Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-12-11
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american ana OF the San Francisco
Examiner. Recently Mr.. Hearst was
elected to congress and will unques-
tionably be one of the Democratic lead
ers in that body Mr.. Hearst is young,
but since William Pitt pere gave Sir
| Robert Walpole famous skinning it
has not been considered either a sin or
disgrace to be young man. This
particular young man from New York
| Is strenuous character and has a
| habit of capturing whatever he goes
! after. Far stranger things have hap
pened than that he will create great
rattling among the dry bones and walk
away with the capital prize in the po-
| litical lottery He has ideas in his
| head-brilliant IDEAS practical ideas,
original ideas, beneicent ideas-and is
| not afraid to express them. If he
| proves to be as successful in politics
| as he has been in journalism, he will
| be wonder. One good thing about
Mr.. Hearst is that he is a Missourian
| by lineage and a Democrat by inher-
| itance. His mother and his father,
| Senator George Hearst, are natives of
| the district which l have the honor to
| represent in congress. There are no
| better Democrats on earth than the
Missourians. Perhaps William Ran
dolph Hearst will prove to be the Dem
| ocratic Moses.
Republican Hypocrisy.
At the long session the Republican
majority by brute force unseated James
| J. Butler of st. Louis. but did not seat
his Republican opponent. They simply
| declared the seat vacant. They did
this notwithstanding the fact that after
| throwing out every ballot about whose
| legality there was the slightest doubt
| Butler still had a clear majority of
about 1,sj00. Butler went home, ap-
| pealed to his people and was elected to
! both the short and long terms by over
5000 majority. Monday, Dec. 1, he
was duly sworn in That night he
was served with a notice of contest on
| the ground that he was fraudulently
| elected. Butler may not be saint
he does not claim to be-but he is bet
ter than some Republicans who voted
| to oust him and who most probably
| will vote to GUST him again. This much
| is true every district in the republic
| has an indubitable right to elect any
man it desires to represent it in con-
| constitutional qualifications. That But
Ter possesses those qualifications has
| never been doubted or denied. He pos
sesses more ability than the average
| congressman. But what a spectacle
| for men and angels the Republicans
present, bowling about corruption and
| fraud in elections anywhere or by any
| person whomsoever SO long as Philadel-
| phia remains ON the Philadelphia,
| whose chronic corruption is notorious
and where it is freely charged that at
| the late election the registration lists
| were padded to the extent of 100000!
| They are a beautiful set to be prating
| about the purity of the ballot box!
| They ought to extract the beam from
their own eye before talking about the
mote in the eyes of other people. They
| robbed Tilden of the presidency in
1877. They stole two United States
| senatorships from Montana when that
state was admitted into the Union. 1t
| it widely believed that they stole the
| governorship of New York from Coler
| last month. So far as known, they
! have never failed to get any office by
| fair means or foul that was within
| their reach. In Kentucky they resort
| ed to bold assassination, ane their pre-
cious Governor" Taylor is now fugi-
sanity of purity in politics and the
sanctity of the ballot box!
OF course politics ought to be pure
and the ballot ought to be sacred If
Butler sinned in these regards, Butler
ought to suffer the consequences, but
| it is the height of the preposterous for
Republicans to prate about sweetness
and light until they cease from their
evil practices and make restitution of
| the goods which they have stolen.
Good Suggestion.
In certain quarters it is suggested
that Hon. Charles Emory Smith of
Philadelphia, late postmaster general
Of the United States, should be elected
a senator of the United States. 1t is
inevitable that Republican will be
elected. That being the case, no better
selection could be made in Pennsylva-
MIA than Mr.. Smith. He is one of the
most amiable men who have been in
| high public station in Washington in
the last ten years. He is most bril-
liant writer and speaker. He would
add renown to the state which in the
long ago sent such men as Albert Gal
latin, Jere Black, George NJ. Dallas
| and Governor Curtin to the nations
capital.
The Message.
President Roosevelt deserves credit
| for one thing at any rate and that is
| that his annual message is compara-
lively brief. How presidents ever got
1t into their heads that it was their
duty to crowd discussion of the uni
verse and all it contains into each an
| nual message to congress, like the
peace of God, passeth all understand
ing. Once when young lawyer was
hammering on the simplest and clear
est principle of law before a supreme
court one of the judges interrupted
him to say, 1T must be presumed that
this court knows some law" So it
may be assumed that congress is not
wholly destitute of little information
as to current events President Roose-
welt is an optimist, as is shown by this
opening paragraph:
We still continue in a period of un-
bounded prosperity. This prosperity is
not the creature of law, but undoubtedly
the laws under which we work have been
instrumental in creating the conditions
which made 1t possible, and by unwise
legislation it would be easy enough to
destroy it. There will undoubtedly be
periods of depression. The wave will re-
cede, but the tide will advance. This ma
ton is seated on continent f1aifxed by
two great oceans. 1t is composed of men
the descendants of pioneers or, in a sense,
pioneers themselves; of men winnowed
out from among the nations of the old
world by the energy, boldness and love of
adventure found in their own eager
hearts Such a nation, SO placed, will
surely wrest success from fortune.
AS people we have played large part
in the world, and we are bent upon maxi
ing our future even larger than the past.
In particular the events of the last four
years have definitely decided that for woe
or for veal our place must be great