Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-08-14
The Ramisloro p,ess the most fearles,

The PdaisborO Press, the most fearless
and brainless of Loudenslager's newspaper
supporters, has partaken fully of the spirit
OF its boss and last week issued meek
and pointless wall for somebody to ''call
down"the editor of the GLOUCESTER
COUNTY DEMOCRAT The calling down
process is peculiarly Loudenslageronian 1t
was his heelers, in Camden, armed with
pistols and knives and black-jaeks who
''called down" opposing Republican work
ers; it was the same class, though less
dangerous, who s'called down" honest
citizens of Paulsboro and by threats of
business destruction forced them to enlist
under the Loudenslager banner; it was the
same high-handed methods that trod
decency under foot and distributed twenty
cases of beer promiscously in Paulsboro to
create a frenzy of enthusiasm for their
''beloved leader" But there were few
Republicans in Paulsboro who would not
be called down." They were men who
had voted the Republican ticket from the
birth Of the party, and they dared to re-
tain their manhood in the face of threats
and sneers and jeers and twenty boxes of
beer. When these men went to the polls
what did they meot ? Respectful Difference
to old age and long party service ? By
no means. They were jostled, and ell
bowed aud crowded and jeered at and
sneered at, by who? Not by sober men Of
PaulsboIo-those who have made it a
place where liberty dwelt these many
years-but men who had partaken of
Loudenslagerism in liquid and other form
men determined to have a Loudenslager
delegation, right or wrong
From a moral standpoint, were such
practices less reprehensible than the doings
of Loudenslager's armed heelers in Cam
den? The latter took human life while the
former took from the citizen the liberty
to freely exercise the dearest right of an
American citizen. The step from the
latter to the former is short one, hence
isn't it just possible that the man who
enters upon 'calling down. process
whether ON the freedom of the press or
the freedom of the individual is danger
GUS man to the community in which he
lives?
The time was in America when men
cried for elderly or Death'' and it is
our firm conviction that that spirit is not
yet dead; men obtained liberty at too
great a cost to have it permanently de-
MED by political boss of the Louden-
slager's character or his hirelings.
AS to the calling down process which
the p p directs visited on this paper, it
is unnecessary. The twenty-four year
record of this press is one of consistent,
respectful treatment of everything that is
clean and honest and decent, and fear
less exposure of everything that is the
anthitesis of these.
Philadelphia and Camden politics did
not arrive at the stage of corruption they
have reached in day, nor year nor a
decade, but by gradual encroachment on
the rights of the citizen; by intimidation,
by ruthless breaking down of the re-
straints which responsibility once COM
manded and giving over the machinery of
our primaries and elections to meg whose
only monitor is the E.ssAsiifhGatiOG of their
own selfish desires and ends.
In conclusion, we will aid the p p. in
its desire to have us "called down" On
the statement of one of the first citizens
of Paulsboro, whose political alliance is
with the Republican party, we have made
these statements about these primaries in
Paulsboro. Now, let the Press show that
we have been misled, and we will call
ourselves down, and make retraction
satisfactory to the p. p.
Again, show to US that Mr.. Louden-
slager's connection with the Woodbury.
Heights Land Company was honorable;
that he did not secretly take a large sum
of money from the Company's treasury
and divert it to his own use, and we will
make such retraction as will be salts
factory to Mr.. Loudenslager, and the
PamlsbOrO Press
But we advise against the methods in
voked by Mr.. Loudenslager against Re
publicans who opposed him in the pri-
maries. Force won't avail against free
press, and the GLOUCESTER COUNTY DEM
oCRAT is such from the editor to the
sdevil.''