Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-07-12
CHAMP QARE'S LETTER
Dreadful w lords For Gov
ernment Employees.
"STAND AND DELIVER 7"
High Handed Methodsof Repub-
lican Campaign Managers.
DEMAND so PER CENT OF SALARIES

0ficehOIders Must Give Up or Lose
Their Jobs Cuban Scandal Not
Confined to the Postonice-How the
Boer ENJOYS Were Received by
MIR. Bryan-suggestion For u Joint
Debate-Concerning the Open Door
In China-The Democratic Leaders.
Especial Washington Letterl
"Stand and delivers. was the ominous
command which Paul Clifford and his
robber crew used to thunder into the
ears of travellers on HounsIow heath
and III the pleasant lanes of England.
''Stand and deiiverw are the dreadful
words whispered in the ears of govern
ment employees at Washington and,
as for that matter, all over the country,
for there is no Republican officeholder
big enough or small enough to escape
the modern highwaymen-th Repub-
lican campaign. managers. Rathbone,
Neely & Co. steal on huge scale in
Cuba; the Republican campaign man
ayers hold up and sandbag the defense
less employees here at home. Civil
service rules don't count when a cam
paign is on-no, not on your life, they
don't!
Blackmailers appear to grow with
what they feed on In 1880 one Jay
Hubbell made his name loathed until
it became hiss and byword by black
mailing employees out of 10 and 20 per
cent of their wages in order to raise
the slush with which to buy Garfeld's
election. The hatred Of the American
people drove Hubbell into private life,
but Hubbell was timid at the business
compared with latter day Republican
managers, who demand and get so per
cent? "'Tis true, and pity it's it's
truep-that is. If the Washington Post
is to be believed. and remember that it
is stanch friend to Mckinley.
Robbery and BIacIxmaiI.
Here is a short extract from a two
column expose which The Post makes
of a transaction which involved both
robbery Of the public and blaekmail of
the employees:
AOkSIeeS tOOh ScUsOVy Jul VI lliG lEtd5uly lusl
before adjournment and presented it to the en-
ployees of the senate and house. This was in
pursuance Of an old established custom--a custom
more generous than creditable-of voting an ex-
ira months salary to each man on the capitol
pay roll Nobody has ever seriously eontended
that there is any real justification for this giving
away Of the peoples money, but both political
parties do if, and it has been done so often and
so long that the big annual gift-it is a clear
gift-has ceased to provoke more than feeble
and passing protest from even the watchdogs Of
the treasury.
But this years presentation to the force Of cap
itol employees has had a sequel seandalous
than the presentation itself Congress having lib
orally voted $4,000 in the shape OF extra salaries
the Republican congressional committee has step
ped in and asked the beneheiaries on tha house
roll to give up one-half OF the sum they received
for use in the campaign. In other words, ef-
fort has been made to utilize so per cent Of a
large appropriation Of public money a nucleus
of a fund needed by the congressional COMMITTEES
to aid in the election Of Republicans to the Fifty
seventh congress. failure to respond freely by
the employees has prevented the complete con
summation OF this remarkable project, but it i:
no fault OF the congressional committee that il
failed TO get hold of a considerable share OF the
900 so generously donated. There was a belief
that $4,000 at least would be voluntarily sur
rendered, but it is understood that less than hall
Of this amount will be realized.