Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-08-22


sentati0n at the Coronation of
King Edward - Some Pertinent
Comment on British Savagery-
Jolting the Jingoes In Hawaii.
Proposed Plan For Taking Care of
Our Ex-Presidents.
Especial Washington letter.
And so it is given out that Senator
Marcus a. Hanna is about to settle the
great strike of the steel workers, and
by so doing play his trump card as a
presidential candidatel Suppose that it
were proposed that Bryan. Cockrell.
Hill, Towne, German or any other
Democrat who is frequently and favor
ably mentioned for the presidency
should be called ON to settle great
strike, what a lusty howl would pro-
ceed from the brazen throats of all the
Republicans in the land! How the
charge of demagogue and anarchist
would be hurled about by the apostles
of purity, sweetness and light! Demo-
Gratis are all yearning to see Marcus
nominated. He is the logical candi-
date, and comes nearer being the in
carnation of latter day Republicanism
than any other man mentioned as the
Republican nominee. He should re-
ceive the nomination by all means.
simultaneously with the proposal that
Mark shall settle the steel strike which
l. DittcIlfrrO Do
an aid to his presidential aspirations,
comes the cheerful news from that city
that vast glass trust is forming. That
is one of those happy condolences in
human affairs calculated to drive away
ennui and should furnish Marks pres
idential rooters with a thrilling and far
resounding battlecry of Hanna and
trusts" which would bring all the plu-
tocrats in the land to his support, II
they are not already whooping it up for
the Cleveland boss. Senator Stewart
of Nevada, popularity dubbed Santa
Claus Stewart, is busy shouting for
Mark. Now, If he could only induce
the beloved PETER to follow suit. Mark
would be flxed-in the whisker line at
any rate. Atlfintrrirn he would do we'll
to keep his optic on the west, where
Colonel Teddy is capering about on
the mountains. Congressman Miller OF
Kansas declares that the Sunflower
State is redhot for the New Yorker.
While the heart of the Iowa Repub-
lican convention was bleeding for the
poor negro down south colored men of
respectability down in Alabama were
aiding their white neighbors to lynch
a black fiend for nameless crime.
Consequently the Hawkeye lachrymal
flow, q la crocodile, was absolutely and
absurdly wasted.
Mr.. Chairman Serene e. Payne of the
WAYS and means committee and The
American Economist would do well to
keep an eye on those Iowa platform
makers. They appear to be getting
ready to leave the reservation and to
take up with Babcockery. At least
they have an oracular sort of plank
which, if it means anything, seems to
Indicate that they do not regard the
Dingley bill as sacred. Clearly they are
verging toward the heresy of tariff
tinkerlng. Hon. George w. Ray, chair
man of the Judiciary committee, should
be delegated to take them. When he
gets through with them, they will be
willing to swear that the Dingley bill
is part of the Bible.
"And still They Come"
Hon. Serene E. Payne, chairman Of
the house ways and means committee;
Hon. Julius Caesar Burroughs. the
pulchritudinous Michigander. and The
American Economist would do well to
keep an eye also on Congressman
Warner of the Jacksonville Qlls.l dis
trict. Congressman Warner shows
signs of sanity in the following re-
marks:
When it is demonstrated that we can sell manu-
factured goods cheaper in European markets than
we can in our own. there does not seem to be any
necessity for a tariff on goods of this class The
object of the tariff is TO protect the American la
borer and to .oster American industries | am
in favor OF protecting labor and capital. but after
commercial industries have become so strong as
to be able to undersell Europeans in their cheap
labor market l do not see that it is necessary to
protect these industries any further. ! do not
wish TO be placed in an attitude of antagonizing
any industry, but it seems to me the tariff ques-
tion will be an issue during the next congress.
The tariff is not sacred, and do not agree with
those who contend that the Dingley law must be
left intact or repealed outright. The tariff law
must be modified exactly as we modified the war
revenue act.
OF course, it is impossible to tell whether con-
gress will st any tariff legislation next winter
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discussed at great length.
A prosecution for leze majesty
against Warner would be in order
HflI's Bid.
There can be no longer any question
that Hon. David Bennett Hill. ex-gov-
ernor and ex-senator. is a full fledged
candidate for the Democratic presiden-
tial nomination. What's more impor-
tant, he believes the Democrats will
win In 1904-otherwise the sage of
Wolfert's Roost would not want the
nomination. David never took kindly
to political gold bricks. These conclu-
si0ns are arrived at by carefully perus-
ing his elaborate and palnseuKing1y
prepared interview in the Philadelphia
Times. He lays down nine PROPOSE
tions which, according to his way OF
thinking, enlbody the original princi-
Piles Of Jeffersonian Democracy, which,
according to his philosophy, would
bring success and on which, as plat
form, he would like to run.
These nine Hill planks are as fol-
lows:
State rights, opposition to the Capitalization Of
power, home rule, taxation exclusively for public
purposes opposition to standing armies, hard
money. opposition to monopolies. expansion and
official honesty.
Mr.. Hill thinks that an ideal platform
and cannot understand why there
should be factional differences over de-
tails when Democrats are united upon
the essentials Of politics. He winds
up his interview, which is evidently
his bid for the nomination, as follows:
Our party is the great conservative force in the
country today and absolutely necessary to its well
fare. It stands against radicalism of every de-
scription. 1t is opposed to plutocracy on the one
hand and to communism on the other. 1t is OPP
posed to imperialism in the Philippine Islands,
and also to anarchy in Cuba.
1t respects the vested right Of capital and at
the same time sympathizes with labor oppressed.