Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-07-12
Give Up or Get out.

How do the taxpayers of the land
like to have $4,000 of their money pre-
sented in one COB to job lot of Repub-
lican officeholders and then have the
offlceholders plundered of one-half Of
1t to hold the freebooting administra-
ton in power for four years more2 It's
pity that a resoIute prosecuting at
torney does not get hold of the black
mailers and send them to the peniten-
tiary! We had to pass new extradi-
tion law in order to get Rathbone and
Neely back here from Cuba. but these
blackmailers are carrying on their me-
farious operations in the full light of
day at the Raleigh hotel. on Pennsyl-
vania avenue, in the nations capital.
We are told that F. F. Schrader, who
is doing this precious business for the
Republican congressional committee,
assures a startled public that no coer-
cion is used. Oh, no! Perish the
thought! But there is not an employee
who responds to Schraders invitation
to walk into his parlor at the Raleigh
who does not know that if he refuses
to come down with the dust to the
tune of 80 per cent of his salary he will
lose his official head. So rather than
give up his job he whacks up.
Schrader has been caught in the act
and in history will join Jay Hubbell
of odoriferous memory, but no doubt
there are others at work in every de-
partment of the government. busy as
bees bleeding the employees in order
to re-elect this administration of puri-
ty, sweetness and light. Assassination
in Kentucky, blackmail in Washing
ton, plain but colossal stealing in Cuba,
are the starters in a campaign destin-
ed to be the corruptest in the history
Of the republic. All decent folk win be
compelled to hold their noses long be-
fore the frost of November nips the
Republicans on election day.
Like Banquo's Ghost.
The Cuban scandals, like the ghost
Of the late lamented Banquo, will not
down. The stencil is so strong that even
some of the Mckinley organs are COM
PEELED to give lusty and far resound-
ing snort occasionally to keep from
bursting. For example. that perfervid
Mckinley shouter. the Indianapolis
News, has Havana correspondent
who, among many other warm things,
says:
It seems a little unfair that the department oi
posts in Cuba should be made the scapegoat for all
the corruption on the islands administration
when it is wen known in Havana that the postal
irregularities and desacations are but a bagatells
In comparison with the stupeneous frauds that
have been perpetrated and iudiciously covered uE
Ia this city alone. to say nothing Of suburban
military railroads, etc. Havana has always hac
the reputation of being warm place, but II the
political pot continues to boil over much more il
viii soon be pronounced too hot for comfort
The military maddie Is getting thicker thar
eyeE General Adna R. Ghahee late chief Of
staff. got away just in time. Before leaving he
remarked to a friend We al knew It would
have to come, and thought tile aooner the bet
ter, but those tender toes UP there in Washington
wanted the cyclone STAYED off till after election.
Keep quiet down there or the Democrats viii
catch on. and then the devil viii be to pay. Sc
we kept quiet until some lay squcaled 70 congress,
and then--weil now the fat is in the Gre, and no
body knows who stole the fish,
For many months in Tact. since January the
military authorities IN Cuba knew q the gross
extrayagance. the criminal earelessness and tbs
glaring inaeenfaefes. not to use stronger ternls
that existed ID she department d posts but tses