Gloucester County Democrat., 1899-07-13

OF the entire country, and yet il is q
shining light file leader. bellwether.
whip cracker and high priest in that
party which falsely afrogates to itself
all the virtue, all the intelligence and
all the patriotism Of the Union. Ap
parently the man who wrote that mon
strous lie does not know the history of
his country
The first Democratic president,
Thomas Jefferson, was one Of the
three finest scholars ever elevated TO
that Office, John Quincy Adams and
James A. Garfield alone being his peers
in that regard. The Globe Democrat
knows If it knows anything, that the
next Democratic president, william
Jennings Bryan, is not only the first
OF living orators. but is also mag
nifcent scholar. and so on to the end
Of the chapter 1t knows that. barring
the negroes in Missouri nearly all of
whom are Republicans, no state as
young as Missouri shows so low per-
centage of illiterates. When a man
tells a lie, he owes it to the creduIity
Of mankind to tell one that somebody
will believe. The GiObe-D Democrat is a
wretched bungler at the bad business.
But to show that l am not alone in
my opinion as to the faIsity of it's pre-
posterous assertion quote the Wash
ington Posts comments on the same
paragraph from the Globe Democrat.
Smiling Logic.
| The Post, as / have frequently said
heretofore, is the most ably edited in
dependent paper in America, with a
pronounced bias toward the Republic
an administration in general and for
President Mckinley in particular. The
Post says editorialIy:
Capable teachers can be found in
all parties, although it must be con
fessed that they are scarce among the
| Populists. The best kind of retaliation
is to return good for evil A faculty
devoid of prescription is what that in
stitution and all other colleges need.
''The last sentence of the paragraph
quoted from The Globe Democrat is
not In harmony with the truth There
are many states in which nearly all
the educated men are Democrats. and
our st. Louis contemporary ought to
know that among them there is an am
| pie supply of good material for col
| lege faculties. Even in New England
the president of Harvard is a Cleve-
land Democrat DR.. Andrews, former
president of Brown. is with Bryan on
| the silver question. Taking all the
college faculties in the eastern and
middle states, one would find a great
many professors who are decidedly
anti-Republican.
The smiling logic of Republicans
was, is and always will be as follows
@The earth belongs to the saints. We
are the saints. Therefore the earth
belongs to u.s.
/ Democratic National Convention.
While the Democratic national con
vention is more than year off, divers
ambitious cities are taking steps and
measures to have it held within their
limits. Among these is Kansas City,
the young giantess that stands at the
mouth of the raging Kaw. st. Louis is
not this time competitor for this
high honor because she is hotfoot aft
er tie Worlds fair to celebrate Jeffer-
sons Louisiana purchase, the largest
and most profitable deal in real estate
ever proposed in this world since the
devil took the Saviour to the top of a
| high mountain and offered him the
dominion of the world to fall down
and worship him 1t is safe to say
that no other city in the Union can
offer as many inducements to secure
the convention as can Kansas City.
! She is within 20 miles of the geograph-
ical center of the United States. She
Is the second largest railroad center in
| the country. Tickets to more differ
ent places and different countries are
sold at her Union station than at any
other place on the face of the earth.
| She is the center of &he commercial
implement trade, the beef packing
business and the live stock trade of
| the universe. Her hotel facilities are
abundant She offers in her conven-
ton hall one of the largest and most
commodious assembly chambers in the
United States, and what is a good deal
better its acoustic properties are well
nigh perfect.
When l was attending the head
camp Of the Modern Woodmen of
/ America there recently, I made OBJ
servations and tests for my own sat
isfaction. l am certain that that hail.
If closely packed. will seat 10000 per-
sons comfortably and that a man who
knows how to articulate and has fairly
strong lungs can without any strain
ing of his speaking apparatus make
himself heard in every nook and cram
Nv of that vast building. 1t would
really do the average citizen great
/ good and afford him much pleasure to
visit Kansas City, for if one foot Of a
compass We're placed at the new Gus
tom house and a circle with a radius of
100 miles described about it it would
contain a body of farming land whose
equal in fertility and productiveness
could not be found on the whole face
| of the earth.
In addition to all these Missouri Is
she largest and most populous state
IN the Union, which Invariably gives
its electoral vote to the Democratic
candidate for the presidency. For
these reasons ! am firmly of the opin
ion that Kansas City ought to have
and will have the next Democratic ma
tional convention.
Hero of the Spanish War.
| Out of the din aud smoke and car
mage of the Spanish war came one hero
whose luster time viii not dim and
whose name will be mentioned with
pride, reverence and affection till the
last syllable of recorded time-Admi-
raj George Dewey. He takes his place
| in history side by side with Sir Fran
els Drake, John Paul Jones. Lord Nell
son and Oliver Hazard Perry. These
are the five great sea kings. the most
invincible spirits that ever rode the
watery main About Dewey's fame
there is no cavil; upon it there is no
shadow. The world ungrudgingly
gives him his due need of praise. In
one hour be wrote his name on the
scanty list Of the immortals and placed
his country in the front rank Of naval
powers. He always did the right thing,
at the right time. In the right place and
! Is this day the foremost man of all this
| world. II America had never done
ANYTHING worthy of remembrance sex-