Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-08-09
CHANP qARE'SIEIIER
Depew Charged With
Too Much Loquacity.
LOSING VOTES In NEW YORK
General Dicks Abuse of The
Congressional Record.
REPUBLICAN, CAMPAIGN METHODS.

REPUBLICAN, CAMPAIGN METHODS.
Speeches Printed and Scattered
Broadcast at Public Expense-The
Tarin the Mother OF Trusts-Hosv
Congressman Lentz Tanned the
Hide Of General Grosvenor--The
Only Republican Opposed to Trusts.
sfonnett Turned Down by His Par-
ty-John ). Lentx.
Especial Washington Letter.l
Alas and alacki Ny heart is heavy,
and my lachrymal ducts are in full
flow. Wherefore? Because my bonny
friend, the suave and gifted Chauncey
Mitchell Depew. junior senator from
New York and orator laureate of the
Republican party, Is accused by divers
and sundry newspapers not having the
fear of God before their faces, but be-
ing instigated by the devil, Of having
talked too much at the Philadelphia
convention a la the famous Parrot
These irreyerent scribes not only make
the general charge of too much ioquac-
ity against my distinguished friend,
but they cruelty specify and declare
that when he undertook to boost Gov
ernor Roosevelt's military record by
referring sIightingly to the Seventy
first New York regiment he put his
foot In it and lost some thousands Of
votes to the Mckinley ticket In New
York, for. as the officers and men of
the gallant Seventy-first can't get at
the brilliant Chauncey at this election,
as he is not candidate, they viii even
up things by clawing the hide off his
principal, Colonel Roosevelt. and while
they are at it of Major Mckinley also.
Sweet Is reyenge.''
At the Public Expense.
How persistently and successfully
Republican statesmen stuff ballot
boxes is a matter OF common knowI-
edge; but 1t is not so well known how
extensively they stuff The Congression-
al Record, the daily paper Of con-
gress, published and circulated through
the mails at the public expense.
In this bad business the name OF
Hon. Charles Dick, alias "Generars
Dick, representative in congress- secre-
tary to the national executive =.
tne ase hooaIun CHEF, h2 s'qn q Uhios naslonaI
committeeman. Ike that OF Abou Ben
Adhem, leads all the rest ! take
off my ehapeau to General Dick, con-
fident In the belief that in padding
The Congressional Record he has set
the pace for all coming padders-a
pace which no other may attain.
General Dick is man of parts
many parts-and plays many parts.
He is fast coming to be the Pooh Bah
among the McHannaites; but oratory
is not among his muItitudinous accom-
plishments. He wins his victories by
manipulation and by being the chief
gunner of Mark Hanna's fast firing.
long range, disappearing checkbook.
General Dick has not hitherto aspired
ito speak In public on the stage" but
nobody can ever guess what ambition.
preposterous or otherwise, is germinat-
ing in the brain and heart of an Ohio
Republican. From Fire Alarm" For
aker down to some infant puking and
pulling in its mothers arms Ohio Re
publicans all expect to be president or
to bag something equally as good"
So, while people were praising Gen
eral Dick as the silent statesman, all
who read The Congressional Record
Of June 8, published two days after
congress adjourned, were amazed to
find that it contained what purported
to be speech by the general, filling
almost 70 columns of The Record.
Representatives were astounded be-
cause they knew that he never deliver
ed any such speech in the house. II
he spoke at ALL 1t was briefly, under
the five minutes rule. but the chances
are that he never spoke at all. He
wrote, or he made his secretary write.
71la bread columns in The Record.
Wherefore? Not for his health; not as
a literary exercise; not for fame. None
of these. The general was doing bust
ness. He was loading up The Con
gressional Record. published at the
public expense, with enough campaign
rot to make book as big as McGuf-
fey's old Sixth Reader. to be printed
at the public expense and circulated
through the mails free by the millions
to induce people to vote directly
against their own interests by voting
for William Mckinley. There are more
words in this so called speech by Gen
eral Dick than can be found in all the
speeches of Demosthenes or Patrick
Henry. Such gross abuses OF ''the leave
to print in The Record are the things
which make many men-including my
self-in favor of abolishing The Record
altogether AS General Dick stuffs it.
it is = fraud and robbery upon the
people.
The Tariff and Trusts.
Henry o. Havemeyer, who ought to
know, says the protective tariff is the
mother OF trusts. There can be no
question: that tut 1NcpuDtlChA party p
the mother of the high protective tariff
Therefore, according to all the rules Of
logic, the Republican party Is the
grandmother of the trusts. OF course
the old political harIot resoluted
against them in a feeble way at Phil
sdelphia, but actions count much more
than words ia this world. and here II
the action up to date:
There has never bcenFbut one Repub-
lican in the United States who lifted
his finger against the trusts. That
man was the Hon. Frank s. Monnett.
late Republican attorney general Of
Ohio. who, taking the party at its word,
proceeded to make war on the stand
ard on trust. whereupon the Republic
an party at the first oppo re-
tired him to the shades of q
and hare been heaping al : i
head ever since. The