Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-01-09

<<kT% HAT was the most unkindest
b cut of all' when the New
b York bankers spoke of Gov
ernor Leslie M. Shaw of To-
wa as a Crossroads fnan-
cier." Those impudent and swagger-
ing sons of Cresus said that awful
thing at q time when Leslie, in high
feather, was Fastening as fast as
steam could carry him from the prai-
ries of the Hawkeye State to Wash
ington to consult with the president
as to accepting the treasury portfolio,
vice Lyman J. Gage, resigned under
pressure.
Somebody think it was Richard
Grant White-said, "Words are things" ;"
and such words as s'crossroad finan-
cier," when applied to so eminent a
parsonage as his Iowa excellency, are
awful things. "Oh, what a fall was
there, my countrymenw Only a few
months ago my handsome and soulful
friend, my lecture mate, Senator JON
athan Prentiss Doliver, was going
about exalting the horn of Governor
Shaw as a presidential candidate, and
now Delivers protege is lightly and
contemptuously spoken of by these
pampered Gotham multimillionaires as
a crossroads financier" No epithet
so exasperating has been hurled at
anybody since Daniel O'Connell over
whelmed an irate female by calling
her san isosceles triangle unless an ex-
ception should be made in favor of the
Missouri statesman who called anoth-
er Missouri statesman "chinchbug
statesman" Governor Shaw ought to
forthwith demand a court of inquiry
to find out whether he is presidential
timber or only a Crossroads finan-
cier."
A Mistaken Diagnosis.
Governor Shaw's case also illustrates
once more the truth of the old saying
that SO prophet is not without honor
save in his own country and among
his own people," for when his appoint
ment as secretary of the treasury was
first bruited an Iowa paper telegraph
ed its Washington correspondent to
Tue 0uGCL IlldL IL luC II P0PCl
''knew how dead Shaw was they
would not be springing such fakes on
the public" I guess that paper would
like to rub out that telegram from the
memory Of men. 1t appears that his
excellency was net dead. but Sleep
ing, and the distinguished editor afore-
said made grievous mistake in the
diagnosis.
The Ohio War.
Last summer the whole country was
startled and pleased at the exhibition
OF harmony uetwi2t Senators Foraker
and Hanna, which was the chief fea-
ture of the Ohio Republican state con-
vention Jonathan and David, Da-
mon and Pythias, were not a circum-
stance to them. The Siamese twins,
Chang and Eng, were the only historic
personages who appeared to be so
closely united. The country breathed
sigh of relief, for it was heartily sick
and weary of the Hanna and anti
Hanna fight in Ohio, which always re-
suited in a Hanna victory. That har-
mony act was in warm weather. Now
it is war-war to the knife, the knife to
the hilt-between Hanna and Foraker.
"More power to their arms!' is the
prayer of all good citizens.
A Pair Of Hoosierisms.
On what an unsubstantial basis
presidential boom or boonlet may be
built is seen in the case Of Senator
Fairbanks Of Indiana. whose friends
are whooping it up for him because of
the reprimand recently inflicted upon
General Nelson A. Miles by Secretary
Of War Elihu Root by order of the
president for stating in an interview
what nine-tenths of the American peo-
pie are thinking as to the findings of
the Scnley court Of inquiry. Surely
the foundations of that boom are as
unsubstantial as the fabric of a vision,
for, whether Miles deserved a repri-
mand or not, in the babel Of tongues
touching Schley the reprimahd will be
forgotten in a month.
If Judge e. D. Crumpacker, Repub-
ncan congressman from Indiana, does
not look little out. he is liable to be
yanked up and tried for treason, mis-
prision of treason or leZe majesty. He
has been recklessly. opportunely and
courageously shooting off his mouth to
the effect that it would be expedient
ere long for the United States to dis
pose of the Philippines. The political
jobbers who prate of destiny and hui
manity while stealing themselves rich
in the Philippines will never stand
such talk as that from Crumpacker or
any other Republican. They will find
some way to discredit him and drive
him out of public life unless be is I'M
usually strong in his district. No hon
est man has any business in the Re
publican party today.
Who Is the Man?
The most remarkable and mysterious
declaration printed in an American
newspaper in ten years is the follow
ing editorial squib from the Cincinnati
Enquirer: ga certain prominent citizen
is said to have been cured of the pres
idential fever Some of the official per-
formances now going on at Washing
ton may be said to be better than med
icine for that particular disease If
that paragraph does not set the whole
country to guessing. it is impossible
to tell what would. Who is the Ger
tain prominent citizen?" Where is his
habitat? If he is cured of the presi
Dental fever, it is the first case on
record In every other instance it has
proved fatal, except in the cases Of the
twenty-five men who have attained the
nresidancv IL The Ennuirer knows of