Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-10-04

SeVera1 AepuD1fcan COn&Fessmen In
Iowa In Danger of Defeat-signs
Indicate That Hanna Is to Pc Made
the scapegoat of McxinIey,s De-
feat--De1nocrntic Outlook In Indi-
ana-Zach chnndIer's Scheme Re-
vived-A Republican Editors Con-
fession-Bryan's Reply to Hannn's
Challenge.
Especial Washington letter.
Surely the G. O. P. is headed for the
deuce and marked for the most as
founding trouncing any party ever re-
eeiyed at the hands of long suffering
and outraged people. Mark can't get
his usual amount of Doodle! Teddy
can't arouse any enthusiasm And the
chairman of the Iowa Republican state
committee sends out q Macedonian cry
to the postmasters and other federal
papsuckers declaring that several Re
publican congressman in Iowa are In
great danger of defeati There has
been no such mournful set as the Re-
publicans are since the children of Is
rael hung their harps on the willows
and sat down by the waters of Babylon
and wept. Amazing Republican losses
in Vermont! Surprising Republican
losses in Maine! Desertions of promi-
nent Republicans everywhere is the
sickening message which Mark is com
PEELED to send to his disheartened fol-
lowers.
'Pity the sorrows Of poor old man, !"
appears to be Marks appeal to the plu-
tocrats. Calanities are crowding upon
him so thick that one might sympa-
thize with him IL McHannaism were
not the bane of our free government.
1t is written, "If thy right hand offend
thee, cut it off"
30 it is infinitely better that Mark
should go in humiliation to his politi-
cal grave than that the republic should
perish.
Having Fun With Hanna.
They are playing cruel pranks with
Mark these days. Some scientist out
in Indiana, without the fear Of Hanna
before his eyes, but animated by a
waggish, perhaps patriotic. spirit. got
hold Of one of Marks paid spellbind-
ere. by yanetized liIn and caused him to
deliver a rousing Democratic speechl
Since Mark has unexpectedly BLOSSOM
ed out as an orator he had better steer
clear of that artist. or first thing he
knows he viii himself be whooping it
up for Bryan, 16 to / and all How all
this must poster Mark, and yet nobody
appears to be shedding any tears over
his troubles. Even Republicans are
beginning to complain of him and to
despitefully use him. My lecture mate
one of them Hon. Charles B. Landis
of Delphi, Ind, thought it winning
card to induce Mark to crate in his
town. Guess Charles did that with an
eye to persuading Mark to give him
some of the sinews of war. Mark In
yaded Delphi, Grated, and now comes
Governor Mount, who says that bring
ing Mark into Hoosierdom was blum
der which famous F'renchman on q
momentous occasion declared to be
worse than q crime. Governor Mounts
declaration is the "most unkindest' cut
of all and must have caused the iron to
enter Marks soul. Signs are accumu-
lating that Mark is to be made the
scapegoat for McKinley's impending
defeat He will share the lamentable
fate Of one Jay Huhbell-Garfields S
"Dear HubbelT'-who sandhagged and
held up the government officials and
who was then thrown away like q
sucked nge-disgraced, exeerated,
loathed. When Mckinley is beaten. as
he will be, all of the sins of all the Re
publieans will be loaded on to Marks $
back, and he win be hated more enthu-
siasticaily and more universally than
any other man in America.
A Jobs Comforter.
Even The Globe-Democrat 2 thick
and thin Republican organ grinder, has
become a sort of Jobs comforter for
Mark and, speaking of West Virginia,
says. ''The outlook is not so hopeful as
the campaign Republican managers
had hoped it would be-" Again. The
Globe-Democrat says, ''The party lieu
tenants in the field say that hard work
viii be necessary for the salvation of
the state" Again, The Globe-D Democrat
continues dolefully, ''The result of the
reports from West Virginia will be the
immediate braeing ND of the Republic
an campqign in that state" Which
means, I take it, that Senator Stephen
B. EIkins will Import a few more car
loads of the colored man and brother
into the state and colonize thep for
fraudulent election purposes. Again,
TIE Globe Democrat remarks, 1Litera-
ture and speakers will be supplied. and
the voters throughout the state will be
awakened to a sense of the danger
which seems to confront the party" T"
No doubt The Globe Democrat has
made a correct diagnosis of the disease
affecting the G. o. p. in West Virginia,
but it has prescribed the wrong reme-
dy. What those sleepy or reealcitrant
West Virginia Republicans need to re-
suscitate them is not literature an;l
speakers, but some Of Marks boedIe.
All this would make Marks hair stand
on end like quilts upon the fretful por-
cupine If he had any hair, which he
has not.
And the papers report that the very
Old Harry is to pay in the gas belt In
Indiana, where Mark expended his
gas. The trusts have been getting in
their work In that region, shutting
down factories, throwing people out Of
employment ard causing untold mis-
cry. And the simple Hoosiers are so
unreasonable as to conclude that and
2 make and are beginning to talk Of
holding the Republican party RESPONSE
bic for the calamities which the trusts
have brought upon them. The pros
poets are that those benighted Hoosiers
who are opposed to being robbed in
broad daylight will turn the state over
to Bryan.
Mark got his comb cut in another
way and from an unexpected quarter.
In his Delphi speech. In his swagger-
ing, offensive, truculent way, he said
that he was ready to debate imperial
ism with Bryan or any other Demo-
erat That sounded very brave IN