Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-07-11

gressmen might go yawping about a
third term for week and not create
one tithe the uproar that the Cincin-
natl dispatch created It seemed to
come straight from the executive cham
Der, and aroused the resentment of
every man in the republic who is both
intelligent and patriotic. General
Grosyenor cannot afford to talk at ran
dom, and, as his personal friend, am
glad that he did not.
The Cry Is ssstilI They Conner,
The merry war betwixt the Babcock
and anti-Babcock factions in the Re-
publican party as to taking the tariff
off articles manufactured and sold by
trusts goes on without any sign Of
stopping. More strength to their
arms! 1t becomes more and more ap-
parent that the Babcockers can't be
bullied or coaxed into recanting or TAX
ing the back track. They have crossed
the Rubicon and are headed for Rome
Hon. Serene E. Payne must be more
or less than mortal if he does not per-
ceive by this time that spanking Bab-
cock" is bigger job than he contract
ed for. Senator Marcus A. Hanna, If
he is really a candidate for the presi-
Dental nomination, may find it to his
advantage to change his opinion while
you watt" even as old shoes are half
soled, or as Mr.. Mckinley somersaulted
-. 10, 10. &Iao sk1
Rican tariff. There are signs of revolt
even in the holy city of Columbus. The
Ohio State Journal, Republican
organ, says:
1t would be well for the Tariff league to inves.
tigate before it proceeds with its campaign against
the Wisconsin congressman. waste of time and
effort might be saved. If the league imagines
that Mr.. Babcock will be easy mark, it is mis-
taken. The Wisconsin congressman is supported
in his position by majority of his party not only
in his own state, but throughout the entire coun-
try. This is patent to all who have watched
closely the drift of public sentiment. The only
criticism that has been made Of Mr.. Babcock's 5
position has come either from the league or some
politician who feared to antagonize it.
Now, be it remembered that that was
not said or written by any free trade
doctrinaire, by any disciple of Richard
Golden, John Bright, Sir Robert Peel
or Henry George, but by Republican
Of Republicans. 1t means business.
Ultra Wires.
That great and shining light of Re-
publicanism, the st. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat, in quite a lengthy but by no
means learned article, urges that con-
gress pass a law making the Hawaiian
Islands a part of California and sep
arate congressional district thereof.
! Congress cannot do the latter at all.
It would be clearly ultra wires. Con-
gress fixes the ratio for representation
| based on the census returns and by q
purely mathematical performance de-
| termines the number of representatives
| to which each state is entitled, and
there the power Of congress as to con-
gressional districts ceases and the
states function begins-i. e., to deter
mine the lines of the districts. Con-
:, gress has no more right or power to
make a congressional district Of the
Hawaiian Islands than has The Globe
Democrat. AS to adding it to Cali
fornia, congress can do that with the
consent of California and not without
that consent. Anyway, it would be of
very doubtful propriety to have full
fiedged congressman from Hawaii, as
( the delegate from there, Hon. Mr.. VIII.
cox, is an avowed monarchist. But
The GlObe-Democrat is estopped from
advocating making congressional dis
trict of the Hawaiian Islands by rea-
son of its ceaseless chatter touching
the latest Democratic gerrymander IL
! Missouri. 1t mourns like another
Rachel and refuses to be comforted be-
cause the Missouri legislature for geo
graphical and other reasons gave DR.,
Bartholdt, Republican, a district con-
tanning 314,000 people, with from 49,
600 to G0.000 Republican majority, the
ratio being 1914. .1S2. at the same time
giving Judge Shackleford, Democrat, a
district with only $4,000 people and
5000 Democratic majority. Now,
submit to The CD. that if it is an out
rage, as it solemnly asseverates. to
make the Shackleford district in Mis-
souri, with only 142, 900, wouldn't it be
a greater outrage to make California
district of the Hawaiian Islands, con-
tanning only about 100000 people, a
| large majority of whom are Chinese
coolies, Japanese and Kanakas? Would
not that be great piece Of incon-
sistency from the viewpoint of The
| CD?
Once upon a time Colonel William f
Switzler, when a candidate for con
gress from the district which l now
have the honor to represent, spent tive
hours trying to prove that his oppo-
nent, Colonel George W. Anderson, was
not consistent. The only reply thai
Anderson ever gave to the charge was
consistency be damned~ Perhaps
The CD. is standing on Colonel Ander
sons platform. The excuse for max.
ing the Hawaiian Islands constitute q
portion of California Is that the Ha
Waiian territorial government is the
most extravagant under the sun. The
powers that be had better try the old
remedy, economy, which has gone sad
| ly out Of fashion.
Journalistic Enterprise!
/ The morning after the Ohio Repub-
lican state convention met the Kansas
| City Journal announced toa startled and
expectant world In great flaming head
lines, "Hanna In Controlp That was
about as newsy and thrilling an item
as If the esteemed Journal had an
nounced, ''They Make Whisky In Ken
tucky" or "They Raise Cotton In Mis-
sissippiw or 'sThey Eat Beans In Bos
ton!' or sThere Is an Abundance OF
Ice at the North Poler' Nothing like
being enterprising. "Seest thou man
| diligent in his business? He shall
! stand before kings" remarks Solomon
Who expected anything else than that
Hanna would be in control? Why
pray. should not he run his own show
He bought it and paid for it. He owns
it. After the manner of the centurion
described in the Scriptures, ''To one he
| saith, Come, and he cometh; to another
Go, and he goeth." And Mark showed
i his teeth at this latest convention
/ which he controlled. He permitted
Senator Joseph Benson Foraker to be
temporary chairman and to utter few
platitudinous remarks. How the bril-
liant and once fiery Foraker must chafe
under Hanna's iron collar! Foraker's