Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-04-26
CHAMP QAREIS LETTER
Congressman Grosvenor
Talked Too Much.
FATAL GIFT OF SARCASM.
Poking Fun at the Beers May
Prove Costly Amusement.
IN MELANCHOLY NOVEMBER DAYS.

In MELANCHOLY NOVEMBER DAYS.
penator Hoar Sends Cold ChiIIs Down
the Spines of the Jingoes-Predict-
ed Downfall of Republican Party.
Quotes Some 'IIlustrious Traitors
Defines Powers of Congress Under
the Constitution.
Especial Washington Letter.l
The signs of the times indicate that
General Charles Henry Grosyenor of
Ohio, who is generally supposed to
speak for the McHanna administration
on the floor of the house, made great
mistake when he delivered a speech
poking fun at the friends of the Beers
AS a piece of sarcasm the speech was
a rare success, but the venerable
statesman from Athens has lived
In vain almost to the psalmist's
allotment of threescore years and
ten if he has not yet learned
that sarcasm is a fatal gift-as fatal
to man as beauty is said to be to a
woman. The Republican warhorse
reveled in sarcasm that day. Every
body enjoyed the artistic manner in
which he performed, but subsequent
events seem to demonstrate that the
American woods are full Of sympa-
thizers. and the general and his chief
are liable to regret that speech once.
and only once, which will be as long
as they live.
In the days to come the melancholy
days of Noyember-when the Repub-
lican chieftains are quarreling among
themselves as to who defeated William
Mckinley for a second term, if Gener-
al Grosvenor does not keep his optic
peeled, his confreres will saddle the
whole responsibility on to him. He
will find that, like the parrot whose
neck was twisted nearly out of joint
by his irate master, "he talked too
much"
Joseph Weldon Bailey has already
won his fight for Texas United States
senatorship. his rival, Hon. Horace
Chiffon, having withdrawn from the
contest. | repeat here and now delib-
erately what said some time ago-that
within two years from the day that
Bailey Is sworn in as a member of the
less numerous branch of the national
legislature he will be recognized as the
foremost debater in the senate. He is
now headed for the field of his glory.
God speed the lion hearted young
statesman in the great career which is
opening before him. OF course we re-
gret that he leaves the house. Ny own
feeling toward him is not so much adj
miration as deep personal affection or,
more properly speaking, mixture of
the two. He is a man to trust and
love. am not disparaging Senator
Chiffon. He is able, capable, cour-
ageous, honest, but Bailey is my close
personal friend have helped him
fight many battles, and to men who
fight side by side in the house there
comes a feeling akin to that which
comrades in arms entertain for each
other.
Senator Hoar's Great Speech.
Senator George Frisbie Hoar of Mas
sachusetts. successor to Charles Sum
ner, delivered a speech in the senate
recently which must have made the
cold chills chase each other up and
down the spinal columns of the Philip
pine jingoes. Truly he laid on and
spared not. He smote them hip and
thigh. He broke them on the wheel,
drew and quartered them, roasted
them on redhot Goals, gibbeted them
before high heaven, brayed them In a
mortar, stretched them on the rack,
whipped them at the carts tail and
otherwise despitefully used them. II
was a most remarkable speech-re-
markable in many ways and for many
hings-remarkable for its fire, fer its
historic learning. for its legal lore, for
its eloquence, for it's personalities and
for its length. He was three hours in
delivering it. If he had actually spo-
ken every word he printed, it would
have consumed five or six hours in its
delivery. By reason Of its great length
no one paper will ever print all of it,
and for the same reason it will not be
generally circulated in pamphlet form,
as that would be too expensive, for
be it remembered that congressional
speeches are not printed free and in
unlimited quantities. as most people
seem to think, but are paid for In very
hard cash by the author or by some
body else. This great speech by Sen
ator Hoar-for a great speech it Is be-
yond all cavilEwill cost somewhere
from 500 to S25 per thousand. But II
is too good a campaign document for
the Democrats to be lost. Consequent
" | offer no apology for making up
the bulk of this letter of quotations
from it--quotations which should be
saved up and used for campaign pur-
poses by all who read these letters.
He draws this glowing picture of our
position at the close of the Spanish
war:
A Great Achievement.
"From all over the country came the
voice of we'll paid labor. dwelling in
happy homes full of contentment with
the present and of hope for the future
Capital was seeking new investments
on all sides. Our domestic market
rescued from foreign invasion, was
our own. Foreign markets were open
ing. The balance of trade was on our
ide. The product of American indus
hy was carried abroad on an over
whelming and Increasing tide.
1--WE had won the glory of a great
liberator in both hemispheres. The
flag of Spain-emblem of tyranny and
cruelty-had been driven from the
western hemisphere and was soon to
go down from her eastern possessions.
The war had been conducted without
the loss of a gun or the capture of an
American soldier in battle. The glory
of this great achievement was unlike
any other which history has recorded,
1t was not that we had beaten Spain
It was not that 10000 people had
conquered 10000 900, not that the
spirit Of the nineteenth century had
been too much for the spirit of the If
teenth century, not that the young
athlete had felled to the ground a de.
crepit old man of 90. Il was not that