Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-12-12

of the Army or the Tennessee. Gener-
al Lew wants committee to decide
whether he was to blame for getting
lost on the march to Shiloh on the first
day. The committee refused his re-
quest and also refused to publish the
old soldiers letter, which is said to
have been a decidedly hot number.
Strange that the general has waited
thirty-two years to clear up that great
mystery which has caused so much
heartburning and so much of crimina-
tion and recrimination. Did Grouchy
do his duty at Waterloo? Ought Fitz
John Porter to have been shot for his
conduct at the second Bull Run? Was
General Lew Wallace lost on his way
to Shiloh? are questions which will
cause old soldiers to fight and with
which civilians have no license to med
ole.
At Loggerheads.
Signs are not wanting to those who
have eyes to see and ears to hear what
is happening to indicate that the greatly
vaunted harmony among Republicans
is all matter of mere moonshine and
that really the G. o. P. is badly torn
with "contending emotions" and is la
BILE to be within a twelvemonth as
badly ripped up the back and down
the front as the Democrats ever were.
In fact, they are liable to re-enact for
thn nj oF 11-iU nd ho 70
and belligerent role of the cats of
Kilkenny. More power to their claws!
Up in Wisconsin the G. o. P. is divided
into two warning factions, the La Fol
lettites and the Anti-La Follettites,
whose hatred Is as bitter and irrecon-
cilabie as that of the Gueiphs and
Ghibellines, and which is opening up
a splendid chance for the Democrats
to redeem the state. Senator John @.
Spooner's chances for reelection to the
house of the conscript fathers are
involved, it being generally taken and
accepted that Governor La Toilette has
his coyetous eye fixed on the Spooner
toga, which intensfies the feud.
Out in Minnesota Governor Van SAINT,
u
before high heaven touching the latest
and vastest trust moyement-the con-
solidation of several of the largest rail-
roads in the country-that he causes
the cold chilis to chase each other up
and down the spinal columns of several
Republican statesmen Van SAINT wants
to scotch-perhaps kill-that particular
trust, while the average Republican
statesman knows that to kill the trusts
is to kill the party deader than a smelt,
deader than a doornail, deader than
Governor Leslie M. Shaw's presiden-
tial boom. Hence the average Repub-
lican statesman who makes to himself
friends of the Mammon of unrighteous-
ness gaZes upon Governor Van SAINT and
his antics in open mouthed wonder and
regards that worthy functionary as fit
for strait waistcoat and padded
cell
Without being a prophet or the son
of prophet it is safe to predict that
the result of the Van SAINT crusade
against the trusts will be nil; but,
while the Republican leaders and the
federal courts may be able to squelch
Governor Van SAINT and his antitrust
movement, he may create such dissat-
isfaction among the rank and file by
his wild groupings after justice that the
state of Minnesota may go Democratic,
a consummation deyoutly to be wished.
Especially is that reasonable prog
nostieation when it is remembered that
Ex-Governor and ex-senator Washburn,
a powerful parsonage, shows indubi-
table signs of desire to re-enter pub
lie life by supporting Governor Van
SAINT in his effort to pose as a trust
buster.
In Pennsylvania, If Ex-Governor Rob-
ert D. Pattison succeeds in raising the
100000 necessary to investigate elec-
tion frauds in Philadelphia. we will
behold the unusual and exhilarating
spectacle of the complete overthrow
OF the Quay ring. All good citizens will
wish Governor Pattison and his CO.
adjutors success in their pious and
laudahle undertaking. They at least
have courage.
Signs of Disintegrn1ion.
But 1t is here in Washington where
the signs of Republican disintegration
are the plainest and most abundant.
1T is largely the west against the east.
Western Republicans fear annihilation
unless congress busts the trusts and re-
vises tariff rates down, while the east
ern Republican contingent is firm as
rock in favor of maintaining the pres
ent status, and the latter stand to win,
in which event the great agricultural
northwest is liable to go into a state of
insurrection and to send enough Demo-
cratic congressman to Washington next
year to control the house.
In the meantime Hon. Serene g.
Payne & Co are betwixt the devil and
the deep sea with the whisky men de-
manding a reduction of S60000.000 an
nually and the beer men demanding a
reduction of S40000,O00 annually. Hon.
Serene & Co. could be happy were
either dear charmer away" but ad In
terim they are in the slough of de-
spond.