Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-10-03
CHAIRMAN wooDRUFF's ADDRESS.

CHAIRMAN WOODRUFEtS Address.
"We have assembled today to perform /;
most solemn duty : we should come to on
task with subdued hearts and in the mos
solemn frame of mind. Everywher,
throughout the limits of our land are signs
of the the nations mourning.
"On the sixth of September. the tele
graph wires flashed to the civilized world
the horrifying intelligence that the head
Of this great nation had been stricken by
the hand of an assassin. The world stood
still, dazed and shocked.
THE crime was so atrocious, SO unwar-
ranted, so inhuman that we refused to be-
lieve it, but alas! it was too true.
For week men spoke with bated
breath, hoping and despairing by turn,
and prayers assembled from home affairs and
from the churches of every religious de-
nomination that the life of our President
might be spared.
s'But the prayers of the people and the
skill of the physicians were in vain and on
the fourteenth of the same month the
nations chief magistrate succumued to
the murderer's bullet, and the country,
aye, the world, was plunged into deepest
grief by this murder most foul. God s
will, not ours, was done, and William Nc
Kinley passed into the sanctuary of the
worlds martyrs.
f'Seyen millions of his fellow citizens
elevated him to his high Office, more than
double that number bow their heads in
sorrow and do reverence to his memory.
'tToday, at the threshold of his tomb,
we pause to do him homage not as a
leader of great political party, nor en-
tirely to the man and citizen, but to the
twice elected President of these United
States, to our chief magistrate and the
representative of the honor and dignity Of
our government and the executive head of
our beloved country 'Omnia mora equat )
ITO the nation and to the family of the
stricken President we tender our deepest
sympathy and condemn in bitterest terms
the murderer and his diabolical crime
MUST UPRoOT ANARCHIsM.
"Anarchism must be rooted from this
land and Democrats and Republicans
must and will join hearts and hands in the
passage Of laws so stringent that the
heresy shall be driven from our shores.
Immigration laws should be SO framed
that one holding anarchistic sentiments
could never set foot within our borders.
L ue SOl1 cHklOuOu ny ttiO ptCoCtOuS DlOOu Vi
our honored fathers, who died in the de-
Tense of liberty and of the sacred rights
of person and property, must be never
polluted by this foul and venomous plant.
s'The bullet aimed at the Presidents
body was aimed at anarchy and if anarchy
die with President Mckinley, he will not
have died in vain.
s'One lesson taught by this awful tragedy
is the perfect unity of the nation. There
was no north, no south, no east, no west,
no Democrat, no Republican, no Catholic,
no Protestant, no Jew, no Gentle. Ali
were one in their grief and sympathy for
the stricken family.
"We are here today, fellow Democrats,
as fully believe, to nominate, not the
candidate, but the next Governor of our
commonwealth.
s'There is this difference between this
convention and the one that assembled in
this hall last week. Today, at this hour,
no one can tell who shall be selected for
this great honor. But everybody had
known for months whom the Republican
party would name.
Ever siItce Governor Voorhees, made
certain moves upon his political chessboard
whereby the Supreme Court gained most
excellent judge and Franklin Murphy lost
a most dangerous competitor, the public
has known that Franklin Murphy would
be the nominee.
"Just why Mr.. Murphy, though an es-
Unable gentleman, should be selected by
the Republican machine for this high office
was not entirely clear until the gentleman
from Essex who placed his name before the
convention explained the mystery.
1.-THE first reason that the nominator
limited at was that the proposed nominee
was a man of some competence, a very faint
suggestion, however, of barrel
"The second reason dwelt upon was that