Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-05-23
CHAMP CLARK LETTER
Perry Heath Booms Han
ma For President.
HE SHOULD BE NOMINATED.
An Ideal Representative of the
Republican Party.
HE SHOULD BE NOMINATED
BooDLBR IN CHIEF OF THIS AGE.


His Selection as Standard Bearer of
the Party of Doodle Is In Complete
Harmony With the Eternal Fitness
of Things-Perry Would Do Nicely
In the Cabinet-BiII ChandIer's Eff
facement-Senator Carmack of Ten
nessee - Concerning Morgan and
Maps Vicious Journalism - Steel
Goes Up-The Southern Bolt-Eva-
nescence of Political Fame.
Especial Washington Letter.l
''The early bird catches the worm"
is an ancient saying which Hon. Perry
S. Heath evidently has taken to heart.
Perry launched boom for Marcus A.
Hanna-a boom, mark you, not boom
let. 1t is robust, healthy, stable
boom. Perry not only launches it, but
he gives reasons to buttress it up
some reasons, not all. His modesty
forbade his giving the conclusive rea-
son why Mark should be nominated,
an6 that is that inasmuch as all Re
publican campaigns in these latter days
are Doodle campaigns it is eminently
meet and proper and in keeping with
the eternal fitness of things that the
boodler in chief of this age-or, for that
matter, of all the ages-should be the
beneficiary of the boodling. If Mark is
nominated, he can manage his own
campaign as chairman of his own ma
tional committee. He would know by
experience precisely whom to touch
and for how much.
l really believe that first suggested
Mark as the Republican nominee. but /
waive my claims in favor of Perry. My
suggestion was seemingly regarded as
being sinister, but Perry's is all right.
He is one of the elect. and his London
interview ought to be worth at least
a cabinet portfolio or something
equally good" to borrow euphe-
mism from the Missouri Republican
silk stockings when on a memorable
occasion they were endeavoring to rid
themselves of Uncle Chayncey Ives
Filley. who was the only Republican
leader in Missouri that could lead.
Perry has fine eye for harmonizing
things. OF all places on earth the
most suitable place for ltaunehing
Marks boom is London. England, and
Perry picked that as the initial point
Of the campaign because he wanted to
serve notice on all mankind that
Marks regime will be only continua-
ton of the Mckinley English love
feast. Paltry republics may be throt-
tied Mark, Perry & Co. care not just
SO they can stand well with their royal
and imperial cousin. Edward VII. king
of Great Britain and Ireland. emperor
of India, defender of the faith. etc.
All the bread and butter brigade will
envy Perry his great and brilliant coup.
Bully for Perry and Mark!
A Strange Cnse of Self Effacemenf.
1t will be remembered that on
memorable occasion Senator William
e. Chandler, the waspish statesman
from New Hampshire, astonished the
world by advising Senator Marcus A.
Hanna to efface himself If he had
advicad NIa,.l- to 90 ctra ai0htyx,ou apI
hang himself by the neck till he was
dead as the men who lived before the
food, he would not have created any
greater amazement. But Mark did
nothing of the sort. Au contraire, he
magnified himself until he became the
whole show, and to Chandler the unex.
pected happened Effacement came
upon him-not self effacement, mark
you, but effacement nevertheless, eff
facement complete. enforced by his en-
emies. Whether Mark gave them en-
couragement in effacing William this
deponent saith not. because he know
eth not; but far stranger things have
happened. Byron uttered great truth
when he said, Sweet is reyengew and
Mark is decidedly human-of the earth
earthly. Whether he contributed to
Williams taking off. it taxes human
credulity too much to believe that he
shed any tears when the New Hamp-
shire senator ''fell outside the breast
works." If he shed any, they were of
the crocodile variety. But, if Mark re-
fused to practice self effaeement. an.
other statesman has done soto wit.
Colonel James Hamilton Lewis, the
brilliant, bizarre statesman from the
new state of Washington. He bobs up
serenely with a presidential ticket.
strong, intellectually at least, at both
ends-Dayid Bennett Hill and Tom L.
Johnson. Now, it is we'll known that
Colonel Lewis has vice presidential as
pirations himself. Indeed he received
quite a handsome vote in the eonyen-
ton of 1896 for that position. His sug-
gestion of Hill and johnson must.
therefore, be attributed solely TO his pa
triotisin Whether his acumen is to be
commended is another matter. Most
assuredly his self abnegation is. But
Colonel Lewis is young-in the very
flower of his years, in the heyday of
life-and perhaps he reflects that "all
things come TO him who waits
Making presidential tickets three
years in advance is harmless If not
profitable performance. At the rate al
which it is at present going forward, by
1904 every man can have his own pres.
idential ticket, and the statesman who
does not see his name mentioned in
that connection will be deemed as ex
elusive.
Hall, Senator Carmack!
In this day of limitless gush and
slabber it is refreshing to contemplate
a man who retains his common sense.
Such a one is Senator e. w. Carmack
of Tennessee. At the risk of seeming
to violate the proprieties at the Mem
phis reception to President Mckinley,
Carmack took shot at point blank
range at the gushers and Informed
them sans ceremonie that he and many
others are weary of all this gabble
about a reunited country; that it was
not newly discovered fact of recent
origin. but that the country had been
reunited ever since Lee surrendered
What the gllshers thought Of that no