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


athan Prentiss Dolliger of Iowa and
Charles B. Lands of Indiana. and.
while am neither prophet nor the
son of prophet, should not be at all
surprised to see Bryan get the electoral
vote of Ohio and to see a majority OF
the Ohio delegation in congress Demo
cratic. Now, mark you, am not claim
ing Ohio, but am stating that from
close observation. from conversations
with all manner and condition Of peo-
pie. my conclusion is that Democrats
have the best chance to bag Ohio that
they have had since Franklin Pierce
mopped up the earth with General
Winfield Scott In 1852.
The Jones vote added TO the Mclean
vote would give the state to the Demo-
Gratis by some 10000 and that's pre-
cisely the thing which makes all things
uncertain and which keeps everybody
jumping. Where viii the Jones vote
be found this time? is the question that
gives Mark Hanna trouble, for Mark
knows-none befter-that II It once
gets grated about that Ohio is doubt
full state that fact alone VIII defeat
Mark
At Lancaster Colonel Davidson and
/ had what many said was the greatest
crowd assembled In Ohio at q political
function since the log cabin, coon
skin. hard cider campaign OF 1910.
Excitement was intense. which BODIES
good for the Democrats
r-- E.Sw -.
whore.
Napoleon once said. "ScTateh Rus.
sian. and you viii find Tartar . and
1t really appears that II you scratch
the average American citizen you viii
strike savage For years d good
many good people In highly respectable
communities laying the catering unc-
tioD to their souls that they are better
than the rest of Us. have had great
deal to say about the lynchings 10 the
south and west aud have Intlmated
very broadly that we. the dentzens Of
those regions. We're lapsing into bar
barism. believe they have even gone
so far as TO organize an antilynching
society In Boston. the undisputed hub
Of the universe. The intention of this
amiable society Is to educate the peo-
pie of the south and west into such a
beatlfic state OF mind that they will
cease to lynch outrageous criminals.
have no doubt that the intentions Of
these Bostonese reformers are good,
but It Is said that hades is paved with
good intentions. once read of a little
girl who put some obstacle In the way
of a philosopher who was always star
gazing. He fell over II and barked his
shlns and angrily inquired why she did
it. She innocently replied. TO make
you observe the beauties closer at
hand
During the Greek war for independ-
ence John Randolph Of Roanoke visit
ed an aristocratic lady neIghbor Of his
and found her busily engaged making
clothing for the naked Greeks. When
he started to leave, the front yard was
full Of half naked pickanlnnies. Point
Ing his long, bony forefInger at them,
he shrieked to his hostess. Madam.
the Greeks are at your doori" COM
mend these two anecdotes to the Bos-
tonese antllynchers and would suggest
to them TINT they send an agent forth
with to Akron o.. Republican city
In a Republican state. the state Of the
president. OF Hanna. GrosYenor and
Foraker and many other apostles Of
the true the beautiful and the good
Out there the other day they had the
worst riot which has taken place since
the Cincinnati riot some years ago.
Strange TO say. this riofing. bloodshed,
arson and murder grew out Of the fact
that a negro brute had crininally as
saulted white girl Now. nsirabile
dictul this Is the very same crime for
which southerners lynch men All OF
which goes to show that human nature
Is the same In Ohio as IN Mississippi,
and the only way the society can stop
these lynchlngs Is by devislng way to
stop the commission CT these crimes
for which men are now lynched.
am not an advocate Of lynch law
far from It-but l viii undertake to
say without the fear of successful con-
tradlction that under the same provo
cation as that under which southern
people lynch brutal outlaws and under
which the Akron mob was operating
lynchIDg can be pulled of With great
eclat within sight of the headquarters
of the Boston Antilynching society, and
l would not be AT all surprised If some
of the members Of the society would
take hand at ths rope. for after all,
they are only human. and Mark Twain
says we all have heap OF human na-
sare ia us