Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-04-24


oughly factionized, he ought to
, have been present to hear the
bitter speeches made by Republic
ans about each other ON the Cuban rec
iprocity bill. In cold type they are bad
enough, but as they came hot and siz-
zling from the lips and tongues of Re
publican orators they were worse.
Word, face, manner, gesture, all show
ed that they were in dead earnest, that
their differences are irreconcilable and
that they will go on getting wider and
wider apart until permanent split
comes-which will undoubtedly be
great and glorious thing for the coun-
try. Things have been said by Repub-
lican leaders in open debate about each
other which can be neither forgotten
nor forgiven, and it is reported that
these hard things said in open house
are mild and complimentary when COM
pared with the epithets which they
hurled at each other in caucus. Be
tween the Republican factions there is
war, eternal war.
Inconsistency.
Republicans are always bowling about
Richard Croker playing boss in New
York. To hear them tell it, bosses are
known and tolerated only among Dem
ocrats. These Republican Pharisces
and hypocrites should consider the
truth contained in the old saying that
consistency is a jewel of great value.
In the Bible they are admonished to re-
move the beam from their own eyes
before they undertake to extract the
mote from the eyes of others. Our Re
publican friends would do WE'LL before
they begin to remark upon bosses, to
turn their gaze upon George B. Cox of
Cincinnati, who has just announced his
intention of changing the Cincinnati
delegation in congress in toto, and he
appears to be able to do so with the
same ease and expedition with which
other men change their shirts. 'Coxie,
old boy" is a great Republican.
A Doubling Thomas.
Hon. Charles Emory Smith, late post
master general, having reascended the
tripod of the Philadelphia Press, ap-
pears to be a sort of doubling Thomas.
Indeed he gives signs of falling from
grace in the Republican church, not to
say of committing leze majesty. He
actually has the gall to insinuate that
the verdict in the Waller case will not
be accepted by some people, and the
Washington Post intimates that it is
highly probable that Charles Emory's
fear in that regard is based on rath7
er sound foundation. Waller was tried
and acquitted for killing prisoners of
war notwithstanding the proof was
perfectly clear against him; so Charles
Emory and the Washington Post had
both better look little out or they are
liable to be yanked up and tried for
treason for talking about humanity.
Unexpected Heat.
Hon. Chauncey Mitchell Depew is as
mild a hammered man as ever stirred
up hornets nest in the ''most august
body on earth," but that is precisely
what Chauncey did not long since, very
much to his own surprise, no doubt
He in his most suave manner proposed
some sort of modification of or substi-
tute for Mr.. Crumpacker's plan of
gouging the southern states out of their
representation, in whole or in part, on
the plea that they have suppressed the
negro Senator Joe Blackburn and
others jumped Chauncey and wooled
him vigorously, but he perpetrated a
fine mot about Delivers Ohio speech,
if Mr.. Vandiver of Missouri is to be be-
lieved.
'.I just happened to fall in with Senator
Depew on the trip up town the other
day. observed Mr.. Vandiver of Missouri,
who has a joke on oleomargarine which
has not yet been perpetrated.
''The senator remarked to me something
of his admiration for the speech of Sena-
tor Dolliver of Iowa in favor of the anti
oleo bill.
Don't you think it remarkable, sena-
tor said, that so much humor and elo
quence as Mr.. Dolliver displayed can be
invented such dry subject?'
"'Ah,' rejoined the senator, you must
remember that Mr.. Dolliver was not talk
ing about the dry cow -
Spreading.
Notwithstanding our performances in
the Philippines and England's perform
nnces in South Africa, it appears that
the idea of government of the people,
by the people and for the people" is
still spreading. A new republic is liza
BILE to be born at any moment in Bel
gium. The little kingdom is in turmoil,
and out of the travail may come a rep
resentative government. Old Leopold
was made king of the Belgians in the
first place by foreign governments, and
if they keep their hands off the
chances are that he will soon join the
large if not goodly company of royal
vagabonds. The row grows out of the
question of suffrage. The people are
clamoring for manhood suffrage--one
vote to one man-instead of the pres
ent arrangement whereby every man
has one vote and some men have sew
eral votes based on the quantity of
property they possess. So "Long live
the Belgian republicv'
Birds of a Feather.
There is an old saying, "Birds of a
feather flock together" which is find
ing new illustration in President
Roosevelt's appointments. Colonel
Roosevelt is a literary man himself, an
author of renown, and he takes kindly
to men of that class notwithstanding
so distinguished a Republican states
man as Simon Cameron once denounc-
ed them all as damned literary fel-
lers' But Simon is dead, and we
have new regime. At last the vet
Grams of the civil war have won out in
their long fight on Fl. Clay Evans, and
he is to go-go, SO it is said, to high
er and better office, but go neverthe-
less. In his stead the president nomi-
mates Eugene Ware of Kansas soldier.
lawyer, statesman and poet. 1t is not
recorded anywhere, / believe, that
Colonel Roosevelt himself ever wrote
any poetry, though it is ten to one
shot that he has done SO, as he has es-
sayed about everything that anybody
else has ever done. If he courted the
muse, he has kept the matter to HIM
self, as a youthful indiscretion per-
haps. At any rate he appointed gen
uine poet pension commissioner.
It is also whispered that he is about.
to appoint ex-senator John NJ. Thur
ston of Nebraska as secretary Of the
interior, vice Hon. Ethan Allen Hitch
cock of Missouri. who is slated to go.
Now. ThurstOn is a poet himself,