Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-03-21
Especial Washington Letter.

a rule the gentleman who did the yell
ing was also dead, for when he yelled
"Nie Potzwallum!' and stopped the
proceedings usually his fellow mem
bers were so enraged that they ran
their swords through him and put an
end to him.
Senator Thomas II. Carter performed
the ''Nie Potzwallum" act for the river
and harbor bill, acting, SO it is whis-
pered, under instructions from the
White House, but he didn't do it with
for 1311a hours. only falling short by
one hour of Senator William Vincent
Aliens matchless performance as a
long distance talker. If the hour of
IL m. had not arrived, Carter would
have broken the Nebraskan's record.
And Thomas hath received his re-
ward-an appointment as Louisiana
Purchase Worlds fair commissioner at
a nice little salary of $1,000 year
and not much to do. More fortunate
than the Polish patriot who yelled
'sNie Potzwallumw Carter's senatorial
brethren did not run their swords
through him, though several of them
were angry enough to have done SO in
jigtime. They were smacking their
lips in anticipation of the juicy bacon.
and, 10, when Carter spoke there was
no bacon-but much cussing.
All of which recalls the famous lines:
Old slokher Hubbard
Went to the cupboard
To get her poor doggy bone,
But when she got there
The cupboard was bare,
And SO the poor doggy got none.
Hanna Grinned.
No doubt Mark Hanna grinned a
sardonic grin as the hands of. the big
clock pointed to IL M. for he
was savagely evening things up
with his eminent fellow citizen
Hon. Theodore E. Burton. chair
man Of the river and harbor COM
mittee. who openly announced his
opposition to Marks stupendous steal,
bill. Sweet is reyenge!' Mark would
have said if he had ever read Lord
Byron, the greatest poet and revenge
getter of them all. Byron gibbeted his
enemies before high heaven that all
men might gaze upon his victims.
Mark knocks them in the head and
leaves them by the wayside. In the
language of the sporting fraternity.
'it's horse on" Burton-and "a horse
on good many conscript fathers
who looked upon the pork barrel with
watering mouths.
Teddy.
AS veracious chronicler of current
events it is my duty to inform my mil
lion readers that Governor and Colonel
and Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.
f1ippantly and affectionately yclept
Teddy, pulled OF his part of the inau-
gural show not only with great sue
cess, but with great eclat. He perform
ed in the senate chamber. with roof
over his head to keep off the rain. While
Mr.. Mckinley labored under the disad-
vantage of speaking TO a vast con-
course of people who were being soak
ed to the skin by a steady downpour.
Colonel Roosevelt bore himself hand
somely and delivered very nice speech
in a clear. audible voice and proceeded
with the routine duties of presiding Of
ficer as though he were veteran. He
made a favorable impression on all
present. take pleasure in stating
these things because Mr.. Vice Presi-
dent Roosevelt is much more admira-
bleseharacter than was Mr.. Candidate
Roosevelt. He certainly added nothing
to his own fame or to the estimation In
which American public men are held
at home and abroad by his capers dur
ing the campaign. But he starts well
in the vice presidential office
The President.
Mr.. McK4A,ley actually thrives in the
presidential Office. He must. judging
by appearances. weigh 10 or 20 pounds
more than he did at his first Inaugural
tion and is in perfect fettle, yet it is
known by all who have opportunities
for judging that the presidential posi-
tion is what Mr.. Mantalini would
have denominated "a demnition horrid
grind" 1t made Grover Cleveland hag-
gard and hollow eyed, and. whatever
else may be said of him. Grover is not
"a delicate or feeble person. He is
strong and big as an OK. but all the
same GO days worry in the spring of
1893 brought great black rings under
his eyes. and he had to go fishing. AS
Mr.. Mckinley stood in the rain speak
ing to the people he was the picture Of
health and manly grace-a a matter for
congratulation all around
Mr.. Mckinley is by nature an opti-
mist. Surely he can claim to have
written the most optimistic sentence
ever penned. Our institutions will
not deteriorate by extension, and our
sense of justice will not abate under
tropic suns in distant seas"
humbly and feryently pray Al
mighty God that the presidential
prophecy may be fulfilled, but if it
is we viii have broken and reversed
all historic precedents. The pathway
of man for 5000 years is crammed
with wrecks of nations which did ex-
actly what we are doing spraddled
out all over creation, took into the
body polite hostile and alien peoples
and endeayored to assimilate them.
All those nations are dead. Let us
hope that we may escape this sad fate,
though we are following in their foot
steps. 1t may be that we are immune