Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-04-11


worthy of the genius of Napoleon.
He will be welcomed to his old place
in the senate by all Democrats of all
shades of opinion and by most of the
Republicans, for handsome presence
and crystalline intellect are qualities
as much priced in Il man as is q soft
voice in woman. No public man in
America today carries in his counte-
nance more evidences of intellect than
does Mr.. German.
According to the Washington Post,
able and independent, Senator Cor
man achieved a remarkable victory
for educational reform in the new law
passed by the Maryland legislature
regulating suffrage. The statute is
drawn with such consummate skill
that no lawyer would dream of hold
ing it unconstitutional. Indeed it is
close copy of the Massachusetts stat
ute on the same subject, consequently
cannot be objected to as lacking in
wisdom, for since the days of Christ,
at least, wise men have dwelt In the
east, especially in Massachusetts. In
thus copying the law of the old Bay
State Mr.. German was wise as a SER
pent If not harmless as Il dove. The
law simply provides that each voter
shall mark his own ticket to indicate
how he votes. If he cant't read, he
can't obey the law and therefore can't
vote. That's all there is to 1t, except
hereafter the state. "My Maryland"
will be dead sure for about 10000
Democratic majority. Wherefore?
Because Maryland has adopted plan
of voting-the Massachusetts plan
which requires some intelligence In
the voter. AS there are more Mary
land Republicans who are illitcrate
than there are Democrats, the latter
gain by the Massachusetts plan-thats
all. Moral-Maryland Republicans
should learn to read and to write. in
which case they will join the Demo-
Gratis and make it unanimous in Mary
land. Great is German!
Is proverb whose wisdom Is Illus
trated IN the case of William A. Ro-
denberg, late q representative in con-
gress from the East st. Louis Qlls.) dis
trict. He is one of the Republicans
who fell outside the breastworks" in
'the melancholy days of November"
Consequently he is one of those whom
the Washington Post facetiously dubs
Mckinley lame congressional ducks"
Rodenberg applied for one Of the Lou
isiana Purchase exposition commits
sionerships. AS he is young, hand
some, intelligent and prepossessing and
had done yeoman service in securing
that $5,000,000 appropriation, it ap-
peared eminently proper that he be ap-
pointed. But Mr.. Mckinley thought
otherwise and bestowed that particular
plum elsewhere. Rodenbergs indorse-
ments, however, had so impressed the
president that he gave him civil serv-
ice commissionersh'p four years
term. with So salary. Now,
that's not bad. Individually | congrat-
ulate Rodenberg. He is tiptop. coed
man, barring his execrable politics. He
was educated in my district. Now
that he has gone into a quasi reform
Office perhaps he may reform indeed
and join the Democrats. While the
lamp, etc.
Better Read Esop.
If Hon. George D. Meiklejohn. late
a representative In congress for Ne
braska and later assistant secretary of
war, had read Esop carefully and had
remembered what he read, lie would
not now be statesman out of job
The particular creation of ASsop to
which would call my old colleagues
attention is the story Of the silly dog
which, with good, juicy bone be-
tWixt his teeth, was crossing stream.
Seeing the shadow of the bone in the
water, he concluded that it was anoth-
er and better bone, which he needed in
his business. So he opened his mouth,
dropped the real bone, made a dive for
the phantom bone and emerged wet,
cold and boneless. Three months ago,
when the Nebraska bucking legislature
met. Hon. G. D. NJ. was snugly en-
sconced in the luxurious and altogether
too utterly utter position of assistant
secretary of war. He beheid two Unit
ed States senatorships roaming around
loose on the bleak Nebraska plains and
determined to lasso one for his own
use. While he was chasing assduousIy
President Mckinley cruelty took away
his war berth, the Nebraska legisla-
ture turned him down. ard now he is
outside in the cold, cold world. where
there Is weeping and waiting and
gnashing Of teeth and perhaps little
profanity. .-1sop had great head!
Republican Fraud.
Late developments as to the way the
census figures were padded by Repub-
lican partisan officials In Maryland for
political purposes have shown such CO.
lossal frauds as to render them entirely
worthless for any useful purpose. Con
sequently Governor Smith, Democrat
is greatly praised because he is about
to have a state census tSkea upon
the result of which some reliance may
be placed. The principal reason for