Gloucester County Democrat., 1902-08-14

The New York Press leading organ of
the beet sugar faction of the Republican
party. has again unlimbered it's battery
and opened fire on Speaker Henderson
We say "again" because the same guns
were being worked in the same way
year ago when Mr.. Henderson was in
Europe. Not only the beet sugar contin-
gent. but various advocates of extreme
protection. united in an effort to prevent
Mr.. Henderson's reelection to the speak
ership. How signally they were defeated,
how utterly their forces were routed-all
that is history. and that history may re-
peat itself in December, 1909. The Press
treats with contenlptuous sneers the an
nouncement that the speaker, after Pc
riod of rest at his home in Iowa. is going
to make ian extensive campaigning trip
in various parts of the country, his pur-
pose being to visit as many doubtful con-
gress districts as possible
That same New York Press, radical
Republican Sheet thus spews its
venom on Speaker Henderson:
Looking at it in that light. we should
say that If the speaker is determined to
make campaign throughout The country
Chairman Babcock should make sure that
the spellbindng virtues of tie Iowa dow
ager remain confined to hopelessly Demo-
cratic districts, where the loss of few
thousand Republican votes would be nei-
ther here nor there in the calculation Of
how the next house of representatives
may be constituted nor of any conse-
quence in candidatures for governorships
or United States senatorships Otherwise
we should not blame Republicans for
viewing with alarm fear and trepidation
the proposal to project the voice and po-
litical record of Henderson into the can
vass for congress. = - The best thing
Chairman Babcock can do, if he wants to
carry the house next fall, is to get out
his club and drive Speaker Henderson off.
1t is absolutely safe to say that moth
ing so bitter as that about Speaker
Henderson has appeared in any Demo
cratic newspaper in the land, for Hen
derson is persona grata to most Dem
ocrats.
Piling Up Evidence.
Item.-"Neyer in our history have we
been so un- American as in the short
time elapsing since the Spanish war"
Who said that? A Democrat? Nay.
not so. 1t was uttered by Hon. Samuel
w. Mccall, Sthe ablest Republican in
the house from Massachusetts, repre-
sentative from the famous Harvard
district and in all human probability
the predestined successor to George
/ sFrisbie Hoar in the senate. No doubt
IIoar would choose him to succeed
himself rs they think much alike on
public ouestions Does that look like
"a solid Repuh hlican columnY
Item.-It will be remembered that the
entire Michigan delegation revolted
against the Cuban reciprocity scheme
and voted with the Democrats 10 over
rule the chair and to take the dlfferen-
tial off of refined sugar. Whuahl Al
den Smith made Il speech in Wnicn
he flayed the leaders alive. ThereTso pre-
there was great need for some har-
mony bunko in the Michigan state
convention. The Detroit Free Press
Oem) gives this ludicrous account of
what happened:
When the time drew near for the state
convention to assemble. the senator INC
Millanl faced an annoying situation. He
himself is very friendly to the president,
but the administrations attitude toward
the question of Cuban reciprocity has ex-
cessively grieved several Michigan con-
gressmen. In some of the districts the
sugar beet is a consecrated issue not to
be covered by the mantle of partisan pol
itics The man that does not hold the
sugar beet in high esteem is lost what
ever party he may belong to. Had the
Republican party reduced the tariff on
Cuban sugar there would have been
small sized insurrection in these dis
tricts. much to the political profit of the
Democratic enemy. Naturally the Re
publican representatives from these dis
tricts were veXed at the efforts of the
president in behalf of a policy that
might have meant their retirement to
private life. and they desired to have the
Justice of their revolt certified to by their
Republican brethren in convention as
sembled. To this Senator Mcmillan as
sented and the boys were allowed to
frame a platform which approved of in
general the presidents s administration and
in particular of the sugar beet insurrec-
tion against that policy.
Persons that are given to thought may
regard this as ridiculously inconsistent,
but here in Michigan no great store is set
by consistency in politics. The summum
bonum is neither consistency nor intelli-
gence, but votes. and no question ever
had so many sides that a Michigan con-
vention could not approve of all of them
when approval meant harmony and Of
fees.
OF course the CD. will say that that
indicates "a solid Republican column"
but all other people will understand
that the Republican factions are only
sleeping OH their arms. ready to fy at
each others throats ut the first oppor-
tunity. You can't successfully mix
water and oil. No more can the reci-
procity and antireciprocity gangs be
harmonized
And Vermont Too.
Item.-For the first time since the
Republican party was organized the
managers are afraid of losing Vermont.
They are bending every energy to
prevent the state going Democratic or
at least to prevent the Republican ma
jority from being so cut down as to
constitute moral victory for the Dem
ocrats. The trouble arose as follows:
There was Doodle campaign for the
Republican gubernatorial nomination.
One of the defeated candidates bolted
and is running on his own hook, which,
according to the G.-D.'s philosophy, is
proof positive of "a solid Republican
column"
Item.-That the Republican column
is solid is, according to the GID. s
logic, conclusively demonstrated by
the fact that the Democrats elected a
governor in Oregon at the June cleo
tion, though the Republicans elected
the rest of the ticket. By such proc
! ess of ratiocination the CD. could
prove that the Spaniards licked us in
the late war
Item.-The presidents Fourth df July
speech at Pittsburg and his threat to
swing around the circle to make a few
hundred speeches in his own behalf
as u presidential candidate have sent
the cold chills up and down the spi-
nal columns of certain beet sugar Re-
publicans, as is attested by the fol
lowing excerpt from the Washington
Post Independently:
President Roosevelt's yigoro.s utter
ances on Cuban reciprocity wherever he
goes is raising a question among the Re-
publicans of Minnesota and Michigan as
to what he is likely to say wher, he visits
those states in a few weeks. The solid
Republican delegations from those states
resisted Cuban reciprocity as interpreted
| by the president. claiming that such a
course was indispensable to majority of
the votes in congressional districts this
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