Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-03-22
Another Republican Outrage.

''The earth belongs to the saints;
we are the saints; therefore the earth
belongs to us" has been Republican
logic for, 10, these many years, but at
the November election in 1898 the Re
publican machine slipped few cogs
in several portions of the earth, among
others in Alabama, where Robbins.
Democrat, defeated Aldrich, Republic
an, by about / 1,400 majority, and in
Virginia, where Young defeated Wise
and Judge Rhea beat General Walk
er, both by handsome majorities. The
Republicans with wondrous effrontery
promptly ousted Robbins, who was
elected, and seated Aldrieh, who was
never elected Then, with appetites
whetted for blood, they yanked Young
out and put in DR.. WISE son of the i'm
mortal Henry A. Wisei This is the
third time hand running that Aldrich
has crept into congress on a contest,
and the second time that DIR. Wise has
performed the same caper Yet these
outrages on a free ballot and a fair
count are committed with a sanctimo-
NOUS smirk and in the name of politi-
cal purity by the self styled God and
morality party. III commenting on
these cases the Washington Post, gold.
bug, independent, high tariff, says:
The seat stealing in the house Of representatives
cannot be justified the ground that the
dominant party needs more majority The voters
have happy faculty of settling with the politi-
! cal organization that substitutes brutality for
| justice.
The Post makes another jab at them
in this wise:
The house OF representatives simply gave Mr..
Robbins of Alabama the Porto Rico jolt.
| Yet again The Post remarks:
The second wrong never remedies an injustice,
| but at the same time there people VINO will
not shed tears if the next house is Democratic
and some Of the seat stealers are given robust
doses Of their own nasty nostruIns.
Now, let it not be forgotten that in
election cases members sit as a jury
judges of both the law and the facts.
/ Yet when the Robbins case was being
argued as a matter of curiosity l count
ed the occupants of the 1S0 seats on
the Republican side of the house and
found six members, two pages and one
assistant doorkeeperi That, too, while
Judge De Almond was speaking an
| able man, clear headed lawyer-but
| when the time came to vote Republic,
= silL~-saua hers tssaarsss7 fsEsra's'7
sZooped a lto1ii eYe1y
I poini u the compass and cast their
ballots to oust man fairly elected on
evidence of which they had heard or
read not one single word or syllable.
Could any greater farce than that be
conjured up by the most imaginative
novelist in existence? l think not, and
| yet few months ago our great papers
went into mysteries about the trayesty
on justice perpetrated in the Dreyfus
easel France is 5000 miles away. a
travesty as bad as the Dreyfus case is
| performed in congress. and these same
papers are dumb as oysters. 1t is no
| light matter to eject properly elected
and qualified representative from his
seat. The man is little; the represent
ative is everything. He stands for the
majesty. the dignity, the power. the
hopes and aspirations of a great CON
stituency who have a right to be heard
in congress and heard through the man
they elect and not through one elected
| by the house of representatives.
Campaigning In Tennessee.
Mark Twain says, blessed is the
man who bloweth his own horn lest it
be not blown" Mr.. Gibson of Tennes-
see has jewel of campaign manager
who has evidently taken Marks lesson
to heart, with variations. He does not,
so far as appears. blow his own horn,
but he exalteth Brother Gibson's horn
in the following lusty, refreshing and
exultant manner:
GIBSON HEADQUARTERS,
MAYNARDsyILLE, Tenn, March ). (