Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-10-19

a scrap Of paper Every time he opened
his mouth he hit the trusts with the
force Of a pile driver All his auditors,
especially the Missourians, were proud
of Colonel Wetnlore's performance.
The colonel is a business man and ia
cetiously denominated the other speak
ers as ''jawsmiths . But a few more
such extemporaneous speeches as Colo
mel Wetmore delivered at Dallas will
entitle him to the name of 'sJaw-
smith, with big, big j
Joe BaiIey's Popularity.
But the intense and infections en-
thusiasm Of the stalwart Democrats Of
Texas is enough to make wooden man
eloquent.
One of the unexpected things made
manifest at Dallas is the wondrous pop
ularity of Hon. Joseph w. Bailey. He
and Senator Horace Chiffon are waging
a battle royal for the senatorial chair
now occupied by the latter It is a veri-
table battle Of the giants. Judging
from signs at Dallas, Bailey is a win
ner. Every time there was lull in the
flow of soul something like 80, 600 en-
thusiastic and Stentor lunged Texans
would yell Bailey Bailey BaileyP'
In making my speech ] said that, the
history of Jefferson and jackson repeat
ing itself, we will elect Bryan presi-
dent in 1900, re-elect him in 1904 and
elect Missourian or Texan in 1908, .
whereupon the vast crowd beloved
Bailey Bailey BaileyP'
They kept shouting for Bailey SO fre-
! quently and SO Justify that at last he
requested them as a personal favor to
desist, but the last | heard of them
they were bawling: Bailey Bailey
Bailey"
A great people, these Texans, justly
and ineffably proud of their history and
their state
Once up in the prohibition state Of
Maine country man dining at hotel
ordered glass of milk By some
strange confederation of events the
waiter brought him a milk punch,
which the consumer thought was plain
milk, but when the seductive beverage
/ began to work in his veins and arteries
he folded his hands across his stomach,
rolled his eyes to heaven and soulfully
exclaimed, my God, what a cowp'
Having staid in Texas three days. l am
ready to ejaculate, "My God, what a
state'
slavery Under Our Flag.
The Washington Post has this edi-
torial squib, in his Dallas speech Hon.
Champ Clark took a fall out of the sui
tan of Sulu, . and for so doing The
Globe-Democrat jumped me spraddle
legged and belabored me through near
" column of editorial for making an
assault on the policy of the present ad-
ministration of re-establishing slavery
and polygamy in our new possessions.
More properly speaking, The G. D. de-
votes about one-tenth of its editorial to
larruping me and nine -tenths to abus-
ing James Buchanan. 1t lands the Re-
publican party to the skies for what it
did 40 years ago to extirpate slavery
and polygamy, but is mute as a mouse
about what the Republican party is do
ing now to re-establish the twin relics
of barbarism'' under the folds of Old
Glory. Will Captain Henry King, edi-
tor of The G. d., come ont from behind
his impersonal 1--WE" and assert over
his own signature that cody slavery
doesn't exist in the Hawaiian Islands?
| Will he assert that cody slavery is not
ON the increase in those islands at a
rapid rate, though they We're annexed
to this country 1 ) months ago? Viii
he assert that cody slavery is not worse
than African slavery in it's worst
estatef Will he deny that this admin
istration made treaty with the sultan
of Sulu whereby we pay him S12. 600
| tribute per annum for the privilege of
running our flag up ON his sultanic
straw house, yclept his palace, and that
in that treaty by which he acknowl-
edges the suzerainty of the United
States he particularly reserves the right
to practice polygamy and slavery? No,
Captain King viii assert nothing of
the sort. Neither will any other man
who has any reputation to lose.
DisgracefuI Treaty.
Is The Globe-Democrat in favor Of
polygamy and slavery? If not, why
does it not jump the present admins
tration, which makes such disgrace
ful treaty and tolerates cody slavery,
instead of mauling poor old James
Buchanan, who has been food for worms
for quarter of century? He did what
he could to extirpate polygamy, but
what he did, good or bad, forty odd
years ago is of little consequence COM
pared with what Mark Hanna and his
piratical crew are doing now. / have
frequently said, and l repeat now, that
the Republican party can give no rea-
son for existence less than 30 years old
no good deed performed since Abra
ham Lincoln was laid in the grave.
Let not The Globe Democrat lay the
fiattering JUNCTION to its soul for one
moment that by playing the part of the
ink fish it can so muddle the waters as
to conceal from the American people
the faet--the ugly, humiliating fact
that this administration tolerates and
@-~nntvas at coolv slavery both in Ha-
wall and the Philippines; that it per-
mits by treaty polygamy in Sulu and
that it pays tribute tribute. think of
that, my countrymen- tribute to the
sultan, who has only 300 wives and
coneubinesl Abusing the defunet Buch
anan will be no explanation of or de-
Tense for this un-American, indecent
disgraceful and inhuman policy of this
administration The Globe-Democrat
can trounce me seven days in the week,
but / can come back at it once a week,
and these letters have a greater circu-
lation than The g. d. has and are more
widely read
Concerning F1apdoodIe.
We have it at last. The mystery is
cleared up. We may all now know
what Thomas jefferson meant when he
wrote and what the fathers meant when
they published the Declaration of Inde
pendence, That state paper, which for
1913 years has been considered the Magma
Charta of human liberty, is mere flap
doodle. = whatever that may be- This
must be true, for the sapient editor of
the Washington Post says SO. do not