Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-10-17

got together the other day and that
the long casualty list is the result Let
us pray that they will get together no
more.
1t is deplorable that our soldiers
should be so sacrifced-our young
men, the very flower of the human
race.
Trials of a President.
Some of the most unpleasant fea-
lures of being president are already
making themselves evident to Colonel
Roosevelt. For instance, the Hon.
Dicky Kerens and the Hon. Tommy
Tittlebat Titmouse Atkins of Missouri
are much perturbed In spirit as to who
shall control Republican patronage in
Missouri under Roosevelt. Atkins was
not in favor with the late president,
but hopes to be with the present in
cumbent. The press dispatches state
that he has been in Washington sew
eral days-rather indecent haste, to
say the least. He might at least have
waited until the Grape is removed from
the government buildings. AS he views
Atkins and hearkens to his earnest
prayers for pie, 1t is possible that the
president will feel inclined to call the
dogs and chase this strenuous Repub.
up the nearest tree In the White House
grounds.
An Migrate.
The Schley court of inquiry works
On like clock. One interesting fact
in connection with it has been gener-
ally overlooked. 1t is this-that Cap
tain Lemly, Schley's prosecutor before
the court, was one of the six survivors
of the i'll fated Greely expedition.
These six were snatched from the very
portal of death by this same Schiey,
gallant sailor and gentleman. When
Schley reached them, standing his
weary watch for twenty hours out of
twenty-four in the crows nest Of his
vessel, eating cold grub passed up on
a ropes end, going far into the arctic
seas six weeks earlier in the spring
than any man had ever done, the sur
geons said that Lemly was within
thirty-six hours of death from starva-
tion. And Schley saved him: saved
him by courage, heroism, self denial
and superhuman energy. 1ngratitude
is base. Many men would have re-
signed their commissions before they
would have accepted the appointment
as judge advocate-prosecutin attor-
ney, so to speak-in the present in
vestigation. But Lemly seems to glory
in it, to be even overzealous as prose-
cutor. Had it not been for Schley
Lemly would now be a dead ensign,
with his bones bleaching IN arctic
SHOWS, instead of live captain.
Roosevelt and the G. A. II.
President Roosevelt's troubles appear
to be beginning early. Some of the vet
Grams seem to be falling foul of him.
Vide the following from the Washing
ton Post in the form of Il special dis
patch from Boston:
Louis Bell post, G. A. R., Of Manchester, N. H.,
conducted memorial service tonight in honor OF
the late President Mckinley.
The meeting became notable at once as express
ing the first sentiments of criticism and hostility
toward President Roosevelt. The presidents words
in writing to a southern friend were referred 70
as an unhappy expression.
Captain Frank II. Challis, past national COM
mander OF the Sons of Veterans, said: 81 confess
that it was with some misgiVings that read the
letter which President Roosevelt wrote to
southern friend, in which he said that he was
proud OF the fact that two of his uneles served
the Confederate cause, one as an admiral in the
Confederate navy, while the other had fired the
last gun on the Alabama confess l have some
fa:sU Uiv vi az n the future, | don't like to see
the pendulum swing that way
Taking up the theme of the previous speakers
Senator Burnham said. owe shall not yield one
iot or little of the principles that we fought for
during the civil war or abandon the idea that we
were right and that the south was eternally and
wickedly wrong"
stumper Versus Statesman.
Professor Goodwin Smith, D. G. L., in
a recent article in The North American
Review on ''The Political Situation In
England" gives an opinion which is SO
Numerically opposed to the general
belief that it is worth quoting here. He
says: "The place of statesman is being
more and more taken by the stump or
ator. To, stump oratory large share
of the public mans time and effort are
now given. Two generations ago no
British politician of high degree
thought of going on the stump or even
of speaking at any election but his own.
The present habit is highly injurious to
craftsmanship. It absorbs the mans
energy; 1t deprives him Of time for the
acquisition of knowledge and reflection;
worst of all. perhaps, it forces him to
Io committing hinSnIF for
a speaker can hardly amuse and excite
large audience without saying more
than in his cooler moments he would
deem it prudent to say"
All this in face of the carefully cher
ished theory that the day of oratory Is
past. OF course he is speaking Of Eng
land; but. then, we have recently be-
come so English that what applies to
England applies to us.
Much Depends.
Josh Billings once declared that the
best place to have boil is on the
full of philosophy An IrishmaD once
declared that he was '.in favor of the
law, but against its enforcement" Both
Of the foregoing remarks apply to the
tariff system as 1t exhibits itself under
the Dingley bill Last week I quoted
from General Frederick Dent Grant to
show the unpleasant inquisitorial fea-
lures of the law. Now another and
greater Daniel comes to judgment-my
venerable, learned and eloquent friend
Rev. Dr. w. T. Moore, dean Of the Bi-
Bile College of the Christian Church at
Columbia, Mo. The good doctor is old
er than General Frederick Dent Grant.
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