Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-11-29
CHAMP CLARK LETTER
Republican Ante-election
I Promises.
BENEFITS NOT APPARENT.
Golden Era of Prosperity Fails
to Dawn.
CAPITAL REMAINS IN HIDING

Big Failures and Wage Reductions
Mark the Triumph of Mckinley.
Trampa More Numerous Than Ever.
Public Money Wasted For Armor
PIate-senator CulIom's Togn In
Danger-ship Subsidy Bill a Fat
PIum-No Relief From the Trusts.
Especial Washington Lettcr.I
Some things that were promised by
the Republicans before the election and
certain other things which have hap
pened since the election do not harmo-
nize with each other, to say the least
Of it. More is the pity. For instance,
they asserted with great yociferation
and frequent reiterations that Bryans
candidacy was the only thing that in
duced the Filipinos to fight on and
that those poor benighted heathens
who are idiotic enough to desire to g0y-
ern themselves would Immediately lay
down their arms. disband and surren-
der the moment they heard Mckinley
was elected 1t seems to be tolerably
we'll ascertained that Mckinley was
elected or will be as soon as the selecto-
raj college meets. 1t is presumed that
the ignorant sayages in the Philippines
have heard of the event which happen
ed Nov. G, as there is cable communi
cation with Manila. Bat. miiable die
tu, they still fight on. and it looks as
If they have no definite idea of stop
ping. General Macarthur declares that
the Philippine war lacks great deal
of being over and that it will take
more soldiers and greater navy to
end it. The war department makes
like assertions.
We were also assured With great
deal of emphasis that there would be
universal prosperity as soon as Nc
Kinley was reelected and that capital,
which appears to be the most tlmid of
all things, would come out of hiding as
soon as Bryan was defeated. Never
theless, and to the utter astounding of
people who are 10 kin to King Solomon
in the matter of wisdom, one of the
greatest failures of years. has just even
tuated in New York
Tranps Numerous.
we were also frequently reminded Of
the fact tbSt Democrats were solely re-
sponsible for the traulps and yet the
newspapers state that there are more
tramps going south and pestering the
railroads and the farmers than ever be-
fore in the history Of the country The
railroad men report that as many as
80 or 40 have to be driven from every
freight train going south and that for
that reason the force of employees on
these trains has had to be doubled.
Now, the hobo is a migratory bird, go
ing south in winter and north in sum-
mer, so that those who are going south
now to depredate on the southern peo-
| pie will be performing the same feat
Oh northern farmers in June and July.
"a Good Enough Morgan"
! am not writing this in railing spir-
it or disposition to find fault with the
Republicans. wish from the bottom
of my heart that the Philippine war
were at an end; that every man, wom-
an and child within the confines of the
republic we're prosperous and that
there wasn't a tramp on the whole face
of the earth. am simply stating the
facts as they appear to be. When a
great many years ago it was charged
/ that the AIasous had murdered a man
named Morgan in New York because it
was charged that he revealed the Sc
| crets of the order, Thurlow Weed. VIII
| liam H. Seward and other shrewd po-
| litical manipulators organized an anti
Masonic party and made great political
| capital ont of the deep danlnation OF
Morgans taking off. The Masons anc
! their friends strenuously denied that
Morgan was dead at all aud claimed
that lie had been spirited away and
kept in hiding simply to make political
capital out of it. whereupon Weed Gym
ically and satiricaIly remarked. "Wheth-
cr he's dead or not, it's a good enough
Morgan till after this election"
1t looks very much in the retrospect
as il the roseate promises of the Re
publican spellbinders of the late cam
paign were merely good enough Nor
gans" until after the election.
| waste of Public Money.
The secretary of the navy has recent
" made a contract with Andrew Car
negie for S16,OO0,000 worth of armor
plate at between S400 and $500 per ton
| This is wicked and wanton waste OF
the peoples money Arplor plate can
be made for about $50 per ton. and
the government should build a plant
ind make its own armor plate. But
Andrew supported Mckinley and has
his reward.
On one mournful occasion Uncle Shell
by Nj. CuIIom of Illinois reluctantly nd
mitted that a senator of the United
States was only human. and there are
others = for instance. Governor John
Riley Tanner of Illinois. He is very
human If not humane. and is hot foot
after Uncle Shelby's seat IN the senate,
John Riley is so irreyerent as to nc
longer doff his cap to Uncle Shelby be-
cause the latter resembles Abraham
Lincoln physically: merely that and
nothing more Democrats viii have
! about the same interest in their strug
gle for a senatorial toga as the old wo
man had in. the fight betwixt her hus
band and the bear when she shouted
with great impartiality. Go it, hus
band; so it, bearr
1 AS Young Dick Yates seems to hav'
been born under a lucky star and sue
ceeds 10 the first great office which hi
brilliant father held-to wit, the gov
ernorship of Illinois-his run Of luel
may continue. and, in the bitter tigh
to the death between Uncle Shelby ant
John Riley. Richard may duplicate hi
fathers second great performance ans
go to the senate.
ship subsidy Hill.
1t is given out from Washington tha
one piece of work which the Republic
an congress intends to perform thi
winter is TO pass Mark Hanna's shil
subsidy bill. which win cost the tax
payers of the land s9,0o000 per yea
for 90 years. This win hardly be tax
en- as IN item Of news BY any well IN
formed person. for there has neve
beer any doubt that this bill would b