Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-05-29
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Especial Washington Letter.

AA LORIA in excelsis Dec! A
az new republic exists - the re-
1 public of Cuba-and 1--WE did
it." Mark Twain says, "Bless-
ed is the man who bloweth his own
horn lest it be not blown" And we
did it. We made the republic of Cuba
possible, just as we made the Mexican
republic possible when we ordered Lou
is Napoleon out of Mexico. We have
a right to felicitate ourselves upon
these achievements. In both these
cases we have acted on the principle
that imam lives not for himself alone"
and that it applies to nations as well
as to individuals 1t is the heartfelt
prayer of every true American that
Cuba libre shall prosper like a tree
planted by the rivers of water and that
all her ways may be the ways of peace.
To Quigg.
A few men, and only few, in all the
hoary registers of time have done
things which forced their names as ad-
jectives, common nouns or verbs into
a permanent place in spoken language.
General Mcclellan invented the "Mc-
Clellan saddletree::" the Iron Duke is
remembered as much by reason of the
"Wellington boot" as because of the
battle of Waterloo; General Burnside
survives in the "burnsides," style of
whiskers; that very useful article of
wet weather apparel the ''mackintosh'
serves as perpetual reminder of the
inventor; to ''burk" has fixed the name
and status of man who would other
wise have been forgotten. 1 used to
have humorous roommate at college
who proposed to immortalize Horace
Greeley by inventing the verb ''to gree
ley," making it mean 'sto go west" but
some way he missed fire and his new
verb never materialized. There are
others not necessary to enumerate
here.
If General Charles Henry Grosvenor
is to be believed, Lemuel Eli Quigg
ought to live forever in a verb con-
structed from his last name. The gen.
eral, if he were editing the next edition
of Websters International Dictionary,
would no doubt insert in it the verb
ito quigg" and would define it thus:
s'To quigg; verb, active and transitive;
meaning to insert extraneous matter
surreptitiously in Republican nation
al platforms unbeknownst to the Re-
publican big Injuns, very much to their
amazement and chagrin." According
to the general, hemuel Eli Is what
Major Joe Bagstock boasted himself to
be, 'Sly, sir, devilish sly; tough, sir,
devilish tough"
Shortly after the Philadelphia con-
vention General Grosvenor charged
that Quigg suppressed some things
which were agreed to by the committee
on platform and put in certain other
things never agreed to by that commit
tee, but which Lemuel evolved out of
his own fecund inner consciousness.
Inter ALA, it was asserted that Quigg
changed the word "Nicaraguan" to
sisthmian'' without the knowledge or
consent Of his platform colleagues, and
in the hurly burly of the convention
nobody detected Quigg's artistic and
pregnant verbal substitution.
A Breezy colIoquy.
1t is nearly two years since Quigg
performed his great coup, but time ap-
pears not to have altered General Gros-
venor's opinions as to Quigg or to have
reduced his heat The grim old lion
of Athens is still sore ON that account
and roars ferociously whenever the
Philadelphia platform is mentioned.
against the omnibus state bill not long
since. There was a good deal of vitriol
in it. In the midst of it Mr. Stephens
of Texas logged the generals memory
and reminded him that the Philadel-
phia platform declared in favor of ad-
mitting Arizona, New Mexico and Ok
lahoma, whereupon the following
breezy colloquy ensued:
Mr. Stephens of Texas-Is not par
ty politics defined in the party plat
form, or does not the party platform
define what political principles are?
Mr.. Grosvenor-I am coming to that
point, if the gentleman will allow me
to proceed.
Mr.. Stephens of Texas-Has not the
admission of these territories been
supported as a matter of party policy
in both the Democratic and the Repub-
lican platforms?
Mr.. Grosyenor-So have a great many
other things that people pay no more
attention to than the barking of a dog
in the morning
Mr.. Stephens of Texas-Then you de-
clare on this floor that you pay no more
attention to those declarations than to
the barking of dog?
Mr.. Grosvenor-I have made my dec
larations on this subject great many
times before 1 do not allow myself to
be bound by such declaration of par
ty policy. l will stop right here and
say to the gentleman that when the
chairman of the committee in the Re-
publican convention reported those res
olutiOns | was as near to him as | now
am to the gentleman from Texas and
do not believe there were ten men on
the floor of that convention who knew
that Mr.. Quigg had injected any such
thing as that into the platform of the
Republican party at the time the plat
form was revised.
Now, that interlocutory performance
shows two or three things of more
than passing interest-frst, that, &C
cording to General Grosvenor, LemueI
Eli Quigg not only doctored the plat