Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-12-13
CHAMP QARE'S LITTER
Real Purpose of a Large
Standing Army.
WANTED FOR USE AT HOME.
To overawe Workingmen and
Voters at the Polls.
WANTED FOR USE AT HOME

Voters at the Polls.
A MoNARoHIsT IN CONGRESS.
The Representative From Hawaii
Was Elected By the RoyaIist Party.
Our Incong==ous PopuIntion--a1c-
KinIeyrs Message Leaves Some
Things In Doubt-Forsets to In
form as to the Status of various
Principalities Supposed to Be Oars.
Congressman sulzer stin on Deck.
Especial Washington Letterl
'What do you want with a large
standing army? was the pertinent
question which that veteran Tennessee
soldier and statesman, Colonel Nicho-
las n. Cox, kept laundering into the
ears of Republicans during the debate
on the army bill. What do you want
with a large standing army in time
of peace?' he repeated as remorseless-
ly as Poe's raven repeated the word
s'Neyermorer' When Colonel Cox re-
iterated his question for about the
twentieth time, Hon. Serene e. Payne,
chairman of the great committee
on ways and means and thereby
and therefore ex officio floor lead
er of the majority, could stand
the prodding no longer and, UNI
fortunately for himself, interrupted the
Tennesseean long enough to say, I'VE
have already whipped everybody"
whereupon Colonel Cox shouted, ssWen,
if we have whipped everybody, what
do you want with a big standing ar
N.Y. And everybody roared till the
rafters rang with the merriment, while
the Hon. Serene Payne, chairman Of
the ways and means committee and ex
oficio floor leader as aforesaid, col
lapsed into his seat, red as scarlet.
Colonel Cox had made such a palpable
hit that even Republicans appIauded
him. He kept on asking, What do
You want with a big army2s And no
man has satisfactorily answered to this
hour.
Purposc of the Army.
/ feel reasonably sure that i can give
Colonel Cox the information which no
Republican dared to give. It is this,
and it is the reason why the Republic
an leaders are in such hurry to rail-
road the bill through before the holi-
days The supreme court will shortly
pass on the constitutionality of The
Porto Riean tariff bin aud win aD-
eonbtedly hold it snsonstitHtlona for
Its uneonstithtionaIity is aS-5laii1 IS
pikestaf When It Is 50 declared. the
Republicans via run races with is to
drop the Philippines like a hot potato.
Then they would have no excuse what
ever to ask for a big standing army.
What they are really up to is. in antici-
patton of an adverse decision on the
Porto Rican bill. to get the big stand
ing army now under the false pretense
Of wanting it fer service in the Philip
pines when, as a matter of fact, the
real purpose for which they desire it is
to use it here at home to overawe work
ingmen and the voters at the polls in
big cities.
Mr.. Mccall, Republican, of Massa-
chusetts, pursuing his conscientious
course and properly interpreting the
fact that after opposing the Porto Ri
can bill he ran 1900 votes ahead Of
Mr.. Mckinley in his district. made a
splendid speech III opposition TO the ar
my bill. Colonel William 2. Hepburn,
Republican, of Iowa, also took fail
out of Mr. Chairman Hull in the de
bate, so that signs of cleavage in the
ranks of the triumphant Republicans
already are visible to the naked eye.
Monarchixts at Heart.
In the picturesque language of the
day, eve are up against it hard" For
112 years it has been strenuously as
serted by Democrats that there are
monarchists in this land Of the free
and home Of the brave and just as
strenuously denied by the enemies of
Democracy From the days Of Jeffer-
son, who asserted that Alexander Ham-
ilton, Governor Morris ct id omne ge-
nus were royalists at heart, down to
the late lamentable election it was
purely matter of assertion. Now it
is demonstrated The truth is out.
The mist is dissipated. We have a
monarchical party. and in the Fifty
seventh congress there will sit dele
gate who, unless he is greatly belied by
the newspapers, is not only a monarch
ist at heart. but who ran for congress
on q nonarchical platform openly and
ayowedly. The statesman who thus
suddenly and Unexpectedly solves a
question which has generated crimina-
tiou and recrimination for more than
a century is Delegate Elect Wilcox.
from faraway Hawaii, the Pearl of
the Pacific" .'the Gateway of the Orl-
ent. sthe Paradise of the Ocean, etc.
Mr.. Wilcox is not only in favor of re-
storing the native monarchy, with
Queen Lii at its head, but he ran on
that platform against a Republican
nominee and a Democratic nominee
and was triunphantly elected. So
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hard lust how Mr.. Wilcox. roEalist,
eau reconcile his political principles
with his oath to support the constitu-
ton of the United States docs not ap-
pear. Whether he Will enter upon q
congressional crusade 10 re-enthlonc
Queen Lii is not stated. But whatey-
er he does or does not do his election
creates an anomalous situation 0ne
thing appears TO be certain aboiit him.
ana that is that he Is 4 man with the
courage of his convictions. Otherwise
be would not have proclaimed his
quixotic mission of restoring to her
lost throne the deposed queen. There
is no more prospect Of that, whatever
else may happen, than there is that the
Stuart line will be restored to the
throne Of England or the heirs at law
of Joachim Murat will reaseend the
throne of Naples or those Of Joseph
Bonaparte once more reign at Madrid.
Population Incongruons.
No. Mr. Delegate Wilcox is nc
doubt honest. The chances are that
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