Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-10-31

eral education
Possibly the anarchy whose recent exhibition
has put the whole civilized world in mourning
might not be rampant if those whose profession
1t is to instruct our youth had less sordid views
In spoons and sich = Republicans at
that
A Last Years Birds Nest.
Hon. Henry S. Boutell, Republican
member of congress from Chicago, is
"still harping on my daughter
Rush-Bagot convention"-of whose ex-
istence most people have been living in
blissful ignorance. Somehow the Hon.
Henry S. B. aforesaid discovered "the
convention" to which nobody ever
paid the slightest attention, and he Is
laboring valorously to make its abro-
cation a matter of live politics. Hon.
III. S. B. should consider the intensity
years birds nest and let up. If he
wants really warm subject on which
to exDend his great literary and foren-
sic ability and facility, let him explain
why Republicans are busy prosecuting
Schley for gaining glorious victory.
Advice Is Cheap.
Recent events have demonstrated for
the millionth time. If another demon
stration were needed, that advice is
cheap" President Roosevelt has been
absolutely surfeited with it. He must
be sick of it, poor man! 1t has flowed
in upon him In abundant streams from
every conceivable source. 1t comes
from all parts of America and all parts
of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and
South and Central America. Demo-
Gratis have wed with Republicans in
advising the president until 1t looks as
though anybody is fit to be president,
just as anybody is capable of running
newspaper or conducting a hotel. I'm
less all signs fail advising Colonel The
odore is the old and condemned per-
formance of pouring water on ducks
back. Yes, advice is cheap-dog cheap.
Persistent.
Senator William P. Frye of Maine Is
not only a most delightful man socially
and personally, but he is also a most
persistent fighter when he sets his head
on anything. And he has set it and set
1t good and strong on the ship subsidy
bill, commonly called the Hanna
Payne bill, which was defeated in tie
last congress and which, let us most
fervently hope, will be defeated In the
present congress. Senator Frye shows
how thoroughly he is in earnest by re-
fusing to accept the great place of
chairman of the committee on foreign
affairs, to which he naturally succeeds
by seniority through the death of Sem
ator Cushman K. Davis, and takes In
lieu thereof the craftsmanship of the
committee on commerce. Evidently
there will be a great fight to pass the
ship subsidy bill, which should never
pass-never.
Antitrust talk, like Tennyson's brook,
goes on forever. Likewise the trusts go
on raking in independent concerns,
thereby shutting out competition. The
latest purchase of an independent con-
Germ made by trust Is that of the Ad-
Olson Tinsley Tobacco company of
Louisiana. Pike county. Mo-. by the
Continental Tobacco company. The
Tinsley company began business in
1868 and has a splendid reputation all
over the country, especially in the west
and south. 1t held out against the
trust till among the last, giving en-
ployment to more than 250 persons. 1t
d., IoH
tinue to operate the plant, at least for
the present, hut the citizens of Lou
isiana fear that it will be closed down
and the operatives thrown out of en-
ployment.
Fhe War Is onl
Hard upon the heels Of the report
that Senator Hanna would resign the
craftsmanship of the Republican ma
tional committee comes a declaration
Of principles from President Roosevelt.
The war is on. 1t is case of challenge
and counter challenge. Roosevelt means
to be president himself after his own
models, plans and specifications. He
declares that he will do as he pleases
regardless of all cliques or combina-
tions. In talking from the shoulder to
some South Carolina Republicans, the
president said:
am going to select the very best men for pub
lie positions. Men appointed to high public
places must be high In morals and many other re-
spects. If the American people to show their
approval Of my during the three and
half years that have to serve by placing me at
the head of the Republican ticket In 1904.
fao1 ba
that It would be difficult for any man to de-
cline. But II have to pander to any cliques,
combinations movements for their approval H.
would not give snap Of my finger fer it or al
nomination for It under such circumstances Ny
Endorsement must from the people Of the
country.
At this distance from the date of the,
nominating convention it looks like a.
safe bet that Roosevelt stands an ex-
ceedingly slender show to ''cop OUT
that nomination. Any Republican who
defies the cliques and combinations in
that organization defies the power that
runs the machine.
The public will watch the war with
interest, for war It will be-war to the
knife and the knife to the hilt. If any
person yainly imagines that Hanna,
Kerens and men of that ilk will tamely
submit to the humillating spectacle Of
seeing their Endorsements consigned to
the White House wastebasket, that
person knows them not. When 1t
wakes warm, all good people will hold
their noses, for faetional war brings
out oil the stencil there is in party.