Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-09-05
CHAMP CLARK 5 LETTER
Littlefield Larrups the
Supreme Court.
THE NEW MAN FROM MAINE.
Dares to Think For Himself and
+ Speak the Truth.
THE NEW MAN FROM MAINE.
oRITIoIsEs 1NsULAR DECISION.

Declares That the Opinion of the Su-
preme Court Was Influenced by
Political Considerations - Failure
of the Corn and Potato Crops Dis
counted by a Republican Organ.
Republican Thieves Go Unpunish-
ed-Peace as Ii Is Practiced In the
Philippines : The Extraordinary
Conduct of Congressman Hull.
Iowa Democrats Alive.
Especial Washington Letter.l
The attention of the New York Sun,
Mark Hanna and General Charles II.
Grosvenor is particularly called hereby
and herein to the case of Hon. Charles
E. Littlefeld of Maine. He is at the
very least guilty of leze majesty and
should be summarily dealt with. Other
wise discipline in the Republican party
is a minus quantity, and without dis
cipline it is nothing. Whenever Re
publican becomes sufficiently independ-
ent to think and speak for himself he
is hereto and dangerous to the or
ganization. What's more. Littlefield
dares to tell the truth-another sin
against the Republican organization.
Worst of all, he larruped what Repub-
licans regard as a sacred part Of our
institutions, the supreme court of the
United States, which Republicans have
regarded as sacred ever since they en-
larged and packed it in order to secure
Ever after it has ground out just, such
decisions as the exigencies of Republic
an party politics demand.
Before the Republicans reduced that
court of last resort to that pitiabie
plight it regarded the court as a rep
rehensible object. Since that court
does it's bidding any one who dares to
criticise it is written down as an idiot
or traitor or both. 1t will be preposter-
GUS to write Littlefield down as fool,
so the whole pack, led on by the rene
gade New York Sun, will tell all sorts
Of lies about him and heap all sorts Of
abuse on him in order to prevent his
promotion or even continuance in pub
lie life, for he has committed the sin
objectionable in declaring that the
great and good supreme court was in
f1uenccd by political considerations in
rendering its opinions in the insular
cases Indeed, Littlefield scornfully de-
elared that there was really no opinion
at all When this new man from
Maine" who is easily the intellectual
peer of any other imam from Maine"
had concluded. there was great ap-
plause Wherefore? Because he was
speaking to the American Bar associa-
tion-men with brains in their heads,
who knew that he was telling the
truth, truth which brings blush of
citizen who loves his country and its
constitution. But, as usual, the lick
spittle was present, this time in the
person of one Adolph Moses of Chicago,
who evidently does not resemble the
great lawgiver half as much in brains
as name. He desired to utter his Wig
oreus dissent to the applause for Lit
tlefeld's pronunciamento. Wherefore?
Because Littlefield had attacked the
supreme court! There you have it,.
No man must dare to use the brains
which God has given him-unless he
comedies with the Republican supreme
court! Bully for Littlefeld
An Absurd Deduction.
One of the favorite copies set for
urchins by the Old Field schoolmasters
was. MANY men of many minds" a
truth which cannot be denied aud
which is frequently Illustrated by the
doings and sayings of people now on
earth. For example, not long since
The Globe Democrat was bloviating
over the fact, as a sign of Mckinley
prosperity, that even if the corn crop
is short what there is of it will bring
more money than was received for the
large crop of last year. Certainly that
is curious position for the great reli-
gious weekly to take. Pray. who is to
pay the extraordinary price? The peo-
pie who live within the region where
The CD. circulates, for not one farm
er out of thousand in that vast corn
producing area i'll which The CD. is
read raised enough corn to winter his
stock. What satisfaction will it be to
those farmers, to say nothing of the
thousands of nonagriculturists who
possess horses or COWS or other live
stock, to go down into their pockets
and bring forth 20 cents to 81 for every
bushel of corn fed to stock? If The
CD. will carry its theory to its legiti-
mate conclusion, it will discover that
if only one bushel of corn bad been
grown on the surface of the globe this
year and there was no old corn the
one bushel would probably sell for
1000 a grain for seed purposes. which
is of course reductio ad absurdum.
Not content with exploiting the failure
of the corn crop, The CD. turns its
luminosity upon the almost total fall
ure of the potato crop. with this bril-
liant result. This years crop Of pota-
toes is unusually small. The price.
however. will make 1t feel Big" That
utterance will hardly rank with King
Solomon's proverbs or the wisdom of
the ancients. but as an illustration of
whistling to keep up ones courage it
deserves wider circulation than II
had in The CD, which wider circula-
tion it will receive in these letters.
Caught Red Handed.
Alas and alack, one official thief has
been caught red handed! 1t is Mr.. Ed
ward Y. Shanard. chief clerk in the pat