Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-09-14
CHAMP CLARK LETTER
Imperialism Receives a
Hard Knock.
REPUBLICANS ARE DAzED.
Lost German Vote In BANDS
Old District.
REPUBLICANS ARE DAzED.
BEGINNING OF THE 1900 DELUGE.

The Great Northwest Opposes the
Hanna Mckinley Expansion Poll
Icy Mclean VIII Make Great
Illinois Has Troubles of His own.
Augustus Caesar and william of
Canton.
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Hail, imperial Missouri! Hurrah for
silver Dick" BANDS old district!
Bully for Judge Dorsey W. Shackle-
ford, the new congressman I've met
the enemy, and he is ours" In fair
field Mark Hanna's newfangled and
calamitous policy of Imperialism is
knocked higher than Gilderoy's kite
indeed. higher than two kites. On the
Chicago platform, with a strong anti
expansion plank, Shackleford, after a
bitter fight, increases the majority
over BANDS majority in 1898 by about
800. "'Twas famous victory" of far
reaching consequences. Twas battle
royal All the big guns obtainable on
both sides were imported into the dis
trict, and they shelled the woods with
their heaviest metal Quarter was nei-
ther asked nor given. and we won, not
only won, but set the pace for 1900.
Missouri Democrats, by the Pertle
Springs convention Of 1895, made pos
sible the Chicago platform of 1896.
Once more we held the advanced post
and did our duty. We nailed to our
masthead this motto: 1.-THE Republic
and Not an Empirer' And we came
out on top.
A Torrent of Doodle.
Mark poured his doodle into the dis
trict like a mountain torrent, but the
rural Missourians could not be bought.
They stood by their guns and gained
such a triumph as does lovers of lib
erty good everywhere. Mckinley and
McKinleyism are repudiated Repub-
lican papers are now saying that it
wasn't much of a shower after all.
They will find that it is the beginning
of a food which will engulf them all.
What wrought this wondrous result?
1t was a thing that must make the cold
sweat ooze out of Republican leaders
and cold chilIs chase each other up
and down their spinal columns every
time they think of it, for it was the
German vote that increased the Demo-
cratic majority on the issue of expan-
sion in the eastern hemisphere, and the
German vote has been the bulwark of
RepubIicanism for 40 years in all this
western country. There is not state
north of Arkansas and west of the Al
leghanies that the Republicans have
ghost of chance of carrying without
the German vote. No wonder the Re
publican leaders are dazed! No marvel
that they feel cold and clammy when
they think of it, They see the presi-
dency and thousands of fat offices re-
ceding into the dim and distant future.
Mr.. Mckinley does well to take time
by the forelock and to buy him home
in Canton, for he win need it after
high noon March f. 1901. In private
life we will all wish him well.
A Political Mystery.
/ have recently been up in Iowa lee
turing for the Modern Woodmen of
America, an order of which | am a
member never go to Iowa that am
not puzzled to discover how it happens
that that magnificent commonwealth,
purely agricultural state, continues
to send delegation solidly Republican
to both house and senate to misrepre
sent her in the congress of the United
States. 1t is one of the mysteries Of
our politics. Reasoning from cause to
effect, a philosopher would conclude
that there would not be a Republican
in the whole state of Iowa except the
federal officeholders, for from the be
ginning Republican policies have been
diametrically opposed TO the interest Of
the farmers high tariff. bonds, trusts,
gold standard and the wicked and
wanton waste of the peoples money
and, as said before, Iowa is purely an
agricultural state and a maryelously
endowed one at that Excepting some
bituminous coal, there is not a mine of
any sort within her borders, no iron,
copper, lead. zinc or salt mines to be
protected no forests of timber by
which to levy tribute on other people un-
der the tariff system; no manufactur-
ing interests of any considerable num-
ber or value. Yet the farmers of Iowa
with astounding regularity vote for the
party that fieeces them without mercy.
| have sought the causes of this amaz-
ing phenomenon, and / think | have
solved the riddle, discovered the reason.
1t is habit, which is sometimes stron-
ger than nature. / say all this with
out respect to the particular Repub-
licans who misrepresent Iowa in both
branches of congress. If Iowa Is to
have a full complement of Republican
senators and representatives, l would
be glad for her to continue her present
delegation.
Fred White. the fusion nominee for
governor, is making a great fight to re-
deem the state. He is man of expert
ence and approved capacity. Two
years ago he was defeated by his pres
ent opponent, Governor Shaw. Let US
hope that he will be luckier this time.
The expansion issue ought to help him
win, as it helped the Democrats in
BANDS old district. Iowa is full of
Germans. White is a German-Ameri-
can, and if German Republicans vote
for him in the same proportion that
they voted for Shackleford in the
Eighth Missouri district it would land
him an easy winner, which would be
glory enough for one year.
Situation In Ohio.
To an outsider it looks as If the Ohio
Democrats had done the wise thing in
nominating John K. Mclean for gov
ernor. He is young, vigorous, braiily,
courageous and already possessed Of a
national reputation. He needs no in
PRODUCTION. He viii make a great can
vass and cause a bewildering rattling
OF Republican dry bones in Buckeye
dom. He is ambitious and is playing
for big stake. The Ohio governor
ship is universally regarded as step
ping stone to higher things, and no
man can doubt that If John 4. Mclean
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