Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-07-19

heartily into the Democratic party. He
is only the advance guard of great
army Of Republicans who love their
country better than they love their
party and win join US this year because
they know that we are fighting to the
end that government of the people, by
the people, for the people, shall not
perish from the earth.
George s. Boutwell,.
Davis belonged to the young gem
GRAFTON of Republicans. He is in the
flower of his years and the prime Of
his powers, but the break from the Re
publican party is not confined to the
youngsters. Just before Davis quit
them the Hon. George S. Boutwell, Of
Massachusetts, cut the same caper He
is one of the veterans of the party, one
Of the men who made it. He was one
of the earliest Republican governors
of Massachusetts and if my memory
serves me correctly the first He be-
longs to that race of New England
giants of which Charles Sumner was
the chief. He was not only governor
Of Massachusetts. but a representative
in congress. u senator of the United
States and a secretary of the treasury.
He was the friend and confidential ad-
wiser Of {. S. Grant. 1t will not do for
Republicans to sneer at him any more
than it will do for them to sneer at
Webster Davis. The truth is that the
Republican party of today is held to-
gether only by the cohesive power of
public plunder If Lincoln and his con-
temporaries could rise from their
graves, they would utterly refuse to
recognize Hanna and his gang as lead
ers of the party which they once led.
Revolt Against Republication.
In leaving the Republican party Gov
ernor Boutwell, says:
ut is a vain hope that the Republic
an party as an organization can re-
verse this policy of the president The
hope is as vain as was the hope in
1865 that the Democratic party as an
organization would aid in the abolition
of slavery"
Nor is the revolt against the Repub-
Hcan party confined to men who may
reasonably be supposed TO have politi-
cal ambitions. 1t extends to men of all
classes. For example, in my own coun-
ty, in the city of Louisiana, there is a
wealthy and influential lumber mer-
chant who was born a Republican and
has been Republican all his life and
whose ancestors on both sides of the
house were Republicans and Maine Re
publicans at that. He is a nephew of
the Hon. Israel Washburn, once a
congressman from Maine; of the Hon.
Elihu B. Washburn, for 20 years a
leading Republican congressman from
Illinois and both secretary of state and
minister to France under Grant; of the
late General Washburn of Wisconsin.
who was both governor of Wisconsin
and a general in the Union army; also
Of ex-United States Senator Washburn
of Minnesota. Colonel Buffum is one
of the few men living or dead who ever
had three uncles in the United States
congress at the same time. He is a fine
business man, Independent financially,
and doubt very much if he would ac-
cept any office whatever. Yet with
these surroundings he feels it to be his
patriotic duty to leave the Republican
party and join the Democrats.
CoIored Men In Line.
Nor is the revolt confined to white
men of low or high degree. rich or poor.
Recently the colored people of Missouri
held a convention at ST. Joseph for the
purpose of discussing the feasibility Of
nominating a ticket of their own or of
joining the Democracy If this move
ment should spread it would carry ter
ror and dismay into the ranks of the
Republicans in six or eight states
which usually give their vote to the
Republican presidential candidate. The
truth is that the colored population
have been hewers of wood and draw
ers of water ever since they were en-
franchised. They are bully boys just
before the election in the Republican
estimation, and the next day it usually
SHOWS, so far as they are concerned.
They are used as catspaws to pun the
chestnuts out of the fire for the Repub-
leans, but they are not allowed to en-
joy any of the juicy kernels. They are
beginning to realize that their interests
are identical with those of the white
men in the same localities, and clear
realization of this fact will lead them
straight into the Democratic camp.
To show still further the disintegra-
ton going ON among the Republicans
l win quote a few lines from a letter
| received from an Iowa Republican
/ have never seen him in my life. Inter
ALA, he says:
you are to meet Hon. ]. p. Dolliyer
of Fort Dodge in public debate. l am
glad of it. l am a Republican old sol
der, but 1 am thoroughly disgusted
with the administration of William
Mckinley and hope Colonel Bryan will
bury him so deep that he will never be
resurrected politically. Mckinley turn
ed his back on the old soldiers as soon
as they elected him president"
This Republican ex-soldier says much
more In the same strain which I have
not space to copy.
Rogues Fall Out.