Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-07-06

ley's Camp-Whole Gang of MOunfe-
banks Get n solar PIexus Blow.
Pap For the spoiIsmen.
Especial Washington Letterl
Once in a long while the esteemed
Globe Democrat, thick and thin McKin-
ley organ, hits the bullseye and no mis-
take. The morning after the great har-
mony convention at Columbus, where
every Republican chieftain had dag
ger in his hand. a pistol in his boot leg
and bowie knife down his back, The
CD. naively remarked, "Mark Hanna
is still in the saddle, but he rides Grip
pied horse. Verify Homer sometimes
mods, likewise Jupiter, ditto the great
G.-D How Mark viii cuss when be
reads that utterance from the Missouri
Republican organ But cHssing will dc
him no good. After the November elec.
tion Marks Rosinante will not only bs
crippled, but will be as dead as Alexan-
der's famous steed Bucephalus.
The Globe Democrat also announced
In the same connection that one result
of the Columbus conclave was to pro
mote George B. Cox of Cincinnati. alias
ssCoxey, Old Boy" from the position Of
a city boss to state and national char.
acter - Republican character. Of
course. How have the mighty fallen
What header Ohio Republicans have
taken from the leadership of Salmon P
Chase to George B. Cox, and yet they
claim-still claim-that the G. @. P.
is the party of morality. scholarship,
patriotism That sentence from The
CD. as to what Cox was and what the
Columbus convention made him is the
saddest commentary ever written upon
the decadence of political party in the
United States. If my readers desire t.
know to what ntter degradation the Re
publican party of Ohio has come under
the rule of Mark Hanna, let them turn
back three weeks and read an editorial
about Cox and his methods which
quoted from the Cincinnati CONNER
cial Tribune, the leading Republican
paper Of Ohio. Unless the voters o.
Chic are lost TO all sense of decency ant
shame they will bury Hanna. Cox,
Nash & Co. SO deep this fall that Ga
briel's trumpet will not disturb them il
their sleep.
BuIi In a China shop.
Another Daniel come TO Judgment
This time it is Henry 0. Havemeyer
president Of the American Sugar Rein
ing company. who played the part ol
the bull in the Republican china shop,
and he did it to perfection. In giving
his testimony before the industrial com
mission, to the utter amazement of al
present, he blurted out this great truth,
s'The mother of all the trusts is the Gus
toms tariff bill. A bolt of lightning
from a clear sky, deep snow in the
middle of August or the announcement
of some Republican brother who doe'
not want an Office would hardly have
created more CONSERVATION among th'
commissioners and the audience thar
the foregoing simple statement of po
tent fact by the great sugar magnate
And then he added. as further preface
to his testimony, the following preg
nant sentences: "The existing bill an(
the preceding one have been the occa
sion for the formation of all the larg,
trusts, with very few exceptions, mas
much as they provide for an inordinat'
protection to all the interests of th'
country There probably is not an indus
try that requires protection of NOR
than 10 per cent ad valorem, and it j
to obtain what is provided over sucl
percentage in the tariff that leads to th,
formation Of what are commonly spokel
of as trusts. .
Whatever else may be said of Mr.
Havemeyer's S statement, it must be con
ceded by all candid persons that it i
sufficiently luminous.
Turned states Evidence.
! was prosecuting attorney Ions
time. A man never gets over the habit
of mind formed in that office. One o
the necessities sometimes arising il
criminal prosecutions is TO use the testi
mony of criminals who turn states eyi
dence. 1t is not pleasure, but fre
quently an absolute necessity to do so
It is done because they and sometime
they alone know the facts by which
conviction can be secured. Mr.. Have
meyer has turned states evidence
What motive led him to do so dom
know; but, whatever it was, he ha
rendered the cause of truth great serv
ice by his evidence, for it must be con
fessed that he is thoroughly versed il
the matter of trusts. But that be hi
the trusts with the force of pile drive
must also be confessed II somebod.
were to punch James ]. Jeffries witt
the same vigor that Havemeyer swatte'
she high protection tariff system, ther
would be new champion of the worli
in precisely ten seconds. This perform
ance of Havemeyer, taken in conjunc
tion with recent editorials in Mr.. Kohl
saat's Chicago Times and the Chicag
Evening Post. advocating that all arti
cles advertised, made or sold by trust
be put upon the free list, shows that a
last light is breaking upon the black
aess of the Republican night. One
startling effect of Havemeyer's : caper j:
that it demonstrates the utter hollow
ness of Republican opposition to trusts.
1t win be remembered that MARI
Hanna's late convention in Ohio incor-
porated into its platform a strong anti
trust plank. whereupon all the Rspub
Iiean organs declared that the Repnb-
lican party is the only real antitrust
party in the United States. That wat
all mere stage thunder. however.
Gang Dumfounded.
Now comes Mr.. Havemeyer and
dumfounds the whole gang of mounte
hanks, pap suckers and bypocrites By
going to the very root of the evil ant
BY suggesting heroic treatment that
will cure this all consuming cancer Il
was really cruel in him. after having
contributed 50 largely to install ths
present administration in power and (
elect Republican majority in ths
Fifty fifth and Fifty sixth congresses
especially after having received such
ample largess for his pet trust 10 tis
Assssslnr hill I eat that fsanr fiffsi