Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-06-28
WOODBURY., N J, THURSDAY, JUNE %, 1900

themselves into the confidence or un-
suspecting people Their business is to
find out what Republicans are sore and
what they are sore about, who are for
sale and how much it will take to buy
them, who are timid and can be bull
dozed and the best methods to accom-
plish that object and so ON to the end
of the chapter. Honest men every
where are hereby warned to be on
their guard against Marks ENJOYS and
plenipotentiaries.
Patriotism a Crime.
If Senator Eugene Hale of Maine
does not keep his optic peeled. he is liza
BILE to be harnessed up sans eeremonie|
and prosecuted for leze majesty and
socked behind the bars. 1t would be a
pity that such thing should happen
to him; but. rampant Republican that
he is and from a rock ribbed state, he
shows indubitable signs of humanity
and patriotism monstrous crimes in
the opinion of such administration bra
vos as Senator Aldrich. When Senator
Hale not long since made a plain state
ment of facts incOntroyertibIe facts
to the effect that when in 1879 congress
appropriated a large sum to pay for
sending to starving India the food con-
tributed by generous western Ameri-
cans, the English government made no
acknowledgment of the vast charity
and has not done so to this day, Al
drich bobbed up like jack in the box
and promptly rebuked Hale for making
"a political speech" a performance
which Senator Hale would do well not
to repeat if he wishes to stand well at
court.
Sometimes vaulting ambition Ger
leaps itself and falls on t'other side
with dull sickening thud. That was
exemplified In the closing days of the
session by what happened to Uncle Joe
Cannon, chairman of the committee on
appropriations. Uncle Joe has lurk-
ing suspicion that he runs the whole
machine and consequently allows him
self vast deal of space In which TO
gyrate. Buoyed up by his own enthu-
siasm, Uncle Joe jumped Amos Cum
mings and despitefully used him and
his fellow conferees on the naval ap-
preparation bill. That's precisely where
your Uncle Joseph dropped his water
melon. The unexpected happened short
" after Uncle Joes saltatory perform
ance. for Amos jumped him and dane
ed war Jig upon the statesman from
Danville, He beat kicked, cuffed. bit
and gouged the venerable calisthenic
artist and finally flung his remains in
to the air with this declaration: "You
are no Cannon; you are only a toy mus
ketr' The house cheered Amos and
whooped and yelled till it was out of
breath and red in the face.
As to the Vice Presidency.
Bryan will certainly be nominated at
Kansas City. Nothing but death or his
declination can prevent that AS he is
in the flower of his years and in per-
feet fettle he is not likely to die be-
twixt now and the first days of July.
AS to declining, that's out of the ques-
tion. Even If he wanted to decline the
people would not let him do so. The
platform is also practically written.
Everybody knows what 1t will be. The
only thing in doubt at Kansas City is
the vice presidential candidate. Who
shall he be? What manner of man do
we want? have two well considered
and well settled opinions as to that
He should be man mentally. morally,
physically and politically fit to be pres
ident 1t is arrant nonsense to go to
the trouble of carrying the country and
then have only one life stand between
us and the disappointment of our
hopes. Bryan will be elected. but fe-
yer, an accident or the bullet of an as
sassin might remove him at any time
Therefore we ought TO nominate his
running mate not only with reference
to his vote getting qualities, but also
and especially with reference to his fit
ness for the higher and greater office
the highest and greatest on earth. He
should be, above all things, a sound,
courageous, reliable Democrat, one who
will carry out the policy of the party
should he succeed to the presidency
There Is no other sensible view to take
of the matter Usually the vice presi-
dency is thrown as sop to disap-
pointed faction without any particular
regard to his fitness even for that Of
fee, to say nothing of the more exalted
one. Tyler, Fillmore. Johnson and Ar
thur were all selected in that way. and
The world knows or ought to know the
result.
The truth is that so important is the
vice presidential office in its potentiaIl-
ties that the vice presidential candi-
date should be selected before the head
Of the ticket In that way and that
way alone would the best result be
obtained.
AS to Bynum.
One Of the very best things done by
the Democrats of the senate was to
compel the rejection of the nomination
OF William D. Bynum for one of the
appraiserships in the New York Gus
tom house. a life position. salary $500
per annum. The law under which the
nomination was made provides that a
certain number of appraisers shall be