Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-04-10
Position Reversed.

fS$tttoN RGVCESEUs
The Republicans of the house are in
trouble up to their chins, ripped up the
back and utterly miserable. At the be-
ginning Of this session of congress they
were SO arrogant that they were threat
enIng to do dire things to Mr.. Babcock
of Wisconsin because he was endeay-
oring to take the tariff off certain steel
articles. They gave it out that he was
to be driven from his place on the ways
and means committee and deprived of
his craftsmanship of the congressional
committee. He gave up the latter.
Whether he did that voluntarily this
deponent saith not because he know
eth not. However that may be, a day
came when Bah was boss, top Of the
heap, chief muckamuck, like Alexan-
der Selkirk on his desert island. mon
arch Of all he Surveyed. After weeks
OF sore travail the Republican leaders
discovered that without Babcock's vote
the ways and means committee was a
dead tie on the burning issue of seal
ing down the Dingley rates 20 per cent
as to importations from Cuba. Imme-
diately Bahcock. who was to have
been soundly spanked for heresy, be-
came the most important parsonage in
Washington. Nothing was too good
for "Bab.n He was most assiduously
courted by the beet sugarites and by
the antibeet sugarites. President Roose-
velt sent for 'sBab;;' likewise Speaker
Henderson. Nothing was too dulcet
Tor Bah" What terms he demanded
nobody knows: what promises were
made cannot be told. He finally de-
cided to save the administration voted
for reduction of Cuban rates and, let
US hop escaped the promised spank
ing.
"A Governor In Posse.
Hon. w. Jasper Talbert Of South Car
0liDa-" Uncle Jasper" as he is affec-
tionately called by the younger MEM
bers who is now serving his tenth
consecutive year in the house, will not
come back to congress any more, which
will be universally regretted. He is a
full fedged candidate for governor Of
the Palmetto State, and all his CON
gressional brethren wish him success.
He Is the best story teller in congress
Here Is his last. as recorded by the
Washington Post:
'sDown in South Carolina once at
tended a colored church. The preacher,
one Of those negroes with an oily face
and big spectacles, was talking about
the prophets. He had taken an hour to
discourse upon the major prophets, and
then he took up the minor ones. In
course OF time he reached Hosea. My
breddren,' he exclaimed, we come now
to Hosea. Let US consider him. Where
shall we put Hosea% At that moment
an old negro who had been peacefully
slumbering in one of the back pews
woke up and looked at the pastor.
Hosea can take my seat he said. I'm
SO dogged tired that I'm going home :"
Schwab Again.
The old Latin dictun runs, "De gusti-
bus non est disputandun. 1t might be
as truthfully said, There is no disputing
about ambitions These latter are as
diversified as tastes. There Is no ac-
counting for either. Pope says, Man
never is but always to be blest' It
makes no difference whether ambition
Is a glorious cheat" as N. p. Willis de-
clared, or whether it is the last infrm-
ity OF noble minds, or whether, in the
language of Tom Marshall, ''it is mans
nobIest passion in any case it is a
matter of temperament. Now, there is
Charles NJ. Schwab, multimiilionaire
and president of the billion dollar steel
trust, who for six years has been on
the waiting list of the Union League
club of Philadelphia queer ambi-
ton surely for such man.