Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-05-30
CHAMP QARE'S LETTER
Hanna Refuses the Irnpe-
rial Crown.
LIKE INDUSTRIOUS CESAR.
Indignant That He Should Be
Named For President.
PERRY HEATH rs UNPERTURBED.

E6khI HEATH 1S UNPEkIUkBED.
Not at All FIustered by His Chiefs
Apparent IRE Little Doubt That
His London Interview Was In
spired A Feefer of the Public
Pulse-Perhnps Mark Won't Refuse
the Next Tender "A Plethora of
Candidates-Bryan Again on Deck.
Labor and Capital = The Pioneer
Unifler-Remnrl2s ON "Cussing."
Especial Washington Letter.
Everybody has heard of that coy
maiden who, swearing she would
ne'er consent, consented" It's a far
cry from Marcus A. Hanna to any sort
of maiden, coy or otherwise, but never
theless he is likely to initiate her ex-
ample. Mark apparently is not enam-
ored of Hon. Perry S. Heath's nominal
tion for president. He is too bashful
by half. Whether Senator Hanna ever
heard of a certain historic performance
in which another and greater Mark,
whose other name was Antony, and a
certain julius Caesar were the principal
actors is not known to the writer, but
Brother Heath no doubt has conned
that momentous lesson well. He is
not cast down by the apparent ire of
his chief, for he knows that Mark l
offered the crown to great Julius thrice
and that it was thrice refused, all the
while Caesar being fully determined to
adorn his mighty pate with that splen-
did bauble when the time should be
ripe. So sure were Brutus, Cassius and
other patriots that Caesar was banker
ing after the crown that they stabbed
him to death in open senate, as certain
of our Republican would be presidents
are liable to do our Mark, if not liter
ally with daggers, then figuratively
with their tongues. 1t is a strange his
toric and philosophlc fact that the
greatest of all emperors, Julius Caesar,
whose very name has come to be the
synonym of imperial power, never ac-
tually Wore a crown at all.
But to return to our mutton. There
can be no question in the mind of any
rational being that Heath's London in
terview was inspired; that it was in
tended as feeler of the public pulse.
Caesar refused the crown at Mark An
tony's hands; likewise Hanna. But
Mark Antony returned, still Offering
the crown to ambitious Caesar. It's a
10 to shot that Heath will come again
and make another tender of the presi-
dency to Marcus A.: if not Perry him
self, then some other of the same ilk.
It's all in the play, and mashers are
playing it. Consequently all other Re
publican aspirants for the presidency
had not best take Marks declination as
serious, final. irrevocable. Au con
traire!
Superfiuous Candidates.
While presidential candidates are be-
coming plentiful as berries in June or
as mushrooms in a damp cellar, on the
Republican side, of course, the name
of Marcus a. Hanna, like that of Abou
Ben Adhem, ''leads all the rest" but
there are others. For instance, two
illustrious Hoosiers have their light
ming rods elevated Indiana would be
happy were either dear charmer away.
The altitudinous Fairbanks, senior SEN
ator, has friends who are seriously and
industriously at work. His presiden-
tial cake appears likely to become
dough by reason OF the fact that the
Republicans in the Tennessee legisla-
ture set the presidential bee to buzzing
about the ears of his Junior. the soulful
Beveridge. whose name suggests mint
juleps and "sieh." OF course Bev-
eridge has no more chance of presi-
Dental nomination at this particular
juncture than he has of being translat-
ed la Elijah. He will have to tarry
at Jericho till his presidential beard is
vigorous, and if he can't get the plum
himself he may prevent Fairbanks
from getting it. History repeats itself
frequently for our edifcation or dis
gust, always for our enlightenment.
Indiana has had a surfeit of statesmen
y
multitudinous that they have been in
each others way and perhaps kept the
state from having at least one presi-
dent more than she has had Either
Thomas A. Hendricks, Joseph MacDon-
ald-'Old Saddlebags." as he was call
ed-or Isaac p. Gray was fit to be presi-
dent. Their rivalries and animosities
gave the coveted honor to others out
side the state. The Harrison Gresham
feud came near keeping both out of the
presidency and landed the latter in
the Democratic partys If Indiana's DEM
ocratic 'Big Three" could have har-
monized their ambitions and could
have pulled together instead of work
ing at cross purposes, all three might
have reached the White House and
constituted a "Hoosier dynasty" to
rival in history the great Virginia
dynasty" composed of Jefferson, Mad
ison and Monroe. The chances are that
Fairbanks and Beveridge will undo
each other. If they lock horns. the
Democrats ought to carry the state.
In the meantime Republican states,
man who cannot secure a mention"
for the presidency is a decidedly ob-
Ecure individual.
DoIeful.
1t WILL be remembered that on one oc-
casioK President Cleveland expressed
his vexation and WEAKNESS because he
had congress on his hands. There is
another illustrous statesman who has,
or, rather, did have, a trouble, some
legislative body on his hands-to wit,
Hon. Sanford &. Dole, present governor
of the territory of Hawaii, erstwhile
soi-disant president Of the Hawaiian
republic. Ills legislature contained a
majority of natives more or less antag
onistic to Dole and all his works; also
to G republic of the United States of
Alefica. Tbe session is limited to a
certain number of days unless the time
be extended by Dole's ukase, which he.
refused to give, publish or declare.
With native monarchist in congress
and native legislature at loggerheads
with the governor the Hawaiians can
not be properly denominated "a happy
family"
Bryan Redivivus.
Not long since I warned the agile
and ambitious statesmen, editors and
publicists who were Jumping on VIII
liam Jennings Bryan with so much ea-
gerness that they were engaged in a