Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-01-16

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| RF any citizen of the republic de.
| sires to thoroughly understand to
| .9 what utter degradation a great
commonwealth may be reduced
by long years of Republican malad
ministration and corruption, he ought
to read the Philadelphia and Pittsburg
papers or take trip through Quaysyl
yania.
That state is the most startling pos
sible illustration Of the result Of Re.
publican machine politics to be found
betwixt the two oceans. Since 1860.
with only brief intervals, the Repub-
licans have had absolute control and
have ruled the roost without question.
Twice in forty-one years enough de.
cent Republicans have revolted to elect
Robert e. Pattison governor, but it
cannot be said that the Republicans
of Pennsylvania are happy family
quite the contrary. The savage man
ner in which they are knitting each 9th
er under the fifth rib is decidedly re.
freshing to all lovers of purity in gov.
ernment and decency in politics. The
Governor William A. Stone-"Big
Stone," as he used to be called in con-
gress to distinguish him from Charles
w. Stone, who was dubbed Little
Stone"-is boss of the pie counter. He
runs it with a high hand and has got
himself into exceedingly hot water.
Under the ripper bill he appointed
A M -
burg, which is the same thing as
mayor. Brown didn't perform to suit
Stone, so the governor bounced him,
and Brown, choked off from his teat,
is angry as a she bear robbed of her
cubs. Brown is shifting the governor
hip and thigh. Lately in public
speech touching the governor he used
Language calculated to provoke a
breach of the peace" which language,
virtually accusing the governor with
bribery, embezzlement and corruption,
the Pittsburg Post and Philadelphia
North American reprint in their edi-
torial columns. In addition thereto,
body of men, described by the papers
as representative citizens of Pitts
governor in set of resolutions.
OF course, the regulars expect the
storm to blow over once more, as it
has done so often before
But the Republican revolt is so wide
spread that the masters of the Repub-
lican machine are getting scared. Their
original intention was to hold an early
the ring slate through, it being the in
tention to place Attorney General FL
kin at the head of it as candidate for
governor. That worthy recently paid
a visit to Senator Matthew Stanley
Quay at his winter home in Florida,
and ''the old man." as he is affection
ately called by his followers, declared
against an early convention on the
ground that it would unnecessarily an
tagonize good many people and
strengthen the insurgents" as the
anti-Quay and anti-Stone Republicans
are dubbed.
The FutiIity of Coalitions.
cd if I do and ID if /
don't" appears to be the present pre-
dicament of the Seth Low aggregation
of talent in New York. A coalition of
unsympathetic political parties and
factions simply to win the offices, with
out any principle at stake, may sue
ceed in gobbling the pap at one elec-
ton, but in the very nature of things
they cannot hold together longer than
the one election. They soon quarrel as
to policies or, what is more likely, as
to spoils. Mr.. Low has not yet warmed
his mayoralty seat thoroughly, but al
ready ruin is pending over his head,
and, strange to say, it comes from the
question of keeping saloons open on
Sunday, at the root of which in this
particular instance is the question of
local self government. Governor Odell
says it is too big a question for New
York city to decide for itself and that
the state must decide it. Now, rural
New York believes in Sunday closing,
but Greater New York city believes in
wetting its whistle on the Lords day
as on all others. Hence this imminent
deadly peril to Hon. Seth Low and his
conglomerate and polyglot administra-
legislature to pass hard and fast Sun
day closing law and Mayor Low en-.
forces it, the thirsty Gothamites will
rebel, and Tammany will return to
power. If Mayor Low winks at vio-
lation of the Sunday closing law, the
temperance people in Greater New
York will kick out of the traces and
4y.1,
what happens it looks like Tammany
has merely been granted two years
vacation.
In Greater New York so intense is
the objection to rural New York run
ming the local affairs of the city that
the New York Herald is once more ad
vocating the project of making a sep
arate state out of Greater New York
city, which will in all human probable
ity never be done. The constitution
of the United States provides that be
fore congress can create a new state
out of any portion of an old state the
old state must agree to it, which, OF
course, the present state of New York
will never do while grass grows or wa
ter runs. State pride is too strong.
Alahama's Grand Old Man.
The action of the house in passing
the Nicaraguan canal bill with prac
tical unanimity must have caused the
heart of Senator John 7. Morgan of
Alabama to leap for joy, for it pre-
sages the building Of that great water
highway marrying the Atlantic to the
Pacific. To that vast and farreaching
scheme Alabama's Grand Old Man has
devoted his mighty energies and giant
| intellect during the quarter Of CEN
tury which he has served in the SEN
ate. 1t has been his vision by day and
his dream by night. Others have been
able coadjutors- Colonel Hepburn of
Iowa, for instance-bu it is peculiarly
Morgan's life work, and he bids fair to
| live to see his hopes in that regard
realized. His name will be insepara-
bly, connected with that work.
! Strange BedfeIIows.
| The old adage that Politics makes
| strange bedfellows" finds its latest IL
| lustration and verifcation in the as
| founding fact that in the Hanna-Fora-
ker factional fight in Ohio my venera-
Bile and vitriolic friend from Athens,
! General Charles Henry Grosyenor, the