Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-11-20

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lature so gerrymandered the
state as to put him into a
district Republican by 2,200 majority.
They thought they had finally done
for Bob, but
The best laid plans O. mice an men
Gang aft agley.
Just SO in this case. Bob was to be
showed under, but Bob carried the dis
trict by nearly 800. Bully for Bob!
Well done, Robert! Another caper or
two like that and James Robert Will
liams will become presidential pos
sibility. He is able; he is courageous;
he is clean; he is aggressive; he lives in
Illinois. Everybody will rejoice at
his great victory except the defeated
plotters who supposed and hoped that
they were well rid of him. His tri-
umph shows what may be accom-
piished by a vigorous and well man
aged campaign.
out-Heroding Herod.
No wonder that Senator John c..
Spooner's vocal chords gave way. It's
q WOuuCI lit ulu DOt llIut QGtu dWdy.
He has great reputation for wisdom,
and l have exploited him somewhat
for the Republican presidential nomi-
nation-the nomination, not the elec-
ton, mind you-but he achieved 1.-THE
bad eminence" of making the most
thoroughly un-American utterance
heard during the last campaign. He
said-and it is most unfortunate for his
fame that he said tiff we could
elect good, strong Republican presi-
dent like Theodore Roosevelt and a
strong Republican senate and house
for term of twenty years. it would be
better for the country. | believe the
demagogic tear up comes too often in
this country" Those be strange words
to fall from the lips of such a man as
Senator John G. Spooner Of Wisconsin
and shows how fast the imperialistic
idea is making headway in this coun-
try. Even Alexander Hamilton, the
father Of the Republican party, the
great advocate of an aristocratic fea-
ture in our governmental system, while
he advocated life tenure for senators
advocated only seven year system for
president. Senator Spooner raises"
Alexander at his own game from seven
to twenty for "a good. strong Repub-
lican president like Theodore Roose-
velt." Reasonable men will regret that
Senator Spooner said that.
Again Addicks.
Once more the utter hypocrisy of the
G. o. P, which arrogates to itself all
purity and sweetness, is illustrated by
the condition of affairs in little Della
ware Through the Vaccinations Of
Hon. Gas Addicks that state had only
one United States senator for two years
and has had none at all for the last
two years, and now Addicks comes up
again. smiling serenely, with the grim
determination of having for himself
seat in the senate because. as he as
serts, he paid for it and is entitled to
have it He makes no more conceal
ment Of his Doodle operations than he
would of being scrub calf in the
streets Of Wilmington. Unfortunately,
most unfortunately, the Democrats
lack one of having majority on joint
ballot in the legislature. If they had
elected one more man to the legislature,
they would have elected two United
States senators, chance which comes
to very few legislatures in this world.
Just why the Democrats do not unite
yxy{fh tho nj 6dioIrC
who presumably are the more decent
Of the two factions, and elect one Dem
ocrat and one Republican nobody ex-
cept themselves seems to know, or, If
the anti-Addicks Republicans are hon.
est in their desire to rid themselves of
Addicks, it Is hard to understand why
they do not assist the Democrats to
elect two Democratic senators.
Republican Doodle.
OF course the use of Doodle In elec-
tions is all wrong, by whomsoeyer
practiced (that goes without saying),
but just why 1t is a mortal sin in Dem
ocrats and matter Of jest for Re
publicans to practice it passeth all hui
man understanding. For example, the
Washington Post of Nov. contains
this squib: THAT noise which came
from the west early yesterday morn
ing was caused by Hon. Charles Dick
slamming down the cover of his check
book" Now, there is a facetious ref
erence to Republican boodling = it's
funny in Republican. Who is Hon.
Charles Dick? He is General Charles
Dick. an Ohio Republican representa-
tive In congress. chairman Of the Ohio
Republican state committee, the bosom
erony and 'avorite pupil of Senator
Marcus A. Hanna. chairman of the
Republican national committee. If
General Dick was slamming down the
cover of his checkbook, 1t follows as
the night the day that he had had 1t
open to influence the Buckeye voters,
and IL 1t was necessary for Doodle to
be used In Ohio, which is generally
considered sure thing for the Repub-
licans. 1t may be easily imagined what
the Republican owners of checkbooks
were doing In more doubtful states.
Everybody is always bowling about
the corruption of Tammany. which is
bad enough. no doubt. but rarely is a
word said about the corruption of the
Philadelphia and Pittsburg Republican
gangs. which can give Tammany cards
and spades and beat it. Why make
flesh Of one md fowl OF another?
A Gay Deceiver.
The Republican idiots who bet on
Missouri going Republican because the
Globe Democrat kept on saying 1t
would do SO are now in a frame of
mind to do some more or less vigorous
cussing. The Globe-Democrat based
its hopes on slandering the state and
the majority of her citizens, but the
foul ISLANDERS reacted on the head of
the Giobe-Democrat and its party. 1t
reiterated time and again in every con-
ceivable form which its ingenuity
could suggest that the Democrats had
taken, stolen and carried away the en-
tire public school fund amounting to
nearly $4,500,000, when the various
school districts were drawing regularly
the interest on the school funds year
by year, and 1t takes an awful fool not
to know that thieves do not pay inter-
est on what they steal. The Globe
Democrat did not carry the state on its
platform of SANDER, but In all human
it kept several thousand