Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-09-27

pose really does It that because a
few thousand people left Omaha and
Lincoln they expatriated themselves
and sought homes in foreign lands?
And doesn't The CD. know that II
writes itself down an ASA malignant
one at that-by attributing loss of pop
ulation-if loss there be-in Omaha and
Lincoln to William J. Bryan?
A Fighter From Texas.
Certain Republicans are laying the
fattering unction to their souls that
they can defeat that brave old Demo-
cratic warhorse, Colonel Rudolph Kle-
berg Of the Bio Grande district of Tex
as, but they are reckoning without
their host, for Colonel Kleberg is q
fighter from away back. There are no
frills or fuss and feathers about your
Uncle Rudolph. He ,.SG.ietIv whets his
snickersee and goes after tneLs. and
when he gets through they are not.
The reason why the enemy thinks he
can capture Kleberg's district is that
the Democrats had big fight for the
nomination Wonder these Republican
editors never learn that Democrats are
like cats a-fighting- -"more fight, more
cats" So true is this that when the
Texas Democracy was split in twain
some years ago The Globe Democrat
mournfully remarked, perhaps the
Democratic majority in Texas can be
kept below the 100000 mark this year" /"
It's a 10 to l shot that the Democrats
Of Texas will redeem Colonel Hawley's
district and send a solid Democratic
delegation to congress instead Of los
ing Kleberg's district.
DR.. Richard Bartholdt of ST. Louis
will have to keep his optic peeled or he
will get his congressional tail pulled.
The doctor thinks he has a lead pipe
cinch on that district. To casual OBJ
server it looks as If he had, as he has
been receiving 5000 and 10000 majori-
ties, but If the doctor depends on past
majorities he Is likely to find himself
'ausgespielt," for the Democrats have
acted with rare good sense and have
nominated against him Lieutenant
Governor A. II. Bolte, who Is a splen-
did man and a magnificent campaign
er, especially strong with the Germans,
who are not stuck on Dr. Bartholdt's
imperiaIistic ideas. He is a jolly good
fellow. | count him among my per-
sonal friends but I do not believe
that he represents the sentiments Of
Il htc,
as they now present themselves. Ger
mans love liberty, and, what's more,
they came to this country to secure
liberty. and / have never believed and
do not now believe that they will in
dorse McHanna Imperialism.
Charles A. Towne.
OF all the Republicans and PopulIsts
now cooperating with the Democrats
none has more brains than Charles a.
Towne. He is man of the highest
character and highest capacity. His
conduct in refusing vice presidential
nomination and iu putting his services
where they will do the most good is
proof positive that he is a patriot.
There is no better political literature
than Towne's speeches. His silver
speech in congress gave him an inter
national reputation as an orator. He
maintains on the stump and on the
platform the vast reputation then ana
there made In his Duluth speech
Towne tackled Teddy the Terror -
and the artistic manner in which he
fayed that self constituted hero adds
largely to the gayety of nations. In
speaking of Teddy's st. Paul harangue
Towne says:
The speech Is with rare exception, an alienation
Of evasion and assertion. In spirit 1t is a COM
pound OF scold aad scullion- As to its facts, it
abounds in inaccuracies which, II accidental, are
inexploable as coming from man who has per-
formed ereditably work in history and biography.
But the world is accustomed to inconsistencies
from Mr. Roosevelt 1t has long looked upon him
as prcdestined and ineorri gible eccentric. It
has given up attempting to explain him or to
reconcile him with himself It is quite impossi-
5le whether it would be worth while otherwise or
not, to make an entirely satisfactory diagnosis OF
a civil service reformer in partnership with
Thomas C. Plat; citizen soldier who ridicules
the volunteers; a leader in battle who finds glory
in being rescued from ambush; hero who
boasts Of shooting fleeing foe in the back; a
candidate who plays and poses to delegates and
galleries to obtain a nomination that he does not
want; a gentleman who charges six and a half
millions OF his fellow eountrymen with lawlessness
dishonesty and cowardiee; a statesman who,
mounted on a hobby, rides roughly at grave ques-
tons in economics and politics, swinging his par
tisan lariat and yelling like Intellectual Co.
manche.
That is as neat a piece of skinning
as this campaign win furnish. It is
classical, forceful, true and has q
Juniuslike finish that is charming.
Republicans on the Run.
The Republicans are on the run
everywhere. They are scared. Straws
show which way the wind blows.
Up in the old Granite State Hon. VIII
liam E. Chandler is trying to pull HIM
self back into the senate for another
term by going about bawling at the
top of his voice that Senator William
a. Clark of Montana is endeavoring
to compass his defeat, just as he re-
elected himself once by exhibiting TO
his sympathizing constituents the ear
which Joe Blackburn pulled nearly
off If the New Hampshire people
can be fooled by any such cheap and
transparent trick as that, they are big
ger fools than Thompson's celeb rated
colt, which swan the Mississippi river
to get drink. Chandler says that
Clark has sworn to spend 100000
to compass his defeat The chances
are that Clark wouldn't give 100 cents
to beat Chandler, and nobody knows it
better than Chandler himself. He Is
simply making his race undec false
pretenses in order to keep q Democrat
out of the senate and to lift himself in
again.
Out in Indiana the friends If Hon.
Charles B. Landis are also scared and,
strange to say, are endeavoring to
work on the Hoosier voters q game Of
bunko very similar to the one Senator
Chandler is playing up in New Hamp-
shire. The Lands rooters, seeing him
about to lose his seat in congress to a
Democrat, have raised the hue and cry
that Brigham H Roberts of Utah is
raising heaven and earth and expend-
ing large sum of hard cash TO beat
Lands. What arrant nonsensei What
cheap demagogyl What miserable
claptrap! Lands had no more to do
with putting Roberts out than did a
dozen others not much more than