Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-01-10

ready advocating Democratic princi-
ples' and relying on Democratic coun-
cils.' We will not be led by those
whom Mr.. Cleveland deems Demo
cratic leaders because they deserted
/ us when eur need was the solest When
the battle waxed hot between the alain
people and the plutocrats, those same
leaders" turned like a craven and fed
into the ranks of the enemy. That's
why the rank and file-God bless them!
will never follow the old leaders
again.
Mr.. Cleveland remarks sententiously,
''There is much for us to do That's
true, and G. G. and his coterie did
much in 1896 to render futile the ef-
forts of Democrats to reclaim the gov
ernment. Further along he remarks.
''The future is full of Democratic duty
and opportunity" So was the past,
from 1896 to 1900, both inclusive, but
G. G. & Co. failed to do their duty most
signally and failed to seize the oppor-
tunity.
Then with great force and energy G..
G. exclaims, and it is his modest bid
for the nomination in 1904, IF they
fhe Democratic rank and file) hear the
rallying call Growers calD of true De-
mocracy Growers particular brandl.
they will gather for battle with old
time enthusiasm and courage" True
enough, but where, oh. where, was G..
C.'s ''rallying call' in 1896 and 1900?
A blast upon his bugle in those years
would have beaten Roderick Dhu's all
hollow, but G. c. didn't sound it.
Griggs and the Constitution.
1t has been universally conceded that
the men who formed the constitution
Of the United States understood their
business and did pretty good job. In
deed William e. Gladstone declared
the constitution to be the greatest sin
gle emanation of the human mind. All
these good opinions concerning the fa-
and held for naught, for Mr.. Attorney
General Griggs, speaking before the
supreme court, finging away his law
books and quoting from Shakespeare
to settle great constitutional ques-
tion, uttered these remarkable words,
indicating f1ippant disregard and ut
ter contempt for the work of the IA
thers:
Why should this government be considered TO
have less freedom of action in this matter than
other nations? What clause of the constitution
SO compels? Why tied and bound that
we are never to secure the fruits of victory
to acquire an island of the sea, albeit across the
isthmus, station for naval base, unless at the
cost of admitting those inhabiting the soil to free
rights citizens of the United States, whether
they be cannibals savages, granting them the
glorious potentiality of being part Of the people
OF the United States? Did forefathers so
hamper us? If SO, this constitution is as mis-
shapen as Richard the Hunehback, "sent into this
world before his time, scarce half made up and
that so lamely and questionable that nations
laugh at US as we halt by"
/ suppose Griggs will write new
constitution, just to show what idiots
George Washington and his coworkers
were.
Lynching Bees Fashionable.
The action of the Hoosiers in lynch
ing three colored men for murder and
robbery, taken in connection with the
riots at Akron, o., last summer, and
with the action of the Coloradans only
short time ago in burning a man
alive, goes very far toward proving
that the lynching business is becoming
fashionable. It is not confined, as
some aesthetic philosophers would have
us believe, to the south and the wild
and woolly west but is invading the
cultured cast, for, be it remembered,
that while Colorado is somewhat west
Of the center Of the United States
proper, which is somewhere near
Leayenworth, Kan.-not counting Ha-
waii, Guam and the Philippines In
diana is some 600 or 100 miles east of
the center and Akron, o.. still farther
toward the rising sun. Nobody takes
pride in the fact that lynching is prac-
ticed in any portion of the country.
1t is sad fact that thousands of peo-
pie deem it necessary to take the law
into their hands in order to deter
vile criminals from plying their foul
yocations, but such is the truth of cur
rent history. Napoleon said, Scratch
a Russian and you will find a Tartar"
So it may be affirmed without any
extravaganza that tif in any part of
the country crime of sufficient atroci-
ty is committed, Iynching bee is i'm
minent."
After 81, we are pretty much the
same sort Of people from the Atlantic