Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-07-20
CHAMP CLARK LETTER
New York's Easy Boss"
Shy on History.
GRosVBN0R AND SHERMAN.
Ohio Republicans Not a Very
Happy Family.
EVIL INFLUENCE OF THE TRUSTS

Pcrmeatca tie y.acle Community
and raraIyzes Every Species of
Business = Republican Party WIN
Be Beaten In I0OO--Havemeyer- Ia
Now Unpopular With the Hanna
Mckinley Combine.
Especial Washington letter.
What some distinguished statesmen
do not know would make large Ii
brary For instance, there is the Hon.
Thomas c. Platt, ''the Easy Boss OF
New York Republicans, who appears
to be decidedly short on information
touching the history of his country. In
recent interview he is reported to
have said: .If it is true that Governor
Roosevelt has any ambition to be the
presidential nominee in 1904, it is hard
ly likely that he will be candidate
for the vice presidential nomination
next year. | do not now recall a vice
| president who has become president
except through the death of presi-
dent" That is certainly an astound-
ing statement from Il man of the emf
nence of Senator Platt. Can it be pos
sible that he never heard of John
Adams and Thomas Jefferson? They
had considerable vogue in their day
and generation. More wonderful still.
if Senator Platt has no recollection of
one Martin Van Buren,, yclept 'the
Sage of Undertook who was not
only vice president and president, but
who was one of the greatest political
bosses the Empire State ever had,
one of two things is true-either SEN
ator Platt's memory is failing or his
historical education was sadly neg
lected.
General Charles Fl. Grosvenor ap-
pears to be following the condemned
performance of the celebrated parrot
which talked too much. He always
talks interestingly and is widely quot
ed The Washington Times attributed
to him an interview in which he sneer-
ed at poor old John Sherman" the
great deceived" affected not to re-
member who John was and. having
recollected. declared that Marcus A.
Hanna had been .'toting' John around
ON his broad and brawny shoulders
for, 10! these many years. Wnen that
interview reached Ohio, it created
such a ruction that the general wrote
sherman liSavowing the interview
and expressing his undying admiration
for Marks illustrious victim, all of
which goes far to show what a happy
family Ohio Republicans are anyway.
Wonder If the general has written
Colonel Dick disclaiming having called
him "a mere Instrument
Great Turkey Sacrifice.
That the trusts are getting in their
deadly work in every branch of human
endeavor in this country is fact po-
tent to all those who. having eyes,
see and, having ears, hear What is
great deal more to the point, every
body appears to be getting his eyes
wide open to this unpalatable truth.
The result is that in 1900 the Repub-
lican party. mother of trusts. will
catch it where the turkey caught it,
that is, in the kand, by a strange
coincidence. it will happen in the very
same month in which the great turkey
sacrifice takes place-in November,
Thanksgiving month. If the Repub-
lican party is then overthrown, as l
confidently believe it will be. there will
not be enough trukeys in the land to
celebrate the greatest of all Thanks
giving days.
| once undertook to cipher out how
many people the building of one house
would set to work. | gave it up,
finally, as a problem that could not be
solved, as the building of one house
in its Industrial influence ramified all
over the republic. In the immediate
vicinity when 1t is built it sets to work
the carpenters, stonemasons, brick
layers, painters paper hangers and
GLACIERS. Even before these begin it
sets to work men digging trenches for
foundations and others to hauling the
materials TO the place of building. But
back of these it sets to work the rail
roads and the steamboats, hauling the
materials from their place of produc-
ton. Still back of these It sets 10
work the sawmills of the land and
runs back to the man who chops the
tree that makes the plank to 90 into
the house we are building. Another
branch runs through the rolling mills
and the nail mills back to the men
who are digging the ore from the
earth But the good influence does not
stop even here. for all these persons
who do all this work and contribute to
the building of the house must be fed
aud clothed, SO that the building of
the house sets to work farmers to pro-
duce the food to feed and the wool,
cotton and leather to elothe these
other people who do the work to con
struct a house. That's part of the
good influence of building a house in
any community. It's like the story of
the house that Jack built. Likewise
the evil Influence of trusts seems TO
permeate the whole community, para
lying every species of business from
the greatest to the smallest Recently.
as everybody knows, the commercial
travellers have got ON to their ears
ABOUT the trusts and are raising Cain
throughout all the confines of the re-
public. There are enough of them I'M
aided and alone TO turn the govern
AleRt over to the Democrats, tor there
are something like 10000 of them,
and 1t must be remembered that 1t re-
quires the conversion Of only about