Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-07-27
CHAMP QARK'S LETTER
Lack of Harmony In Re
publican Ranks.
SPLIT ON Go-0 STANDARD.
Western Men Won't Support
Goldbug Plans.
SPLIT ON G0--0 STANDARD.
NEW ENGLAND ANTIEXPAEsIoN.

NEW ENGLAND AETIEXPAESION.
Attitude of Leading Republican
Newspapers Toward Mckinley Dur
ing His Recent Eastern Trip shows
the Trend of Sentiment Champ
CIark's Fourth of July speech.
Especial Washington letter.
The Republicans are certainly a
happy family They would do 10 take
around on exhibition in an iron cage
as sample of the harmony of the
| closing days of the nineteenth century
With General David B. Henderson
and other great lights incubating a
scheme to fasten the gold standard
on the country, now comes Senator
Thurston of Nebraska and warns them
that western Republicans will not sub
init to any such performance. He eyi-
IDENTITY speaks for a great many people
who voted for Mckinley, but who are
nevertheless silver men. If Thurston
means what he says, we will beat their
goldbug scheme, inasmuch as they
have only Is majority in the lower
house.
Another indubitable evidence of Re-
publican harmony reaches me in a
private way, and that is that when
President Mckinley and the other ex-
pansionists We're parading through the
streets of Springfield. Mass, the
Springfield Republican, the greatest
Republican newspaper in New Eng
land outside of Boston. closed and
locked its doors anll windows, pulled
down the shades and gave all the un-
questionable signs of deep mourning.
That is certainly an astonishing sort
of harmony
Praise is sweet, When was youth
attending the Cincinnati Law school.
heard that prince of orators. George II.
Pendleton. say in the Grand Opera
House, '"rhe sweetest incense that
ever greeted the nostrils of public
man is the applause of the public"
That was an utterance sage enough to
rank with Solomon's proverbs or Lord
Bacon's Wisdom of the Ancients."
While | like praise, | like it to be
founded on truth and not on fiction. 1t
so happened that | made u Fourth of
July speech at the Chautauqua assem-
bly, at Lexington, Ky. in which. as |
thought, there was great deal of
patriotism and in which | attacked
Mark Hanna's Philippine policy with
as much yigor and as plainly as I
thought comported with the proprieties
of a Fourth of July celebration.
glorified the heroes of the Spanish war,
as was proper. and incidentally gave
President Mckinley credit for not hay
| ing abused the great confidence impos-
ed in him by congress by placing in his
hands unconditionally $50.00o,000 on
the Sth of March, 1898
No Man Better Than His Party.
Certain Republican papers, how
ever. without any warrant in Iact or in
truth have. by printing garbled ex
tracts of that speech, undertaken to
make it appear that on that occasion
rebuked my Democratic brethren and
have kindly though mistakenly given
me credit TOR being better than my
party | most emphatically dispute
the fact and most respectfully decline
the proffered honor. | saw one man
off and ON for four years who was al
legged to be and thought himself better
than his party. | humbly pray God
that may never clap my eyes on such
another. / refused TO be placed in the
category with him. l praised Pres
ident Mckinley for one specific act:
believed then and believe now that it
was his due, but | had not the slight
est intention of giving him Il general
certificate of political good character.
There isn't syllable in that Fourth of
July speech that in any way reflected,
even by implication or innuendo. onany
Democrat in the land / have said
hundred times. and still repeat it, that
in that Spanish war business the
Democrats were the most splendid
patriots in the land. How 1t happens
that to praise the heroism of Dewey,
Schley, Wheeler, Hobson and Roose
Welt is rebuke to Democrats passeth
all human understanding. Democrats
have praised them fully as much as
Republieans-th truth is that Repub
lican editors and orators will never re-
cover from the hateful disease of
Pharisaism-they can't get it out of
their pates that they are the sole Gus
todians of the ark of American liberty.
while by their present policy they are
driving the republic to the devil at
furious rate That it may be known
precisely what | said on these heads.
even at the risk of repeating few
sentences which occurred in some Of
my former letters. l give the entire
controverted portion of that Lexington
speech Here it is without word
added or subtracted:
Champ CIark's speech.
Now, Izs years after the benefcent and mo-
nentous event which we celebrate, BY reason OF
the wisdom. courage, fortitude. patriotism and
self abncgation of Revolutionary slres, we
Sand forth the wealthest, the most intelligent
and the most puissant nation on the globc--10,-
900 freemen, the flower Of the human race,
with continent for home. with one coun-
try one flag, one heart. one purpose, one faith
and one hope. All these blessings we owe TO
them Their fame liyeth evermore, for with
American liberty it rose, and only with American
liberty can it perish.
This day humhly and feryeRtly thank Al
mighty God for a reunited country. When look
into the faces of my little children. my heart
swells with inefable pride at the thought that
they are citizens Of this mighty republic. one and
indiyisibIe. built not for day, but for all time.
and destined, under God to be the dominating
influence Of all the centuries yet to be, dominate
ing not by force Of arms, not by conqnering dis
tant peoples and holding vassal states by the
mailed hand. but dominating By the sweeter vic
tories Of peace no less renowned than those Of
war, by demonstrating to all the earth by our
own virtues, prosperity and our own
happiness how incomparably superior 10 all others
is a government bottofned the twin principles
that -.all governments derive their Just powers
from the consent Of the governed and that ali
men are created equal the principles which
Jefferson enunciated in the great Declaration.
which Washington made victorious on York
towns blood stained heights and tor which SO
many noble men have lived aud died; the prin-
ciples which lie at the root OF institutions,
which constitute our reason ioF being. which
have protected Us to this hour aud which have
gIorihed us ia the eyes ok the whole civilized
world Woe be unto US if &mated by vain
bition and the pride ot kinEk, we jeopardize this
precious bsthright 81 liberty bequeatlsed to Us
By our fathers and which We should transmit an
impaired to ouF children and Cur chiidreu's chill
dfen We cannot establish republic That
grateful task was accomplished by worthier hands
whose discharge we will be held accountable at
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