fayorite role of prophet
maximus of the administration An
Ohio campaign without multifarious
and gorgeous representations from
''the grim old lion of Athens is much
like Hamlet minus the Prince of
Denmark.
This time the ear of the nation has
been constantly cooked toward Ohio to
catch the Grosvernorian Vaccinations,
but nary prophecy did we get to relieve
the strain upon our nervous system.
We fear that something serious has
happened to the general. or he would
have kindly elucidated the subject
with few pertinent suggestions and
thereby have saved Democratic sports
several dollars of the realm which they
courageously but unadylsedly ventured
on McLeans election.
a BucksAulnE JlnEO-
The Washington Post has behaved
so well lately that it may appear I'M
gracious to arraign it at the bar of pub
lie opinion, but it recently used Ian
guage which comes within George
town Craze of subjecting it to prose
cution for leze majesty In an edito-
rial entitled .sThe Battle of the Cen
sors" it so far forgets its duties of 10y
atty as to speak disrespectfully Of
"our own purveyors of canned victo-
ries at Manila" If that is not Ieze
majesty, what is it? Wasn't Ohio held
in line on the first Tuesday after the
| first Monday in November by firing the
Buckeye heart with our glorious and
astounding victories on the other side
Of the globe? And now comes The Post
stout defender of the jingo faith, and
throws hogsheads of ice water on our
paIpitating enthusiasm by eontemptu-
ously clubbing the Far famed linguis-
/ tie exploits of Major General Otis as
canned victories from Manila Moth
ing so distressing has happened since
| Professor Tom Snarkey split the pro
hoscis of Professor James J. Jeffries
1t is really cruel to jolt our faith by
this savage hook on the jaw Just as We
were working ourselves up 10 believe
that our beloved Otis was greater
warrior than Alexander Caesar Han
nibal, Belisarius. Napoleon. Yelling