Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-11-30
tlses. Settle babe fair to rival the best

est experiences that ever fell to the lot /
of a governor since governors were
first invented, and that is to pay off,
count and destroy the last state bond
evidence of Missouri Republican ras-
cality, maladministration and deyiltry. |
/ most heartily congratulate his excel |
lency upon being governor when that
suspicious day shall dawn. He is ma .
tive of the state, was state treasurer, |
and both as treasurer and governor
has contributed all he could TO this fe-
licitous consummation. The magnii- |
cent commonwealth of Missouri is to |
be heartily congratulated that in a lit
tie more than a quarter OF century |
from the date Of the return of Demo
cratic supremacy she will have re-
moved every visible sign of the wild |
saturnalia held within her borders by |
Republicans during their brief and ra-
pacious rule Nowhere else did the |
Republican carpetbaggers and scala
wags hold such high carnival as they |
held in Missouri for no other state was |
so rich ia resources Their reign was |
short. but it was unspeakable while it |
lasted. It burned itself into the recol- |
lections of men. In eight years they |
plundered the state of $26000,000, to |
say nothing of the hundreds of millions |
out of which they skinned the counties, |
townships, cities and towns. Foul birds |
of prey in human form came from the |
four points of the compass to fatten |
and batten on PROSTATE state.
Yet there are certain Simple SimOns |
who dream of Missouri becoming Re- |
publican. She will not do so as long |
as man retains the faculty of memory. |
Never! The older citizens remember |
wildly the awful nightmare of Repub- |
Iican misrule, when grand larceny was |
the fashion among officeholders.
When the last Republican bond is |
paid off and burned. we will have such |
jubilee out there as will startle the |
man in the moon. We invite honest |
men everywhere to jubIate with us
on this example of applied Democra |
cy." We will put the big pot in the |
little one, kill the fatted calf and pre-
pare feast fit for Lucullus or Epicu- |
rus. The year we burn the last bond |
Missouri will give 100000 Democratic
majority. Our example of applied |
Democracy" is this: In "a years we
have paid off nearly $26,00O,000 state
bonded debt and at the same time
have reduced the tax rate IS per cent.
Match that performance who can.
Maryland Redeemed.
There's no place like the old place. the place
where born,
Where we opened first eyelids to the glories Of
the
This great truth is illustrated by the
following poetical editorial in the st.
Louis Republic. written, no doubt by
Colonel Joseph A. Graham. managing
editor. who was born and bred In the
bailiwick of Arthur Pue German.
Colonel Graham's editorial is not poet
ic in form, but it contains all the po-
etie fire of great lyric. What it lacks
in elegance it makes up in emphasis.
1t is a regular poetic eock-a-doodle-
doc over the result in Maryland and
runs In this wise;
''The spoilmen's heel is off thy deck,
Maryland, my Maryland! Old Lowndes
was jolted in the neck, Maryland,
my Maryland! The Democrats have
made a coup; Republicans are in the
soup. Throw out your chest and give
whoop, Maryland, my Maryland"
1t would appear that Colonel Ora
hams muse has been keeping compa-
ny with Tom Sharkey, Jim Jeffries
and other eminent professors of .'the
padded fist philosophy" but she leaves
-, ~. 81.
of her jubilation.
A Republican Lie.
Certainly the baldest and most pre-
posterous lie ever told since Ananias
and Sapphire had that i'll starred land
transaction is that the Wilson's German
tariff bill was a free trade measure,
and yet not week passes-scarcely
day-in which some Republican editor
does not repeat that foul SANDER. OF
course they know they are lying like
gas meter, but they keep on at it, It's
their beastly nature, | suppose, and
they can't help it,
Now be it known once and for all
that the Wilson tariff bill, which Gro
yer Cleveland aptly characterized as
Oh at Va NdLllcA M HftIdSS
tariff duty of about 40 per cent. The
trouble with the thing was that it con-
tanned not too much, but too little, free
trade, and free traders voted for it be-
cause it did cut down the Mckinley
bill rates s per cent and because it was
all the reduction they could get. They /
voted for it holding their noses.
One Of the ineXplicabie mysteries and
puzzles Of onr times is the outrageous
treatment accorded Rear Admiral
Schley by the navy department, head
ed by Secretary John D. Long. ex-gov-
ernor of Massachusetts, Schley I'M
questionably gained the battle of San
tiago. and it was glorious victory,
which practically ended the Spanish
war in the fashion in which Dewey
began 1t at Manila. All the mean, pet
ty persecution of the navy department
cannot deprive him of the high honor
to which he is entitled. The average
American citizen endeavors to be Just
and fair and his verdict is that Schley
should have bis full need of praise as
Admiral Dewey has his. Nobody but
Rear Admiral CrowninshieId seems
disposed to disparage Dewey's immor-
tai performance. Everybody Is to be
diseredited, everything is to be warp
ed, TO place on SIMPSONS brow Iaureis
which do not belong there of right.
Wherefore? Nobody appears to be
able TO explain the enigma. One thing
dead sure-the persecution of Schley
for gaining great victory helped the
Democrats redeem Maryland. my Ma
ryland
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