Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-04-19
SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS
NUMBER 81

Resolved, That this house views with deep In.
terest the heroic struggle Of the republics Of
South Africa to maintain their independence and
hereby tenders them our most profound sympathy
in theiE unequal but gallant struggle.
That resolution went to the commit.
tee on foreign affairs. where it may or
may not sleep. If 1t sleeps, Richard
son and his friends viii want to know.
don't you know, who administers NOR
phine to it. If it does not sleep, Rich.
ardson reaps the glory.
Porto Rico ThroftIed.
The deed is done. For better or for
worse the Porto Rican tariff bin, with
the senate amendments, is now a law.
Republican leaders are In doubt as to
whether they have achieved a great
party victory or digged the party's
grave. 1t passed the house by eight
majority, and we may now be said to
have become part republic and part
empire. It would appear that President
Mckinley, who, In his December mes
sage to congress, said it was our plain
duty to establish free trade with Porto
Rico. owes it to a long suffering and
expectant world to explain, in a signed
statement, just why he topped. Flop
may not be a classical word to apply
to presidential caper, but it Is a good,
old forclble monosyllable, which the
great body of the people can compre-
hend without rummaging through an
unabridged dictionary. Yes, flop is
the word Hon. Serene E. Payne made
poor fist of showing why he topped.
Perhaps Brother Mckinley could eluci-
date the subject more successfully and
more skillfully.
The thing which appears to be desir-
able to a vast number Of people Is that
the Democratic ticket shall be Bryan
and Dewey. It is generally thought
that they would win hands down. Ask
ed If Dewey would accept second place,
prominent gentleman of large expert
enee said: "DeWey's hatred Of McKin-
ley Is so intense that he would do any
thing to defeat him for second term"
He also volunteered the information
that General Nelson A. Miles and Ad-
miral Winfield Scott Schley are ex-
ceedingly anxious to encompass the un-
doing and downfall Of Mark Hanna's
protege. That is certainly a distin-
guished trio to contend wtth-Dewey,
Schley and Niles. Perhaps Mr.. Nc
Kinley viii conclude that it would
have been just as well to have treated
those great Americans with generosity
and kindness.
Hanna Frying Fat.
Mark Hanna Is beginning In dead
earnest to fry the fat out of the trusts
that is, If the st. Louis Republic can
be believed. The Republic makes the
startling charge that Marks prelim-
mary assessment on the trusts Is &c.
500,000l Only think of that. my coun-
trymen? Six and one-half millions for
a starter! If this is do in the green
tree. what will be done in the dry2
Mark has only one idea in politics, aad
that is to Doodle somebody, and he Is
evidently fixing now to eclipse his
great Doodle campaign Of 1896, when
people stood aghast at the vast sums
expended
so NFtuOuS senate cotuInIItee fe-
ports unanimously that Senator VII
liam A. Clark of Montana Is unfit to
sit in the milIionaires' club By rc2soc
of corrupt methods used to secure his
election 1t viii be spectacle for men
and angels to see such Republican
lights as Mark Hanna and Scott Of
West Virginia vote to unseat Clark
because they are afraid of contamina-
ton when no fact in American history
is more generally believed than that
Mark bought his seat and that Scott
secured his by an act Of Punie faith
utterly disgraceful in character. And
there are others. The same gang who
vote to unseat Clark win vote to seat
Matthew Stanley Quay. 'Nough
saidP'