Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-12-06
CHAMP CLARK LETTER
Fifty-sixth Congress Be
gins Last Session.
IMPORTANT WORK AHEAD.
Short Session a Harvest Time
For Lobbyists.
IMPORTANT WORK AHEAD.

-e~A >S AA%-S
For Lobbyists.
REORGANIzING THE DEMOCRATS.
Blatant Mouthed Assistant Republic
ans Now Eager to Control the old
Party-got Likely to suceeed-The
Standing Army to Be Enormously
Increased-wage Scale Going Down
Despite MeKinIey's EIection-sena-
tor Cushman *. Davis Proposed
Civil Pension List
Especial Washington letter.
As the hands Of the clock marked
the hour of high noon, standard time
Monday, Dec. 8, large, handsome
man with a genial countenance and a
wealth of iron gray hair ascended the
speakers stand, seized the gayel, gave
the desk q resourding whack which
brought some 800 men to their feet
said, THE house will be in ordefr
and then added, .Thc chaplain Will
offer prayer" 1t was General David
B. Henderson Of Iowa, speaker Of the
house The blind chaplain, DR. Cot,
den, offered d feeling petition 70 the
throne of grace; the clerk called the
roll to ascertain if a quorum was pres
ent 1t being present, the speaker an
nouneed that the house was ready for
business.
Over in the north end Of the capitol a
similar scene was witnessed, with Sen
ator William 2. Frye Of Maine in the
chief role and with DR.. Miiburn, the
blind chaplain of the senate. to do the
praying Thus was the Fifty-sixtb
congress of the United States launched
upon its second and last session. usual
ly called ''the short session, which
in all human probability is destined to
make a great deal of history, good, bad
or Indifferent. It win have to deal with
momentous questions, and for the
good of the republic and the sacred
cause of human liberty let Us hope
that it will order all things wisely.
The beginning of new session Of
congress, especially just after a gen
eral election, is always an interesting
occasion and draws q large crowd to
both floors and galleries. The sue
cessful ones exchange congratulations,
many Of which are from the heart and
some of which are mere lip service.
Condolences more or less delicate and
sincere are extended to those who
fell outside the breastsarks = Eg
Nshedy is on the qul yive 10 know
What will happen. Ambitious men are
already laying wires and nTarslfssiing
Influences to secure promotion on com
mittees and to improve their situations
generally. Lobbyists are hustling, for
the short session is their harvest time.
walter Williams On Reorranizers.
One of the brightest Democrats and
men in the state Of Missouri is Walter
Williams, editor of the Columbia Her
aid He will become a famous man of
letters. He has ideas in his head, and
he knows how to express them iii good.
plain, terse English Here is his opin-
ion OF the self constituted reorganiz-
ers' of the Democratic party:
Did you ever turn over stone III a
field? Upon one side it was dry. and
the sun shone. Where the stone was
overturned, however, there crawIed
out, blinking their eyes and half daz
zled, a lot of bugs worms and snaky
creatures, sliny with dark, dank dirt.
1t is much the same after the election.
Crawling out into public view, there
come a lot of fellows who have had
the broad, greasy hand of commercial
| ism smeared over them. With blinking
eyes, but blatant mouth, they proceed to
tell what the Democratic party should
have done to have won. These are
| the Eckelses, Cowens, Eairchlids, who
have been voting the Republican ticket
for eight years, but are now eager to
aid in reorganizing the Democratic par
ty What reorganization takes place
should be at the hands of the friends
of Democracy, not its enemies,
Nothing mealy mouthed about that.
1t is clear, emphatic. courageous, orig
inal, to the point, and makes what Hor-
ace Greeley would have denominated
mighty rich reading.
The French king, with his army, on
a memorable occasion performed the
celebrated feat of marching up the hill
and then malehing down again. Dur
ing the recent Campaign Governor and
Colonel Roosevelt aroused his admirers
to fever heat by denouneing in most
lurid and groteslue rhetoric the ice
trust as the suEyGeff al iniquities and
darkly hinted That 50 soon as lie had
time he woun y2.nlS Mayor Van Wyck
out of his Office for Being interested in
the same Ihat was before the elec-
ton. Now thS gubernatoTial colonel,
after all his rodomontade. COOS mildly
VS. a sucking dove and gives out state
ment in which lie declares that he win
not remove Mayor Van Wyck because
there is no proof that he willfully VIC
lated the statute in such eases made
and provided Teddy eyidcntly was a
gay deceivcr during the campaign, and
| his numerous dupes who threw high
4 their sweaty caps in air Nhila on Il
| thousand stumps he cut fantastic ca
pers before high heaven must feel
much as does the poor fool who buys 4
| gold brick The late Ianented Thineas
/ L. Rarnum was correct when lie assert
ed cynically that "a sucker is born ey-
/ cry minute a fact which, Teddy ap.
peared to realize.
/ hope that the Hon. Charles Il. Lan-
dis of Delphi, Ind, will carefully and
| prayerfuliy study Colonel Roosevelfs S
discharge and aequittal Of Mayor Van
Wyck, because in the debates which
he and had before divers and sundry
Chautauqua assemblies last summer
for revenue only, the Hon Charles 3,
made the New York ice trust and May
OF Van Wyck's wicked connection
Herewith his chief stock in trade. The
/ difference between Roosevelt and Ian
dis touching that matter appears to be
that Teddy knew all the time that he
was perpeuating fraud and that
Lands didn't know any better.
Party of False Pretenaes.
When an Individual secures money q
\ any other thing OF value by false pre-