Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-11-02
CHAMP CLARK ) LETTER
People Weary of Repub-
lican Corruption.
RAY OF HOPE SHINES FORTH.
Judicial Candidate Withdraw.
Under Charges.
RAY OF HOPE SHINES FORTH.
WORM TURKS IN PENNSYLVANIA.

Public Opinion Triumphs over Po-
liticaI MISUNDERSTANDING Work
ing Hard For RenominatIon-Han-
ma a Heavy Lond to Carry-Has Re-
cent Speech on Trusts Not "a Happy
One-open Defiance of the People
Especial Washington Letter.l
Things Republican are going'to what
the late Mr.. Mantalini would have
called 'tthe de1nnition bowwows, y
when Republican nomisee for su-
preme judge is forced to withdraw be-
cause he is charged with being con-
nected with a few swindling concerns
Ia charge, by the way, which ne does
not deny He simply plays the baby
act and pleads ignorance of the evil
deeds of his wicked partners Adam 5
old plea as to eating the apple This
Republican ex-judicia1 candidate APP
pears to be close kin to the primeval
apple eater, for his name is Adams and
his habitat Philadelphia. in Pennsyl-
vania, the bailiwick of Matthew Stanley
Quay, Honest John Wanamaker, Boise
Penrose, William A. Stone and other
saints sstoo tedious to mention The
place of residence of Mr.. Adams serves
only to increase the mystery touching
his withdrawal under fire, for the cor,
ruption Of Philadelphia Republican pol
ities is proyerbial But the worm will
turn sometimes, and the people of that
thief ridden city have at last mustered
up courage enough to threaten Re
publican nominee for high and lucra-
tive office with sufficient volume of
voice to penetrate even what Joseph w
Bailey calls ssthe leaden ears Of Penn
sylvania Republican chieftains, which
fact accounts for stthe voluntary with
drawaP of ex-Candidate Adams
The trouble with Adams appears to
have been not his connection with
swindling insurance companies, but the
fact that those concerns were caught in
the act. the objectionable sin in Repub-
lican eyes. But the downfall of Adams,
the utter wreck and ruin of his soaring
ambitions, brings with it a ray Of hope,
and that is that at last the people are
growing weary Of Republican malad-
ministration and will rise in their might
and make an end of it, for when the
patient. plodding, long suffering people
Of the City Of BFotherly Love can sum
mon resolution enough obuck and kick
even mildly there is no telling what the
rest of the country viii do when it gets
its dander up and puts on its fighting
clothes It may be that the Republican
bosses of Pennsylvania in brazenly
nominating Adams have unwittingly
and unintentionally rendered the cause
of good government a service.
An Adroit Politician.
Whatever else may be said of Presi-
dent William Mckinley, he is most
adroit politician and keeps his weather
eye open all the time. His late swing
around the circle, after the manner
of Andrew johnson, is an illustration
of this. The Dewey enthusiasm was
getting too hot to be comfortable in
Washington With that mercurial pop
ulation the cry is always: LIE roi est
1nort Vive le roi - cry the faintest
whisper of which could not fail to reach
the delicate tympanum of the tactful
and gracious occupant of the White
House. What's more, it alarmed him.
for forthwith he sets forth ON his
speechmaking and electioneering tour,
causing the groundlings to roar and
throw high their sweaty caps by
rhapsodies on the flag, patriotism and
Providence, performance to which
nobody can object, though everybody
knows that Mr.. Mckinley and his po-
litical coparceners have no monopoly on
Old Glory and patriotism notwithstand-
ing the fact that they seem to think
| that Providence is one of the wire pull
ers of their party.
1t is said that Br'er Mckinley want
ed Dewey to accompany him as sort
of animated stage property, but that
wary and weary gentleman declined the
proffered honor with thanks at the sug-
gestion no doubt of Hon. Redfield Proc
tor, senator from Vermont, one of the
sharpest political players now holding
hand in the game, the same person
who in 1896 SO deftly inserted a spider
/ into Hon. Thomas Brackett Reed pres
| idential dumpling. Redfeld has stood
in pretty well with this administration,
| but his present rake off is nothing to
what he could do were the great ad-
miral to become president. The idea of
the Mckinley managers evidently was
| II. Al IA
praise, use his popularity to bolster up
their waning cause and in that way
have him commit himself tacitly at
! least to the denomination of President
Mckinley But your Uncle Redfield
was too much for Mark and the whole
gang, SO Brother Mckinley had to go
without Dewey That he plunked his
speeches where they will do the Repub-
! licans the most good must be admitted
without argument and without cavil.
He did not waste any breath in Ne
braska, which the fusionists are sure
to carry. He could not be induced to
visit imperial Missouri, although the
Democrats would have given him a
royal welcome, and whose Republicans
the late Postmaster General Gary de-
clared irreverently and sententiously
to be stthe set he ever saw.
No. our bland presidential tourist and
electioneerer confined his labors, his
smiles and his eloquence TO such doubt
full states as Iowa. Dakota, Minnesota,
| Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio.
| Hanna's BIundering.
But President Mckinley suave,
graceful, shifty as be is. made one fatal
tactical mistake in his journey and that
was by leaving Mark Hanna to run at
large while he was gone The chances
are that Mark few blunt remarks at
/ Cleveland did President Mckinley and
his party more harm than all the presi-
Dental oratory did them good For
what will it profit the president 70
make the welkin ring and to stir up en-
thusiasm IN Illinois. Iowa. etc. and
lose his own state to John r. McLeanf
And in all human probability that is
precisely the sum total Of all this tour
ing. speechmaking. joIlifying and BAN
quoting. Mark has played the role Of
buI ii the Republican china shop to
1 perfection. and | miss my guess If BIZ