Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-07-11

chises-MissOuri to BE Made Repub-
lican-Charles Henry Grosvenor
Reneges-The Babcock Tariff War
Shows No Abatement - Hanna's
BaIefuI Influence Antidote For
Trusts.
Especial Washington Letter.1
1t is really gratifying to learn that
reform movement has been inaugural
ed in Philadelphia. If there is one
place on earth that needs reforming
worse than all others it is the City of
Brotherly Love, which has become so
thoroughly corrupt that when the man
in the moon passes over it he holds his
nose to keep from fainting. Indeed, the
foregoing remarks may be applied to
the entire state of Pennsylvania, where
Republican purity and sweetness are
seen in their fullness. The city of
Philadelphia is reliably Republican by
about 100000 and the state by quar-
ter to half million; yet ballot box
stuffing, repeating, bulldozing and all
other methods forbidden in politics are
practiced openly and brazenly. It's
high time they set in to reform things
there and thereabout. A vast deal is
said about Tammany corruption, but
Tammany in its worst estate was pure
beside the ring that dominates Penn
sylvania and Philadelphia. The last
legislature passed a street railway
charter for Philadelphia for which that
great Republican philanthropist, John
Wanamaker, offered a cool two mil
lions and half, and it was such a
valuable steal that the owners of the
charter rejected Johns huge offer with
scorn. Thieying is certainly practiced
in that solidly Republican state on the
wholesale plan, and yet the Republican
papers prate Enthusiastically Of honesty,
purity and patriotism.
s'To Make Missouri Republican,"
A lot Of Missouri pap suckers met in
Washington lately to do honor to Hon.
T. J. Atkins, chairman of the Republic
an state committee. Mr.. Atkins dis
cussed ''How to Make Missouri Repub-
lican." He said, among other things,
that between now and the next election
he hoped the policy Of the Republican
party would be to demonstrate inter
ALA that it Is the friend of the work
ingman and that it is not controlled by
great corporations and has no interest
in the welfare of the working masses.
Gewhillikins! Certainly Mr.. Atkins Is
the most sanguine statesman now per-
ambulating this mundane sphere. He
has more hopefulness than the man
who believes, contrary to Scripture,
that the leopard can change his spots
or the Ethiopian his skin. Atkins is In
the fix of the boy who on Boston Com
mon was digging in the search for the
unattainable. Missouri will go Repub-
lican when people cease to remember
the outrages committed by Republicans
when they had charge of the state and
not before. If Mr.. Atkins imagines that
he can demonstrate that the Republic
ans are not controlled by great corpo-
rations, he must be suffering mentally
from the intense heat.
Persistent.
o Persistency, thy name Is John Wes-
ley Gaines! Brother Gaines announced
some time ago that the Democrats
ought to nominate southern man for
southern statesmen who would make
able presidents. Now he announces
that his scheme is taking like wildfire.
Just why his plan should not work Is
not to be explained. This Is the era of
good feeling. The north and south
have been weeping on each others
neck great deal for two or three
years. 1t has been declared over and
over again that the cruel war Is over.
Why southern men of a generation too
young to engage in the civil war should
be barred from any honors of the re-
public 1t would be difficult to tell. Per-
haps John Wesley will win out with
his theory.
Take Your Choice.
My illustrious and venerable friend
General Charles Henry Grosvenor rem
eyes. My other illustrious and venerable
friend. DIR. Chauncey Mitchell Depew,
Is in the stubborn frame of mind pos
sessed by the man who. having de-
clared by lapsus lingu@ that the horse
was II feet high, stuck to it forever
more The hoarse hooting of the hoi
polloi has no more effect on the gay
knd festive New Yorker than pouring
aqua pura on ducks back. Like Oh
iver Twist. he still cries for more.
Nothing will satisfy his yearning heart
but third term for Mr.. Mckinley.
The scorn Of Democrats and Republic
ans has no terrors for him. He must
be a pachyderm. Still, he goes on his
smiling way. while General Grosvenor
hastens to write two column letter,
fine print; to haul in his horns, and to
explain that the reporter left out the
only really valuable portion Of his re-
marks, which the general sets forth in
hmc verba: "The child Is not born who
will ever live to see a candidate for the
presidency nominated for a third term.
Mr.. Mckinley. in my opinion. would
refuse to consider the subject. He
would not tarnish the glory Of bis two
terms by struggle for third" The
general must surely read my letters
for that Is precisely, almost word fol
word, my own opinion, expressed a:
soon as Senator Depew broached thu
subject.
/ am glad that General Grosvenol
wrote his letter of elucidation-glad
both for his own sake and for the good
name Of the house of representatives
Of which he is shining light. Sena
tors may make fools Of themselves ai
libitum for all care; may cut sucf
fantastic capers before high heaven a:
make the angels weep, but / have
enough Of what the French denominatt
Pesprit du corps to dislike to see any
member of the more numerous brancl
of the national legislature talk like al
inhabitant of bedlam.
General Grosvenor does not overesti
mate the ferment which the Cincin
natl dispatch created, and he shoult
extract great pleasure from the fac
that the dispatch created the fermen
solely because it was supposed to con
tain the remarks Of General Charles
Henry Grosvenor. His perstaalit.
and his status at the White House dit
it. Fifty ordinary Republican con