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

1t has no alliance with powerful corporate inter-
ests; neither is it in league with demagogues who
disturb society and agitate for the mere sake Of
agitation. It does not regard the possession OF
wealth as crime. not even badge OF honor;
does ii consider poverty as either a disgrace
virtue. 1t makes war upon classes, but
opposes corrupt and vicious systems and methods
wherever they to be found
1t has no use for the passing "isms" OF the
hour.
1t proposes as its general policy to adhere to
the fundamental principles upon which the party
was founded by the great Jefferson himself.
In that path there is safety, honor. success.
Hark, from the tomb doleful sound!
Hon. Sylvester Pennoyer, aforetime
governor of Oregon, riproaring Popu
list, has crawled out of his hole and
reminded persons who supposed he was
dead that he still breathes by jumping
on William j. Bryan in words as fol-
lows, to wit:
The ignoring of Bryan by the Ohio Democratic
convention legitimate and just. lie had as
pired twice to the leadership OF the party AMI
twice led it to defeat when with any other candi-
date on the same platform it would have been
victorious. The young simply talked himself
and his party and its principles to defeat and it
is eminenty proper that he should be set aside
Clearly Governor Sylvester Pennoyeris is
one of those heroic souls who esteem it
to be safe and proper thing to jump
on a man when he is down. Had Bryan
won the great prize Sylvester would
have demanded large slice of the po-
litical pie and would have been willing
to make his affidavit that the Nebras-
kan was the greatest, wisest, best and
most brilliant of all the multitudinous
and multifarious sons of Adam. But
Sylvester got no pie, hence he snarls
and snaps and bites the hand which
he would have delighted to kiss had
that hand been dispensing luscious
provender. So Sylvester jumps on
Bryan, which appears to be popular
amusement just now and which may
cause many vain regrets in the jump
er on in the sweet by and by, for the
motto of the masterful young man
from Nebraska is "Resurgam" q shall
rise AGAIN., and when he does rise all
the tribe of Sylvester will be loud in
his praise and will throw high their
sweaty caps in his honor and in demon
stration of the fact that their appetites
for pic are as robust as ever.
Republican Paper Answers PEN
noyer.
One strange result of Mr.. Pennoyer's
outbreak is that it stirred the gorge of
even such a radical and incorrigible
Republican as the ST. Louis Globe
Democrat, which has the grace to take
up the cudgels for Bryan in this wise:
1t is entirely safe to say that not one intelligent
unprejudiced person out Of one hundred believes
that Bryan weaker than his platform. On
the other hand, very large majority of the peo-
pie, 1t is safe to say. think he was stronger than
his platform. His platforms were so Objectionable
10 the masses of Americans that no man stand
ing upon them could come within sight of
the presidency, and he excellent represent
ative of that collection of olles and absurdities.
But he was eloquent and magnetic and undoubt-
edly polled votes than any other person
could have done who represented those political
imbecilities and vices and who was backed by
those elements
On the whole, Bryan is likely to be helped
rather than harmed by the hostility of such men
as Pennoyer Why intelligent, public spirited
community like Oregon should elect man like
Pennoyer to important office after his freakish-
ness had been proclaimed by himself for years
was OF the amazing developments OF the poll
tics of the Popustic and anarchistic era Of eight
.teas -Ha was pFsbshly She most dis
ereditdDie executive which any of the states has
ever chosen. Bryan is fortunate in having PEN
noyer arAounced among his enemies. This will
temper little of the opposition which
tive persons all over the country have had for
Bryan. It ought to get him few extra votes :
the Democratic convention of 1904 il his d
comes before that body.
When Sylvester reads that excerpt
from The CD. he is quite likely
to come to the conclusion that he has
played the fool and has nothing to
show for it. The probabilities are that
when he jumped on Bryan he ex-
pected the applause at least of Repub-
licans. He doesn't even get that and
he can now retire to his hole and pull
the hole in after him.
Colonel Bryan may or may not be
dead politically. He may or may not
again be nominated for president. If
nominated he may or may not be elect
ed. He may or may not dictate the
next nominee; but whatever he does or
does not do, honest men can have only
supreme contempt for those who seek
to abuse and belittle this brilliant. hon.
est and fearless man solely because he
failed to win and consequently is not a
dispenser of pie.
British Snvagery.
1t is possible. but not at all probable,
that somehow. somewhere, some time,
somebody has practiced greater and
more heartless cruelty than the British
are now practicing on the heroic Beers
of South Africa. Here is one Of Lord
Raglans bulletins: List of Boer prls-
oners in concentration camps; Men,
14,G24; women, 27,711; children, 43,073.
Death list for June. 1901: Men, g.;
women. 1888; children, SIC" Nothing
more shocking has occurred among
men since Jesus of Nazareth first
preached the gospel of love. For
generations tender hearted persons
have wept over that awful night in the
Black Hole of Calcutta. but the suffer.
ing there wasn't marker to this Brit
ish inhumanity to the Beers. Yet the
Mckinley administration stands by
consenting.
Unprecedented Gall.
All is not serene i'll the imperialistic
camp. Hawaii was the first acquisi-
tion of the jingoes. 1t was for the de-
lectation of the land grabbers denomi-
mated ''The Pearl of the Pacific"
Strange to say, it is in Hawaii that the
jingoes are being jolted till their teeth
rattle. To begin with Hawaii, which.
according to the sons of Ananias and
Sapphira, was painting to get into the
Union even as the hart panteth for
the water brooks, sent to congress the
| first dash out of the box full fledged
monarchist, who ran and was elected
on a pledge to resurrect the monarchy
and to restore Queen Lii to the throne
of her ancestors! Next comes a cry
| from Honolulu that we must not revive
the Chinese exclusion act when it ex-
pires by limitation, as it will soon do,
because, forsooth, Hawaiian sugar
! barons find Chinese cheap labor the
most desirable, and for that reason Chi
nese coolies ad libitum ct ad nauseam
are to be imported into the land of the
free and the home of the brave!
| Now comes q contumacious judge out
| tharn who actually iS fonI and trn itor