Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-09-06

Expansion.
Especial Washington Letter.
In prize ring parlance Bryan is
wonder.
He succeeded In making a speech at
indianapolis against which even the
most bitter Republicans have nothing
to say except that he ought to have
discussed 1G TO ! instead of Imperial
ism, which the Kansas City convention
declared to be ''the paramount issue.D
What contrast all this forms to the
howl of ribald execration with which
his wondrous speech at Chicago In
1896 was received! Truly Bryan is to
be congratulated on having conquered
the good opinion OF bis err -
Sure as gun Is ma iron the
white man is mighty uncertain.
1t grIeyes me sorely to state It. but it
now appears that the theory embodied
in the presidential questions PROFOUND
ed at banquet down south at ?
O'Clock In the morning who VIII haul
down the American fag7 Men Of Dix
lie, will you haul it down 2" lis au ad-
Unstable theory made to 1T circum-
stances. This discovery causes me TO
somewhat lose faith In human nature
For many moons rantankerous Repub-
licans have at long range denounced as
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the idIotic doctrine that under no cir
cumstances whatsoever should we pull
our flag down from any place where
we had foated it for any reason Such
1abber as they got of was not pleasant
to hear or easy to bear.
Hauling Down the Flng.
But mirabile dIctul now. after all
this boasting and cayorting around.
after all this playing of the Pharisee.
Colonel John Hay, secretary OF state.
gives away to Johnnie Bull strip Of
Alaska 20 miles wide and over 100
miles longI Didn't our flag float over
that strip of auriferous soil2 Hadn't
1t foated there triumphantly since
1867, when Andrew johnson and VIII
liam II. Seward added Alaska TO our
nossesslons2 And in order to make
Mr. Bull this valuable present, win 1t
not be necessary to haul Old Glory
DOWN. Isn't this the swiftest and most
thorough expose Of rank hypocrisy IN
modern times7
Colonel Hay is one of the most amia-
bic OF mortais. He is ayscholar and writ
er of rare ability. His "pike County
Ballads are famous, and his life Of
Abraham Lincoln Is a standard work,
but fear that Colonel Hay's residence
at the court of st. James has given a
bias to his thoughts and sentiments In
favor OF Mr. Bull which is detrimen-
tai to his country II Colonel Hay
doesn't quit coquetting with John. his
name is not likely TO blossom In the
dust. The Hay-PauHcefote treaty was
nauseating dose for the American
people. When they discover that the
colonel has presented Mr. Bull with a
valuable strip of gold bearing land sew
eral times as large as Rhode Island,
they are quite likely TO make 1t un-
pleasant for the amiabie Colonel Hay.
Teddy ss 1t.
Colonel Teddy is 1t. lie has been II
ever since he delivered that ST. Paul
harangue. By this time It has perhaps
percolated through his noddle TINT It Is
dangerous for the occupant of a glass
house to throw stones Ex-Governor
John Peter Altgeld IN that Toledo
speech to which referred in my last
letter says:
Who, then. is this man. and what Is his historyf I
Personalities are offensive, and VII; not indulge
In them. But surely. when thus bssstally
assaulted. we may ask who It Is thgt Is hcrating
US ] will notice only few Of the incidents Of
his public career. which throw light the ques-
tion Of his sincerity and discretion fnd Ii re-
corded that years ago he was member OF the
Now York legislature, and one occasion be
reused the hopes OF the country hy making
speech against class which he called the Grim
inal rIeh But he at once dashed these hopes BY
turning around and voting with and for these very
criminal rich whom he had denounced
In the years 1873 he held a federal Office In
Washington. and in order to escape paying his
taxes In New York he signed an affidavit and
swore before the ever living God that he was not
a citizen Of New York II this true. then. under
the constitution Of New York, he would not have
been eligible for the governor Of that state BY
subsequently accepting nomination and election
TO that Office he showed that be did not believe
his own affidavit. This being so, may il not be
that he does not believe the charge he has made
against us?
II is next recorded that he entered tie Spanish
war in Cuba, and, although bis regiment was
commanded by another man. be succeeded. by
means Of that modern weapon Of warfare known
as a newspaper bureau, in winning more renown
In week than General Grant did in four years OF
hard aghting. and he scems TO be the only man
on this continent who boasts of having, with his
own hand. shot down and killed spanIard that
was lcciGg from the battlefield. In bis book he
says: AAs they turned to run closed in and
Cred twice. missing the first and killing the sec
cnd' He then hoasss that be had considered
this feat unique. And 50 Il Ia He Is the arsk
brave man to shoot an enemy In the beck.
Again the modern historians tell Us that 1t was
ne who first demonstrated 10 mankind that how
ever useful the camera may be TO science. to art
and to Industry. It's true mission Ia to develop tin
plate heroce
The records al Albany show that the governor
got the legislature 10 pass law taxing the fran
chiscs Of corporatlonsa most righteous law.
But the records also show that. at the demands Of
Tom Plat and the vorpuratiens he ns1nsened
she legislature in extra session and had It change
this Law as the corporations dictated.
The canal fund Of New York had been robbed
Of about Co. 600 900 By Republican politicians and,
although he talked loudly Of prosecution the goy-
ernor has not brought one Of these men to jus.
tice.
History reeords the fact that the governor has
never lost an opportunity, when standing In the
temple or the market place. 20 make loud prot.
estations Of heroic virtue. but the historian hss
searched in vain for any evidence Of performance.
The volume Of profession IS full. but the page of
performance is blank.
! wish to avoid even the appearance Of severity.
and as | have not the language to properly char.
acterlxe this man. career shall rot attempt it.
He Is the right man to defend criminal aggression
and the abandonment Of plain duty BY the presi.
dent He Is the right man to defend war Of
conquest. the burning Of towns, the alaughter Of
people and the assassination q liberty But the
Democratic party will pay 20 attention to his
vulgar assaults
If anything more caustic than that
has appeared since Sir Philip Francis
wrote the Letters CT Junius,p have
not seen It. What's more. Colonel Roose-
velt richly deserved the excoriation
Politics IN Ohio.
I have been in Ohio lately giving
political joint lectures at chautauquaa