Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-05-01

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Especial Washington Letter.l

kH cOmpleIe TOuL TOT the he
M publican chieftains who
have been lording it over
the house The issue was squarely
joined, sugar trust versus the Ameri-
can people, and the people won out in
the house of representatives, and the
Republican party in the house, with its
boasted majority Of forty-three, is torn
| into tatters, into bitter factions, into
smithereens, while the Democrats are
| jubilant For nearly two weeks the
machine Republicans and the insurgent
| Republicans poured broadside after
| broadside into each other in way
| that was refreshing to lovers of our
/ country. 1t was a bare knuckle per-
| formance. Their blood was up. No
| quarter was asked or given. The ma
chine was beaten, horse, foot and dra-
| coon. The Democrats lined up to
man, taking ''the diferentiaF' off re-
fined sugar, which means cheaper sug-
! ar to the American consumer. The 18th
of April, 1902, is a day to which Demo
Gratis can point with pride. On that
occasion the conduct of the house Dem
/! ocrats was superb. By that days work
and their united support of the Demo-
cratic minority report of the committee
on foreign affairs in favor of the rigid
exclusion of Chinese coolies the Demo-
Gratis have almost assured the election
of a Democratic house in November
and have gone far toward electing a
! Democratic president in 1904. AS moth
ing can be more edifying to Democrats
than to read the wrathy opinions which
these belligerent Republicans express
ed for each other and as no Republican
paper will dare to publish them, offer
no apology for making long quotations
from their speeches.
Hepburn After Grosvenor and Long.
General Charles Henry Grosyenor of
| Ohio, member of the ways and means
| committee, and Colonel William Peters
| Hepburn of Iowa, chairman of the
| committee on interstate and foreign
commerce, are two Republican bell
wethers. They are veterans in serv-
ice, and both are close to the psalm
lists allotment of threescore years and
ten. They sit side by side in the
| house. Both are bitter and unrelent-
/ ing partisans. They both unreservedly
/ subscribe to the main article of the
/ Republican creed, 1.-THE earth belongs
/ to the saints, and we are the saints"
! But there are saints and saints. Hep
| burn has q streak of independence in
/ him which Grosyenor lacks. Conse-
quentIy while Gresgenor, swearing, he
would neer consent, consented to sup
port the Payne bill Hepburn sturdily
| held out and took his place with the
beet sugar insurgents Here is the
/ manner in which Colonel Hepburn
paid his compliments to General Gros-
venor:
81 listened with great attention, as
! always do, to the utterances of the
( gentleman from Ohio Mr. Grosvenorl
on my right. I remember what he
! told us. He said that when this prop
/ osition came to him, coupled with so
/ per cent reduction, he indignantly
spurned it. When the proposition
4 came for 40 per cent reduction, again
/ he refused, and then at 80 or 33 again
| he refused And finally, quoting his
language, when the ultimatum of %
per cent was proposed again he salt
| he would have nothing of it. But
when they came at him with that 9th
er ultimatum-20 per cent, when that
| little nickel differential appeared
then it was that his virtue weakened.
"Think of it, Mr.. Chairmanl He de-
| picted here the unfortunate position in
which the 'reconcentrados' were, il
which the insurgents were, those
who were engaged in the division of
the great Republican party who were
! destroying the integrity of its coun-
| ellis and who were in revolt against
| authority and the leaders of the par
! ty, as being of the most serious and
| pernicious character. Yet think how
nearly he came to being in that mos,
unfortunate plight If that nickel had
never appeared above the horizon of
his vision. he would have been a recon-
centrado. He would have been today an
insurgent He would have been rebel
against authority, and he would now
be engaged. quoting his own language,
in dividing the Republican party and
imperiling the future of the republic.
"Great God. on what a slender thread
Hang everlasting things"
Having disposed of Grosvenor, Hep
burn took Hon. Chester l. Long of
Kansas, another Republican member
of the ways and means, through
course of sprouts as follows:
"AIr Chairman, / have listened with
| great attention to this debate. listen
ed to the great speech of the gentleman
from Kansas Mr.. Longl the other day
"a great speech in certain lines. |
think he spoke for two hours and thir-
| ty-fve minutes; to be minute and ac-
curate, 155 minutes. I thought it was,
physically speaking, the greatest effort
of human endurance that l had ever
witnessed. and / thought then that if
fhe gentleman had begun in time and
had had proper training and had the
moral qualities there might be vet
great future before him in the prize
| ring under the Marquis of Queensberry
rules
"But I was sorry, Mr.. Chairman, to
see so much of physical endeavor de-
voted to the destruction of what sup
posed to be the Republican idea Of
reciprocity = that policy of ours that
was to aid protection. that policy of
ours that was to enlarge the labor
field, that policy that was to make
more of days work in this country,
that was to augment the wage. that
was to bring more of comfort into the
homes, that was to give more of sta
bility to the political power of this
country through contentment and that
was to serve the purposes of the great
Republican party in lifting up the la
Dor of this country and giving it its
proper status in this land. / did not
know until I heard his speech that it
was to be used as a convenient vehicle
by which particular gain could be
brought to particular men without re-
gard to this vaster question of the ben
eft of labor Of the United States"
cushman's Sunday School Tract
The way that Cushman of Washing
ton, Republican, went after the
speaker, the committee on rules and the
Republican organization in general
was one of the richest performances
seen in fIa housn in Years and marks s.