Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-07-27

the belief that President Mckinley did not ah--sa
that confidence freely slowed As an Aal r
lean ! proud to think that no man ever did
or ever will hold that high position who would
betray such sacred trust. il was an awful thing
to vote for Nothing but an overpowerine
sense Of duty to their country and their kind in
duced representatives and senators 20 to do
sacred duty to 266 of cur murdered seamen sleep
ing their last sleep at the bottom OF Havana bay,
a duty to the living, 70 the dead and to the un-
born caused us TO vote for war fof a nation that
win not protect and revenge its citizens wherever
they may be, on land saa. especially its sol
diers and its sailors. does not deserve and will
not long possess the resp q Of men.
Ii it did no other good the Spanish war made
us once more united peope-united in fact as
well as in name This alone was worth all the
cost Of blood and tears and tr assure. But it did
more-it taught foreign nations a potent fact
which We knew before, that while we have
fought each other vieious.y and ferociously on
economic questions and viii continue to do 50
when we arc engaged with foreign foe, our
contentious at low water mark Beyond
that we are Americans, and Americans only, ready
with united and unquailing hearts to confront
world in arms. Palsed be the hand that shall
heneeforth in this country the bloody shirt
as the orihamme Of a political partyi Without
respect to party affiliations We glory in the
splendid deeds Of soldiers aud seamen who
fought common enemy without thought Of
politics.
Is there between the Atlantic and Pacific Re.
publican with soul small TO withhold his
full measure Of glory from young Hobson because
he is an Alabama Democrat? Ii So he is IN
worthy Of American citizenship. Within the
broad confines Of the republic can there be found
Democrat base as to wish TO deprive Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt Of the guerdon of yalor be-
cause he is New York Republican? II so. I
diselaim him as my eountryInan
Military critics safe and snug within their Ii
brary walls say that Roosevelt had no business
in that thicket However that may be, he was
there. and being there fought his green rough
riders with gallantry and success worthy Of the
picked veterans Of Europe.
HerO's Nickname.
The French have confirmed habit Of hickman
ing their kings. Charles Martel means Charles
the Hammer; Chsremagne Charles the Great;
Louis TX is always st. Louis; Louis XIV, LIE
Grande Aonarquei Louis XVI, Louis the Lock
smith, and Louis VII, Louis the Hog
Then there are Charles the Bold, Charles the
Fat. Charles the Mad. Charles tho simple Charles
the Bald, Charles the Wise, Charles the yictori-
Gus, John the Good, Philip the Fair Louis the
Pious and Louis the Lion.
Louis Philippe is the King Of the Barrieades;
the first Of the Bonapartes is the Last of the
Caesars. the Little Corporal, the Man Of Destiny
and Napoleon the Great. while Victor Hugo, in
order to vent his spleen and to even up things
in history with Louis Napoleon, the Man of De-
cember. dubbed him Napoleon the Little, So
briquet which stuck and which has done more
than even the disaster Of Sedan to reduce that
! lucky and brilliant adyenturer from his proper
rank among statesmen, scholars and warriors
OF all the titles ever bestowed upon French
ruler the one most to be desired is the one given
to Louis Xv OF Louis Bien Anne, Louis the Well
/ Beloved
The Well Beloved, indeed the best beloved man
in the great war congress, General Joe
! e aT.4.-.
whole face Of the earth, never heard OF it I
/ don't see how he could have Brave as a lion,
he is modest a woman and his heart is full to
Overlooking with the milk Of human kindness.
/ On that historic Sth of March we were all pa
/ triots, but it is derogation 70 others TO say
that General Wheeler was the most rampantest
patriot Of US ALL
| His daughter said to her kindly. enthusiastic
martial father: fYou certainly had fighting
/ enough thirty odd years ago. Let the younger
men do the fighting this time Now, daugh-
4 ter, replied this modern Bayard, If a fish had
been out of the water for a third of century
and suddenly came in sight Of a fine lake he
would wiggle little at any rate" He did
'wiggle' and "wiggle' into imperishable re-
nown. His performance of being carried into
battle ON a streteher duplicates the far resound-
| ing feat of Charles XII at Pultows and ranks
him with that astounding Of Mars
/ War has its psthos well glory, and since
NlfHFo1 urSK went I1fth 10 naAlle fAiHk no lHi0
has presented more pathetic scene than that of
/ old Joe Wheeler, burning with fever and with
/ patriotism his white hair streaming in the wind,
! charging up Santiago hill 10 place on foreign
soil the glorious banner Of the republic to pull
down which he had devoted four of the best years
of his life.
Dewey's Fame immortal
| What wonder that after the manner OF the
old, forgetting where he and reeoIleeting the
1 fiery scenes of his YOUTH he shouted to his men:
/ '"The Yankees are running! They quitting
their guns," And then, remembering, he said:
/ 'sOh damn it, / did not the Yankees;
meant the Spanisrdsi Nor is it any marvel
that his soldiers, though looking death squarely
/ in the face, received General Wheeler's speech
with such boisterous shouts Of laughter that the
beleaguered spaniards thought re-eniorcements
had arrived for the Americans. ! would not rec
ommend swearing a practice but believe
that as in General Wheeler's case as in that Of
/ Uncle Toby, "Tlie angel that hew up TO heavens
1 chaneery with the oath blushed he gave it in,
and the recording angel, as he wrote ii down,
dropped tear upon the word and biotted il out
/ forever"
| The Spanish war enables US to add 10 our other
| titles of pre-eminenee that OF the most mag
unanimous people under the sun Two centuries
and a half have elapsed since the civil OF
England and only at this late date have they
sufficiently recovered TO build monument TO
Oliver Cromwell, the lord protector, in the heart
| Of London
Here in SO years after Lee surrendered his rag
| ged aud famished army Confederate veterans hold
high command among the soldiers OF the Union
and the popular iavortes whom the republic
/ delights to honor.
out of the din and smoke and carnage Of the
| Spanish hero whose luster time
will dim and whose will be mentioned
with pride reverence and affection till the last
L. sl,f {ad
He takes his place in history side by side with
Sir Francis Drake, John Paul Jones. Lord Nelson
and oliver Hazard Perry. These are the five
great sea kings, the most inVincible spirits that
ever rode the watery main About Deweys fame
there is no cav; upon it there rests no shadow
The world ngrudginely gives him his due need
Of praise. In hour he wrote ms name on the
scanty list OF the immertals and placed his coun-
try in the front rank of naval powers He always
did the right thing. at the right time, in the
| right place, and is this ,ay the foremost man Of
all this world II America had never done any
thing worthy Of remembrance except present him
to mankind, her for being would be vim
dicated lie is tn yers flower Of American chiyal
ry in the closing days Of the nineteenth century
Ii he blossoned and matured under the cold light
Of the north star he has ardent admirers
than those who dwell beneath the southern cross.
He belongs to the whole country. as he wrought
and conquered for the whole country. As Gen
erai Mifin said Of Washington, his valor is ex-
eecdcd only by his modesty OF the good things
done hy the Fifty congress perhaps the best
was making Dewey an admiral to be retired only
On his own request. The feryent hope Of all
Americans is that he may live forever and be
banking admiral all the time.
II faFreschiug consequences his victory at Ma
nila ranks with the skirmsh at Concord and
Lexington with the Declaration Of Independence,
the adoption q the constitution and Washing
toms Inauguration.
As the mighty Frederick said Of his illustrious
ancestor, the Great ElcctoI, 80 it may be said Of
Dewey. with equal truth. This did great
things
stupeRdons Folly.
The only other reference to the Span
ish war III tile entire speech was when.
after reading John Adams letter to his
wife. dated on the Sd of July. II76s
predicting how the birthday of the re-
public would be celebrated. added
this commentary .But even in his
greatest exaltation Of spirit, in his
widest and most sanguine imaginings.
old John Adams never conjured up
such glorious celebration Of this
ssupendous day as was given By Adj
miral Sehley on Santiago last year.
In my own judgment Schley is as
much hero as Dewey; but inasmuch
as did not have time or disposition to
% into the 5nternainahIe SAMPSON