Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-01-17

great gyastacutis Of the anti-Quayites,
and if they are guilty of a series of
crimes against public decency Brother
John is the chief of sinners. There is
no escaping that logic, dead sure pop.
Harpooning Quay's Enemies.
After that scathing exordium The
Inquirer throws the harpoon into the
enemies Of Quay in this savage fash
ion:
In 1898 the insurgents were active in effort
tc name a governor and to beat Senator Quay.
Insurgent agents brought into the state in 1875
methods so corrupt and SO debauching that they
simply appalling, and yet from that time
until the present these crimes have only grown III
intensity. 1t has been the plan Of antiQuly
agents not only to deceive the public, but to buy
delegates TO conventions and to buy members OF
the legislature with cash. Never was corruption
greater than at the present moment Men pIedg-
ed to Quay haV1 Been oiEd asnis lai..sit. ,aiN5
$4,000 each to break away from him. ana all this
has been done under ihe Aypocritisal guisc of re-
form
Now, | submit to Il candid world
that that is sad business for apostles
Of purity and sweetness to be engaged
in, and it is well known fact that all
Republicans are ex officio such apos
ties, for have they not themselves time
and time again admitted the soft in-
peachment? Aye, more-haye they not
announced it from the house tops to
all the world? Their logic stated in
syllogistic form runs thus: "The earth
belongs to the saints. We are the
saints; therefore the earth belongs TO
us" Now, to have one faction of tho
saints charging the other faction with
all the crimes in the calendar is cal
culated to produce a ruction in saint
dom.
Worse ana Mere OF II.
Yet there is more and worse TO fol
low, for The Inquirer vehemenhy eX-
claims:
Never has there been such treach-ry against IN
individual candidate or against a state, for the
Quay traitors are traitors against the Republican
party of Pennsylvania For be it remembered
that Quay has not bean candidate by his own
selection. lie is the candidate of The Republican
party.
1t is of course self evident PROPOSE
tion that a man doesn't want a thing
w lllCll likf N1S 1Cl Win lltl!9ill anu
main for over two years. To hear
The Inquirer tell it, Matthew Stanley
will have to be lassoed like wild
Texas steer and dragged to Washing
ton and held down in his curule chair
while the oath is administered to him
that is, always provided he secures
the senatorial election for which "he
has not been a candidate by Ms own
selection. But if q plain, unsophisti-
Gated Democrat from out of the west
may be permitted to PROFOUND a ques-
ton, | would like to ask, strictly for
information how Wanamaker y Co.
committed treachery to the state by
fighting Quay? That pompous and
inflated old historic and royal fraud,
Louis XIY, in his vast and amazing
egoism, exclaimed: "L'etat. C'est moi!'
(I am the state!) And for believing
and acting upon that stupid and stu
pendous lie his grandson, Louis XVI,
otherwise known as Louis the Lock-
smith, lost both his throne and his
wooden head. Suppose John Wana-
maker and his insurgents have been
treachcrous to the Republican party,
how does that make them treacherous
to the state? Millions of patriotic
citizens of this great republic believe
that Wanamaker ct al. could render
Pennsylvania no more valuable service
than by killing the Republican party
in Pennsylvania dead as n smelt.
The Inquirer does not propose that
its readers shall be i'll douEt as to some
Of the personages 1T whom il hurls its
| darts, as the following shows:
Were it possible to overthrow him what would
result? The domination Ct the state by a repu-
| dated political highwayiraa Of Philadelphia, Da-
| yid Martin, and by political SLAVE driver and
contractor of Pittsburg, William Fliaa-
That's specific enough, heaven knows.
Hemp at harrisburg.
But let no reader jump erroneously
and prematurely to the conclusion that
] The inquirer and other Quay whoopers
up have it all their own way when it
comes to writing and publishing words
which blister and burn. There are
others-e 81, the Philadelphia North
| American, Republican reform organ.
In one issue in great big, black head
lines it says: Arthur McEwen sug-
gests that the use of hemp at Harris
burg, while it would be a crime and not
to be considered. would lie less danger
Gus to civilization than the bribery of
legislators. There you are, That's
/ about as if Victoria, queen of Great
Britain and Ireland and empress OF
/ India, should say to Lord Kitchener,
Don't butcher any Peers, hut if you
| 10, I'll make You duke But who is
Arthur AeEwea? He's one of the
most brilliant newspaper men in Amer
lean not "a irresponsible nonda criDi