Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-04-04
NUMBER 35

have conference with the president
touching the next Ohio campaign and
certain Ohio appointments. Great Ju-
lius, but Hanna, GroSyenor and Dick
constitute a trio for your whiskers!
They were closeted with the president
for two hours. The minutes of that
meeting would make mighty rich read
ing. A Washington chronicler says,
Senator Foraker, who came over from
New York for that purpose, called dur
ing the progress of the conference, but
remained only short time" Very
naturally. He feels a delicacy in in
truding upon his enemies. even though
they grant him permission to run for q
second term in the senate. They toler-,
ate Foraker. Having ditched him COM
pletely in his greater ambition : the
presidency = they hope to keep him
! quiet and docile by throwing him sop
which once he would have despised.
They have work for him to do-per-
haps to place Mark in nomination for
the presidency. There was day-not
more than 10 years ago-when one yell
from the fiery Foraker would have
sent that quartet of Ohio statesmen
scurrying to their holes as so many
startled rats. How are the mighty
fallen! If the thoughts of the five men
Mckinley, Hanna. Grosyenor. Dick
and Foraker-as Foraker entered and
quit the conference could be printed,
they would furnish much food for re-
Election and many valuable lessons for
aspiring statesmen. In 1888 Foraker
was filling out his second term as gov
ernor of Ohio, Grosvenor was not
known outside of Ohio, Hanna and
Dick had not been discovered. and Nc
Kinley was not much above the aver
age congressman in renown-only Is
years ago. Now Mckinley is entering
upon his second term in the White
House, Hanna is monarch of all he
surveys, Dick runs Ohio campaigns,
and General Grosvenor is chief cook
and bottle washer, while Foraker COM
tinues in public place by their favor
the favor of his enemies
A la Bourbon.
DIR. Richard Barthold. representative
in congress from St. Louis, appears to
have the Bourbon quality of learning
nothing. He is now cavorting around
making loud and violent threats as to
what he is going to do touching what
he is pleased to call a Democratic ger
rymander by the legislature of Missou-
ri. He is going to upset the whole per-
formance, burst it and throw 16 Mis-
sourians, including himself, out of con-
gress. OF course. the good doctor is
talking through his chapeau-merely
that and nothing more. He might be
willing to hurl his 10 colleag CUES out
but himself, never! Perish the thought
symmetrical Well. some of them are
not built on Hogarth,s line of beauty,
but they are patterns of symmetry and
compactnesS when compared with the
districts made by Republican legisla-
lures in Pennsylvania, Ohio. Illinois
and Iowa. DR.. Barthold should re-
strain his rage until be has time calm
ly to survey the landscape DER. That
done, his ire will eyaporate instanter.
The good doctor has not been howl
ing success in undoing Democratic
work in Missouri. He ran amuck on
tho NnchiA ln rrrr-Asals,- -hes-a-4ha- -si1--
preme courts Of Missouri and of the
United States to uphold it. That ought
to have taught him lesson, but it ap-
pears to have left him in his former
state of mental darkness.
In passing. it may be well TO state
that Elbridge Gerry always denied the
paternity for the scheme which bears
his name and which is universally
adopted in practice while universally
condemned in theory. hope DR.. Bar
thold will resume lis happy frame of
mind when he rests from his late her.
culean labors in congress.