Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-09-18
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pants were disguised, Dut are SAID TO
be respectable citizens. Sometimes
scoundrels are lynched in the south
and west for such crimes as rape, ar
son and murder, and on such occasions
Massachusetts, has been in the habit
of rolling her eyes toward heaven and
condemning the events on general
and geographical principles. For what
crime was this Mcdonald White Cap
ped in the village of Marion. county of
Plymouth and commonwealth of Mas
sachusetts? The sole charge against
him was that he was lazy, dissolute
loafer, addicted to the society OF dis
reputable persons of both sexes. Now,
if Massachusetts is going to White Cap
all persons of that character within
her borders she will have her hands so
full that she will not have time to at
tend to the affairs of the people of the
south and west All of which goes to
show that human nature is very much
the same, whether in South Carolina
or i'll Massachusetts.
OF course it is customary to charge
that the lynching habit is confined to
Democratic states or communities, in
which, of course, there is not syllable
of truth. Judge Lynch frequently holds
court out III bleeding Kansas, where
the soul Oh old John Brown is supposed
to be always marching on. West Vir-
ginia is overwhelmingly Republican.
A week or two ago they lynched two
N fhnf md tllnI oftAr fhn
lynching discovered that they were in
nocent, a discovery that didn't do the
victims very much good.
Marse Henry.
Marse Henry Watterson in a letter
declining to be a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for governor of
Kentucky wrote very brilliant letter,
as he always does when he writes at
all. Among the reasons assigned for
his declnation is that he is too old to
turn rascal That is certainly an amaz-
ing declaration to come from one of
Colonel Watterson's position and ex-
perience. If it was intended for hu-
NOR it should have been labeled, This
is a joke" If intended seriously. it is
utterly incredible that Marse Henry
could have worked himself into frame
of mind to say it. He is the best be-
loved of all Kentuckians; he is one of
the most brilliant editors that ever
welded a pen; he has been associated
with statesmen all his life. With the
single exception of Governor Taylor,
against whom there is an indictment
pending at Frankfort for conspiracy
to murder, Colonel Watterson never
saw Kentucky governor whose integ
rity was seriously doubted by any liy-
ing human being.
The standard of political integrity in
Kentucky governors has been high;
the vast majority of them are, like
Casar's wife, above suspicion, and no
body knows this better than Colonel
Watterson himself. He speaks to a
very large audience; no other editor in
America is so much quoted; he is the
only American editor of great paper
who is greater than his paper. His
principal editorials are sent out by the
Associated Press in advance, not I'M
der the line, THE Courier Journal will
say tomorrow" but under the more
fetching introduction, Colonel Henry
Watterson will say tomorrow" Thou
sands of people believe implicitly III
him-I do myself. l can't get over it
to save my life. From the time ! first
could read the Louisville Courier-Jour
nal was my principal political pabu-
lum, but l don't believe the Kentucky
governors were rascals, that it is nee
essary to be a rascal to be governor
of Kentucky or that Colonel Waiter
son believes it. He has no right to talk
i'll such reckless manner. He should
remember the old motto, ''Honi soft
qui NAL pense," Because he is uni
versally beloved, because he is widely
believed in, he should make haste to
publicly withdraw that unfortunate
expression. Colonel Watterson is not
the first eminent man whom the love
of epigram has led into utterances con
tradicted by the facts of history.
Still at 1t.
1t would really appear that all the
Democrats have to do ON the tariff
question is to stand still and see the
salvation of the Lord, for the Repub-
lican factions will surely tear each
other to pieces in this bitter war. 1t
is really a Roosevelt and anti-Roose-
welt fight under the guise of tariff
row. The Hartford Courant, Repub-
lican organ, dips into the controversy
in the following racy fashion:
The Delaware Republicans say ditto to
the Iowa Republicans. At their congress
sional convention in Dover Tuesday they
declared themselves supporters of the
reciprocity policy as eXpounded by Will
liam Mckinley at Buffalo and as applied
by Theodore Roosevelt to the case of
Cuba. They want to see the combinations
of capital that are enhancing the prices
of the necessaries of life brought up with
a round turn by state and federal stat
utes Another thing the Delaware Re-
publicans want to see is ''the modification
of revenue laws that strengthen such
combinations.
Preaching Versus Practice.
While President Roosevelt is caper-
ing around over the country talking
volubly and vociferously about what
he is going to do to the trusts his at
torney general, the Hon. Philander G.
Knox, is enjoying himself in Europe.
The truth is that Colonel Roosevelt
could do more in one week to break up
the trusts by bringing Mr.. Knox back
from Europe and instituting criminal
proceedings against them than he
could by talking about them from now
till doomsday. The trusts care abso-
lutely nothing about talk, no matter
from what source it emanates, but
they do care a great deal about a Wig
orously conducted criminal prosecu-
ton They don't care much about in
functions and restraining orders, but
4 few carefully drawn indictments
would set them to thinking very seri-
ously. While Colonel Roosevelt is de-
Iyering his orations and Mr.. Knox is
JOHN j.