Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-01-04
CHAMP CLARK LETTER
Republican Corruption In
Pennsylvania.
TURNS STATES EVIDENCE.
The Philadelphia North Amer
ican Belabors Quay Gang.

:
ican Belabors Quay Gang.
PAPER AND WOOD PULP TRUSTS.
Editors Are kicking Hard Against
Them - Investigation of Lyman j.
Gage For FavorItism In the Matter
of spoils--A Gigantic Piece of Re-
publican neutrality-suspicious. Plat
forms.
The average Republican, like Ephra-
| i'm of old, is joined to his idols. He
! is ''sot in his ways" to a degree that
disheartens reformers. He would not
| believe a Democrat though he arose
from the dead to testify or though he
descended from heaven to go upon the
witness stand. But Republicans ought
surely to believe each other, and |
propose to quote from rampant Re-
| publican paper, the Philadelphia North
| American, pious John Wanamaker's or
| gan. 1t turns states evidence and
| belabors the Quay gang of Republican
| buccaneers in the most feroeious style.
No doubt it would be refreshing to
have the opinion of the Quay contin-
gent as to the honesty and patriotism
of the Wanamaker outfit. However
! that may be, The North American,
blatant Republican, has this self ex-
planatory editorial:
| The New York Press is anxious to have the Mon
tana legislature, which disposed of the high priced
seat in the senate occupied by Mr.. Clark,
| transported to Washington for exhibition pur-
poses. 1t thinks the spectacle would be cheap if
| it cost 100000 instead of the estimated figure of
| $4,000. 'The sight Of 80 lawmakers and senator
Makers it remarks, charged with selling their
votes at $4,000 apiece, with the confirmation Of
the charge in the sight of the actual $4,000 offer
ed and refused for four other votes, would be the
most convincing evidence obtainabe in perhaps
generation OF the pass which election by legisla-
| ture has reached. The reckless impolcy of in
trusting the choice of so important official as
| the United States senator has come to be to the
class of which in most states constitute
the legislature would appear to the whole country
with final penetration. The climax of bribery
| scandals and corrupt deadloeks would be capped"
/ If Montana the only state that could fur
nish a senatorial scandal suitable for exhibition,
contemporaries position would be well taken.
| But why waste money? Why go 1000 miles to
get little scandal in little state when can
have great scandal in a great state within three
| hours ride of Washington?
For fraction OF the amount it would cost to
! transport the Montana legislature to the national
capital we could take the Quay members of the
Pennsylvania legislature, together with Mr.. Quay's
/ governor, and incidentally could throw in the
| ballot box suffers in Philadelphia.
Corruption in the second state in the Union.
with one-twelfth of the entire population of the
| liz he p0uan pa ri
/ Benjamin Franklin the cradle Of American inde-
pendenee and the nursery of the constitution Of
the United States, is thing of national concern.
Providence can be held responsible
| for anything if you only have enough
brass and ingenuity, as is shown by
| the following delightful poem by How
ard S. Taylor:
A CASE OF PROVIDENCE.
Oh, squirrel Iawd don't be so quick!
claims my rights, rze gwine to kickl
l tells you plain right TO yo' face
Dis amt no common chicken case;
Jes' stop an use yo' common sense,
Dis is case OBJ Proverdencel
wy yes, I took dem chickens sho,
As all dem sinful eoppahs know!
Dey knows de how whence, but l
Can give dis cote de reason w'yl
Jes' shet yo' eyes close yo' face
An let me argyfy de easel
puts my trus an my defense
| Upon de groun' OBJ Proyerdence.
| Fusly considah well de night,
Jes' light enuif, but not too light;
De folks all sleepin safe SCUM,
Wild no fool dog loafn roun';
De alley open, cl'ar straight,
No pusson dar. de houah late,
bod done busted of de fence,
dead sho' sign OBJ Proverdencel
| No lock wuz on de henhouse do,
De chickens dey roos n low,
An all deir laigs downward stickin
Instead er bein on top de chicken,
An dats de propah way to hab
Yo' chickens fer sweepin grab;
Darfo', argyfes dat hence,
! Dis wuz case OBJ Proverdencel
Watts dat, yo honah? oh, my lanl
Six monhsl How kin a homes man
| Er trackin Proverdences trail
Run up ergn de county Jail?
Dis is a bu min, blame disgracel
Doggone my cats, 'peals de easel
'peals her, whar she oughter went,
Kersmaek befo' de PRESIDENT
/ Mckinley knows de how whence,
| Likewise de wy OBJ Proverdence!
The meanest thing the imperialists
have done is their labored effort to
make Providence responsible for their
mania for grabbing other peoples
lands. These American imperialists
cut a sorry figure when placed along
side of that mighty imperialist Fred
erick the Great. He was honest in his
land grabbing that is, honest in as
suming the responsibility. After he
had gobbled up Silesia from Maria
Theresa as result of the Seven Years
war, one of his ministers undertook
to demonstrate that that act of expan-
] sion was the will of God to further
the ends of civilization. But when
the name of God had been written
Frederick roared: Strike it out. Leave
! God out of that Say l did itr Fred
erick was one of the greatest soldiers
| that ever lived. He was much of
cynic His enemies charged that he
was an atheist, but the foregoing in
cident proves that the grim old fighter
had more reverence for God than have
the oleaginous hypocrites who try to
unload their own sins upon their Gre
ator.
MY Bill to Bust the Paper Trust and
Wood Pulp Trust.
General Winfield Scott Hancock, or
Hancock the Superb. as his soldiers
loved to call him, had a great deal of
fun poked at him when he was run
ming for president in 1880 because he
declared the tariff to be "a local issue.
That utteraEce contributed largely to
his defeat. But, after all, was not
Hancock correct? Is it not local is
sue? In congress do not representa-
tives and senators voice, or undertake
to voice, the sentiments of their con-
stituents on the tariff? True, there
are great universal principles, philo-
sophie and moral, underlying the ques
ton, easily chief of which is this: Has
the government any right to take one
mans money and give it to another
thereby impoverishing the one pro
tanto and enriching the othery That
is the whole protective tariff problem
in one sentence.
But | did not start out to write a
/ thesis on the tariff, but to affirm a
proposition which the giddy and un-
thinking will scout even more super