Gloucester County Democrat., 1901-08-15
CHAMP uARK'S LETTER
Downfall of the Palmetto
Cock Robin.
END OF SENATOR M'LAURIN.
South Carolina Democrats Read
Him Out of Party.
ANOTHER GOOD MAN GONE WRONG

yocate Republican Principles and
Still BE Regarded Democrat.
Fools Not All Dead-G. o. p. Editors
Still Engaged In Selecting DEM
Ocratic Presidential Candidate.
Strong Man From Texas-Some Nom
sensicaI Prophecy-A Hint to Mark
Hanna-statesmansh In Hawaii.
Concerning the Canteen.
Especial Washington Letter.]
The inevitable has happened once
more. Senator John L. McLaurin has
been read out of the Democratic party
by the Democratic executive COM
mittee of South Carolina. His down.
fall was brought about largely through
the instrumentality of such Republican
papers as the New York Sun, the st.
Louis Globe Democrat and the Kansas
City Journal. They killed the Palmetto
cock robin deader than smelt. deader
than a doornail, deader than the men
who lived before the food. McLaurin
never started out to make the south
Republican When he entered upon
the path which has led to his undoing.
he had no more idea of leading a Re-
publican crusade than he had OF Tying.
He deluded himself with the idea that
O. man can advocate all the cardinal
Republican principles and still be re-
garded as a Democrat by honest, SEN
sible people. The thing was prcpos-
ferrous, but he might have been per-
mitted to silently and gently lapse into
that oblivion which is awaiting him
and might have escaped being sum-
marily dealt with had not the New
York Sun ct id genus omne shouted
their approval from the housetops and
kept stating in season and out that Nc
Laurin was Republicanizing the south.
Praise from the New York Sun is a
withering curse when bestowed upon
Democrat. So poor McLaurin has
discovered to his sorrow. 1t is a pity
that be entered upon such a course. for
personally he is lovable man, and
had he remained true to the faith he
had a bright future.
An Astounding Argument.
The following amazingly witty para
graph was evolved from the inner con-
sciousness of the Detroit Journal and is
approvsnss,lly quotsssss.sy, s, Ishe Eeaaeanist
of New York to show how prosperous
the farmers are:
! tl,a &o1aa iro ann
whiskers, perhaps it was his wearing silk hat
with a Tuxedo coat; anyway subtle something
told US that he farmer.
''Young man. said he, accosting the jeweler
in the purest agrarian English. Il want eight
gross Of diamond pins for favors at my wife's
husking bee.''
1t is reported that the extreme prosperity OF the
agricultural classes has, in many sections, led o
the use of such large tracts Of land for golf links
as seriously to curtail the visible supply Of wheat
That para graph proves two things
1) the fools are not all dead yet; 81 the
fool killer is remiss in attending to his
duties. He owes it to suffering pub
lie to wake up and to redeem his repu-
tation by doing double his usual stunt
upon the writers of such rot as the
foregoing quoted paragraph.
Unwarranted.
The Washington Post remarks, 'The
Missourian who wanted Governor
Dockery to set day for praying for
rain has evidently lost faith in the
governors personal pull" That is an
unwarranted reflection on the strength
Of his eXcellency and upon the faith OF
Io 10 .,,e of on inf
ment, but the Missourian in search OF
a gubernatorial appointment, or as one
of my friends once accidentally demon
mated it. q ''gubernational appoint
ment," understands his excellency's
limitations. His jurisdiction is of this
world-of the earth Notwithstanding
from Iowa to Arkansas and from the
Father of Waters to the mouth of the
raging Kaw. Within that bailiwick his
pull is a regular stump puller-on ap
pointiye places-and appointment hunt
ers have implicit faith in it till they gel
left. Then? They are of little faith.
Catching at straws.
Republican newspapers will never gel
over the idiotic habit Of trying to run
the Democratic party. Like the Bour
bons, they never learn anything. Just
now they are busy in the vain endeayol
to select presidential candidate fol
the Democracy. They trump up al
sorts of preposterous canards, all Of
which are in due time exploded as reg
ularly and as certainly as the seasons
come and 60. Their latest fable-tt
call 1t by no harsher name-was te
the effect that ex-senator Charles A
Towne had declared for ex-senator an6
Ex-Governor David Bennett Hill fol
president. Ii Tad a great run. Many
editorials were written about it. mucl
philosophizing was done touching 1t ant
many predictions were based upon 1t
Even the cartoonists took whack at it
Now comes Mr.. Towne and telegraphs
Mr.. Bryan that the tale is lie-madt
of whole cloth-which is the end of it.
Remarkable Fling.
There is no paper in America mor'
ably or more brilliantly edited than th'
Washington Post. Therefore it is sur
prlsing to read in 1t such paragraph
as this: "He may not be able to d.
much in the rainmaking line, but Gov
crnor Dockery is to be commended fo
the effort to introduce prayer into Mis-
souri," Why, bless your simple heart
Missourians are a law abiding, Got
fearing people. Among the man.
things in which Missouri leads is th
Sunday school. Governor Dockery In
troduce prayer into Missouri, indeed
The people in Missouri who believe il
the efficacy Of prayer induced his ex
ceIlency to issue his proclamation ap
pointing day of prayer for rain. The.
remembered that in 1875 that grea
statesman, philanthropist and Chris
tian Governor Charles I'll. Hardin drov
the grasshoppers out of the state b.
prayer-a peoples prayer. For som
reason-presumably because she is re
liably Democratic-the eastern pres
has fallen into the bad habit of sneer
ing at Missouri, the most richly en-
dowed state ever fashioned by the han
of God: but, Notwithstanding ant
nevertheless, she flourishes like ba.
tree planted by the rivers of water
Among her other sources of pride i
the fact that she has the largest avail
able per capita school fund in tn
Union and the lowest rate of taxation
And when all her people could vote sh