Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-11-22

~AS~Antat0tAOHAkS Anere VIII BE a
Hustle TO Get hid of the PhIlfD-
pines-PeopIe Won't stand For Ash
attic Competition - Senator Hoar.s
Predicament - Defeat OF senator
WOIcott--Lentz's Retirement Only
Temporary Bryan Ranks Among
the Greatest Americans.
Especial Washington Letterl
Alexander Pope says:
Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never is, but always to be- blessed,
which is very great consolation to
Democrats at the present time. We
received most tremendous trouncing.
and no mistake, in the melancholy DAYS
Of November There is no use to cry
over spilled milk. The right way is to
pick your flint and try it again There
Is no great cause for being downheart-
ed. History furnishes many facts
which justify the belief that the vic
tors In one election may be the van
quished in the next. In 1913 the
Wings elected General Taylor presi-
dent, and no doubt they believed they
had long lease of power. Yet in
1852, with General Winfield Scott for
their candidate, they carried only three
states in the Union. In 1888 General
Harrison defeated Cleveland by hand
some majority. Harrison made good
president, yet in 1892 Cleveland re-
ceived very large majority in the
electoral college. II the Democrats
had been thoroughly organized that
year, Cleveland would have carried
three-fourths of the states in the Tn
ion. In four short years after that
great victory Mckinley received a5
majority in the electoral college.
1t is the same way in England Only
few years ago it looked as if the Con-
sefvatiyes would disband would new
er carry another election Now the
Liberals constitute feeble minority.
The Republicans may carry the next
presidential election. but the chances
are decidedly in favor of the PROPOSE
tion that they will not. McKinley's vie
tory is not so sweeping as was Grants
in 1872, yet in 1874 the Democrats
elected the house Of representatives by
IN enormous majority and ciet ted Til
den in 1876. The chances are that his
tory will repeat itself and that we win
elect the congress in 1902 and both the
president and congress in 1904.
what VIII They Dot
Now that the Republicans have won
a great victory the nomentous ques-
tion to them and to every one else is,
What will they do with it? If the SUI
preme court decides the Porto Rican
tariff bill unconstitutional. thereby
holding that the constitution follows
the flag and that all the islanders are
embryo citizens of the republie-and it
is 100 to l shot that it will do that
very thing-the Republicans will run
races with us as TO which shall get rid
of the Filipinos first. for the laboring
people of this country will never sup
port a party which favors bringing TO-
100000 or 100000 or 20,000,000 Ash
atics into direct competition with them.
1t would mean the utter annihilati0n
of any party that should advocate it.
Individually | have no doubt that the
supreme court will so hold, for 1t can
not hold any other way If it has any
respect at all for the constitution, and,
what's more. | believe that the Repub-
lican leaders themselves, when they
passed that bill, believed firmly that it
was unconstitutional and would be so
declared. They passed it as mere
makeshift to tide them over this cleo
ton. knowing the supreme court would
not pass upon it until the election Of
1900 was lost or won.
On the other hand, should the su
preme court hold the law constitutions
al, then McKinley's administration viii
continue this Philippine war. which is
an interminable affair. The American
people viii get so tired of the useless
sacrifice of blood and treasure that
they will turn the Republican party
out neck and crop. There never was
such an idiotic performance since the
world began so that, no difference
which happens. the Republican victory
is liable to bring them nothing but
trouble and disaster. OF course all
patriotic citizens, regardless Of party,
will wish for Mr. Mckinley prosperity
and happiness in his second term. 1t
is most unusual honor that has been
bestowed upon him. He is the ninth
man in the history of the government
who has been elected the second time.
He is a most amlable gentleman. Both
for his own sake and the sake of the
country all men whose good opinion is
worth hayinS hope that he will prove
worthy of the high position wherein
he is called.
A Very Sorry Figure.
In my judgment, of all men who have
had much to say about the Philippine