Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-01-31

meanor in any state in the Union, Chan |
dler replied that Hawley was not re-
sponsible for anything he said, which |
was the most unkindest cut of all. OF
course all this was duly and carefully
edited out of The Record, but neyerthe-
less isn't it a bad example these elder !
ly gentlemen are setting for the "giddy
young things in the house who are
going or who want to go over to the
senate? And ought not Hon. Richard
Franklin Pettigrew to be disciplined
for precipitating such disgraceful en-
broglio betwixt two such aged states
men? Marcus Alonzo will be compel
led to have law providing punishment
for leze majesty passed speedily or
Richard Franklin Pettigrew aforesaid
will be able to pull off pugilistic car
nival in the senate with great eclat.
Age of ChivaIry Revived.
1t has been declared that the day of
miracles is past just as the age of ehiv-
airy is gone. A great many people be-
Iieved the declaration to be true, but
now comes Lenluel Eli Quigg, the alter
ego of Boss Platt. and revives the age
of miracles by making proclamation
that the Republicans, independents and
sorehead Democrats are about to elect
a mayor of Greater New York, and, to
use his astounding language, ''the cam
paign against Tammany Hall will be
conducted upon the distinct under
standing that the coalition candidate
shall administer the city's affairs, if
elected, upon an absolutely bipartisan
basis.'' Surely the millennium is in
sight when Lemuel Eli, who is one of
the most intense partisans ever in con-
gress, declares for nonpartisan basis.
The devil was sick
The devil monk would be-
The devil got we'll;
The devil monk he.
Mr.. Quigg then, following the apos-
tolic injunction, gave reason for the
hope within him Of electing his mongrel
ticket in these words: ''The conditions
today are entirely dissimilar to those of
1897 AT that time the independents
and the Republicans were so distrust-
full of each other that neither would
shake hands until one had slapped the
others face There is no such feeling
now. The independents and Republic
ans now desire to cooperate" All, yes,
Lemmy, to cooperate" in a long pull,
a strong pull and pull all together for
a raid on the savory feshpots of Egypt.
They are hungrier now than they were
in 1897; that's all.
Asked as to a mayoralty candidate,
Mr.. Quigg, the reforming lieutenant of
| that supereminent Reformer, with a
| big, big r, Hon. Thomas C. Platt,
! modestly replied that that was a ques-
tion which would be left to the very
last. Lennuel Eli is entirely too mod
est / am moi exactly sponsor for the
congiomerafed ticket but make bold
q - as5isaisqssss : fiis
of Lemuel Ell Quigg himself That
certainly would be a name to conjure
with. He has made the name Quigg
immortal by causing it to be used as a
verb as well as noun. 1t will prob
ably appear in the next edition of the
| unabridged dictionaries, for ever since
the Philadelphia convention the verb
ITO Quigg' has meant to steal, take
and carry away part of political
| platform. General Charles Henry
Grosvenor, 'the grim old lion of
Athens" solemnly, wrathfully and
vehemently asseverated during the dog
| days that Lemuel Eli surreptitiously
| made away with three several and dis
| tinct planks of the Republican ma
tional platform.
Increase of Lynching.
Solely for information l would like to
| inquire what has become of the Anti
| lynching society of Boston, which un-
dertook, no doubt in good faith and
with good intentions, to remodel hui
man nature? Is it ausgespielt? Did it
die a-bornin? Lynching has so much
increased lately that it has become
fashionable-alm epidemic. Hang
! ing people without legal formula is no
longer confined to Mississippi and Lou
1siana, but has become a popular pas
i time in Indiana, the home of that great
constitutional lawyer, general and ex-
president, Benjamin Harrison; of the
bounding Beveridge, who discovered
the Philippine archipelago; of the al
titudinous Fairbanks, president in
/ posse; of General Lew Wallace, author
|, of "Ben-Hur' and 1.-THE Fair God" and
| of James Whitcomb Riley, the sweet
singer. The amusement of fricassee-
ing colored gentlemen is no longer mo-
| nopolized by Texas and Kentucky, but
is INDUCED in by denizens of Colorado
and Bleeding Kansas. The Antilynch-
ing society of Boston may not have
heard of these heartrending occur
rences; so, as lover of my kind and a
friend of man, announce these pain
full and hair raising facts to them and
bid them rise and stop this invasion of
the east and north by the barbarism OF
the west and south.
Quay's TIowery Reception.
| When Mirabeau, the immortal ora
tor, was dying, he exclaimed, Smother
me with fiowersv' What the fever
crazed Frenchman wished almost hap
pened to Matthew Stanley Quay when
he was sworn in as senator last week
Such floral display has never been
witnessed on this continent outside OF
a regular flower show. The hothouses
Of Philadelphia and Pittsburg, the con
servatories and botanical garden OF
Washington, were stripped to honor
the return of the conquering hero. The
pages and habitues of the senate woult
have shouted 80. Triumphev' if they
had understood Latin. AS it was, they
capered about like mad, ran over ant
bumped up against each other in "tot
ing the flowers to the arch enemy Of
John Wanamaker. 1t was great day
for Quay and Quaysylvania.
'eThe straight way is the right way
appears to be the motto of that stalwar
young man out of the west, Senator
Frederick I. Dubois, who in accepting
the senatorial election frankly stated
that hereafter he proposed to be Dem
ocrat and to enter the Democratic eau
Gus. Fred's caput is not only large ant
capacious, but it is level. His actor
means that hereafter there is to be ;
perfect union Of the forces opposed t
the un-American policy of the Repub
licans. 1t is WELL Unity Of purpose