Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-01-17

Fight of the Republican Factions
over Quay an Outrage on Public
Decency--Saints and sinners In
Regular Kilkenny Mix Up-yVana-
maker & Company Charged With
"Treachery to the State.--Lynching
Suggested as q Remedy For Brib-
cry of Legislators New Senator
From Idaho.
Especial Washington Letter.]
There is an old Scriptural saying
whose force the Hon. A. ]. Hopkins OF
Illinois now understands more clearly
than he did several days ago. Let
him that taketh off his armor boast
rather than him that putteth it on
also another text, "Lct him that stand
eth take heed lest he falleth.' Hop
kins personally is Il very clever man;
but, like a great many other Republic
an statesmen, he feels his oats and is
greatly puffed UP by the results of the
recent election; consequently when he
made his speech in favor OF his reap
portionment bill he took no pains either
to make friends for himself or for his
bill, but appeared really to be seeking
trouble. If that really was his object,
he attained it and no mistake. Not
only was his bill defeated by very
large majority, but he himself was
handled in very rough manner in the
debate.
Mr.. Sutherlnnd's Shot at MIR. Hopkins.
In explaining why Kansas and Ne
braska each lost member of congress
under his bill, Hopkins said:
The trouble is not with the bill reported by the
committee, but with the condition existing in the
state of Kansas itself. Kansas has been cursed for
ten long years with Populism Capital has been
driven from the state. Energetic, progressive
driven out and gone elsewhere. That young giant,
as it was ten years ago, has been laggard in the
OF the states that form the republic.
How is it in the state Of Nebraska? Nebraska,
lying alongside OF Kansas, is suffering, not from
this bill of the committee, but from Organism
and Populsm in that state. The same conditions
that have stagnated the energy and the enterprise
OF Kansas are operating in the way in the
state of Nebraska.
Mr.. Sutherland of Nebraska, who not
only looks like William ]. Bryan, but
speaks a good deal like him, in answer
ing Hopkins as far as Nebraska is con-
cerned, delivered this shot at point
blank range:
II vrare tn intulee in That nd of =
and fHask God very little Of it has Bee, used on
this aoor-I might say that. aoeosdins to the
gep4 1an's bill, the state Of Ohio has lost a
member Is that due to McKinleyisna? That ar
gumcnt would be just pertinent as that Bryan
ism has lost Nebraska representative. Is it
not so?
This was received with delight by
every one in the house with the cxcep-
tion Of Mr.. Hopkins, for even Repub-
licans who have any sense know that
the reason why the population of Kan
sas and Nebraska increased SO little
was because of severe droughts between
1890 and 1891 Sutherland really
claimed or insinuated that the census
in Nebraska was not fairly taken.
Here are his words and figures ON that
point:
Now ! want to come to the question OF popula-
ton According TO the census returns, we had in
1890 population of ,0jS, ,9i0 and in 1900, accord
ing to the census returns we had population of
LOGS, $780, net increase Of only $3.50. Let me-
call your attention TO the vote during the last
ten years in the state of Nebraska. We claim
that we have at least 100000 mora people in the
year 1909 than we had ten years ago At the
first presidential election following the census Of
1890 we polled 200, ,20G At the next presidential
election, in 1896, polled 223,245 votes. in
crease in the number of votes in four years Of 23,
039.
In 1900 we pollcd 2Il, ,430 votes, al increase in
four years of 18,1s5 Over the preceding election.
In eight years we have gained 41,224 votes. And
yet, according to the censt:s of 1900, the entire
gain in population is but 1900, while in eight
years we have gained Al, 0eo votes cast at the
polls. Out in the state of Nebraska we rot
satisfied with the census of 1909, and | submit to
the candid judgment Of fair minded men that
when We have an increase of at least 40001 votes
in ten years We justified in assuming that
there has been much larger increase in the pop
ulation.
The gentleman refers to the state Of Nebraska
and asserts that Organism has injured that state.
Ii / had attending college who in debate
would use that argument, would call that
son home and Immediately enter him in the kin
Gergarten class.
The probabilities in the case are
that the census was not fairly taken
in Kansas and Nebraska, and that it
was taken unfairly for the very pur-
pose of making such declarations as
delegation told me the other day that
those who knew the most about it
maintain that there are at least G00,-
900 more people in Texas than are
shown by the census, and | have DO
doubt the same is true of Missouri.
Need of Moral Disinfectants.
Nobody appointed me either spiritual
OF legal adviser to the INilg slny cat
Republicans of Pennsylvania who are
Just now filing the circumambient at
mosphere with fur, bits of cuticie and
ear splitting caterwaulings. Neverthe-
less as a sort of amicus curiI ! cannot
resist the temptation to advise them
to read the psalms Of David, especially
the one beginning, "Echold, how good
and how pleasant it is for brethren to
dwell together in unity" | take it
that Brother Wanamaker. who is su-
perintendent of the largest Sunday
school on earth, knows where TO find
that Scripture | am not SO certain as
to Brother Matthew Stanley Quay, but
IL he doesn't know he can call Oh
Brother Joseph Croker Sibley, who
is famous Scriptorian. The bizarre
capers cut By the Pennsylvanians are
liable, indeed quite likely, to scandalize
and demoralize our illustrious and puis-
SAINT fellow citizen, the sultan of Sulu,
and his numerous array of wives, and
to cause the Digger Indians to go OIL
the warpath.
What is most needed at Harrisburg
is a bountiful supply Of moral disin
fectant, such as quicklime. The way
the Republican newspapers talk is
simply astounding. The Philadelphia
Inquirer Quay, in speaking Of the
fight on Quay, says:
| At some future day, when this controversy j:
ended, it may become the province Of The In
quirer to relate the history Of the fight that has
been made upon Quay. That history is romanct
of politics, series Of crimes against public de
cency.
Now, that is rather tough on the su
perintendent of the largest Sunday
school on earth, for let it be remember
ed that Brother Wanamaker is tht
head and front, the heart and soul, th'