Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-08-29
CHAMP QAREIS LETTER
Roosevelt's Presidential
Boom Hooded.
KENTUCKY'S LITTLE ROW.
Both Army and Navy Depart
ments Need Shaking Up.
KENTUCKY'S LITTLE ROW.
S0HLEY's TREATMENT A DISGRACE

Administration Scandal - Senator
An Imperial Policy Which Has
Frightened Mexico As to the
Growth of Texas and Democratic
Solidity of the Lone Star State.
Especial Washington Letter.l
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt has run
into an unusual streak of bad luck as
a presidential candidate. To begin
with, he has had the sore misfortune
to be indorsed by Missouri Republic
ans, which of all things is the worst
hoodoo that can possibly befall man.
So Teddy may as well be considered
once and for all as "a dead one" Mark
Hanna can lift up his voice in rejoicing
and thank the Missouri Republicans
for removing from his pathway as a
competitor the hero of San Juan Hill.
Kansas City Republicans have organiz-
ed q Theodore Roosevelt club for 1904,
which practically amounts to organiz-
ing funeral performance for the afore-
said soldier and statesman. All his
killing of coyotes in Colorado and max
ing sundry speeches will not save the
most eminent citizen of Oyster Bay
from going to the bottom of the well
Ia Mr.. McGinty.
What the New York Sun did for his
excellency Governor Alexander Mon
roe Dockery by boosting him as a Dem
ocratic presidential candidate the Mis-
souri, Republicans have done for Vice
President Roosevelt. No Democrat can
survive praise from the New York Sun
every genuine Democrat wears its
abuse as badge of honor-nor can any
Republican survive the Endorsement of
the Missouri Republicans. Postmaster
General Gary voiced their epitaph
when he exclaimed in fit of disgust,
'@The Missouri Republicans are the -
outfit that ever sawp'
Meanwhile Senator Fairbanks is
spreading himself out over Kansas in
cubating plan which may or may not
come to something. In the physical
world "the early bird catches the
worm," but it is not always so in
politics.
The Republicans of Kentucky seem
to be; in q bad way. The truth is, their
ascendency in that state was the re-
suit of a very remarkable series of
accidents and crimes. They had no
chance to carry the state this year and
to elect a United States senator even
if they had staid together, and they
have not even the shadow Of chance
since they have fallen to fighting each
other with the proyerbial fury of the
cats of Kilkenny. Strange to say,
things have gone to pot largely through
the efforts of DR.. Deboe, accidental
United States senator, trying to oust
certain Republican Widow Saunders
from a $700 a year postoffice. 1t took
him two OF three years to accomplish
this wonderful feat and to put Re
publican heeler in her place. Indeed
this is the chief thing done by Deboe
since he donned the senatorial toga by
reason of an irreconcilable feud be-
tween Governor William 0. Bradley
and DR.. w. Godfrey Hunter. The
woman's husband had been Republican
postmaster. When he died, Harrison
appointed her in his place. Cleveland
| let her stay. Deboe ousted her, and
his performance will go far toward
| ousting him. The Democrats are SO
certain of carrying the legislature and
electing Deboe's successor that there
are four candidates actively in the
| field-Governor James B. McCreary,
| Congressman Charles w. Wheeler,
| Congressman David II. Smith and
| Judge Cantrell-With several dark
horses champng their bits and paving
up the ground in their stables. The
| four already named are stumping the
state for all 1t is worth. McCreary
was colonel under Morgan, elected gov
ernor when he was scarcely old enough
| to hold the office, served long time in
congress, finally becoming chairman of
| the great committee on foreign affairs,
| and was one of the American repre-
| sentatiyes to the. international bimetal-
| lie congress at Brussels in 1893.
Wheeler and Smith are both young
men who have achieved great promi-
nence in congress. Judge Cantrell came
into general notice by reason of being
the Judge before whom the murderers
| of Governor Goebel were tried. 1t Is
q 100 to / shot that after March 4,
| 1903, Kentucky will once more be rep
resented by two Democratic senators.
| DR.. Debon's caper in ousting Mrs.
Saunders, taken In connection with the
| action of James r. Woods in gouging
Miss Beals out Of valuable homestead
adjoining Lawton, o. r., goes very far
| to prove that Edward Burke was right
| when he exclaimed at the beginning of
the French revolution. '"The age of
chivalry is goner'
| The Persecution of Schley.
On the first day of May. 1893, great
naval victory was gained by the Amer
leans in Manila bay. Instantly and
| universally George Dewey was recog-
nized as one of the worlds great naval
heroes. The world ungrudgingly paid
him his due need of praise. Even the
administration found no method of be-
littling him. He was a Republican or
at least supposed to be.
On the third day of July of the same
year as great a naval victory was won
at Santiago harbor and practically put
an end to the Spanish-American war.
That victory was gained by Winfield
| Scott Schley and the brave officers and
men who fought under him. He was
entitled to as much glory as was
| Dewey. In fact, he won it more fairly
and by harder fighting. From that day
to this the bulk of the American people
have considered him one of the worlds
great naval heroes. But with fatu-
BUSINESS that is amazing and malice
unprecedented in American annals the
naval authorities at Washington, head
ed by Secretary John L. Long and
urged on by the New York Sun, have
put in their entire time from that day
to thus belittling Schley and trying to
rob him of his well earned laurels and
to confer them upon Sampson, who was
40 miles away when the glorious vic
tory was won on that hot July day.
Tho